Today the United States is the uneasy hegemon, said to be the only country capable of settling the poisonous conflict between Palestinians and Israelis, but also the target of hatred from those who detest not just Western imperialism but the 21st century.
A year and a few thousand meet-ups later, Mr. Dean emerged as the booming voice of the ascendant progressive movement in Democratic politics, a hero to antiwar liberals who detested not only the Republican-controlled government but the Clintonian strain of the Democratic Party as well.
"That cur, that robot, that imprecator who prances around on television, who gets in all the magazines, that paper-lion philosopher with whom I would under no circumstances be friends and whom, even worse, I wouldn't read if he weren't me, that me who is me without being me, who resembles me and whom I detest — I don't find him odious, exactly, just pathetic.
But late in the story, when the narrator interjects, "I detest Alex, don't you?.
I managed to just get it wrong, and it's not that I detest the film but it just doesn't seem to fit with the others - and that's what taught me, to be honest.
For the record, I hate, I detest, and I despise not only Trainee Fees but the very concept of a brokerage firm being able to recoup a portion of its cost in preparing trainees to become registered.
"He's not someone I detest," Seydoux shrugs.
At one point, Poelwoorde's Belgian customs man says: "It's not that I detest the French.
I detest semi-colons – I don't think they belong in a story.
I detest horizontal scrollbars and I'm not even a developer.
We are not God and I detest our government thinking we are.
