Sentence examples for in utter contempt from inspiring English sources
Some people who hold the Human Rights Act in utter contempt would doubtless believe their right to call Arsène Wenger something ghastly should be enshrined in perpetuity.
2.21pm GMT 45th over: Australia 197-1 (Warner 113, Doolan 74) Petersen continues because Graeme Smith holds Test cricket in utter contempt.
Representing the home secretary, Danny Morley said Oldfield's conduct had been in "utter contempt for the law" and he "abused his right to protest in a very public way".
Society now compels us to hold tobacco companies in utter contempt, which is fair enough, but I have to be honest and say I could never hate the Benson and Hedges brand, not when they footed the bill for appearances of the likes of Roger Harper, Abdul Qadir, Graeme LaBrooy and Mohammad Wasim.
I would be justified, he suggested, in holding them in utter contempt.
If he were speaking the truth behind his smirk, he'd be saying something like "I hold you in utter contempt.
"It shows the utter contempt in which the Murdochs hold the British public that the announcement has been snuck out on the August bank holiday weekend".
Actually, the Mandarins clearly found that general line rather congenial, because it fitted only too well into their cherished Romanticist/modernist myth of the artistic genius set apart from and above society, and justified in that alienation by utter contempt for the masses.
What happened next is reportedly recorded on an audiotape possessed by Turkish intelligence and shared with the U.S., which captures in horrific detail the utter contempt for human rights that Khashoggi decried.
As Andrew Sullivan wrote in a blistering post on Monday, "The very fact that Brennan is still in his job – after displaying utter contempt for the Constitution and the American people – tells you all you really need to know about where Obama really stands on this question".
Eyes bulging, Emery leapt up, ripped off his coat, chucked it down, stamped on it as if he was Yosemite Sam hopping on to his hat, turned round, booted something across the grass, slumped on to the bench with a thud and threw up his arms in disgust, a look of utter contempt on his face.
