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You know, we're interested in, like, you know — (Laughter) — an awkward interaction, or a smile, or a contemptuous glance, or maybe a very awkward wink, or maybe even something like a handshake.
"The act of a master taking painful contemptuous possession of her, was the kind of rapture she wanted.
He is financially irresponsible (spending, for instance, £15 of his last £20 in the world on a cute little terrier whom he names George), but open, wildly generous, contemptuous of lucre, irreverent in the politest possible way, and hopelessly sentimental.
The film's somewhat contemptuous sentiment at the ruling class will probably remind one of Bunuel's flights into similar territory.
In fact some might find them contemptuous.
As such, this documentary is a shameful attempt to seek forgiveness and is just another lie on the part of someone who wants us to believe that he was a peacemaker, when in fact he was a contemptuous war criminal.
Contemptuous, too.
No one should be surprised that so contemptuous a French attitude, one utterly disdainful of the Union's Solidarity Pact and competition regulations, provoked a reaction detrimental to France.
In fact, Israel is in deep denial, which was reflected in Netanyahu’s contemptuous rejection of a two-state solution in his successful re-election campaign.
He was contemptuous of parliament, whose circumscribed powers were set forth in a constitution that he boasted of never having read.
In fact, well before Halstead's contemptuous pilgrimage, Western ethologists began adopting Eastern concepts and approaches--although without being aware of their sources.
As one commentator put it, Europeans feel a collective guilt about the Holocaust that makes them eager to have Israel stamped as an aggressor contemptuous of Palestinian humanity.
One Club Does Not Fit All in EuropePARIS – “Italy,” a contemptuous Metternich said two centuries ago as the peninsula was split into a myriad of fiefdoms, “is only a geographical expression.”
Initial reaction among the US, the UK, and France was almost contemptuous: one could almost hear their leaders sneering, “These countries would want all of those delaying and spoiling options, wouldn’t they.”
India should take to heart former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s prescient observation that “China, a nation of foreign and security policy realists, respects strategic strength and is contemptuous of vacillation and weakness.”
Solutions offered by the EU and its Commission often appear too technical, too insulated from public opinion, too complicated, and too contemptuous of national needs.
Though AMLO hails from the left, while Bolsonaro and Trump are of the right, all three are indifferent to – if not contemptuous of – democratic processes.
They are contemptuous of the establishment.
Much as they loathed domestic publications for blindly following the guidelines of Xinhua, China’s state news agency, they were similarly contemptuous of Western media that mishandled the story.
His handling of the Kursk crisis, however, dented that democratic mandate because Putin seemed as contemptuous of human life as all his predecessors in the Kremlin.
Trump himself has shown himself to be contemptuous of democracy, saying he would not accept the election result if he lost and threatening to jail his opponent.
(The fact that Nuland referred to him as “Yats” has the added implication that American diplomats are so ignorant and contemptuous that they cannot even be bothered to pronounce Slavic names.)
Demagogues stack prejudices atop half-truths, and any attempt to connect discussion with reality is shot through with contemptuous accusations of dishonesty and self-interest.
In other words, Bo bore all the hallmarks of a gangster boss: corrupt, ruthless towards his enemies, contemptuous of the law, and yet moralistic in his self-presentation.
In fact, NATO is in peril, and its fate now lies in Trump’s contemptuous hands.
Like today’s COVID-19 pandemic, these challenges will be devastatingly contemptuous of national borders and nativist governments.
And we must not forget the exemplary efforts and bravery of the Catalan police, with the support of the national police, in maintaining order at a time when their region’s leaders were openly contemptuous of the law.
And now that court – heedless of the political consequences for Europe and Germany, contemptuous of the rule of law within the EU, and cavalier about its own limitations – risks sacrificing the euro and possibly even the EU by clamping down on the ECB’s efforts to manage the euro.
This universalist approach underpinned the West’s condescending, patronizing, and contemptuous view of China.
Modi is contemptuous of the previous government’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), which assured every poor rural household of a hundred days’ paid employment per year.
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