Sentence examples for abhorrence that from inspiring English sources

Huntley was hated by the public, but Carr was treated with a visceral abhorrence that was almost worse.

A fair deal for the former slaves depended largely on moral change in Britain, from indifference to slavery to an abhorrence that would result eventually in its abolition, and the history of this transformation amounts to a book within the book.

Certainly, it was a strange preternatural hate, a raging abhorrence that comes from somewhere not altogether rational.

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.

** "Naipaul's repulsion towards Negroes... is a physical and historical abhorrence that, like every prejudice, disfigures the observer, not his object," Derek Walcott wrote in a 1987 essay.

Stephan-Andreas Casdorff and Lorenz Maroldt, editors- in-chief, Tagesspiegel, Germany   It is with abhorrence that we have read today's editorial in the Daily Mail attacking the Guardian's coverage of Edward Snowden's revelations and accusing its competitor of "aiding Britain's enemies".

And one in particular is echoed in the UK's latest piece of ban-this-gross-abhorrence legislation: that over video nasties.

"For all its political polarisation, Egypt still has a genuine abhorrence for violence that makes a civil war unlikely – for now.

"I hear nothing but abhorrence," he wrote, "that there is a possibility, let alone a probability, that Peltier could be released despite his repeated and open expression of willingness to murder law enforcement officers, and, in the case of agents Coler and Williams, doing so without hesitation".

I've read things he did and said, even aside from the Jewish issue – the way he treated friends, for instance – that provoke abhorrence.

After learning of the bombing, Picasso said, "The painting that I am presently working on will be called 'Guernica.' Through it, I express my abhorrence of the race that has sunk Spain in an ocean of pain and death".