“He felt crude and detestable”
“It is the perfect contradiction: It is glamorous and degenerate, cultured and crude, beautiful and detestable, ethical and decadent, exciting and scary all at the same time.”
“Why was it that whenever I started to not detest him, he did something like this?”
“Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!”
“I detest mediocrity.”
“Anything to vary this detestable monotony.”