But there there's also a certain species of urbane Republican who live in liberal bastions and, feeling terribly oppressed by the mild contempt they face at cocktail parties, imagine a profound sympathy with the simple folk of the heartland.
But the countess married the Graf von Gallenberg in 1803, and in later years Beethoven seems to have remembered her only with mild contempt.
I had always viewed ghostwriting with mild contempt.
Bloom's Romeo is a philosophical "bad boy," with a mild contempt for squares.
And the British "you lot" has rough edges — it can suggest joshing affection or mild contempt, but coming from an American it's a tad pretentious, eh what?
The resulting software could potentially distinguish, say, nose wrinkles of mild contempt from nose wrinkles of cute affection, although whether it can spot good acting is another matter entirely.
Discerning social entrepreneurs, however, greeted the watchdogs' statement somewhere between outright contempt and mild cynicism: "Well, it's about time!" Indeed, in a recent TED Talk, author, entrepreneur and humanitarian activist Dan Pallotta called overhead a "demonic label," and noted, "The next time you're looking at a charity don't ask about the rate of their overhead.
"Shit!" manifests exasperation and anger, not contempt and defiance.
He could barely conceal his contempt and dislike.
