Word: odious
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...Wells got in the way, otherwise Conrad would have taken his place among the saints . . . When I was a little boy I was always playing the devil. My chief delight was to paint . . . walls . . . with pictures of Mephistopheles . . . As a child dreams, so he becomes ... I was just an odious argumentative young man ... A great man is one whom "you instinctively believe...
...believes that in a time of national crisis it is proper for the weak to be sacrificed to the morale of the strong, whose savage, intolerant instincts are essential to the prime aim-victory. "I really saw nobody all day who was not in one way or another odious," admits one of Author Cozzens' characters sadly-adding, "and, of course, in every situation, I was odious...
...Student League for industrial Democracy, our parent organization, in the years previous to World War II, learned the hard way of the bitter fruit of cooperation with Communists in the anti-conscription movement. We wish no repetition of that error, we are fully aware of the results of odious miscegenation with Communists or their sympathizers...
...Railway King" teamed up with great technicians like George Stephenson, spread arteries of iron through the Northeast and Midlands. Wrote the weekly John Bull: "The whole face of the Kingdom is to be tattooed with these odious deformities . . . the noise and stench of locomotive steam-engines are to disturb the quietude of the peasant, the farmer and the gentleman. ... If [railroads] succeed they will . . . destroy all the relations which exist between man and man . . . and create, at the peril of life, all sorts of confusion and distress...
...been in love with an innocent-seeming girl (Barbara Bel Geddes), but had begun to doubt her: it looked as if she might be secretly carrying on with an aging and odious magician (Vincent Price). The rest of their story bears some relation to Othello: a profoundly depraved man tortures a profoundly simple one with lies, half-lies and ugly possibilities about the young girl until the anguished hero, his trust destroyed, kills his tormentor...