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The Man Within Greene, in his preface to the Penguin paperback edition of the book, derides the book as hopelessly romantic.
Jewish views on astrology On the Union for Reform Judaism website Jeffrey K. Salkin derides astrology as "a new-age trap":
Robert Stacy McCain McCain frequently derides Senator John McCain as "Crazy Cousin John". The distant kinship is based on a common ancestor in South Carolina listed in the 1790 Census.
A Princess of Mars The Red Martians, like the Green Martians, eschew clothing, going nude except for jewelry and other ornamentation. In Chapter 11, Dejah Thoris derides Earth men, who "almost without exception, cover their bodies with strange, unsightly pieces of cloth."
Kurt Saxon Recently Saxon wrote several scathing attacks on Islam, which he outspokenly denounced as a primitive and barbaric religion and an enemy of civilization. Saxon derides Muslims as people of low intelligence with a violent agenda towards all outsiders.