Exempel på scorn

• The boundary of wretched practitioners and refined doctors is again transgressed, and she even scorns the insufficiency of scientific knowledge.

• He scorned the device suggested by the author of flinging himself into an armchair.

• Even more incongruously it had made him a figure to be courted, albeit not always with great appetite, by the cultural and artistic intelligentsia that had heretofore scorned him.

• Really, they were little better than the meridian of the earth, which he had just scorned, because the solid theoretical explanation of invariance was still lacking.

• Now she regrets her pride because she fears that her true lover has found another sweetheart and that it will be her turn to be scorned.

• She scorned the possibility that these virtues were exploited as a form of social control, and saw hypocrisy as in essence ethical, upholding standards whatever one's personal failures.

• He would have scorned to destroy fish with poison or explosives.

• Civil liberties, trade union freedom and the freedom of expression continue to be scorned.

• The conservatives have scorned this as being what they call a watered-down version of the traditional concept of civil human rights.

• I come to another more general thing which scorns to be occurring.

• The best way to deal with that challenge is not by scorning people but by helping them.

• We scorned them because they did not have the skills that we thought that we had.

• We were scorned when we said that ways could be found of choosing the infrastructure in which investment could be placed without increasing inflation.

• I think these things ought to be said, since this enterprise is now being scorned and ridiculed and its essential service belittled.

• No one has mentioned what scorns to me to be the kernel of this pro- blem.