Sentence examples for gesture of contempt from inspiring English sources

But a recipient reading the small print may interpret it as a gesture of contempt.

It is almost a gesture of contempt to the face of death.

This gesture of contempt for the Senate's role in confirmations is reflected well beyond the Justice Department.

Mankiewicz, in a final gesture of contempt for the charge, brought an inventory of his library and tossed it to the R.K.O.

A few seconds later, the guy wound up and heaved the ball back on to the field, a gesture of contempt previously used only for enemy home runs.

The two of them seem completely detached from the goings on: the silly singing; the constant fanning of everyone around them, which has now become some kind of communal gesture of contempt for the Mexican bureaucracy.

The means of expression in animals will then be discussed, and the special expressions of animals and man, such as the depression of the corners of the mouth in grief, frowning, the firm closure of the mouth to express determination, gestures of contempt, the dilatation of the pupils from terror, the causes of blushing, &c.

In a sign of public outrage at the failure of the security services, Abadi was given an angry reception on Sunday when he toured Karrada, the district where he grew up, with residents throwing stones, empty buckets and even slippers at his convoy in gestures of contempt.

The meek old moon demonstrates its momentary power to suppress the sun in a gesture of cosmological contempt that lasts a few minutes but will live with you forever".

Ahmadzai threw up his hands in a gesture of incredulity and contempt.

The Americans don't listen to me". Ahmadzai threw up his hands in a gesture of incredulity and contempt.