hateful object

Douglas, who said moving a statue like “Johnny Reb” simply outsources a hateful object elsewhere, said the Jefferson School’s proposal was meant to reimagine the realm of possibilities.

The instructions given to him as governor contained a special injunction to favour by all means in his power the rites and doctrines of the Church of England; and the colonists, with the exception of a small minority, were maddened to see public taxes applied to this hateful object.

In all conscience, I was dizzy enough; and every pressure of that hateful object to her face bound me faster in a dungeon of utter hopelessness.

His hands were stretched out in front of him as though to keep away from his sight some hateful object.

Lady Villiers looked on her husband as the hateful object of a forced union, and nearly drove him mad; while she disgraced herself by such loose conduct as to be condemned to stand in a white sheet, and I believe at length obtained a divorce.