Sentence examples for many contemptible from inspiring English sources

("What is it about the left that it attracts so many contemptible, vicious and anti-social people these days?" Lord Tebbit, one of her former cabinet ministers, said to The Telegraph).

Fashion has many dark edges, many contemptible characters shuffling through its ranks, and, at the end of the day, you may believe it possesses neither the soul of art nor the spirit of good faith that it is, in effect, the glorification of merchandise.

The same motive prompts some to seek perverted knowledge through magical practices.... [T]he many minute, contemptible things that solicit our curiosity each day are beyond counting.... [W]hen I am sitting at home, why does a lizard catching flies, or a spider binding them when they blunder into its web, often have me gazing intently?

Yes, our founders were men of lofty principles, but many engaged in contemptible acts that have been whitewashed into non-existence.

Bullying comes in many forms, none more contemptible than making fun of someone's perceived lack of intelligence, which is what a jackass on New York radio who calls himself Charlamagne Tha God tried to do to Floyd Mayweather at the weekend.

The largest issues have been the careless smashing of alliances, the lies to and the scorn for voters (by both sides, if more by Leave) that enabled the Brexit victory, and the realization by non-British E.U. citizens that many of their neighbors view them as contemptible foreigners.

Perhaps it had something to do with precisely what Bellow hailed about his country: its unheroic materialism, its lack of a tragic sense, its indifference to high culture — all the things that Grass hated about the Adenauer years, and that many European intellectuals, on the right and the left, still find contemptible.

Two of the "confessions" made by guards referred to in their S-21 files as "the Contemptible Met" and "the Contemptible Chhaan", outline a baroque conspiracy involving many other people.

In many ways, Day for Night is similar to Godard's Contempt, and Truffaut does admit the suspicion that cinema and especially Hollywood is contemptible: mendacious, infantilised and corrupt.

The is the kind of contemptible retort we can expect from the intensive meat industry lobby and its many trolls in response to new research by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), which reveals high levels of life-threatening antibiotic-resistant bacteria on raw supermarket meat.

Although Hadi has many supporters here, street protesters greeted his statement of unity with the chant: "Hadi, you are contemptible, the blood of the sons of the south is not cheap".