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I'll despise Kubrick forever for associating Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, "Singin' in the Rain," and some of the most glorious works of Handel and Purcell with sadomasochism and man's inhumanity to man.
In his 1912 preface to Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw wrote, It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making another Englishman hate or despise him.
But what Asia's newfound critics once loved, they now despise.
I have long dream'd of such a kind of man, So surfeit-swell'd, so old and so profane; But, being awaked, I do despise my dream.
Reporters, whose job is depicting reality, profess to despise spin.