relaxes the exemplary damages standard of
contumelious disregard in
(And he said that on Good Friday, when our Lord temporarily died on the Cross, [the Jews] in their blasphemous,
contumelious passion, with their knives and various implements of iron, contemptuously, ignominiously, and cruelly pierced the aforesaid sacred hosts.
Iniuria "embraced any
contumelious disregard of another's rights or personality.
(191.) Looking to English sources, Kent wrote: "The authorities show that blasphemy against God, and
contumelious reproaches and profane ridicule of Christ or the Holy Scriptures ...
Gandhi would never have uttered such belligerent, mocking and
contumelious words about another spiritual leader--all in the name of peace.
FOLLOWING my item about Tony Bennett's cheap party at the Royal Albert Hall, reader Richard Budgen writes: "I suppose it would have been too much to expect Scurra to have made any mention of the quality of the Tony Bennett concerts at the Royal Albert Hall; instead of making
contumelious comments about the backstage facilities at the RAH.
But if he sack fair Athens, And take our goodly aged men by th'beards, Giving our holy virgins to the stain Of
contumelious, beastly, mad-brain'd war, Then let him know, and tell him Timon speaks it, In pity of our aged and of our youth, I cannot choose but tell him that I care not.
William Tisdall: "I observed the dogs in the streets much more
contumelious and quarrelsome than usual; and the very night before the bill went up, a committee of Whig and Tory cats had a very warm and loud debate upon the roof of our house" (147).
Such a technique, though much deprecated, often features in ordinary criminal trials as well, where prosecutors at times tend to portray defendants in
contumelious terms while defense attorneys strive to present their names in honorable expressions.
I offered this idea to Jim Farry and he told me that homologation would be a matter for the appropriate SFA committee and that they might turn out to be
contumelious.
Instead he asserts that "in a popular dominion, there may be as many Neros as there are orators who soothe the people."(65) Taking a page from Machiavelli, Hobbes suggests that under a Nero only the ambitious who are "offensive and
contumelious" live in danger and in what is almost certainly an autobiographical reference he remarks that in a monarchy whoever would lead a "retired life" has nothing to fear "let him be what he will that reigns."(66)
One such unfortunate was a director interviewed by the Medveds but apparently unaware of the
contumelious nature of the book they were planning.
alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the
contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.
