Word: contempts
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...witness who testifies without pretest to a part of his Community connection may find that he has lost his privilege of silence, and must tell the rest or stand punishment for contempt...
Then MacArthur really poured his contempt on Harry Truman: "How anyone could use such a bloody drama as a means of self-glorification is quite beyond my comprehension...
...trouble is a plague of human locusts. His mother squeezes out the juices of her love for his dashing, rakehell brother Ben, leaves young Ase only the rind of contempt. When Ben quits the family farm to go fortune-hunting, Ase is left not only with all the chores but also with Nellie, one of Ben's girls. Nellie tries to be a good wife to him, but though she heats his bed she rarely warms his heart. They have five children, but only one, his frail daughter Dolly, ever tugs very hard at Ase's heartstrings...
Crowds lined the corridors of New York County Courthouse and murmured as Anastasia strode through. He stared at them with hard contempt-and at the attendants who held them back and at the glare of flashbulbs touched off by his entrance. As a witness he was relaxed and polite. With pudgy fingers he smoothed his suit, touched his conservative black necktie. He was, he said in the hoarse voice of illiteracy and command, a dress manufacturer. Then, save for a few innocuous questions, he quit answering. He departed as imperiously as he had entered...
...compact of literary allusions, many of which will escape the thinly read. But no reasonably well-educated and sensitive reader can escape the poems' impact and meaning. In The Complete Poems the course he has run becomes clear. It began with satire that expressed something close to contempt for his fellow men. But Eliot survived and surpassed satire. His maturer poems are religious, culminating in the magnificent Four Quartets, the only major poem the 20th century has produced...