Sentence examples for stark contempt from inspiring English sources

These Strangelovean intrigues might be laughed off as cloak-and-dagger puerility -- paintball for Reaganites -- if they didn't betray a stark contempt for the law.

"Utter contempt," said one.

In a statement issued shortly after the shootings, Amnesty International called the killings, "a stark reminder of the Taliban's contempt for human life… amid a worrying new surge in the armed group's targeting of civilians around the country".

The UK's strict contempt of court regulations are in stark contrast to the practice in US courts where reporting is permitted even after a defendant has been charged.

Stark, in turn, treats them with the kind of contempt and ridicule Dr. Gregory House bestows on his young protégés on "House".

The question comes into stark focus at General Motors, once the paragon of American industrial management, now a lumbering giant treated with contempt on Wall Street.

Not contempt.

Beneath Contempt.

Contempt, § 21.

Stark shadows.

Contempt perhaps.