"I hated it, I detested it, I thought it was condescending," he says of being placed, at age five, in a music class that he felt was below his level.
I say it constantly, and yet I detest it and what it represents.
I don't appreciate it when people lie to me and I detest it when people lie to me repeatedly, especially when it is obvious that they are lying and have been given an opportunity to come clean.
Some ascribe the party's backing for the government to its warm relations with Saudi Arabia, which backed Egypt's coup because it detests the Muslim Brothers.
Notre Dame had to do what it detests: pass.
The administration dismisses that argument as overblown, an effort to kill a deal that Israel has made clear it detests, because it could enshrine the current status quo — with Iran close to the capability to build a weapon.
It detests capital punishment and has a guest Cassandra in the shape of Christopher Logue, who contributes four sub-Brechtian lyrics anathematising the crimes of capitalism.
Even the ceasefire, to which Russia has now agreed, contains ambiguities that Moscow is likely to exploit to keep up the pressure on Mr Saakashvili, whom it detests, and to maximise the embarrassment for Mr Bush.
Points of friction have included Saudi's irritation over the US attitude towards the Muslim Brotherhood – which it detests – when the Brotherhood was in power in Egypt, and over its fears that any deal with Iran might lead to the resurgence of the world's most important Shia state.
The real Thomas's description of Vera at the time implies a far more interesting character than the one in the movie: "Vera lives on cocoa, and reads books about the technique of third-century brass work, and gets up only once a day to boil the cat an egg, which it detests".
