Sentence examples for objects of contempt from inspiring English sources

Where many politicians become objects of contempt or indifference over time, with Thurmond the reverse was true: the longer he lasted, the more revered he became.

Voters will be amazed that a Republican candidate is talking about the 47% of Americans (those in receipt of welfare of some sort) as something worth fighting for rather than objects of contempt.

Her Vindication of the Rights of Women does exactly that, extending Macaulay's critique of Rousseau, and adding a great deal of further material criticising other authors who had contributed to rendering women objects of contempt.

Willes's objects of contempt included portentous, antiques, despicable, obsequious, homicide, destructive and prodigious, all of which he labelled "ink-horn terms" - a word itself now vanished from common usage, meaning an inkwell made out of horn.

If we stop being afraid, we turn the icons of fear into objects of contempt.

More damningly still, because our decision to affirm who we are is viewed instead as the embracing of a degraded status, we become not merely fantasy objects of contempt, but criminally negligent citizens as well.

His customer was an object of contempt.

Dot is an object of contempt -- a mere dot, as Ellmann keeps reminding us.

"Raymond" is that object of contempt among professed television sophisticates: a traditional family sitcom.

And yet, for all its beauty, Heaven's Gate is still an object of contempt.

Fuller does not hide his bewilderment at how he has become an object of contempt and ridicule.