1.   And just now, at a Geneva meeting of the Dayton participants, Milosevic treated the American request with hardly disguised contempt.

2.   But for Israeli politicians, the colonel had a barely disguised contempt.

3.   Instead, his correspondence betrays a smug self-satisfaction and a barely disguised contempt for chancery officials and for the people he was ordained to serve.

4.   Others express thinly disguised contempt for the idea.

5.   But Muster escaped any punishment for similar outbursts on Friday and afterwards expressed barely disguised contempt for the code of conduct.