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Example sentences for: animus

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But the piece doesn't adequately explain the Republican animus against sampling.
By his own account, KSM's animus toward the United States stemmed not from his experiences there as a student, but rather from his violent disagreement with U.S. foreign policy favoring Israel.
On Meet the Press , William F. Buckley Jr. nominated Pope John Paul II as his POC for "providing the special spiritual animus that made all the difference in the '70s and '80s in overcoming the greatest threat of the century, which was the Soviet Union."
And while Lewis believes Said to be motivated by a crude anti-Western leftist animus, Ahmad finds him altogether too enamored of the canons of European literature and avers that Said possesses "a very conservative mind, essentially Tory in its structure."
No doubt some of my animus toward the article is related to these comments about my book.