Sentence examples for despising one another from inspiring English sources

Despising one another's ideas from a distance, Jacobs and Moses only came face to face once at a Board of Estimate hearing in 1958 that squashed Moses's plan to build a ten-lane expressway through Downtown Manhattan that would have razed the cast-iron district of Soho and much of Chinatown and Little Italy through a "slum-clearance" initiative.

The relationship is far more likely to resemble a couple who've taken one of those "breaks", usually a prelude to splitting up for good, but before they've reached the stage of despising one another enough to do the dumping.

We live in a society of intolerance where we despise one another on the basis of personal, political and religious differences.

Future projects – including Newt, about an attempt to mate the last remaining newts on earth, who unfortunately despise one another – indicate a continuing aversion to formula.

And then there are the Muslims who don't agree with their views of the Koran, who keep saying that Allah put different people on the earth not that they might despise one another, but that they might get to know one another and learn from one another.

Barrera and Morales despised one another.

"We pretty much despised one another by the end," Trimble nods, lounging beside his bandmates back in their Dublin hotel.

The same was true of Washington-Moscow summits during the Cold War, when leaders who might despise one another would meet not despite but because of the very real threat of mutual nuclear annihilation.

But his greatest feat, after the coup d'etat, was absolutely remarkable: he succeeded in bringing together the intensely opposed ethnic groups of the north and south, who had always despised one another.

The last time the pair met, almost a year ago in the Sheldonian theatre – a touch of Oxonian yin to the Cantabrigian yang; the balance of the universe must, after all, be respected – the encounter was disappointingly good natured and civilised, raising the very real, if dull, possibility that the two men might actually not despise one another.

They work together even when they despise one another, and their betrayals aren't always wicked.