Sentence examples for this despised from inspiring English sources

"It is a frightful thing to see the greatest thinkers, poets and authors of modern Europe, men like Ibsen, Wagner and Tolstoy... delivered helplessly into the vulgar hands of such a noodle as this despised and incapable old official notoriously was".

But whereas many had before this despised him and looked upon him as a weak old man, now all regarded him with shuddering fear.

He added that his friend John Philip Kemble thought this "despised work" was more characteristic of Shakespeare than any other known portrait.

If a married man who preys on unsuspecting single women is an expert in this despised behavior, it will take more time for the woman to catch on to the game he is playing.

Geekier than thou – who'd have thought it, that the weird values and introspective obsessions of this most despised subculture would suddenly become something to aspire to?

This widely despised monstrosity from the bad old Commie days was completed in 1972 after an entire section of the Old Town had been bulldozed to make way for its glory.Robert La BuaSydneyA rush to judgment?SIR – Your stance on the allegations of a massacre in Haditha lacked the objective and reasoned quality I expect from The Economist ("The massacre in Haditha", June 3rd).

In this way, the social and economic circumstances of medicine helped bring needy patients into contact with frustrated doctors; one product of this interaction was the portrait of the despised Munchausen patient.

No one any longer has to make a case for this once-despised play.

So how did this once-despised and embarrassing item – only tolerated because it was a gift from grandma − become such a sought-after look?

But the threat did not shake the widespread hope that this village will soon be freed of the despised sect center.

This is not good for a political campaign whose candidate's sudden popularity depends solely on a cost-free victory over the despised Chechens.