Sentences with phrase «verges on contempt»
Sometimes, as in «Fargo,» the Coens» fondness for outre regionalism verges on contempt, as if they were implicitly contrasting their own sophistication with the literal - minded dumbness of their characters.
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In the Carnegie Endowment study Estrangement: America and the World, Richard Ullman observes that «the most significant estrangement» of the U.S. in the past decade has been «from the entire idea of cooperation through a formal structure of international organizations,» especially the United Nations — an estrangement that has «verged on contempt» for the rest of the world.
Yet the novel is evidently something Mr Simpson regards with a indifference verging on contempt.
That episode, like the vote on student grants, is consistent with a pattern displayed by this government of impatience with democratic norms, verging on contempt.
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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made no secret of his contempt for marijuana use, and his Department of Justice is on the verge of releasing a report that many in the burgeoning legal cannabis industry fear will propose prosecuting people engaging in marijuana sales — even if they are in states that have legalized the drug locally.