"Bestiality and zoophilia are treated with the same seriousness and abhorrence as wider society," he explains.
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.
The political, cultural and economic "abhorrences" (as he called them), however righteous, are commonplace.
To the White House, a "chance" meeting between the president and Mr. Rushdie would convey the administration's abhorrence at Iran's refusal to lift the death threat against the novelist, but might not alienate the Muslim world as much as a full-dress Oval Office encounter.
A new pan-African opinion poll*, conducted by the Afrobarometer Network, a consortium of African and American social scientists, has found strong support for democracy as the least bad system of government, and an abhorrence of violence as a means of resolving disputes.
Pakisatani anti-Americanism has always been interpreted as ideological abhorrence of the US.
The payback for such investment would be incalculable – nothing less than a world where gender-based violence is seen as an abhorrence that no society should tolerate.
Talking to people like RD Laing, you became aware of the interconnected biological, physiological, political abhorrence of the world as it was, understanding that a permanent revolution was going to be undertaken.
Make it plain that, in him, abhorrence of the war of the moment is as true an expression of devotion to patriotic duty as heroism in uniform.
Clearly, social values should never count as evidence for or against a particular hypothesis — abhorrence of the death penalty does not count as data against its crime-deterrent effects.
By the time "Desire Under the Elms" opened on Broadway, in 1925, Eugene O'Neill had already written a number of full-length plays that drew on his fascination with, and abhorrence of, female sexual power, particularly as it is used to drive men apart.
