One of the most loathsome figures in "At Last" is Nicholas Pratt, an old friend of Eleanor Melrose.
To those who loved him, like Teddy Roosevelt, he was "Nicholas Miraculous," the fabled educator who had a hand in everything; to those who did not, like Upton Sinclair, he was "the intellectual leader of the American plutocracy," a champion of "false and cruel ideals". Ezra Pound branded him "one of the more loathsome figures" of the age.
("I'm very, very fun," BOTUS assures his audience, hula hoop in hand. He's right). Likewise, Karen and Charlotte Pence probably pursued their book project in part because they hoped that a small, flossy animal could soften the Vice-President's image, even as he hitched his fortunes to one of the most loathsome political figures in American memory.
Likewise, Karen and Charlotte Pence probably pursued their book project in part because they hoped that a small, flossy animal could soften the Vice-President's image, even as he hitched his fortunes to one of the most loathsome political figures in American memory.
(That diagnoses the figure of "loathsome Gluttony" in Spenser's The Faerie Queene, "Whose mind in meat and drinke was drowned so").
Its crisply carved border reliefs, described in the 17th century as depicting "loathsome devilish images," twine together figures of gods and mortals to suggest the interdependent forces that animate a morally balanced universe.
It disturbs me that she is held up and bashed with especial hatred, base insults and grotesque mockery while male public figures far more loathsome are treated more respectfully.
Much like the case of Pussy Riot, the band whose "punk prayer" video was a small-time affair until the government portrayed it as an insult to religious believers, the TV Rain controversy was heavily publicized by various government officials and public figures, including Duma lawmakers and the minister of culture, who condemned it as loathsome, immoral, blasphemous.
Card playing is loathsome.
