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And we're not all going to become facial expression experts overnight here, but there's one I can teach you that's very dangerous and it's easy to learn, and that's the expression of contempt.
But when anger turns to contempt, you've been dismissed.
Now take the same patient with chest pain, make them moist and garrulous and put a little bit of alcohol on their breath, and suddenly my history is laced with contempt.
And we say that word with such contempt.
But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us, this other thing, and then we're disempowering ourselves.
So why was it that, just a few nights later, as I stood in that same E.R. and determined that my diabetic patient did indeed need an amputation, why did I hold her in such bitter contempt?
You didn't need my judgment and my contempt.
More recently, researchers have proposed additional entries such as contempt, shame, and disapproval, but opinions vary on how distinct boundaries between these categories can be drawn.
There are many ways that we betray our partner: with contempt, with neglect, with indifference, with violence.
This antifat bias has become so integral, so ingrained to how we value ourselves and each other that we rarely question why we have such contempt for people of size and where that disdain comes from.
And let's do it because this hate and contempt that flows through all of us every day makes us ugly and it corrupts us, and it threatens the very fabric of our society.
It's hard because it means extending empathy and compassion to people who show us hostility and contempt.
DB: Yeah, and we're trying to build bridges here, and especially for an audience that may have contempt for Trump, it's important to say, no, this is a real thing.
Contempt has replaced conversation.
No, they tend to be places where people have to hold their noses and rub along together despite their mutual contempt.
We think of politics and anger in terms of the contempt and disdain and fury that are feeding a rise of macho-fascism in the world.
He now carries a calendar to avoid being held in contempt for missed court dates, and he schedules a break into his day every day to recharge before he gets agitated.
Especially expressions of contempt or disgust, well you really need a lot of positives to upset that.
Feel sympathy, rather than contempt.
And she said, "Do you know what that is?" Just withering in her contempt.
But complacency does have a tendency to breed contempt.
Ultimately, especially now in this world, where we live in a context of regressive and onerous immigration laws, in reality TV that thrives on humiliation, and in a context of analysis, where the thing we hear most repeatedly, day in, day out in the United States, in every train station, every bus station, every plane station is, "Ladies and gentlemen, please report any suspicious behavior or suspicious individuals to the authorities nearest to you," when all of these ways we are encouraged to view our fellow human being with hostility and fear and contempt and suspicion.
This is a genuinely bad film, so completely devoid of energy and humor that it serves only as a example of Murphy's contempt for his audience.
"Belle-Maman" leaves you with only a nauseated contempt for its morally bankrupt and clueless protagonists.
From EW's Web site, and their review on the show when it first aired, "...he never writes down to his audience, and he never betrays contempt for his subjects.
They violate every rule of command and have contempt for their employers at the CIA.
After watching this movie, I have nothing but contempt for any of those who were involved in the making of this abysmal film.
It's proof that movie makers and their financiers treating their audience with contempt isn't a new phenomena as it was done as early as the 1940s and HOUSE OF Dracula is a great example .
In my opinion it shows the contempt that many people have in Hollywood about the level of intelligence of the masses.
The original Airport (1970) was a classic of its kind, and the first two B-movie follow-ups (Airport 1975; Airport '77) were watchable fun at best, amusing camp at worst; but this crass and inept final entry lacks any entertainment value and displays a shocking contempt for its audience.
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