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Big companies such as General Motors have already spurned overtures for cash.
The piece bore the title The Lady's Not for Spurning, with the reasonably obvious meaning The subject of this painting is not to be spurned as a disreputable whore (but enjoyed as a sensitive portrayal).
Now that Leonardo Di Caprio has spurned Lions Gate Films and American Psycho , the production company is trying to lure back the director it had rudely kicked off the project, Mary Harron ( I Shot Andy Warhol ). Though the whole thing was her idea in the first place, she was dropped the minute Di Caprio expressed interest and turned an arty $10-million feature into a $40-million vehicle for himself.
A Royal Commission on the Arts and Letters was spurned by Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent as a futile body for “subsidizing ballet dancers.”
When his women unexpectedly wake up, like Galatea in his "Pygmalion" series or the spurned lover emerging from the almond tree in (1881-82, Merseyside), it's often disconcerting, and the men look as though they should have let sleeping maidens lie.