Word: odiously
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...quality really mattered in network TV, of course, NBC would be garnering Nobel Prize nominations for refusing to sully its schedule with the likes of the hokey Survivor and the intelligence-challenged Millionaire and the relentlessly odious Big Brother. Instead, Sassa and NBC entertainment president Garth Ancier have been hearing ominous rumors that their bosses are unhappy that the entertainment division has failed to clamber aboard the careering reality express...
...nicely, thank you. His grip on power is stronger than ever; he and his cohorts grow rich smuggling goods from Jordan to beat the economic embargo; and the sanctions policy of his worst enemies - the U.S. and Britain - are today the subject of greater Arab hostility than his own odious regime. Sanctions haven't exactly crippled Saddam, but they've put the Iraqi people through hell...
...Admittedly, this was a marginal example of millennial Kulturkampf - I cannot recall the last time I was tempted to violate the rights of a rat by eating it. Still, PETA's case works rather nicely from absurdity (rats?!) to essence (what exactly are the moral claims of life, however odious the lifeform?). You can get an argument going around that. A day or two ago, the Supreme Court decided that students in a public high school may not organize prayers at football games. The house divides bitterly on that one, of course. (Again, it seems to me that principle...
...world in which no one will ever again have to endure tales of Joan Baez's performance at Woodstock...[T]he ravages of age will take its toll on boomer self-indulgence, and the curtain will at long last fall on what is regarded by many as the most odious generation America has ever produced...
...other day I wrote one of these short essays about John Rocker's rant. (I said his remarks were stupid and odious but that, in general, a man should be able to say what he pleases without being ordered off to Maoist "sensitivity training" and suspended from his work. It is sufficient for the rest of us to hold our noses and move...