Distaste Sentence Examples

By the distaste in his voice, he wasn't happy about it.

The amount of distaste in the Watcher's voice amused him.

His father, who was an attorney of substance, had a distaste still stronger for so vagrant a profession as letters were in that day.

Like a great many other youths with an eminent destiny before them, Burke conceived a strong distaste for the profession of the law.

He gave her a look of supreme distaste before he, too, walked away.

He soon retired from the public service; he conceived a great distaste for it, and had shown himself defective in discipline and regularity.

Our protest reflects mainstream distaste at a long military occupation.

He touched her neck, and she waited, assuming he'd take blood from her despite his distaste of alcohol.

His irrespressible and often daring humour, together with his frank distaste for much conventional religious phraseology, was a stumbling-block to some pious people.

It is worrying and one feels considerable distaste for your behavior.

Which is interesting, given Radiohead's obvious distaste for the US president.

Natural Hierarchies of Sustainability Level 6 has a deep distaste for hierarchies [which is what the levels are] .

Despite his strong distaste for war, Lincoln was not afraid to wage total war to achieve total victory.

What does Scout think caused her father's ' profound distaste ' for the practice of criminal law?

He spent his time over books and in long daydreams, and evinced the strongest distaste for business and all the more bustling pursuits of life.

They were unanimous in their distaste for the Quartic steering wheel.

Despite Little Rock's distaste, however, Mr. Hornibrook's business was booming.

For the love of a scent, but the distaste of the price, consider a discount perfume.

In some, this may manifest in a distaste for longer relationships.

Maquis crewmember's distaste with Starfleet compelled Chakotay to settle things 'the Maquis way', which involved beating the stuffing out of the complainer.

The vamp moved forward with a frown and hacked the onion apart with a vengeance that displayed his distaste.

I'll allow you one in the angel of compromise, he said with distaste.

That they'd ally with the dishonorable Yirkin was his fault; his affront at taking Kiera from them was enough for them to overcome their distaste at dealing with the Yirkin, whom they viewed as even less civilized than the Anshan.

The majority have wished they had learned mediator skills earlier, and many expressed a distaste for the overly adversarial system they work in.

Opinion polls over many years have shown a persistent public distaste for giving up the pound in favor of the euro.

Personally, from an early age I developed a distaste for many multiple shop groups.

I have a little distaste for them based on how much TV I did.

He turned and leaned back against the counter, surveying her with obvious distaste.

Rhyn said through clenched teeth with a look of distaste.

Jared limped after him and appeared beside him on the cliff edge, taking in the morning view of grey skies and green forest with a look of distaste.

He trailed them into the dark fortress but kept his distance, eyeing his surroundings with distaste.

His day was thus one of incessant mental activity; but hard work was so far from breeding a distaste for his occupation, that reading and writing grew ever more delightful to him (literarum assiduitas non modo mihi fastidium non pant, sed voluptatem; crescit scribendo scribendi studium).

Latimer, however, besides possessing sagacity, quick insight into character, and a ready and formidable wit which thoroughly disconcerted and confused his opponents, had naturally a distaste for mere theological discussion, and the truths he was in the habit of inculcating could scarcely be controverted, although, as he stated them, they were diametrically contradictory of prevailing errors both in The only reasons for assigning an earlier date are that he was commonly known as " old Hugh Latimer," and that Bernher, his Swiss servant, states incidentally that he was " above threescore and seven years " in the reign of Edward VI.

At Oxford he gave himself to the study of religion rather than to the subtleties of scholastic philosophy, for which he professed a strong distaste.

Mary and the lords still in her council ordered Knox not to preach while she was in Edinburgh, and he was absent or silent during the weeks in which the queen's growing distaste for her husband, and advancement of Rizzio over the nobility remaining in Edinburgh, brought about the conspiracy by Darnley, Morton and Ruthven.

As a youth, says Clarendon, " the ill-bred familiarity of the Scotch divines had given him a distaste " for Presbyterianism, which he indeed declared " no religion for gentlemen," and the mean figure which the fallen national church made in exile repelled him at the same time that he was attracted by the " genteel part of the Catholic religion."

The Holy See had always regarded with distaste the existence in the West of a nation who repudiated the Roman obedience, and lived in schismatical independence, under local ecclesiastical customs which dated back to the 5th century, and had never been brought into line with those of the rest of Christendom.

She mentioned her distaste for Donald Trump and the Miss USA organization - complete with an impersonation of Trump at the press conference.

Children who do poorly in school often develop a distaste for education early in their lives, so the preschool years can be a vital milestone for a child's overall view of education.