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Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus is an 1829 oil
painting by
Joseph Mallord William Turner. It
depicts a
scene from Homer's Odyssey,
showing Odysseus (Ulysses)...
- A
pejorative word, phrase, slur, or
derogatory term is a word or
grammatical form
expressing a
negative or
disrespectful connotation, a low opinion, or...
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Banksy is a
pseudonymous England-based
street artist,
political activist, and film
director whose real name and
identity remain unconfirmed and the subject...
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Journal that
action films are both one of the most po****r and po****rly
derided of
contemporary cinema genres,
stating that "in
mainstream discourse, the...
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statement that
Obama made in an
October 2012 debate. In the debate,
Obama was
deriding an
earlier Romney statement in the
campaign that
Russia is "without question...
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certain sources it was the
socialist leader Ram
Manohar Lohia that
first derided her
personality as the "Goongi Goodiya" (Hindi for "dumb doll") that later...
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favorable reviews (e.g., from InfoWorld), the Mac OS
version was
widely derided. Many
accused it of
being slow, clumsy, and
memory intensive, and its user...
- century.
Writers as
diverse as Bret
Harte and Zane Grey
celebrated or
derided cowboy culture,
while artists such as
Frederic Remington created western...
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invented for it." In Twain's 1869
novel Innocents Abroad,
Twain continued to
deride the name in his
foreign travels. "People say that
Tahoe means 'Silver Lake'...
- were founded.
Though they came to
attract wide audiences, they were
often derided by critics.
Several American bands modified heavy metal into more accessible...
