Sentence examples for suffering contempt from inspiring English sources

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Sir Max Beerbohm, the 20th-century English wit, found "two elements in the public's humour: delight in suffering, contempt for the unfamiliar".

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Later, Bronzino, suffering through centuries of contempt for Mannerism in general, as an addled interregnum between the Renaissance and the Baroque, was often singled out for abuse on moral grounds.

(We reported earlier on the latter's abandonment of journalistic standards in its disability coverage. . Leaving aside Paul's contempt for people suffering from these conditions ("Join the club"), his numbers are flagrantly wrong.

The spectacle of a lot of grown women together – particularly ones who are not suffering – apparently fills them, bafflingly, with contempt.

He believes we are pre-programmed to respond to suffering with compassion, arrogance by subordinates with contempt, cheating with anger, and impurity with disgust, for example.

They are also suffering in their collective soul; they feel there is contempt for the values and the institutions of the Republic, the social contract is under attack, the influence of the country is damaged and they watch with anger France being humbled, weakened, damaged, downgraded".» The reaction to the publication was muted.

In no mood for the group hug of reconciliation, these women disdain categorization as symbols of suffering: tough, wise and sorrow-forged, they address the camera with a forthrightness as admirable as the director's willingness to absorb their occasional contempt.

Concentration camp prisoners felt a strange mix of compassion and contempt for the Holocaust's weaker victims, even as they themselves were suffering the same savagery.

She is, we infer, both victim and provocateur in her marriage, suffering from Brooks's coldness even as she goes out of her way to inflame his contempt.

Somatising patients are difficult to deal with and can elicit contempt, but after spending time with them doctors become aware that they are people who are suffering and have problems.

Still exhausted and suffering from withdrawal symptoms, the sullen Cody greets Sister Jamie's attempts to probe into his past with snickering contempt.

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