Sentence examples for abhorrence and from inspiring English sources
The phrase "abhorrence and" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used to introduce a new element or concept that is closely related to the already mentioned subject or topic. Here is an example: "The politician's actions were met with widespread abhorrence and condemnation from the public."
The result was met with abhorrence and dismay.
In the austere system, on the contrary, those excesses are regarded with the utmost abhorrence and detestation.
"The official agencies, unfortunately, have deliberately lied to create an atmosphere of abhorrence and reluctance among citizens," he said.
Were Mr. Kornitzer still alive, this counterfeiting would surely have precipitated a dramatic gesture of abhorrence and repudiation.
Canada's foreign minister, Peter MacKay, expressed his country's "abhorrence and dismay" for what he described as an egregious violation of human rights.
"I understand the moral abhorrence and pleasure it gives you when you demonstrate," she told a New York audience in 1986.
Similarly, though Lady Macbeth is evil, "[s]he is only wicked to gain a great end" and it is only her "inexorable self-will" that prevents her being diverted from her "bad purpose" which masks her "natural affections"; whereas Goneril and Regan, in King Lear, "excite our loathing and abhorrence" as Lady Macbeth does not.
It quickly became popular for its "snarky" tone and abhorrence of PR and media spin.
The honest individual repays a loan not (merely) out of self-interest or concern for the well-being of the lender (who may be a "profligate debauchee" who will reap only harm from his possessions), but from a "regard to justice, and abhorrence of villainy and knavery" (T 3.2.1.9, 13).
Take Louisiana: efforts to prepare for future hurricanes, Hertsgaard writes, "have been crippled by the state's history of poor government" along with "its continuing reluctance — even after Katrina — to acknowledge the reality of global warming for fear that might harm oil and gas production, and an abhorrence of taxes and public planning as somehow socialistic".
"So when I hear a case, I put all feelings of abhorrence, disgust, and revulsion completely out of my mind".
