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And the advice I despised more than any other advice was, "You've got to go network with everybody."
And yet, in 2016, I invited John Derbyshire as well as Charles Murray to speak at my school, knowing full well that I would be giving them a platform and attention for ideas that I despised and rejected.
We've opened up space, regardless of being despised, for more conservative women to step in and make real changes, and the words "women" and "the priesthood" can now be uttered in the same sentence.
Ironically, the same African rice despised at home was hailed abroad.
And he despised it from the bottom of his heart.
'Find out what it is in your tradition that tells us what to do when we have been humiliated, when we have been despised and rejected.'
Although I absolutely despised it the first time, I decided to give it another chance.
I've read in various film histories that he absolutely despised Hedy Lamarr, and that looks perfectly obvious on film.
Pre-Depression audiences, giddy with optimism, may have rooted for this ambitious go-getter in whom they saw their surrogate; Depression audiences despised him as the person likely to foreclose on their mortgage and throw them in the gutter.
I enjoyed the action sequences, but I despised the screenplay and plot.
By the time the film ended, I not only disliked it, I despised it.
Fortunately, there's a mansion nearby though it seems pretty odd that the people inside know the writer and he says he didn't realize this was the home of a man he knew (and despised).
I truly despised this film when i saw it at the age of about 6 or 7 as I was a huge fan of Robin Williams and nothing he could do was bad.
I loved Nanook of the North and March of the Penguins, but despised this movie, notwithstanding the similarity of the theme.
Appalling cinematography, grating music, atrocious acting, and a director who praised Palance's what-was-he-thinking turn and despised the very presence of Power as Justine, although she was almost the only one who wasn't mugging in every scene.
Not only was the lead hated and oppressed because he was Muslim, but also he was further despised because he was gay.
I'm really not sure how I wound up watching this one; After all, I despised the first movie.
It was clear that Verhoveven despised the book which the film was based which showed military service as a positive thing.
I was a bit put off by some of the negative comments, but it is always interesting to then view a film which is praised by some and despised by one or two.
While I'm not an avid anime fan, a friend of mine who is despised it even more than I.
The first time I saw this film, I completely despised it.
I despised this movie.
He would have despised this "modern" version of his beloved "I've Got a Secret".
I just despised the physical depiction of the Red Skull...they could have done so much more with the make up...instead it looks like a bad Darkman rendition.
To top it off, the character she played despised Lily Tomlin.
What de Gaulle despised about the Fourth Republic was what he dubbed the “regime of the parties,” which put their own interests above the national interest.
After deposing his father in a palace coup in 1995, Al Thani was suddenly confronted with a hostile Saudi Arabia and Egypt, whose elites despised the ambitious young ruler and preferred his more timid father.
The descendants of slave traders and slave owners in the United States now have a black man as their president;Africa’s colonizers have all been defeated and kicked out; and apartheid’s proponents are now governed by those they despised and abused for generations.
Many leading Republican politicians who stand by Trump, and even the multi-billionaires who fund their campaigns, may have private misgivings about the dangerously erratic narcissist in the White House, just as the gentlemen of the Herrenklub probably once despised the vulgar upstart in his preposterous brown uniforms.
Russia must seek genuine strategic partnership with the US, and the latter must understand that, when excluded and despised, Russia can be a major global spoiler.
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