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Saramago's sympathy with the two sisters whose sexual desire can find no outlet is deep and subtle, as is his respect for Lidia, the kept woman who, while despising her keeper, respects her own professionalism in the most despised of professions.
Some gardeners adore it, some hate it, and a few profess to admire the tropical varieties while despising the hardy perennial types.
So does religion; thus a well-born young priest imagines that he can 'love' a wretched group of orphans as Christian souls while despising them as individuals.
In Los Angeles, where Eric is developing the screenplay for his book, he is assailed by Alison (the droll Ari Graynor), a collegiate trophy hunter who wants to bed the great man while despising the source of his power.
As Clarkson sighed and rolled his eyes, it became clear that here was a pampered, affluent man who could afford to take risks and, while "despising" is too strong a word, couldn't understand how anybody else couldn't.
"No writer can successfully use the 'surface elements' of a literary genre — far less its profound capacities — for a serious purpose, while despising it to the point of fearing identification with it," she wrote.
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Named after the acidic, factional writing style Thompson pioneered, and narrated by Johnny Depp, who mimicked the writer so perfectly in Terry Gilliam's film version of Fear And Loathing, it's an honest and revealing insight into a writer who wanted to be a novelist but wound up revitalising journalism while simultaneously despising it.
It is possible to be proud of your country while fearing and despising the current government.
They all lived in a society that honored the wealthy, the powerful and aristocratic celebrities while neglecting or despising the weak.
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