Sentence examples for profound contempt from inspiring English sources

What inspires such profound contempt, contempt that is inscribed in the texts of several world religions?

But he had profound contempt for mainstream American liberalism and European social democracy.

He was a monotheist with a profound contempt for the merchants of idolatry".

The army, seeing Hannibal's attendants come back from viewing the enemy in such a laughing condition, concluded that it must be profound contempt of the enemy, that made their general at this moment indulge in such hilarity.

Gary Condit's attempt at political resurrection would be funny if it didn't reveal such a profound contempt for, and underestimation of, the intelligence of the American people (Frank Bruni, Feb. 17).

"Closing the channel would demonstrate a profound contempt for those who want to compare different sources of information," wrote Irina Khakamada, a former politician, on the Dozhd Web site.

Alexis de Tocqueville said he knew "of no country…where a profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property".But this is no ordinary election.

He winced and, rubbing his forehead, looked down at the page in front of him: I do not mean that there is any lack of wealthy individuals in the United States; I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men and where a profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property.

In an act of profound public contempt, the general went directly to the world media with a high-profile campaign that was entirely inappropriate to a civilian democracy.

As he writes in a Nachlass note of 1887, regarding those "human beings who are of any concern to me": "I wish [them] suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities — I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished" (WP 910).

The New Yorker, September 8 , 1980P. 31 All passeist, immobile, fixed-launcher guided-missile systems present such a monstrous spectacle of pathetic backwardness and obsolescence that our MX Missilist eyes turn away with profoundest disgust and contempt!