We detest the practice and feel ourselves insulted whenever a book of the trap kind is put into our hands.
Throughout his career he detested the suffocating complacency so often found in faculty culture.
He dealt with them as individuals, quite liking some, detesting others.
They might be detested or mocked, but they could certainly not be ignored.
It must have been galling to retreat so publicly, especially for a man who detested the status quo.
The increasingly apparent linkage between confession and sedition was grist to the mill of those evangelicals who detested the traditional theology of penance.
Conscription was a par ticularly detested and resisted practice.
Any one of his many contributions to macroeconomics (or rather to monetary theory, for he detests the term macroeconomics) would be an extraordinary achievement.
