Sentence examples for as a loathing from inspiring English sources

The futurists saw art as a way to express their hatred of the past – which seemingly manifested itself as a loathing of sadness, sentimentality, syntax, moonlight, monotony, the tango, marriage, the papacy, modesty, museums, the nude and even pasta.

A diary kept at the end of his life reveals, as well, a loathing of the French and of Catholics and an anti-Semitism extending to a belief that the Jews must be expelled from Germany.

As well as loathing the West and all its works, some of the Afghanis as zealous practitioners of Sunni Islam are sworn enemies of the Shia Muslim faith, of which Iran is the main bastion.Ramzi Youzef, the Afghani (and protégé of Mr bin Laden) who was convicted of bombing the World Trade Centre, has also been linked with the June 1994 bombing of a Shia holy place in Iran.

Local elections are often used as bellwethers for national politics, and Mr. Livingstone's history of back-room deals, carrots and sticks, and a confetti of promises delivered with balloons, pop stars and seemingly nonstop fireworks displays has got him as much loathing as respect.

Not so much a labour of love as a labour of loathing, it rests on a truth insufficiently acknowledged: namely, that no one who truly, madly, deeply loves sport does not simultaneously nurture a full gamut of dislikes pertaining to it, from mild distastes to the most demented, implacable hatreds.

Emile in the stories has a dozen bastards, not just the show's two cute waifs; these are the spawn of a consortium of island girls, one of whom Michener's Nellie refers to, with loathing, as a 'nigger'nigger

It came across as a traitorous loathing of England, which is ridiculous, because I lived in London for nearly half a century.

15), starring Tina Packer ("Women of Will") and Elizabeth Aspenlieder as a mutually loathing mother and daughter, is one of several highlights of the season.

I once saw Mad Men brilliantly described as an exercise in "loathing nostalgia;" indeed, the epoch's glamor co-mingles uneasily with many of its deplorable practices and attitudes.

With Paisley now out of the way (a man who historically generated almost as much loathing and mistrust within the more Ulster Unionist Party than among nationalists) a pathway could be cleared leading towards unionist-fusion.

… More often than not, fears like these manifest as loathing for the current administration, as evidenced by the recent wave of Romney fund-raisers in the Hamptons.