Example sentences of "his contempt for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems extraordinary that , given the political fervour of the Paris-based SI fraction in its post-Lettrist phase , the exhibition should have been so solemnly organised with little regard to Debord 's caveat on auteurism and his contempt for the art market . |
| 2 | Mr Clarke made no secret of his contempt for the BMA : Mr Waldegrave is a regular visitor to its palatial headquarters . |
| 3 | He regarded posterity as the only afterlife worth contemplating and , to show his contempt for the resurrection of the body , he left his to be dissected — a bold gesture that his contemporaries were slow to follow — and his reconstituted skeleton was exhibited in University College , London . |
| 4 | His height he tended to disguise with a slight stoop , and he made no secret of his contempt for the desk-bound staffs who had mushroomed far behind the lines . |
| 5 | He seemed to fill the room with his contempt for the people present . |
| 6 | With England running in four tries past the static Springbok forwards , Botha could not hide his contempt for the country 's administrators . |
| 7 | He showed his world his contempt for the job by doing it very badly . |
| 8 | While I wondered about his motives , he stoked up his contempt for the whole Jewish race , which had not had the decency to get itself wiped out , as rumoured . |
| 9 | At the time of his father 's death in April 1788 Sutton and his brothers were still ‘ very eminent in the practice ’ and in 1796 he published The Inoculator , in which he explained his method and displayed his contempt for the medical establishment . |
| 10 | A person who distributes inflammatory material to equable recipients can argue with some plausibility that he intended to display his contempt for the views of the recipient , or was seeking to indicate in forcefully graphic terms that he held a different point of view from the one espoused by his audience . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought I had made that clear , ’ said Wheeler with no attempt at all to disguise his contempt for the Archdeacon . |
| 12 | Alan had his own reasons for liking her desperate honesty ; reasons that went beyond his contempt for the other girlfriends of his youth . |
| 13 | The critical factor was the depth of his contempt for the Fourth Republic . |
| 14 | Ms Johnston uses the world war as a springboard into other conflicts ; that between England and Ireland ; between Ireland north and south , and even within the south itself , as the English officers look down on the Irish men , and the northern Irish sergeant barely conceals his contempt for the southern Catholics in his ranks . |