Némirovsky becomes a novelist of manners, unable to imagine hatreds that go beyond reason; she can understand some forms of rancor but resists the one most justified.
"Few top executives," he says, "can even imagine the hatred, contempt and fury that has been created not primarily among blue-collar workers who never had an exalted opinion of the 'bosses' but among their middle management and professional people.
Unless you have seen these photos, you can't imagine the hatred on these people's faces.
The head of Israel's gay and lesbian national association, Mike Hamel, said: "In our worst nightmares we could not have imagined that the hatred against our community, which is hurting nobody, could go this far".
The equally flat and detailed – and mostly unreadable – scenes of sadistic violence in the second half of the novel can only be intolerable fantasy: the imagined enactment of all the hatred he really feels for the "hardbodies" he ogles.
"All the tribal prejudice, all ancient grudges and feuds, all real and imagined slights, all dislikes and hatreds, everything is out walking the streets like hordes of thirsty undeads looking for innocents to devour".
This dominant concern eventually led me on a journey I never imagined, to combat all stereotyping, bias, hatred and loss.
Verdi could never forgive an injury, real or imagined, as attested to by his lifelong hatred of La Scala and its audience, which had rejected Un giorno di regno, and his contempt for the town of Busseto.
In particular, the feared and despised Other within is projected onto "other" social groups, and hatred and contempt are redirected at these imagined enemies (Kristeva 1991; Scheman 1993).
"I never imagined this film would have aroused so much, you know, hatred against me," Mr. Lu, 38, said with a slight laugh, looking boyish behind black-rimmed glasses.
