Sentence examples for in contempt that from inspiring English sources

There's a brief, quietly majestic tracking shot in "Contempt" that shows the aged Lang with his monocle and his pinstriped suit.

A society that closes its eyes to the most important issues of the day, that often holds intellectual achievement in contempt, that is more interested in hip-hop and Lady Gaga than educating its young is all but guaranteed to spiral into a decline.

And Ms. Kawakubo isn't holding her audience in contempt; that's not her style.

If Lavabit lost its appeal to the F.I.S.C.R., and still refused to coöperate, it would run a serious risk of being found in contempt; that's how most courts punish those who disobey its orders.

In the latter parts of On Liberty Mill also suggests that distasteful persons can be held in contempt, that we can avoid such persons (as long as we do not parade it), that we can warn others against these persons, and that we can persuade, cajole and remonstrate with those we deem offensive.

Yet one of the many problems that Cruz had in filling the stop-Trump role was that the anger he retailed came in packages of contempt that were too cunningly crafted and too widely strewn, like the mini-munitions in a cluster bomb, with too much indifference about whom he might hurt.

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".

What inspires such profound contempt, contempt that is inscribed in the texts of several world religions?

Esther (Piper Laurie) is the wisest and the eldest, but the sisters don't see her as much as they would like; her professor-husband, David Buck Henryy), holds all of them (except Carl) in such contempt that he has forbidden her to visit.

Confidence can be undermined when some Westerners -- read "Americans" -- are held in the contempt that invites aggression or excuses it by those who envy our success and feel powerless to dislodge us from our ever-growing heights of influence and willfulness.

It is impossible to prove or disprove that Drake's apparent religiosity was a useful pose, or that he held his sailors in contempt, or that he was "untroubled by a conscience that in most men would murmur against theft or murder".