Sentence examples for traditional contempt from inspiring English sources

Lowich shares the taxi-driver's traditional contempt for traffic lights, but he drives slowly — perhaps because at ordinary taxi velocity the city would whiz past too quickly to accommodate his narration.

The lurking panic is that the traditional American contempt for "rote" learning is no longer justified, and that it is their children who will be at a loss once they leave the home.

Ecclestone is no ignorant newcomer to the sport but he has always treated traditional fans with contempt.

Disgust with America took over where traditional avant-garde contempt for the bourgeoisie had left off, a decade or so earlier, first with the triumphs of Abstract Expressionism and then with the fiesta of Pop.

But from South Asia to the heartland of Europe and now even to Wall Street, these protesters share something else: wariness, even contempt, toward traditional politicians and the democratic political process they preside over.

Speaking in Boston on the thirty-fifth anniversary of his Senate testimony as a Vietnam veteran, Kerry delivered an indictment of the Bush-Cheney doctrine, with its cult of secrecy and its contempt for traditional American liberties, that was far more devastating than anything he could bring himself to say during the 2004 campaign.

While Republican elites have gone to great lengths to present Trump as somehow outside the political mainstream, his views fit squarely within the frame of modern conservatism – xenophobic nationalism, contempt for traditional politics, fetishisation of "authenticity" and dismissal and contempt of "others" in American society.

As the manager of $3.5 billion for Hong Kong-based Jardine Fleming, Asia's largest home-grown fund manager, he is vociferous in his contempt of traditional Japanese companies, regardless of how cheap they are.

But when so many exponents of traditional marriage show such contempt for basic moral values, they lose the credibility to preach morality at the rest of us.

And in less than a week, the shoe will attain still greater international renown when al-Zaidi's traditional Iraqi gesture of contempt serves as inspiration for a Washington peace demonstration known as "Shoes for Bush".

Mystics who expressed in their poetry their disinterest in, and even contempt of, the traditional formal religions never forgot that Islam is the highest manifestation of divine wisdom.