It was so totally dispiriting: everything I'd come to abhor about the politics with which I'd grown up: insular, petty, polarised.
In a recent interview, Mr. Booker made no apologies for his relationship with Mr. Christie and seemed to suggest that his critics were engaging in the kind of partisanship that voters have come to abhor.
You might even come to abhor the notion of aging and anything or anyone attached to it.
It is certain that this had its effect on young Barton who quickly came to abhor the trappings of sickness and disease".
While much of his later life was occupied by scholarly questions of the Bible and homosexuality, he came to abhor the label "gay minister," and pursued a much wider range of studies, on early American religions, Elizabethan Puritanism, church music and the African-American experience.
Victor Gruen, one of the pioneers in mall design, came to abhor this effect of his new design; he decried the creation of enormous "land wasting seas of parking" and the spread of suburban sprawl.
They journeyed to West Texas, along with dozens of friends and former players from Bloomington, Ind., and from West Point, to celebrate the beginning of what Bob Knight said would be the end of a coaching career -- an accomplished one that has come to be abhorred by some.
Equally stark was the absence of the bishop who more than any other has come to embody all that traditionalists and evangelicals abhor in the church's liberal wing: Gene Robinson, the Episcopalian bishop of New Hampshire.
It's remarkable that President Obama, who came to power abhorring the manipulative and duplicitous tactics of the Bush crowd, should now be vulnerable to similar charges.
So, public health issues may matter more in future elections, as working-class voters come to see those issues as a test of whether politicians respect their culture or abhor it.
Politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum, and in the absence of any official estimate of how many Romanian and Bulgarian migrants might come to Britain to work from the end of this year, an almost hysterical auction has taken off.
