Word: detest
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...will ever step down. Nor did Aliyev, who is married to Dariga, until recently the President's ideologist and confidante (the couple are the parents of Nuralli, Nazarbayev's 22-year-old grandson and the apple of his eye). Nevertheless, the would-be President for Life had grown to detest his son-in-law through the years...
...have a desire to protect said health. If the school closes down for an entire five weeks in January, I will have to return to the orphanage of my childhood, where those filthy brats picked on me and I was forced to become a dark lord in retribution. I detest that orphanage and you’ll be dead sorry if you change the calendar...
...recent months, Sony’s next generation gaming machine has been both trashed more times than my roommate and hallowed as the coming incarnate messiah of entertainment. Whether or not you worship the PS3 or detest it, though, you probably won’t be able to play it anyway—at least not for several months. The most powerful and expensive gaming console on the planet is also the most difficult to score. On the first weekend of the Japanese launch, suppliers sold out of the nearly 90,000 allotted systems. The same occurred stateside with more...
Unfortunately, there isn’t a clear victim in this divorce, no protagonist with whom to identify. Joyce and Marshall are so malevolently calculating, so odiously sadistic, that I couldn’t help but detest both of them...
...durability, Ballard has won oddly few honors. (A republican, he declined a Commander of the British Empire award in 2003.) Australian author and academic Germaine Greer once called him "a great writer who hasn't written a great novel." Fans would disagree, though Ballard has few pretensions. "I detest the literary novel," he says. "It's about social relationships, and, by definition, it requires a static society where all those little arabesques can be analyzed. But society is not static at all." Nor is Ballard eager to analyze himself. "I've thought about writing a memoir...