A prison visitor since the 1930s, Longford was still going, two and three times a week, to visit the abandoned and despised in jail until close to the end of his life.
"There is no victory in power, no honour in deceit, no future in living as you will live, hated and despised by everyone," Orsini tells Cesare.
For example, in spring 2011 local tagging hero Laser 3.14 (equally loved and despised throughout town) brought his spray-painted poetry and vibrant, dystopian canvases to the gallery's cosy new space, which is situated (somewhat ironically) on the ground floor of a typically gabled Amsterdam house.
In the words of Owiny: "They are despised".
Warsi always despised the way her role was depicted as ornamental, not least because she had strong views on the scale of change required if the Tories were to be serious about recruitment outside their demographic comfort zone.
For decades, however, Marseille has also been feared and despised by Paris as a city that is more "African", or at least more north African, than European.
Warming to the theme, she continued: "There's not enough attention on [US tabloids] to revile them, whereas the Daily Mail seems to be nationally despised".
This creates a permanent game of catch-up, whose victims are the "losers", that is to say ordinary people who do not aspire to such status or riches but must be despised nonetheless by the chief executives, vice-presidents and other wolves of Wall Street.
The present government of François Hollande is widely despised not because of the president's sexual peccadilloes (in contrast, these are pretty much widely admired) but because of the punitive tax regime he has been seeking to impose.
To help keep the Mehsud fighters out of NWFP, it has armed militants of the small Bhittani tribe, despised by the Mehsud.
Prudish medieval Christians despised his detailed advice on the ins and outs of sex as "a cunning ploy to win converts", which undermine their own faith's fixation on virginity, chastity and monogamy.
