How To Use detestation In A Sentence
- Suppose a man to have been trained in the palestra and to be a skilful boxer-he in the fulness of his strength goes and strikes his father or mother or one of his familiars or friends; but that is no reason why the trainers or fencing-masters should be held in detestation or banished from the city-surely not. Plato's Gorgias - Selected Moments
- But today we're nonplused by the phenomenon that a good number of students, rather than enjoying the sublime happiness supposed to be provided by education, do not hide their detestation for it.
- By contrast, the Trades Union Congress, driven by detestation for fascism, was more robust.
- Celebrate our Australianness by showing our usual mistrustful, self-deprecating, egalitarian, good-natured detestation of all such symbols of overt self-glorification.
- He wavered and doubted, and to his confidants, with whom he could bluster and talk big, he expressed in no measured terms his detestation of Liberal principles, and especially of Catholic Emancipation. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Volume 1 (of 3)
- Or, they rent their clothes, as if he had spoken blasphemy; and threw dust into the air, in detestation of it; or signifying how ready they were to throw stones at Paul, if the chief captain would have permitted them. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
- But if you go downtown, Wolf, the detestation of what you see in these pictures is still so evident and it will be so for quite some time.
- And it would lead to the kind of detestation that would include building debris, coffins, sewage, a giant stagnation pound, maybe a million people homeless. CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2005
- Rather than regarding homosexual practice with "abhorrence" and "detestation" -- as did George Washington and most everyone until recent years -- Obama has euphemistically vowed to ChronWatch - Articles
- And they have lately become very vocal about their detestation of ordinary people.
