In 1998, some incoherent remarks he made to Melody Maker, linking the military force and violence of the ancient Greeks, Romans and Nazis to homosexuality, prompted astonishment and disapprobation.
There is much truth in it; but there are signs that even Afrikaners find it hard to ride through world disapprobation.
Most societies are unconcerned over self-masturbation since it does not entail procreation or the establishment of social bonds, but a few regard it with disapprobation.
Layton continued his trenchant disapprobation of the Iraq War in 2008 and introduced a successful, though largely ignored, motion to offer political asylum to U.S. Army deserters.
During this same period, bawdy female street dancers known as ghawāzī (singular ghāziyyah) were seen as disreputable, yet that term today is often applied with much less disapprobation to women who practice rural dances.
(Public disapprobation forced Samper to decline the position).
In all likelihood the disapprobation was directed at Nijinsky's eccentric and ungainly choreography, rather than Stravinsky's efforts.
"We are calling upon the British government to hold al-Sisi accountable to the human rights abuses and believe that a clear, unequivocal message of disapprobation needs to be sent".
What they thought was disapprobation was really applause.
The two radical decades that ensued — televised public hangings, burnings of Western books and musical instruments, the sudden prohibition of private enterprise, intense anti-Zionism, official solidarity with terrorist and guerrilla groups — met with sharp international disapprobation.
He merely writes, with what sounds very much like disapprobation: "No wonder Democrats, and many others, are upset".
