But this time, saturated fat brought along a new, more despicable playmate: sodium.
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Surely there are other, more despicable bros in the world worthy of our protests.
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It makes you more despicable if you open your site up and you don't believe it.
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Early on he stiffs a cab driver, and is there a more despicable superhuman behavior than that?
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Champagne is prohibitively expensive for most of us, and there's nothing more despicable than its cheap, lowly forms.
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This doesn't mean every celebrity is a jerk, much less guilty of the more despicable behavior that's been reported.
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Which is why Littlefinger's usual manipulative game plan feels so much more despicable now that it's directed toward pitting one against the other.
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But Trump and his cronies, notably Mitch McConnell and Rupert Murdoch, know full well what they are doing, making their actions all the more despicable.
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Keeping with tradition, House of Cards' sixth (and final) season has a whole slew of new, unsavory characters, each one seemingly more despicable than the last.
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I can think of few things more despicable in what they couch as a way to draw attention to police brutality and injustice based on race.
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What makes these acts even more despicable is that many predators have gleefully acknowledged that the vast majority of their victims have no way to fight back.
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"I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the waking hours of the day to making money for money's sake," he wrote in a memoir.
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"Abusing defenseless animals is an intolerable act and even more despicable when the animal was abused in retaliation to 'get back' at its owner," Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni said in a statement.
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Neither character is an outright bastard—at worst, David is easily persuadable while Efraim is an insecure hothead—and the fact that both men actually oppose the war only makes their behavior more despicable.
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His personal life was of course even more scandalous in the aftermath of the movie, and far more despicable: In 1977, he was arrested and charged with raping a 13-year-old girl; less than a year later, he fled the United States.
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And what makes it more despicable is that media reports document that Congressional Republicans have been pushed by their big money donors to make sure these massive tax cuts goes through or they risk losing the campaign donations they desperately need to fund their campaigns.
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English philosopher Jeremy Bentham met with Burr in England in 1808, four years after the duel, and Burr claimed to have been certain of his ability to kill Hamilton. Bentham concluded that Burr was "little better than a murderer."Sabine. 1857. p. 212. There is also evidence in Burr's defense. Had Hamilton apologized for his "more despicable opinion of Mr. Burr", all would have been forgotten.
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Erec and Enide displays the themes of love and chivalry that Chrétien de Troyes continues in his later work. Tests play an important part in character development and marital fidelity. Erec's testing of Enide is not condemned in the fictive context of the story, especially when his behaviour is contrasted with some of the more despicable characters, such as Oringle of Limors.Mandel. Nevertheless, Enide's faithful disobedience of his command to silence saves his life.
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In 1854, following extensive archival research in the Spanish archives in Madrid, Louisiana historian Charles Gayarré exposed Wilkinson as having been a highly paid spy in the service of the Spanish Empire. In the years since Gayarré's research became public, Wilkinson has been savagely condemned by American historians and politicians. According to President Theodore Roosevelt, "[I]n all our history, there is no more despicable character." However, he has been defended, especially in breaking up the Burr conspiracy.
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Reception to the character has been very positive, going on to become one of the most well-known villains in gaming. GameDaily ranked him number one on their list of Top 25 Evil Masterminds of All Time article, stating "Out of all the evil masterminds in video games, none are more despicable, more cunning, or more menacing". They also included him in their most persistent video game villains list and their craziest video game villains list. In a later article, they listed the "evil mastermind" as one of the top 25 video game archetypes, using Robotnik as an example.
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He continued: "I hope this case sends a message to survivors of non-recent child sexual abuse that Nottinghamshire Police takes any report very seriously. We strive to get justice for people so I would urge anyone who has experienced this to come forward and report it to us." The NSPCC said: "Gathercole used his position of trust to groom and abuse extremely vulnerable children who needed guidance and support", causing "unimaginable pain and suffering". Judge Jeremy Lea said Gathercole "got away with this for far too long" and it is "difficult to imagine a greater or more despicable breach of trust".
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In April, the Albany Register published a letter from Dr. Charles D. Cooper to Philip Schuyler, which relayed Hamilton's judgment that Burr was "a dangerous man and one who ought not to be trusted with the reins of government," and claiming to know of "a still more despicable opinion which General Hamilton has expressed of Mr. Burr". In June, Burr sent this letter to Hamilton, seeking an affirmation or disavowal of Cooper's characterization of Hamilton's remarks. Hamilton replied that Burr should give specifics of Hamilton's remarks, not Cooper's. He said he could not answer regarding Cooper's interpretation.
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Detail of 1802 portrait by Ezra Ames, painted after death of Hamilton's eldest son Philip Soon after the 1804 gubernatorial election in New York—in which Morgan Lewis, greatly assisted by Hamilton, defeated Aaron Burr—the Albany Register published Charles D. Cooper's letters, citing Hamilton's opposition to Burr and alleging that Hamilton had expressed "a still more despicable opinion" of the Vice President at an upstate New York dinner party.Kennedy, Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson, p. 72. Cooper claimed that the letter was intercepted after relaying the information, but stated he was "unusually cautious" in recollecting the information from the dinner.Chernow, pp. 680–81.
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No matter the type of heel, the most important job is that of the antagonist role, as heels exist to provide a foil to the face wrestlers. If a given heel is cheered over the face, a promoter may opt to turn that heel to face or the other way around, or to make the wrestler do something even more despicable to encourage heel heat. Some performers display a mixture of both positive and negative character traits. In wrestling terminology, these characters are referred to as tweeners (as a sort of short hand for the "in- between" good and evil actions these wrestlers display).
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Christopher Lincoln is the author of two children's books: Billy Bones: A Tale From the Secrets Closet published in the United States in August 2008 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers and before that in April 2008 by Macmillan Children's Books in the UK.WorldCat and Billy Bones: The Road to Nevermore, published in August 2009.WorldCat The first book revolves around Billy, a young skeleton boy who lives in a secrets-closet with his parents, Lars and Decette Bones. It is the job of these secrets keepers to archive the Biglum family’s lies, fibs, and secrets. Not an easy task, as each family whopper is more despicable than the last.
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The worst thing about The Birth of a Nation is how good > it is. The merits of its grand and enduring aesthetic make it impossible to > ignore and, despite its disgusting content, also make it hard not to love. > And it's that very conflict that renders the film all the more despicable, > the experience of the film more of a torment—together with the > acknowledgment that Griffith, whose short films for Biograph were already > among the treasures of world cinema, yoked his mighty talent to the cause of > hatred (which, still worse, he sincerely depicted as virtuous). Brody also argued that Griffith unintentionally undercut his own thesis in the film, citing the scene before the Civil War when the Cameron family offers up lavish hospitality to the Stoneman family who travel past mile after mile of slaves working the cotton fields of South Carolina to reach the Cameron home.
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