It will pave the way for the detestable injustices of the American two-tier system.
Stew, could you divulge something detestable about yourself to help quell my longstanding crush on you?
The Taliban and Osama bin Laden were, he explained, "detestable murderers and scumbags" who should be hunted down.In this section Et tu, Julio?
THIS Monday's New York Daily News printed a delicious bit of character assassination: "He's a vile, detestable, moralistic person with no heart and no conscience who believes he's been tapped by God to do very important things".
Another, covering some of the same ground, recalls for example that perjury, according to a celebrated English jurist writing in 1717, "is of all the crimes whatsoever the most infamous and detestable".
Mr Gilder argues: "The mind-boggling amount of data and the speed at which it will travel via bandwidth technology will render today's time-wasting practices both obsolete and detestable".Sceptics may well ask themselves if the exciting new age has not produced its own version of C. Northcote Parkinson's famous law about work and time: junk communication expands to fill the bandwidth available.
There was at any rate no mention of the "detestable murderers and scumbags" whom the bellicose chief of defence staff, General Rick Hillier, once said were Canada's target in Afghanistan.
Mr Kershaw admits here that he finds Hitler "detestable".
It resembles the Yankee flag and that is enough to make it unutterably detestable".
Goethe considered Beethoven to be "an utterly untamed personality, who is not altogether in the wrong in holding the world to be detestable, but surely does not make it any the more enjoyable either for himself or for others by his attitude".
Beyond the reach of the Mongols and relying on second-hand information, the 13th-century chronicler Matthew Paris called them a "detestable nation of Satan that poured out like devils from Tartarus so that they are rightly called Tartars".
