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Although he prudently avoids giving unnecessary offense, he defends writing that might anger his predecessors, because "it is better to fall into the hands of men than to abandon the function of a historian by covering up a loathsome sight by colours that conceal the truth".
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The sight of loathsome drunks in jeeps merrily butchering their own country's emblematic national animal is horrifying and deeply ironic.
Some onlookers witnessing it all on television must have felt a grim satisfaction at the sight of five loathsome racists (police surveillance video captures them cavorting with knives and discussing how best to kill and dismember their "nigger" victims) getting a taste of the rough justice of the street.
As we inveigh against "malefactors of great wealth," it is important not to lose sight of what is most essential: that it's not them, loathsome as they may be, but the underlying system that is the problem; or, as one might say in the Carville dialect of Clintonese, "it's the economic structure, stupid".
That said, the BBC still is by miles the greatest broadcaster in the world, and the sight of some papers trying to trash it for two admittedly serious mistakes is fairly loathsome.
All loathsome.
Card playing is loathsome.
How absolutely loathsome.
It said: "Us, loathsome?
Frankly, it's loathsome.
Hogo is simply vile & loathsome.
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