Sentence examples for violence and contempt from inspiring English sources

Rather than animals being treated with compassion and being uninjured prior to the fatal cut, we see them routinely treated with gratuitous violence and contempt.

The footage shows animals being treated with "gratuitous violence and contempt", according to the charity Animal Aid, which carried out the investigation.

A broad range of Arabs say Mr. Sharon has treated them with more violence and contempt than any other Israeli general.

This feeling of emotional generosity tempers the literary thinking, as do the scenes of pure comedy, like the Oxford high-table dinner in Marías's novel "All Souls," with its Buñuel-like degeneration of absurd formality into violence and contempt.

In truth, currents generated by his medieval predecessor, in the foundational era of the Crusades, flowed not only into sanctified violence and contempt for the other — evils we know too well.

7) Encourage a mass culture that spits on intelligence and study and instead elevates drug use, coolness through sex and violence, and contempt for school.

So concerned are Chinese leaders over the rise in mass violence and the growing contempt for law enforcement that they have taken new measures to ensure stability, with the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the People's Republic coming up in October.

Like Dunham's scene, the intensity of this passage, its expression of degradation and contempt and violence and love and remorse, serves as both response and rallying cry; the beginnings, perhaps, of a revolution in the way women's relationships are discussed.

This is neither to deny nor condone "the contempt, violence and sadistic brutality" of many encounters between the West and other societies.

They are encouraged to respect his violence and secretly to feel contempt for their mother's gentleness, and yet their fascinated alienation expresses itself in one startling scene involving an incursion into the parental bedroom.

Mendelsohn is excellent as the chilling "Pope" Cody, obsessed with other people's weakness and with a needling habit of asking his brothers to open up and confide in him, not for any reasons of sympathy or curiosity but quite plainly so that he has a pretext for rage, contempt, violence and self-pity.