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Despising the term science fiction, Ballard never used it, preferring to describe his work as "apocalyptic".
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Not sure if you caught Doodlegate — the tempest last week after the Indianapolis Star ran a photo illustration of coach Mike Krzyzewski with hand-drawn devil horns, a goatee and a target on his face to accompany an article headlined "Despising Duke."
Forget Tiger! It's Duke and Butler Jason Gay 2010
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Not sure if you caught Doodlegate — the tempest last week after the Indianapolis Star ran a photo illustration of coach Mike Krzyzewski with hand-drawn devil horns, a goatee and a target on his face to accompany an article headlined "Despising Duke."
Forget Tiger! It's Duke and Butler Jason Gay 2010
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Despising a person for the accident of their birth is a fascist, puerile thing to do and DC should hammer that point home to Jimmy Broon and his cronies. gordon-bennett
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Despising himself, he went down to look, and after grubbing about in pockets had failed, on the floor of the cupboard he found a single dusty Chocorange lying in the far corner behind an umbrella.
Portobello Ruth Rendell 2010
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Not sure if you caught Doodlegate — the tempest last week after the Indianapolis Star ran a photo illustration of coach Mike Krzyzewski with hand-drawn devil horns, a goatee and a target on his face to accompany an article headlined "Despising Duke."
Forget Tiger! It's Duke and Butler Jason Gay 2010
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Despising who you are is a disease that has impacted many others besides Michael Jackson.
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Despising his father's cowardice for getting his mother killed, Arlen runs away from home, surviving by carving wards into the dirt every night.
Archive 2008-09-01 Adam Whitehead 2008
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Despising his father's cowardice for getting his mother killed, Arlen runs away from home, surviving by carving wards into the dirt every night.
The Painted Man by Peter V. Brett Adam Whitehead 2008
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Of course, and then, I would pass him Peggy McIntosh's "Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" to contrast with the heavy one he travels with on his journey and Alison Bailey's "Despising an Identity They Taught Me to Claim," to complicate the readings of his various literary texts that he has taken with him.
The Race, Class, and Gender Privileges of "Living Deliberately": A Review of Into the Wild (Spoilers) Anxious Black Woman 2007
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