One finds in Wolcot's mock-epic a shower of contumely constantly trained upon epic. |
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True, Marx mentions a few authors by name, but only to pour heavily Teutonic scorn and contumely upon them. |
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For anyone who wishes to learn how the cycle of contumely and pardon — or simple forgetfulness — spins in England, note the consequence. |
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You're never going to please everybody, but my feeling is there seems to have been less contumely than might have been expected, because we have taken people with us. |
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But, after 2004, I no longer enjoyed the game, mainly because the Rumsfeldian contumely, the shenanigans of ideologues, and the short-term memories of clownish officials were all getting people killed in a mindless war. |
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She had been subjected to contumely and cross-questoning and ill-usage through the whole evening. |
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I could think of no words adequate to the occasion. So I belched. Not out of contumely, you understand. It was a sympathetic belch, a belch of brotherhood. |
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Hannibal had no interest in treating with this commission, and treated it with contumely, hoping that it would drive the commission to declare war. |
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