Sentence examples for touch of contempt from inspiring English sources

1.58am GMT 142nd over: New Zealand 399-6 (Watling 9, Southee 24) Southee continues to treat Broad with a touch of contempt, chipping him breezily over midwicket for two.

Familiarity with the director's box of tricks has bred a touch of contempt, but it's becoming easier, now that the hype has cleared, to see the movie for what it really is: an audacious attempt to fuse visual chutzpah and expansive storytelling, movies and music, art and trash.

"Many of them are narcissistic," she adds, perhaps with a touch of contempt, "so they just want to look into the mirror".

Often, however, mixed with a pinch of contempt for what they considered to be the lazier Southern Europeans.

When I close my eyes, I can see the look of suspicion on his face, along with a touch of slyness, a shadow of contempt, and the beginnings of unbearable hope.

The definition of contempt.

Each full of contempt for the other.

His customer was an object of contempt.

Familiarity breeds the opposite of contempt.

There was a good deal of contempt for the Iranians.

Such moments verge on the "snobbery of contempt".