Mr. Jackson, in what was widely interpreted as a gesture of detente, made his first appearance before the Democratic Leadership Council, a group he once disparaged as "the Democratic Leisure Class."

When the Chinese started deregulating prices and letting supply and demand take over, the result was inflation, once disparaged as integral to capitalism.

But his traditional, even neo-classical forms, once disparaged by sterner modernists, can evoke the most profound feelings, and they did so on this occasion.

Bruce Cutler, one of Mr. Spector's lawyers, once disparaged the witnesses as "sycophants and parasites."

Once disparaged as little more than a short-hitting, one-putting, flash in the pan, Mize has used 1993 to prove his critics wrong.

I once disparaged this lazy stratagem to a poet I met, a man presumably skilled in the coincidences of rhyme.

Mr. Slovo has become revisionist in embracing democratic values once disparaged as bourgeois.

The liberal Democratic Party, once disparaged as obsolete after Mr. de Klerk introduced his reforms, has assumed a brokering role.

LONDON - Claudio Ranieri can afford a quiet, mischievous chuckle in the direction of the man who once disparaged him as too old to coach in modern soccer.

Clem also apologized to Douglas, but less than a week later Clem once again disparaged Douglas on the air.