Sentence examples for professional contempt from inspiring English sources

Wilson treated him with personal kindness but professional contempt, remarking that Longford - who had got a double first at Oxford - had a mental age of 12.

Through the lenses of pop culture and pop psychology, Dowd, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, dissects the Bushes with a combination of personal affection and professional contempt.

Garrow showed a dislike of most thief-takers, of which Grove was one, although he did not treat the Bow Street Runners and other professionals with contempt.

They held a contempt for professional politicians.

Since his days in the gulag, Solzhenitsyn has harbored contempt for professional criminals and is certain to clamp down on organized crime, which intimidates local producers.

It happens in The Bells Go Down (1943), made to enhance the dignity of the auxiliary fire service, a volunteer organisation regarded with contempt by professionals.

Cellier and Bridgeman wrote in 1914 that, prior to the creation of the Savoy operas, amateur actors were treated with contempt by professionals.

Academics pride ourselves on being difficult to manage, and like cats who barely tolerate their owners we sometimes react to professional managers with thinly disguised contempt.

"Sensation" marked Britain's parochial, delayed response to thirty years of complex aesthetic theory (mostly French and American) that had privileged content (in the form of "the concept") over form, but it also fatally and impurely mixed these ideas with the careerism of the Y.B.A.s themselves, who contributed their own professional anxieties, dressed up in contempt.

Like any warrior against political correctness, Peterson directs a fair amount of his contempt toward academia, his professional home of more than three decades.

The signs range from his contempt for social civilities and professional etiquette to progressive alcoholism.