This conscious device on the part of the author dismisses any suggestion that the difficulties of the text : its repetitiveness, tediousness and odiousness, are representative of the author's style.
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Conversation with the activist roamed freely and seamlessly from issues such as the immorality of keeping pets, which is akin to slavery, to the odiousness of the hunt and the evil of vivisection.
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He did not have a high opinion of the villagers, writing to Bertrand Russell in October 1921 : " I am still at Trattenbach, surrounded, as ever, by odiousness and baseness.
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Coming off a six-game suspension, Jamal inexplicably demonstrates his odiousness by stripping to his jock strap and taunting fans during a game, then going one further and peeling down to his sneakers.
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The newest version of the Random House Webster's College Dictionary makes its debut this spring with " New Words for the New Millennium " plus a reader-beware feature : warning labels for some 300 words that are flagged for odiousness.
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They are JESUITS . . . their workings are before you in every day's events : they are a secret society, a sort of Masonic order, with superadded features of most revolting odiousness, and a thousand times more dangerous . . ..
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Jason Isaacs, the loathsome British butcher of " The Patriot, " menacingly adds to his resume of villains as Lucius Malfoy, a bigoted wizard and father of Harry's school rival Draco ( played with increasing odiousness by Tom Felton ).
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Anwar Shah Kashmiri writes in his commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari " Fayd al-Bari " on this hadith : " You know the gravity of sin for killing a Muslim, for its odiousness has reached the point of disbelief, and it necessitates that [ the killer abides in Hell ] forever.
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In 1819, he stated, " Americans preserve their gravity and quietness and good-humour even in their drink . " He believed it " far better for them to be as noisy and quarrelsome as the English drunkards; for then the odiousness of the vice would be more visible, and the vice itself might become less frequent ."
