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This is why the aimless standing around and waiting that Cavafy so brilliantly evokes in "Waiting for the Barbarians" is so contemptible.
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~~~ Although they were distinct and in many ways antagonistic, the folk revival and the Beat scene shared certain ancestral connections in the Depression-era Left, and this may help explain why the liberal critics thought the Beats were so contemptible.
And that is why Spacey's statement is so utterly contemptible.
The act of becoming pregnant is, due to the biology with which God gifted us, proof that the woman was not raped.The contemptible conception of consent at play in this passage is so tortured to merit no reply.
This is why denying discrimination protections is so contemptible because without job safety in coming out, millions of Americans stay mired in the closet, unable to show the world just how unthreatening we truly are.
This would be merely juvenile if it weren't so contemptible.
If it weren't so contemptible, their actions would be almost quaint, like a virtual book burning.
It's so cheap". Cheap fashion means two things: inexpensive, yes, but also contemptible.
This year he claimed that he liked ethanol after all, but he was so manifestly insincere and incompetent in this pandering that the episode was less contemptible than amusing.
What makes these pathetic boomer saps so contemptible is that, unlike contemporary youth, they didn't even know it.
If Mona is weak, Nicholas is utterly contemptible, so insubstantial that "in a suit, he looked disguised, a youngster trying to sucker someone into believing him grown up".
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