Sentence examples for scorn the notion from inspiring English sources

– but, judging by their seventh album, "singer" Jason Williamson would scorn the notion.

Even as these wines came to be known as "natural wines," a term he occasionally used and often disdained, and wines like these came to be a hot-button topic among the wine lovers of the world, Joe would scorn the notion that he was involved in some sort of movement.

Charlie McCreevy, finance minister between 1997 and 2004, scorned the notion that fiscal policy should lean against the business cycle.

Steele believes defeat was foreordained, and scorns the notion that "a more intelligent and efficient occupation could have worked".

Nevertheless, she scorned the notion of diplomacy to free more prisoners, saying that the Shalit exchange showed that this was the only effective approach.

But Mr. Howard, the opposition leader, scorned the notion, telling the BBC that to call the Libyan leader "courageous for giving up murder and terrorism is really extraordinary".

He reveals that by beginning with an anecdote about the novelist Stephen King who scorned the notion of being able to teach writing.

Ella's husband Donny McLeod, a "gallivanter" and "connoisseur of pure rebellion", who scorns the notion of dying for an idea, owes something to Melville's husband Angus, to whom the novel is dedicated.

He called his fellow team principals "mechanics" and scorned the notion that the audience – the sort of audience that he was after anyway – had any real interest in the technical side of the sport.

The "assertive nationalists," on the other hand, were "deeply skeptical of nation-building," and scorned the notion "that American power could create what others were unable to build for themselves".

(She grew up in Maine and still has a house there.) She scorns the notion of buying expensive imported polenta when something domestic will almost certainly be fresher and better.