Examples of contempt

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My reasons for focusing on the backward-looking role of findings of contempt will become clearer below.
Many officials, it must be conceded, held creoles in contempt.
The latter was not the case here, and therefore he had not brought religion into contempt.
In one extract he had shown his contempt for the political pragmatism espoused by the home rule party.
If he had, it is likely that he would have regarded such faith and moral teachings with either contempt or ridicule.
Two of the three judges who delivered dissenting verdicts in this contempt case have since been retired, for technically legitimate but involuntary reasons.
Both were largely self-educated, both highly individualistic and charismatic, both possessed aristocratic tastes and contempt for groups and organizations.
When depression breeds contempt : reassurance seeking, self-esteem, and rejection of depressed college students by their roommates.
A court may use its powers of contempt in other ways as well-for example, by holding someone until he or she testifies.
I leave aside for now the distinctions among criminal contempt, civil contempt, and coercive contempt. 24.
The law, the maximum prices, the threats of prosecution were risible things, regarded by the shopkeeper with contempt.
Arrests for minor traffic violations or contempt of cour t were excluded from the total arrest counts.
Consistent with this preoccupation was their lack of intrinsic interest in other societies, which is not surprising, given their contempt for foreign languages.
He did not bring to his country of adoption an ingrained contempt for its democratic sociability.
We can conclude that the insidious and purposeful attacks were prompted by what psychologists call pre-emptive contempt.
They tend to regard the more classical branches of their science with unconcealed contempt.
Perhaps the chiefs' messengers had conveyed contempt where none was intended ?
Judges sometimes treated the accused with contempt when they appeared in court to answer the information.
Justices of the peace did so regularly, and even common law judges did so in cases of contempt of court.
The hostility summary code included anger, exasperation, blame, contempt, and criticism.
His contempt for these things was invariably free of rancour.
By mid-century, a wave of critics was dismissing the theory, reviewing the feuding past with contempt.
Pain and its expression were held in contempt as manifestations fit only for the female and the unfree.
Toward his more scientifically inclined colleagues he affects a patrician and withering contempt.
Not coincidentally, his contempt for socialism and communism went hand in hand with his fight against the "materialist" consequences linked to industrialization and urbanization.
Before 1861, most colleges had confined themselves to the liberal arts and a contempt for the vocational.
At first, colonial officials treated them with a mixture of contempt and tolerance, as inherent in traditional culture.
Yes, familiarity breeds content - but also contempt, when it fails to keep pace with social realities.
Prevention programs should encourage the development of norms against these forms of contempt and their consequences.
The risk of contempt was greatest for middle-class women who were supposed to have no knowledge of such impurity.
First, although we measured the power of self-derogation we did not measure the experience of anger, aggression or contempt of the self-derogating thoughts\\voices.
Politicians, and especially those of the self-publicizing pragmatic variety, affect a bluff contempt for windy theorizing.
The contempt and instances of violence against security sector staff, of course, cannot be compared with the violent acts committed by security sector staff themselves.
A court's power of contempt is just such a power, as is its more general right to punish wrongdoing.
The answer was that it could not be because of the logical impossibility of the sovereign being held to be in contempt of itself.
The original text lists the emotions as contempt, jealousy, rage, malice, love.
The more he lets off steam in orgiastic behaviour, the more violent his feelings of self-denunciation and self-contempt become afterwards.
Such lovers of humanity are guilty of a contempt for facts.
She has no use for him and his contempt for the needy and relationships of need.
They are treated with a mixture of pity and contempt - and envy, since quite a few of them have managed to achieve coveted economic status.
In the other, this is a distinction without a difference, while contempt for minorities is inherently harmful because harmfulness and hurtfulness are not well differentiated.
The appropriate attitude toward the enthusiast can range from contempt through condescension and amusement to awe.
They treated ordinary soldiers with contempt, and did not hesitate to deceive them.
By the middle of the nineteenth century these attitudes had hardened to the point where they amounted to an ideology of contempt if not detestation.
I am simply saying that we have something which was once theirs, and that should attract their interest, not their contempt.
Their efforts made righteousness a matter of public show, and contempt for self or others the canker of the inner soul.
Sixteen items denoted simple emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, fear), whereas 16 other items denoted complex emotions (surprise, shame, disgust, contempt).
If machine translation's self-declared limitations are accepted, therefore, the contempt with which this field has historically been treated now seems quite out of place.
His own beliefs are never spelt out, but he does not disguise his contempt for the trite rationalism of most academic discourse.
Nothing is so revealing of the babu mind as the astounding geography of his contempt.
Failure to attend invites strictures of contempt of court.
There are also many stories of linguistic self-contempt.
They also reflected a latent contempt for both politicians and parliament throughout the committee's proceedings.
Parliament was treated with thinly veiled contempt and offered no serious reforms.
To become properly aware of that full humanity is to become incapable of treating it with contempt, cruelty, or indifference.
The use of force in holding a defendant in contempt of court is a response to the refusal to do the court's bidding.
As a result, penalties for contempt of court are required in addition to whatever remedy is awarded to the plaintiff.26 23.
A finding of contempt is thus coercive in a way different from an award of damages.
Reserved for post-bop players, it signifies contempt for the apparent unwillingness, or inability to play bebop.
If the book had been unexceptionable as regards topics, its style and character, which are beneath contempt, would have rendered it inadmissible.
However, he finds himself becoming drawn into it in spite of his contempt.
However, he meets only with contempt from both the servants and the family into whose society he is thrown.
Over and over, artists, critics, and producers expressed contempt for quick and temporary success.
Our boundless contempt should be reser ved for those cases in which, upon due reflection, we can conclude that nothing more than a hateful attitude is in fact expressed.
The ability of contempt powers to encourage obedience is not ir relevant to the decision to use them in response to violations of injunctions more generally.
Another way to understand these sayings is to regard them as simply an expression of contempt by the poor for those affluent enough to afford several brides.
Many terms reflect this derision and contempt.
The use of thou between people who would normally use you to each other would have signalled a range of effects, such as anger and contempt.
He was a character who, because of his contempt for the world around him and, more so, himself, does everything he can to trick people into liking him.
The degree of contamination perceived ranges on a scale which has fear, abhorrence, loathing and contempt at one end, and nothing worse than low social esteem at the other.
Their preference for money making over soldiering was proverbial, and indeed as time went on they tended to look at the latter profession with some contempt.
Families high in this code exhibited high levels of negative affect including anger, frustration, and contempt, but were also more likely to appear disengaged from one another.
Linking the extent of contempt sanctions to the seriousness of the wrong done is a special case of the criminal law's more general concern with proportionality. 32.
Classicists were uninterested, theologians were hostile, and even other orientalists usually treated the discipline's new subfield with suspicion if not contempt (most liberal-era orientalists did not learn cuneiform).
Preventive intervention programs in middle and late childhood should increase awareness of the subtle forms of contempt that stem from perceived differences in ethnic, cultural, and religious backgrounds.
A court's powers of contempt underscore the state's claim to a monopoly on the legitimate use of force.
Corruption, taking bribes, failure to declare a conflict in interests have all constituted contempts.
As s.118 provides for the offender to be taken into custody, the judge felt his authority was restricted to committals for contempts made in the face of the court.
Instead, he fabricates another ingenious deception for his hero, one which seems the ultimate expression of contempt for women.
The catholics too were viewed with a mixture of pity, contempt and, perhaps, fear.
There is little public interest in the business of politics and a good deal of contempt for the political process and the political class.
Miracles and relics he had treated coldly and generally with contempt.
As imperial portraits attracted faith, so images of emperors who had betrayed their subjects' trust were treated with contempt.
What consequences attend a breach of privilege/contempt?
A major difficulty with such a test is that familiarity may breed tolerance rather than contempt.
In short, it was the moral type of the vain, the superficial and the narcissistic, and the only emotion it could inspire was 'contempt'.
In this long account, the author's sympathy for the leaders of the separate denominations gives way to scarcely concealed contempt.
Nonhuman-animal epithets insult humans by invoking contempt for other species: rat, worm, viper, goose.
The enterprise culture has, however, led to an individualism which has encouraged fraud, materialism and contempt for collective support and social responsibility.
The basic point is that contempt for the law involves rational pursuit of one's ends in the face of standards of reasonableness.
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