Sentence examples for and abhorrence from inspiring English sources

But compassion and abhorrence can go together.

Freeman is judicious, too, on the origins of early Christian asceticism and abhorrence of sex.

It is a question, then, about surface and content, and about taste and abhorrence.

It quickly became popular for its "snarky" tone and abhorrence of PR and media spin.

Much has been made of Madison's fear of majorities and abhorrence of parties ("factions"), which he expressed in Federalist No. 10.

But why criticize a writer — especially one as talented as Bradshaw — who has none of Shanley's post-Catholic sanctimony and who aspires to greatness, even as he reveals his own conflicted desire for and abhorrence of authority?

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".

In the austere system, on the contrary, those excesses are regarded with the utmost abhorrence and detestation.

The wiser and better sort of the common people, therefore, have always the utmost abhorrence and detestation of such excesses, which their experience tells them are so immediately fatal to people of their condition.

His effectiveness as a mediator and catalyst and his abhorrence of confrontation prompted his mentor, former Prime Minister Charles Haughey, to describe him as "the most devious, the most cunning, the most ruthless of them all".

From the time he was diagnosed with the degenerative condition in 1996, he displayed a fortitude consistent with his academic concern about emotional validity and his abhorrence of sentimentality and overreaction.