("The Divine Majesty," Pius XI wrote, "regards with greatest detestation this horrible crime," that is, spilling one's seed upon the ground, or into a condom).
Tea Partiers may share the Kochs' detestation of taxes, big government and Obama.
The weapons seized in two raids on his hideouts during his year-long flight from the law were enough to equip a small army.But public anger and general detestation of the Suharto family are so great that an acquittal would have been equally dangerous.
In 1984, on the 100th anniversary of the publication of Huckleberry Finn, Norman Mailer wrote in the New York Times: "Reading [the novel] one comes to realise all over again that the near-burned-out, throttled, hate-filled dying affair between whites and blacks is still our great national love affair, and woe to us if it ends in detestation and mutual misery.
At least they were united in their detestation of squirrels.
Nationalist Afrikaners knew this, too hence, their detestation of Smuts.
He forgot that detestation is as good as any drug.
Many express detestation or disillusionment with their present rulers, but none predicted their imminent defeat.
He wasn't the only public figure enraged by Mantel's self-described "boiling detestation".
Americans profess detestation of politics and its practitioners, but their behavior belies their rhetoric.
Atta, shaving, studies his underbite in the mirror and sees that 'the detestation, the detestation of everything' is etched on his face.
