Sentence examples for odious for from inspiring English sources

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In a farewell interview, he scoffed, "I am too odious for this brave new world".

Surkov himself, ever ironic and self-possessed, has quipped that he is "too odious for this brave new world".

Asked whether he would take a role in settling down the protests, Mr. Surkov said no. "I am too odious for this brave new world," he said.

"The idea of bottom-fishing vulture funds buying this stuff up for a nickel on the dollar so they can sue the banks to get 100 cents must be pretty odious for the Treasury, which bailed out the banks in the first place".

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Last week in The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani wrote that "the novel's gushing fans, however, seem to have mistaken perversity for daring, pretension for ambition, an odious stunt for contrarian cleverness," adding that the book was "willfully sensationalistic and deliberately repellent".

But for Waters, Pink Flamingo was a toning down of the odious aesthetic for which he'd eventually become infamous, a sensibility he brought into being with his lesser-known 1970 predecessor, Multiple Maniacs.

Some people master those skills quickly, but others find the process odious, especially for taking notes or composing e-mail messages longer than a few sentences.

We can feel like victims, berate China for keeping the value of its currency low and have every reason to pillory its odious penchant for jailing critics and journalists.

And this is why we instinctively find it odious when, for instance, we hear rumors (incorrect as it turns out) that a Hollywood hotshot gained admission to a once-in-a-lifetime same-sex marriage argument at the Supreme Court by paying someone to wait in line for him.

It was also before the events of last week, when China restricted Internet access for reporters covering the Games (only to lift some restrictions following an uproar from the news media) and accused American lawmakers of "odious conduct" for making an issue of its human rights record.

The moment you come off the plane at Indira Gandhi International Airport (an odious name for an airport but there are worse, as we shall see), it hits you in the face.

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