This contempt is visible also in the many famine images of apelike Irish peasants in British journals of the day.
Purveyors of hate "aim to undermine this assurance, call it in question, and taint it with visible expressions of hatred, exclusion and contempt".
He was dragged in on the first day, and thereafter sat in white robes, a turban and dark glasses, the only visible part of his face wearing an expression of contempt.
Among the 2011 books that came my way I particularly welcomed Owen Jones's Chavs (Verso), a passionate and well-documented denunciation of the upper-class contempt for the proles that has recently become so visible in the British class system.
A decade into the war in Afghanistan, the report makes clear that these killings have become the most visible symptom of a far deeper ailment plaguing the war effort: the contempt each side holds for the other, never mind the Taliban.
"Burger King is so visible, it puts a focus on the general behavior of corporate America and, in a sense, the contempt they feel for the average American," he said during a Monday appearance on HuffPost Live.
But lesser officials are visible and their task today appeared to be to present a facade of normality to match the mood of contempt for America and its military power that Mr. Hussein struck as the war approached.
