Sentence examples for in great contempt from inspiring English sources

This I know from Richard Tomlinson's splendid book Amazing Grace, which recounts that Grace's wounded response to the Gloucestershire committee's inquiry as to whether he actually intended to play any cricket was to finish by saying the affection in which he held the county of his birth was not matched by that for the committee, which as a body he held in great contempt.

They have never been held in greater contempt by the people who employ them.

At the same time, no other country holds history itself in greater contempt.

Neoconservatism has merged with the politics that its founders, in their youth, held in greatest contempt: the jingoist and capitalist American right.

The movie is a fitting reflection of a nation in which politicians and their associates are held in greater contempt than at any period in my lifetime, going back to an early and continuing respect for both Clem Attlee's government and the leading members of Churchill's opposition.

"I hope you don't suppose those are real tears?" Tweedledum interrupted in a tone of great contempt.

Many of humankind's greatest failings are embodied by the ruling alien race of Traggs, who view the Ohms as disposable house pets at best and frequently exterminate them in large numbers with great contempt.

In our workaholic culture there's great contempt for the need for sleep.

Yet these are not ordinary times in British politics, where traditions, parties and leaders are currently held in great public contempt.

So I have a great contempt for people who can fill in grant proposals better than they can tune their instruments.

At most I feel a great contempt.