I had a horror of the domestic, and of holidays in particular, which were like ordinary days but worse.
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She had a horror of being pigeonholed by anything so irrelevant as age, keeping her own a fiercely guarded secret.
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It's a picture of a bohemian Paris that has now all but disappeared, though I say "bohemian" advisedly since Jean-Paul Clébert (who was born in 1926 and died in 2011) had a horror of the picturesque.
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Some see in the government's reluctance to speak out a throwback: when it ruled a one-party state until 2000, Mr Peña's Institutional Revolutionary Party had a horror of involvement in the internal politics of other countries, for fear they would poke their noses into Mexican affairs.
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In Dublin, according to Mantell's biographer Clarence J. Bulliet, "there was a dramatic club, which young Bob Mantell, semi-clandestinely, because of parental objections, was one of the burning tapers". While his mother approved of such amateur stage productions, she had a "horror of the professional stage".Bulliet, pp. 13–14, 25.
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Minna could understand his work as a conductor, but increasingly found his operatic works not to her liking. Nevertheless, she was now tied to him since it was unlikely that she would again be able to work on the stage, and she had a horror of ending up in servitude.Burk, 1950, page 372 - 374. Minna also began to show signs of heart disease, for which she was prescribed laudanum.
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Aristotle (350 BC) distinguished potential infinity from actual infinity, which he regarded as impossible due to the various paradoxes it seemed to produce. It has been argued that, in line with this view, the Hellenistic Greeks had a "horror of the infinite"Maor, p. 3 which would, for example, explain why Euclid (c. 300 BC) did not say that there are an infinity of primes but rather "Prime numbers are more than any assigned multitude of prime numbers.".
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The Renaissance poet Pietro Aretino advocated anal sex in his Sonetti Lussuriosi (Lust Sonnets). While men who engaged in homosexual relationships were generally suspected of engaging in anal sex, many such individuals did not. Among these, in recent times, have been André Gide, who found it repulsive; and Noël Coward, who had a horror of disease, and asserted when young that "I'd never do anything – well the disgusting thing they do – because I know I could get something wrong with me".
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He had a horror of senility and did not want to live long enough to experience frontal-lobe dementia, one of the effects of lack of oxygen supply to the brain caused by heart failure. A strict atheist who disapproved of all religion, an existentialist, and libertarian, he was buried in the non- denominational section of Mona Vale Cemetery. He was mentioned twice in the Australian editions of Who's Who in 1954 and 55. His book Upsurge is now on the reading list for Australian Socialist Realist Literature at Perth University.
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Maurice at one point stood for Parliament as a candidate for West Waterford. After the Irish War of Independence, while several of his close relatives became prominent political figures in the Irish Free State, he chose to practice at the English Bar. While he would have been happy enough to see Ireland gain Home Rule by peaceful means, he had a horror of revolutionary violence (although he also denounced the crimes committed by the Black and Tans) and he seems to have found life in the new State uncongenial. He was made King's Counsel in 1931.
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So, he retired to an estate he purchased, Barrack Hill House at Bredbury, near Stockport. Robinson died at his son's house in Manchester on 7 December 1791, and was buried 15 December, by his own directions, at seven in the morning, in a square red- brick building erected on his property. A movable glass pane was inserted in his coffin, and the mausoleum had a door for purposes of inspection by a watchman, who was to see if he breathed on the glass. It seems he had a horror of premature burial, and so he instructed his relatives to visit his grave periodically to check that he was still dead.
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Both her prose and poetry carry a strain of sadness that conveys the idea that there was something she longed for but never received. Chitwood was a regular contributor to The Ladies' Repository. She was also the assistant editor of The Ladies’ Temperance Wreath, published at Connersville, which she co-founded with Lavinia Brownlee. She had a horror of drunkenness and some of her strongest poems were on that subject. She had strong convictions on slavery and it has been said that the poem written just before her death in 1855, “Ode to the New Year,” found its way into every abolition paper in England and America.
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The room also shows Burges's innovative use of materials: Handley-Read observed that the Victorians had "a horror of food smells" and therefore the room was constructed using materials that did not absorb odours and could be washed. The walls are covered with Devonshire marble, surmounted by glazed picture tiles, while the ceiling is of sheet metal. The ceiling is divided into coffered compartments by square beams, and features symbols of the Sun, the planets and the signs of the Zodiac. Burges designed most of the cutlery and plate used in this room, which display his skills as a designer of metalwork, including the claret jug and Cat Cup chosen by Lord and Lady Bute as mementos from Burges's collection after his death.
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