Abhorrent Sentence Examples

The idea of the sovereignty of the people was to him utterly abhorrent, and even any delegation of sovereign power on his own part would have seemed a betrayal of a God-given trust.

We believe most people would find this material abhorrent.

Such discrimination, whether we focus on it or not, is morally abhorrent.

It is clear that the suffering associated with the cloning process makes the procedure morally abhorrent.

This really hits the position of Morone, a sincere Catholic, to whom persecution was abhorrent.

However, if slaughter weights are less than 100kg live weight, only a small percentage of entire males have the abhorrent boar taint.

Repetition without any variation is abhorrent to every Japanese.

So I find it totally abhorrent and incomprehensible when I hear about the dreadful cruelty and neglect inflicted on some animals.

A world which is often so abhorrent to Mr Pendle.

And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.

But such deliberate hypocrisy was abhorrent to Spinoza's nature.

After her repudiation he married, probably for political reasons, his full-sister Arsinoe (II.), the widow of Lysimachus, by an Egyptian custom abhorrent to Greek morality.

The religious views of Servetus, marked by strong individuality, are not easily described in terms of current systems. His denial of the tripersonality of the Godhead and the eternity of the Son, along with his anabaptism, made his system abhorrent to Catholics and Protestants alike, in spite of his intense Biblicism, his passionate devotion to the person of Christ, and his Christocentric scheme of the universe.

Their object had been to purify the Church of medieval accretions, and to restore the primitive model in the light of the new learning; the idea of rival " churches," differing in their fundamental doctrines and in their principles of organization, existing side by side, was as abhorrent to them as to the most rigid partisan of Roman centralization.

And any suggestion of monasticism is absolutely abhorrent to his teaching.

We are even willing to defend 'to the death ' the right of others to express views we find abhorrent.

All that I had built seemed abhorrent to me know.

Religious feeling in the West recoiled from the crucifix as late as the 6th century, and it was equally abhorrent to the Monophysites of the East who regarded the human nature of Christ as swallowed up in the divine.

There is not a shred of truth to Creation Science at all Creation Science is an abhorrent fraud.

From what Gio says, she.ll want to stay, and I doubt she.d consider mating with someone like me abhorrent.

To the Greeks and Macedonians such a regime was abhorrent, and the opposition roused by Alexander's attempt to introduce among them the practice of proskynesis (prostration before the royal presence), was bitter and effectual.

A speculative construction of religion was abhorrent to him, a thing of which he seems to have thought the human mind naturally incapable.

The teaching was not necessarily presented in the form of an over-elaborated moral lesson, but was associated with conceptions familiar to the land; and when these conceptions are examined from the anthropological standpoint, they are found to contain much that is strange and even abhorrent to modern convictions of a purely spiritual deity.

Everyone on here familiar with my posts knows that I find those shows equally abhorrent.

Rites are practised in the name of religion which are abhorrent to Yahweh, because they either have no moral meaning at all, and are mere forms.