Word: abhor
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...today were it not for my list of disdains. Take clichés, for instance. I hate them passionately. And trans fats—they repulse me. Heart-to-heart conversations, romanticism, and the notion that honesty is always the best policy, I also abhor. But since Facebook leaves me no space to air my distastes in one fell swoop, the viewer of my profile has no way of knowing that I am an insincere, cold-hearted, organic food-eating snob with commitment issues. Facebook leaves me feeling as though I’m lying to the world...
King's commitment to nonviolence convinces me that he would abhor all the bloodshed and strife that besiege America today. Murderous gangs, violent disrespect for women and cruelty to animals would be anathema to King. No black or white civil rights activist in the U.S. has filled King's void. Fortunately, his pacifist ideology profoundly influenced South Africa's social-justice icons Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu. BRIEN COMERFORD Glenview...
...humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed?Now, let me insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.’s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D’s. Consider C- a failure...
...there was a noticeable falling off in public campaigning on his behalf. The politician has reportedly told friends he had engaged in consensual sex with the woman, a well known HIV-positive AIDS activist, but had never raped her. "I regard these allegations against me very seriously as I abhor any form of abuse against women," Zuma said in a statement after he was charged with rape...
...reconciles laws and principles and precedents and his own instincts when they come into conflict. To call him conservative is not very helpful without knowing whether it applies more to means or to ends. If conservatives are inclined to respect precedent, does that include the precedents they abhor? If Congress overreaches, is the court being too "activist" by stepping in? Some conservatives care most about freedom, others about order; when the two values conflict, which one will he favor? He will try hard not to give any definite answers...