Sentences with disesteem
dis·es·teem
D d - But one can come away from the story thinking that Trollope disesteemed travelers as a class, just as one can come away thinking that he disesteemed women who tried to make an independent go of their lives.
- Thus, non-landed economic activities geared toward profit and growth through capital investment were disesteemed and thereby stifled.
- The only productions enjoyed in real quantity are the amateur efforts in slams and ezines, which are disesteemed by serious poets.
- In our earnestness to romanticize the cowboy we've ironically disesteemed his true character.
- In fact, far from the love of esteem being grounds for disesteem, a total disregard of others’ opinions seems to reveal in a person a certain contemptuousness of others, a characteristic that is itself disestimable.
- The man who abandoned his shield was disesteemed by all; and the greatest dishonor was a shield fallen into the hands of the enemy.
- The feeling for a good human job anywhere, the admiration of the really admirable, the disesteem of what is cheap and trashy and impermanent-this is what we call the critical sense, the sense for ideal values.
- One disesteeming feature of the regulatory body is that although it has broad administrative brief, the final decision is left to the Minister for Energy a situation which creates opportunities for the Minister, a political appointee, to veto the decisions of the Board, the technical body.
- Many would say that inequality in the distribution of power or even the inequality of esteem and disesteem associated with social positions is more basic and fundamental.
- It is quite clear that fathers have been disesteemed and are disesteemed today.
- The professional critic or literary scholar who equates metaphor with poetry and poetry with truth is both disesteemed and opposed by the philosopher who, after deciding that metaphors are literally false, or cognitively insignificant, dismisses them as ‘mere’ instances of semantic confusion.
- I've written an essay expanding upon my reasons for disesteeming his work, so I won't recapitulate those reasons here.
- By making publicity a ‘public’ rather than a private activity, we remove such disesteem as may attach to self-promotion and allow esteem fuller rein as an incentive.
- The Fund will support research projects intended to lead to an increased understanding of personal factors, social arrangements, social institutions and physical factors affecting the well being of disesteemed or disadvantaged persons.