Sentence examples for little contempt from inspiring English sources

I have a little contempt for them".

For the city council I feel more than a little sympathy and for my home town of Edinburgh more than a little contempt.

That was the cool thing to do.' I ask him whether they'd break windows and he looks at me with amazement, and perhaps a little contempt.

I have been told by European leftists, with more than a little contempt, that my American narrative is based on a naïve belief that we each have choices.

In a country that has long been burdened by an almost perverse bureaucracy, there is little contempt for the Artful Dodger; Italians evade paying taxes on a quarter of the economy.

As public policy the plan possesses a certain simplicity, as well as more than a little contempt for any governmental role in promoting the general welfare.

In life, Malcolm X and Marshall had little but contempt for each other.

He reiterated his belief that the only future for Venezuela lay with his "21st century socialism".He had little but contempt for the opposition.

Marsalis, the brilliant young Turk, seems to have little but contempt for what he sees as the fraudulence of Miles's current work.

Of Willy's character, he writes in a set of notes to the movie: "We should get a strong sense that yesterday he was 'king of the hill' and now he is an 'untouchable.' " If Willy feels little but contempt for his Hollywood colleagues, he feels little but guilt and resentment when it comes to his family back home in England.

Today, as Wall Street reexamines the way it values companies, Eveillard has little but contempt for U.S. investors' stubborn reliance on the newfangled metrics of the boom years.