Phrases with «certain disdain»

"Certain disdain" means a strong feeling of dislike or disrespect that is specific and definite. Full definition

Sentences with «certain disdain»

  • In his essay «The Golden Rule in the Light of New Insight,» Harvard psychoanalyst Erik Erikson comments: «systematic students of ethics often indicate a certain disdain for this all - too - primitive ancestor of more logical principles; and Bernard Shaw found the rule an easy target: don't do to another what you would like to be done by, he warned, because his tastes may differ from yours» (Insight and Responsibility [Norton, 1964], p. 226). (religion-online.org)
  • For all this, some sober scholars scoffed at Harvey Cox and cultivated a certain disdain for «relevance» and «being with it,» and indeed for religion masquerading as sociology, and piety that was now squeezed into a new mold of merely social change, not change of soul. (firstthings.com)
  • Miliband will continue to be regarded with a certain disdain, for he has not yet got round to coming up with the alternatives which would make Labour a more powerful force. (politics.co.uk)
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