If we didn't know and love Cory so much, it's entirely possible we would've despised her.
Luci, the Johnsons' younger daughter, recalled having "despised" her mother's "I Want to Be Alone" pillow, and this gets at the increasingly complex and contradictory role of the modern first lady.
He may have despised her politics but he sincerely admired the conviction that had seen her defy the contempt of the Tory establishment to become an epoch-defining prime minister.
In 1942 George Orwell wrote: "During five literary generations every enlightened person has despised him" as "morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting".
He had "despised" his father, and his succession is vigorously protested by the imperial concubine Madame Yang, who waves a testamentary edict naming her son, Duanwen, Duanbai's oldest brother, as emperor.
Not infrequently, party stalwarts have despised their nominee: in 1972, the year that George McGovern won the Democratic nomination, "Anybody but McGovern" was a Democratic slogan.
Stalin is known to have despised his first son, Yakov Dzhugashvili, who is thought to have committed suicide in 1943 by electrifying himself on a perimeter fence while being held prisoner in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp at Oranienburg, in eastern Germany.
As a boy, Wayne had despised his own piano lessons and hour-long practice sessions, so he tried to disguise his sons' instruction as entertainment — to motivate them "through the side door," as he puts it.
Above all others rises the voice of Caitriona Paudeen, a viperous old woman who has long despised her (still-living) sister Nell, for marrying a man they both loved: I thought I'd live for another couple of years, and I'd bury her before me, the cunt.
In The New York Times, Robert Gottlieb called it an "odd and unsettling book [that leaves] a sense of exploitation", and gossip columnist Liz Smith, a friend of Hepburn's, called Berg "vain and narcissistic", and declared the book "[s]elf-promoting fakery....Hepburn would have despised it and his betrayal of her friendship".
