Sentence examples for pervasive contempt from inspiring English sources

There was this utterly pervasive contempt.

Of course, the new US administration is not alone in a pervasive contempt for expertise.

He describes the latter as "an incurious 'presentism' – combining a lack of historical sense, a pervasive contempt for the wisdom of the past, a fascination with novelty simply because it is new and a propensity to over-react to every ephemeral focus group finding or tabloid whim".

In an era where dissent is not so much actively stifled as passively marginalized and ignored, pervasive contempt for the status quo among people who have the intellectual tools and capacity to incite real change is one of the most hopeful things around; and for all its multitudinous flaws, DEF CON is home to many such people.

The feeling of being useless seemed to be pervasive and many struggled with self-contempt: "...I feel hopeless and useless; I even lost the baby" (Gloria, 32 year old, lived with fistula for 19 years).

In his introduction, Beinart outlines a number of the early-warning signs that a spell of myopia is about to deliver a catastrophe: doctrinaire mental habits, belief in preordained success, contempt for the counsel of allies, pervasive fear of threats, refusal to prioritize enemies.

Libii's Jay exudes a quiet, menacing contempt for those around him and a pervasive sense of entitlement.

Primrose is a far cry from his thuggish sergeants and the obnoxious chief of police, whose basic contempt for the suffragettes masks a nasty, all-pervasive misogyny.

At this point, however, the party's contempt for the working class is apparently too complete, too pervasive to hide.

But the pervasive suspicion at U.N. headquarters is that President Bush, who flaunted his contempt for the Geneva convention by nominating as his attorney general the lawyer he employed to find a legal justification for torture, is looking not to revive the world body but to retire it.

Not contempt.