Word: abhors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crime thriller, complete "with gunplay and side-mouthed snarls. The big conversion scene shows Billy Graham at work, and he might move some spectators as he did the movie's hero. But after a recent Los Angeles preview, one preacher rose to strike a blow for those who abhor the idea of luring people into the sinful movie house, even on God's behalf. Ex-Sinner Vaus came back at him fast: "This movie wasn't designed to reach the righteous," he said. "It was designed to bring sinners to God. It was designed to reach...
...Like the rest of our fellow Americans," Beer said, "we abhor communism because, among other things, it uses character assassination, star chamber procedures, and guilt by association, and glorifies the principle that the end justifies the means. All these methods are regularly used by Senator McCarthy...
...common Lord to heal the breach between us and to eliminate the scandal of our enmities, which threaten the common decencies and the good order of our country. We would be well advised to remember that the secularism which we pretend to abhor has at least one resource necessary for the health of a democratic community It knows how to make pragmatic compromises in order to achieve harmony between seemingly incompatible positions, and Christian charity would accomplish the same end if Christians were humble enough to achieve the necessary charity...
...What Sargent had in abundance was a capacity for flattering his sitters in paint, and naturally they flocked to him. He complained that "portrait painting is a pimp's profession," and late in life he swore off it. "No more paughtraits," he wrote triumphantly to a friend. "I abhor and abjure them and hope never to do another, especially of the Upper Classes...
...with a prostitute on her earnings, run a ring of brothels with her, trafficked in cocaine and blackmail, and is now, at 50, being blackmailed in turn by the prostitute Aline. After a childhood friend has given birth to his son, he marries her for her money though they abhor each other. When she dies, he squanders the fortune she has left him. Some land remains to his son, however, and Gradėre tries to salvage it from the predatory grasp of Symphorien Desbats, the asthmatic husband of Gradėre's wife's cousin. A business...