Named the 35th richest person in America by Forbes, a distinction he despises.

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He wants the attention of the highest ranks of the department he so despises, it seems, and is intent on getting it.

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But Bob Shields, a longtime San Jose Giants season-ticket holder, says he "despises the thought" of the A's displacing his team and vows never to attend an A's game in San Jose.

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Even veteran music journalist David Quantick, who despises what he regards as the ostentatious breast-beating of emo, admits that he cannot bring himself to hate its adherents.

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Every court minion riots in the spoils of the honest laborer, and despises the hand by which he is fed.

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With every passing scene whether at home, comforting the child who is probably not his but whom he dearly loves (unlike Sylvia, who despises her son), or at the front, amid the horrors of the trenches it becomes harder to imagine a more perfect Tietjens than the one Mr. Cumberbatch provides.

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He protects her, despite his fears that he is completely impotent, powerless to defend her from a world that despises them both.

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