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She dies operatically on stage in front of the hometown folks who had scorned her back when.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2015

In recent years, he has found a new fascination in what he had scorned in his youth�the intricate drapery of classical Greece.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week Philadelphia's blond-mopped maestro tried a new move, exalting the engineers whom once he had scorned.

From Time Magazine Archive

He developed the classical side of the orchestra's repertory, which Stokowski had scorned, and became a tireless promoter of new works.

From Time Magazine Archive

The nymphs he had scorned were kind to him in death and sought his body to give it burial, but they could not find it.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton