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Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
My strengths make me contemptuous. My weaknesses make me charitable.
Geniuses are justifiably contemptuous of the opinions of their inferiors.
A horse, if he happens to have a contemptuous disposition, can sneer very effectively.
I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.
I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
A curious thing about this rarefied world is that bloggers are almost unfailingly contemptuous toward everyone except one another.
I've had a contemptuous relationship with authority throughout my life. I found myself at odds with authority, and I'm disdainful of blind authority.
The court today, just as in 1776, is deaf to the voices of the people and their repeated entreaties: they have become arrogant, contemptuous, highhanded, and literal despots.
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Generation after generation, there is this never-ending, contemptuous, condescending attitude to the next generation or the next way of thinking: music, art, politics, whatever. And I have never been like that.
Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
Spike Lee is openly contemptuous of whites and what he implies to be a white establishment out to get him. Lee's films have grossed in the hundreds of millions. Whites have contributed greatly to this sum, though he seemingly cannot stand them. Hypocritical?
Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.
We're contemptuous of 'distracted' working mothers. We're contemptuous of 'selfish' rich mothers. We're contemptuous of mothers who have no choice but to work, but also of mothers who don't need to work and still fail to fulfill an impossible ideal of selfless motherhood. You don't have to look very hard to see the common denominator.
I think a playful critique is good for all of us, and that's basically how I see satire functioning. But I'm not interested in a kind of contemptuous satirical vision; I try always, even when I'm knowingly being satirical, to also be humane, but I mean, let's face it: there's plenty in American life to make fun of, and we all participate in it.