Sentences with phrase «display disdain»

Their supremely confident postures display disdain for social norms and defiance for any behavioural patterns aimed at obtaining male consensus.

C.S. Lewis's fictional villains often displayed a disdain for animals while Lewis, known to share bread with the mice of his house, was noted for his compassion.

Each displayed disdain each time they were featured in the story.

Not exact matches

Slight update on SIGNPOSTINGS: I also found there Colin's reflections on what's good and bad about living in THE GOLDEN AGE OF TV — yet another postmodern yet conservative theme: Too much disdain for convention and ordinary storytelling and narrative, way too self - indulgent when it comes to the imaginative display of excesses.

The bourgeois spent their money on obvious luxuries like boats and furs; bohemians created an alternative culture that disdained overt displays of wealth and instead embraced a romantic view of the common life.

Cameron is a natural at displaying the utter disdain of the school bully.

In fact, Mr. Dyster continuously displayed a strong disdain for the idea of the wire walk, despite the fact that it would shine a worldwide spotlight on a city in desperate need for some positive publicity, and often expressed his disdain publicly.

Trump told the crowd Cruz displayed «disdain» and «hatred» for New York.

Ohanaeze decried in a statement by its President - General, Chief John Nwodo, in Abuja on Sunday, the consistent and unrepentant display of disdain for the South - East by the Buhari administration as displayed in the recent reorganisation at the NNPC.

It all comes down to a private snub that Clough internalizes and elevates into a public display of disdain.

by Walter Chaw Tom Green's Freddy Got Fingered is the most startling debut since Luis Buñuel's Un chien andalou, with which it has a few things in common: both are constructed with a wilful disdain towards narrative; both are aimed at the outer limits of shocking imagery; both display an open hostility for the cultural status quo; and both joke on their audience's entrenched preconceptions of film form.

This may be the most blatant display of disdain by a game company for its customer base that I've ever seen.

Kamrooz Aram, a Brooklyn - based artist whose works often challenge a modernist disdain for decoration, shares his thoughts on ornament and its complex relationship to modernist painting and exhibition design as demonstrated in his own varied practice in which painting, collage, sculpture, and the art of display operate as equals.

They expressed disdain for the style of art on display, distrust of artists with foreign - sounding names and communistic tendencies, and anger that public money was used to support an unworthy project.