contemptuousness


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Despite his inexperience in politics, such contention is nothing new to Daniels, who has a penchant for playing characters display a patrician contemptuousness.
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Despite her alleged contemptuousness of such political alignments, Chopin's work has been extremely important for, and concurred in, "social change," even if such readings have only been produced in relatively recent times.
Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable
The women I interviewed expressed feelings which ranged from numbed indifference to fervent contemptuousness.
Why women are hanging up on phone sex work: from the edge of the pink collar ghetto
Anti-political, anti-majoritarian, elitist, Ernie O'Malley repeatedly evinced a dismissive arrogance close to that which Liam O'Flaherty identified in one of his characters, said to possess "that arrogant contemptuousness which seems to be characteristic of all revolutionaries".
"The inborn hate of things English": Ernie O'Malley and the Irish Revolution 1916-1923
Maybe he could have his own drama series and play the same role; he has the right voice, appearance, and an unnerving contemptuousness for much of what he sees around him.
A wigging for Ned makes case history
Ashamed of his contemptuousness, he spent his life listening politely, with fixed attention, to their inferior evaluations and their inferior insights and their inferior alibis.
Robert Maynard Hutchins: A Memoir

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