Sentence examples for first detest from inspiring English sources

It is difficult to consciously oppress people we do not first detest.

Stench was a factor not just of Orwell's writing: both William Empson and Orwell's first wife detested his potent body odor, masked only by a tobacco habit that persisted despite the fact that he had tuberculosis.

All her songs are in the first person; she detests the detached, novelistic approach to songwriting, with its third person vignettes.

Don't palter with the second rate, Detest your own age.

Jackson's reasons for detesting the second Bank and its president (Biddle) were complex.

Norman Schwarzkopf", reportedly because his father detested his first name.

Norway was neutral in the First World War; Quisling detested the peace movement, though the high human cost of the war did temper his views.

He has called for the abolition of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which many Republicans detest for its liberal rulings, citing the precedent of Jefferson's repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801, which eliminated some federal courts.

Justice Kennedy, writing for the majority, got it exactly right when he said the First Amendment "protects the speech we detest as well as the speech we embrace".

While there, Maud (my wife) asked me why I had detested it so much the first time around.

He was, however, put out when Elgar's success at home and abroad eclipsed his own, with Richard Strauss (whom Stanford detested) praising Elgar as the first progressive English composer.