All 8 Uses of
contempt
in
Invisible Man by Ellison
- That had all passed now with his disgrace, and what on the part of the school officials had been an attitude of contempt blunted by tolerance, had now become a contempt sharpened by hate.†
Chpt 2
- That had all passed now with his disgrace, and what on the part of the school officials had been an attitude of contempt blunted by tolerance, had now become a contempt sharpened by hate.†
Chpt 2
- …to be engaged in some vast, though obscure, enterprise, who affected the pseudo-courtly manners of certain southern congressmen and bowed and nodded as they passed like senile old roosters in a barnyard; the younger crowd for whom I now felt a contempt such as only a disillusioned dreamer feels for those still unaware that they dream-the business students from southern colleges, for whom business was a vague, abstract game with rules as obsolete as Noah's Ark but who yet were drunk on…†
Chpt 12
- I could feel their eyes, saw them all and saw too the time when they would know that my prospects were ended and saw already the contempt they'd feel for me, a college man who had lost his prospects and pride.
Chpt 12 *contempt = lack of respect
- "He was a handkerchief-headed rat!" a woman screamed, her voice boiling with contempt.†
Chpt 13
- I could see him vividly, half-drunk on words and full of contempt and exaltation, pacing before the blackboard chalked with quotations from Joyce and Yeats and Sean O'Casey; thin, nervous, neat, pacing as though he walked a high wire of meaning upon which no one of us would ever dare venture.†
Chpt 16
- For a second our eyes met and he gave me a contemptuous smile, then he spieled again.†
Chpt 20
- I stood there, watching him plunge swiftly and contemptuously out of sight, his tail light as red as his nose.†
Chpt 24