With a deep and abiding detestation of competitive sports, he was naturally bookish. |
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His loathing of Moguls surpassed even his detestation of Uzbeks, Shias, Afghans and assorted infidels. |
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She is a poet whose poetic stimuli most often arise from friendship and, in a few striking cases, detestation. |
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Behind this mentality lies the progressive lobby's detestation of nationhood and Orwellian aspiration to world government. |
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And they have lately become very vocal about their detestation of ordinary people. |
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But it seems to me that there might be something else at work as well, the residue of a deeper and much older detestation. |
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But if you go downtown, Wolf, the detestation of what you see in these pictures is still so evident and it will be so for quite some time. |
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He cannot believe why a human being would show so much detestation for another human being, who has not even spoken or looked at him. |
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Yesterday's set of exquisitely correct opinions concluded with a statement about his gut-wrenching detestation of war. |
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She had not even spoken a word, and yet, Ashley could not help her intense feelings of detestation for her. |
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He's balanced in his acknowledgement of the world's brutality and his detestation of its cruelty. |
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By contrast, the Trades Union Congress, driven by detestation for fascism, was more robust. |
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They are the detestation of the Trout bottom-angler, constantly nibbling away his bait, and tantalising him with vain hopes of a bite. |
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I see the people of England united in a fierce detestation and defiance of the views and acts of Prussian Junkerism. |
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When she became 16, she declared her detestation of him and said that he had again made advances to her. |
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For some inexplicable reason, I found that my odium for a certain Coach Rams significantly outweighs my detestation of Damien Rose. |
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To promote hatred is to instil detestation, enmity, ill-will and malevolence in another. |
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L 7KHWHUPV¶KDWUHG·DQG¶KRVWLOLW³· refer to intense and irrational emotions of opprobrium, enmity and detestation towards the target group. |
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His personal history is inspiring, as is his intellectual brilliance, knowledge of and detestation of fascism, communism and morally repugnant capitalism. |
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Dixon liked and revered him for his air of detesting everything that presented itself to his senses, and of not meaning to let this detestation become staled by custom. |
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Celebrate our Australianness by showing our usual mistrustful, self-deprecating, egalitarian, good-natured detestation of all such symbols of overt self-glorification. |
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That Act was received on his own side of the house with such detestation on its first reading that he never dared to allow it to go to a second. |
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I believe to have found it by evoking Reger's profound humanity, beyond this great uproar of detestation. |
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Hostility to the non-urban regions includes a detestation of suburbia. |
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The rules against collusion seem like a hangover from 1903, straight out of the Henri Desgrange playbook and his detestation of any collaboration at all between riders. |
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On the right of the party, climate-change scepticism, Euroscepticism and, latterly, detestation of the Liberal Democrats presiding over DECC are related creeds. |
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With his conversion transmitted on satellite broadcasting, Allam overcomes another stage of his hatred for his culture, which in fact is a sort of pathetic detestation of himself. |
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Secular priests could no longer carry out their spiritual duties unless they had sworn an oath of fidelity or allegiance to the French Republic and the detestation of the monarchy. |
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In Canto III of Don Juan, Byron expresses his detestation for poets such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. |
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To that I would add that he has a robust Ulsterman's detestation both of plamas and of plamassers. |
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Hardy preferred his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied. |
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