Word: odiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...switched top campaign staff positions too often at first. His aides are still not convinced that his chief adviser, David Garth, made the right decision in mid-August when he asked some 75,000 campaign workers to work solely on fundraising. Many declined because they found cadging money odious, and thus were lost to field work such as organizing rallies and getting pro-Anderson voters registered...
...Never was a calumny so odious." Brimming with indignation, the statement from the Israeli Prime Minister's office had the ring of Menachem Begin's personal rhetoric. For the fifth time in 24 hours, the government had issued an outraged denial of an allegation that had the potential for a major political blowup. The object of the Begin government's wrath was a published charge that the chief of the General Security Service, Israel's equivalent of the FBI, had resigned to protest a possible obstruction of the investigation into the attempted assassination last June...
Titus Andronicus (William Hutt), doughtiest general of the Roman state, has come home with his Gothic captives. Turning aside the proffered imperial crown, he bestows it on Saturninus (Jack Wetherall), an odious opportunist though royal in lineage. Titus prefigures Lear's foolish error in dividing up his kingdom...
...mostly because her lover is a boring failure. It ends with her carrying to term a child she has conceived with her former husband, who is not boring and is successful. Just why she left him in the first place, or took up with the replacement she now finds odious, is left unclear. Instead, Director Sautet cuts away to subplots involving the heroine's wide circle of female friends. The point seems to be that men are not much good and that a woman is likely to find greater happiness, or anyway serenity, with her own kind. Still, everyone...