Sentence examples for despise death from inspiring English sources

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The younger Pliny rationalized gladiator spectacles as good for the people, a way "to inspire them to face honourable wounds and despise death, by exhibiting love of glory and desire for victory even in the bodies of slaves and criminals".

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While they despise his death above all, you honor the monument of his death above all; what they consider particularly shameful you prove to be especially glorious by means of so wonderful a sign.

Those who still despise her held "death parties" and used social media last week to push the 1930s song, "Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead," to the top of the U.K. singles chart.

Even in the PPP, which accepted Mr Zardari as its leader in the panic-stricken wake of Ms Bhutto 2007 death, many despise him.

No rusted-on friends of Israel can defend these ugly pre-fabricated suburbs and outposts crammed with fanatics who appear to despise Palestinians and paint "Death to Arabs" on churches and mosques – and whose violence against Palestinians is now routine.

I've adored her and despised her, even in death.

"I despise anyone who would say, 'Death to Israel,' " Professor Grebstein said.

He who has conquered the fear of death can also despise pain, which "if it is long lasting is light, and if it is intense is short" and brings death nearer.

(Sontag, who despises television — "It's the death of Western civilization" — did not decline to go on TV).

Gaddafi, who is 67 years old and came to power in a coup 40 years ago, remembered all the events he despised in his youth -- the death of Dag Hammarskjold, the second UN Secretary General, killed in a plane crash in 1961 (which he thought might be a conspiracy), the British-French-Israeli attack against the Suez Canal in 1956 and the 1950-1953 Korean War, among others.

They follow the Santa Muerte, the Holy Death, a "saint" despised by the prelates as a satanic invention and venerated by drug-dealers, gun-runners and outcasts of all kinds as a touchstone for those who live precariously close to the edge of the everlasting.

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