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In many inner-city neighbourhoods, children emulate gangster culture and profess scorn for those who succeed in school.
This is a volume bulging with examples of wasteful use of public money, arousing laughter and scorn in equal measure.
The timidity of the boy afraid to fight, a common object of scorn for schoolyard bullies, was recast as a clinical pathology.
His passionate advocacy has earned him the love of coma-affected families, and the scorn of the medical profession in equal measure.
As much as I valued the path of Eastern spirituality and meditation, I was uncomfortable with its subtle scorn for the physical world.
What I hope is the people of Gravesham show their scorn for him by not going to his show.
That they are able to pour out their scorn for the West is a rather good demonstration of the freedom of speech they enjoy.
Even the junior senator from North Carolina felt obliged to express her scorn for these malefactors of great wealth.
Such high-minded scorn for the '90s and the general affluence and calm they represented is an eminently understandable sentiment.
In fact, the reason I remember this particular presentation at all is the scorn, contempt, and derision that followed.
He reserves most of his scorn for the film-makers of his own generation who, as he sees it, betray their own talent.
While the commercial provided exposure, it drew the scorn of genuine punkers.
My smart-arsed response to this questioning is often met with absolute scorn.
If the right-wingers disdain Lincoln for being too aggressively antislavery, the left-wingers scorn him for not being antislavery enough.
But U.S. media coverage matched the bipartisan refusal by leaders in Congress to do anything but scorn the offer.
Without being triumphalist or pouring scorn on media forecasts, he admitted the build-up to the game worked out perfectly for him.
I really do not want to discourage, or to pour scorn on, Mr Hide's hopes in that regard.
In fact, he pours scorn on the idea that any such thing could really exist.
She pours scorn on plans to capitalise on the growing movement for father's rights.
This was a phrase that Wallis would pour scorn on when he attacked Hobbes' ideas.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It was less invective than scornful, and scorn that seemed to sicken her as she spoke it.
And yet with all his irony, all his scorn, Lucian has ever a side-glance at literature.
Bitter scorn is poured forth on Samson whom the high priest insultingly invites to sing a love-song to Dalila.
We have likened the Norman to the Spartan, and, most of all, he was like him in his scorn of the Helot.
We should be defenceless before his arguments and indifferent to his scorn.
Of these, Slovakia suffered perhaps the most under the scorn, oppression, and exploitation of the Magyar oligarchy.
Country boys scorn the pignut trees, leaving their fruit for eager but unsophisticated nut-gatherers from the towns.
She treats it with absolute indifference, and begins to soliloquise, with a touch of scorn in her language.
To be exposed in the midst of his misery to the scorn of a despiser of his art was too much for his exhausted patience.
Upon the return to their homes, after the adjournment, they were not only met with universal scorn, but with inappeasable rage.
He wrote to the editor in his childish round hand, stigmatizing the blunder p. 56with youthful scorn.
The things she had said were answered only by his scorn, and she could see he was ineffably ashamed of her.
The menacing shadow of the finger of scorn pointing at her from every airt of heaven had disappeared.
Their insatiability is to be understood in the sense that satiety does not make them scorn what satiates them.
I sometimes think scorn of us as a nation that we so gladly and peaceably put our necks beneath the sceptre of such an atomy.
His reason prompted him to listen, but the Imp of the perverse laughed reason to scorn.
He could not but look at her with disconcertment, as she sat breathing bitterness and scorn, and staring leagues away.
Miss krakow let out a snort, as fiery with scorn as though flames were curling on her lips.
And now she looked at him beseechingly, as if to beg him only not to scorn her gift.
And Aunt Hannah in her enraged scorn even undertook a grotesque and mincing imitation of the peacocking aforesaid.
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