Sentences with phrase «in disdain»

He is especially vocal in his disdain for fellow competitors.

Using the old - fashioned method — one that is held in disdain because it uses rote memorization and is not discovered by the student — the boy delivered the correct answer.

The gaming community has been very vocal in its disdain for microtransactions in video games.

«None of this was done in Rivers State, rather a faction of the party, led by the minister, proceeded with the exercise in disdain of rights and privileges of other members.

Believing in God never hurt anyone, but there has always been people who speak loudly about their non belief in disdain for God.

Despite being held in disdain by many career experts and job candidates alike, the weakness question is still a staple for job interviews.

As a former public librarian, I am not alone in my disdain for OverDrive, its janky platform, and its lack of user support.

Even in this bitterly divided election season, members of Congress have found bipartisan unity in their disdain for Wells Fargo and its business practices.

Byrne, who has a doctorate in philosophy, has been outspoken in his disdain for naked short sellers and other Wall Street «Sith Lords,» as he once called them, who he sees as unfair manipulators of his company's share price.

As Kierkegaard, in the words of Victor Eremita, says of the mystic in disdaining «the reality of existence to which God has assigned him,» he «thereby disdains God's love» (Either / Or, Vol.

We shall doubtless feel somewhat qualified respect for his explanation of this situation; yet we may not be too severe in our disdain, for, like most thinkers, he merely took over uncritically considerable of the thought of his time.

Many of the world's leaders have wiped their feet in disdain on these sayings.

A collaborative group called Nigeria's Political Violence Research explained: «Reliable sources (in Bauchi State) seem to suggest that Boko Haram attackers believe Christian women are responsible for making their children hold Islam in disdain, as a religion that perpetrates terror.»

Try the best carrot cake recipe ever — you'll look at every other carrot cake in disdain!

There are maybe one or two individuals who have gone a bit overboard in their disdain for certain players but we're all fans and all want the players to play to the level they're capable of.

The gathered Republicans were united in their disdain for Mayor de Blasio and a desire to unseat him.

The President said the judiciary was his problem, while the legislature holds the judiciary in disdain, even as lawyers who lose their cases condemn the Bench.

Apparently the entire production crew signed up to pen down lavish acclaim which will have you rolling your eyes in disdain if you've actually manage to see the film.

Maltin was joined in his disdain by Roger Ebert, who awarded the picture one star, but they were countered by, among others, Steven H. Scheuer, who stated that it was close to being a «modern - day horror classic,» and Danny Peary, who opined that it was «Cronenberg's best film, his one good film.»

Many of those same films also appear on the list of the New York Film Critics Circle awards announced earlier today, although the New York criterati joined our own Ignatiy Vishnevetsky in their disdain for James Franco's Timmy Wiseau biopic.

In fact, it generally held the automotive industry in disdain.

Sometimes it works out, but most of the time the end result can make you shake your head in disdain.

The long - standing Authors Guild, often scoffed as a proud member of the gatekeepers club and a rather irrelevant entity that has yet to embrace the current publishing climate, released an open letter from one of its board members that holds nothing back in its disdain for the newly formed Authors Alliance.

Jeff Bezos has been vindicated in his disdain for profitability as a metric.

Trump, for example, has outrightly stated that he has urged the leaders to be more vocal in their disdain for a certain political party from the pulpit and encourage their parishioners to vote certain ways.

He died as true saints die, in ignominy, in mockery, in the disdain of a spiteful and vile society.

Let me pose a question, if you join any group and don't follow the rules, do what is required, and hold their beliefs in disdain, why act all stuned when they turn against you?

California is not alone in its disdain and intolerance of drivers who get behind the wheel intoxicated.

You can disavow and hold in disdain that practice all you want, but you are just as close in relation to the slaughter of millions as most Western Christians are to the Crusades.

It is characteristic of our day that when normative social influence is brought to our attention we generally hold it in disdain.

To hold it in disdain, to set it over against realism, to stigmatize it as incompatible with true Christianity, to proclaim its bankruptcy, is hardly less than a wanton act.

Even if everybody in America enjoyed excellent health care, decent housing, educational opportunities, and lots of consumer goodies, but the wealthy and powerful lived in gated communities and held the rest of us in disdain, we'd think our society sick rather than healthy.

The stuffy Brits in the film look down their noses at him in disdain, and the great Maggie Smith actually tells him, «you may as well tell us how it ends — none of us are going see your movie.»

I usually ignore librarians and booksellers, too, because neither will have easy access to my book right now and will probably sniff at me in disdain.

The country has been vocal in its disdain for the cryptocurrency industry.