Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt, too long removed from good to retain even verbal vigour, save in the ears of those to whom only the squalid sounds strong.
There is no appeasing Putin. Frankly, there is no directly stopping him, either. It is only possible to raise the costs to him of his war, including the military costs. If we won't provide military materiel to Ukraine now, we deserve the contempt with which Putin regards us.
Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.
It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.
Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.
It is certainly a wonderful, a brain-staggering conception. . . that our own stellar universe may be but one of hundreds of thousands of similar universes. . . Familiarity with these mighty concepts most certainly does not breed contempt, does not dull our awe at the mightiness of the universe in which we play so small a part. It is very doubtful if any of those who are seriously studying the heavens ever lose their feeling of reverence for this supremely wonderful universe and for Whoever or Whatever must be behind it all.
A schmuck is a general term of disrespect. It's a term of contempt and derision. It applies to a lot of people.
Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return.
Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule and contempt.
Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.
Americans and Englishmen, when they become acquainted with the Balkans, feel an astonished contempt when they study the mutual enmities of Bulgarians and Serbs, of Hungarians and Rumanians. It is evident to them that these enmities are absurd and that the belief of each little nation in its own superiority has no objective basis. But most of them are quite unable to see that the national pride of a Great Power is essentially as unjustifiable as that of a little Balkan country.
Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything.
She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt
In America we have only the bourgeoisie, and the love of the heroic is one of the few counterpoises available to us. In us the contempt for the heroic is only an extension of the perversion of the democratic principle that denies greatness and wants everyone to feel comfortable in his skin without having to suffer unpleasant comparisons. Students have not the slightest notion of what an achievement it is to free oneself from public guidance and find resources for guidance within oneself.
Upon him the contempt of three planets descended.
The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength.