Other Americans were frankly contemptuous of the Dutch policy, which they regarded as softheaded.
These letters (copies of which are attached) have prompted contemptuous responses from both Sens.
His mien is that of the contemptuous guerrilla fighter, mixed with that of a truculent teenager.
The question is: Will Mr. Hagel's cynical and contemptuous gambit be rewarded by the Senate?
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"I know a lot of tutors who are almost contemptuous of the families, " he added.
Filmmaker Jonathan Nossiter depicted Rolland as a self-important popinjay, contemptuous of any palate other than his own.
For a museum of design, MAD seems oddly contemptuous of the design elements that went into these commercial products.
Complaints that his books featured no strong female characters met only contemptuous dismissal.
And they adopt a posture of contemptuous moral superiority over those who disagree.
This is a lousy time to have a president in the White House who is, apparently, contemptuous of Winston Churchill.
While General Musharraf is contemptuous of Ms Bhutto, whom he accuses of looting the country, he appears genuinely to hate Mr Sharif.
"Macaulay was notoriously dismissive, if not downright hostile and contemptuous, about native Indian, and particularly Hindu, customs and religious superstitions, " writes Masani.
The chancellor Denis Healey's contemptuous treatment of his Liberal opposite number and ostensible colleague, John Pardoe, has become the stuff of political legend.
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"The government finds the statement contemptuous, " he is quoted as saying.
It will legitimize this refusal, this contemptuous refusal, to even appear.
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Atari's refusal to be corralled by the status quo was one of the reasons Jobs went to work there in 1974 as an unkempt, contemptuous 19-year-old.
They do so because the British media, largely cynical, condescending and even contemptuous of our partners in Europe, fosters the impression that the British people think likewise.
History is replete with examples of strategic miscalculations in which an over-reach - usually born of contemptuous disdain for a foe - led to disaster for the aggressor.
He responded by drawing his finger across his throat in a gesture that seemed dismissive and contemptuous rather than threatening before more mundanely asking the judge for bathroom break.
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Still, more than his recent predecessors, he is contemptuous of the idea that Liberalism and Labourism are natural partners whose separation in the early 20th century should now be reversed.
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But the dangers are evident to anyone who travels a few miles out of Skopje, to an area controlled by well-armed, cocksure, ethnic-Albanian fighters, contemptuous of all politicians and enjoying some popular support.
When using complaint as a tool to keep the social conversation going and foster a fond, if sometimes contemptuous, loyalty to the organisation, nobody, from the lowliest employees upwards, expects anything to come of it.
But to come up with a few declarations or protocols and ask the Irish to vote again would not just be contemptuous of democracy: the turnout and margin of defeat also suggest that it might fail.
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