Sentence examples for seeming contempt from inspiring English sources

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The uncovering of this system, and Mr. Kohl's seeming contempt for a law that says the source of any donation over $10,500 must be revealed, have generated a political crisis.

"Yes, right," Clinton responded, with seeming contempt.

Mr Bradshaw's seeming contempt for sugarless Nevis, which lacked cane-cutters for him to organise, nourished separatist feeling on the smaller island.

With its graphic accounts of anonymous sex and Houellebecq's seeming contempt for feminism, sexual freedom and youth culture, the book divided France.

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It seems like contempt for anyone who isn't Mark E Smith.

Unless Hope was carefully watched, his trademark brashness could seem like contempt.

I used to distrust this as seeming to show contempt for the past, but it's now mutated rather well into variants such as "Soooo ten minutes ago"–to express contempt for the ephemeral and meretriciously up-to-date.

Could Weekend 2's seeming familiarity somehow inspire contempt on the Empire Polo Field in the face of MS MR's fun-loving cover of LCD Soundsystem's "Dance Yrself Clean"?  .

Throughout the two rounds of negotiations, which began last month, each side has seemed to express contempt for the other, despite having had a number of face-to-face meetings.

For the Yankees' hitters, it seems, unfamiliarity breeds contempt, or at least confusion.

Indeed, the Police Department and the C.I.A. are two agencies that often seem to have contempt for the F.B.I., even as investigators work together on many cases.

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