Soldier Alec has seen death and destruction, too, first-hand: it has engendered in him a remorseless desire for truth in human relations, an abhorrence not of violence, but silent hypocrisy.
After the Iranian Revolution (1979) installed an Islamic regime, she increasingly gave voice to her abhorrence of human rights violations through her poetry and other writings, thus facing the constant threat of censorship and arrest.
A general abhorrence of the taking of human life is something any healthy culture will inculcate in its members.
The U.S. does not corner the market on the abhorrence of violence - most humans do.
Hailed only a few years earlier as a hero of the American Revolution, Paine was now lambasted in the press and called "the scavenger of faction", a "lilly-livered sinical rogue", a "loathsome reptile", a "demi-human archbeast", "an object of disgust, of abhorrence, of absolute loathing to every decent man except the President of the United States [Thomas Jefferson]".
An abhorrence of waste – the waste of human talent and energy that he witnessed first-hand, growing up in the Depression-ravaged Rhondda of the 20s and 30s – is the moral underpinning of Thomas's art, and the deadly serious ballast to his comedy.
The closest thing Sister Rose has to an artistic deal-breaker is her abhorrence of gratuitous, excessive violence, which she considers as an affront to human dignity.
Canada's foreign minister, Peter MacKay, expressed his country's "abhorrence and dismay" for what he described as an egregious violation of human rights.
The mystifying plot penetrates deep into the human psyche and prods at the existentially raw nerves with a hot stick of abhorrence, unsettling the reader as the characters find themselves in a decaying half-life anti-world traveling back in time.
