I had a very visceral hostility to the circumstances in which I found myself growing up, and I think I detached quite early . . . I didn't enjoy it when my parents were fighting at all.

Nor was there any tempering of Cuba's visceral hostility to the United States.

"There's visceral hostility from the traditional left, you have Third World rage at what is perceived to be an imperial oppressor, and you have cultural snobbery on the part of the Europeans."

Local residents resent the Communist Party's corruption, privilege and interference, but they share with Deng Xiaoping and other Chinese leaders a visceral, long-ingrained hostility to disorder.

If the generals looked beyond their visceral hostility, they might see that Yusuf Tulun and many of his colleagues want to build a more prosperous Turkey and a more efficient government, not a fundamentalist state.

President Kim says that his mother was killed by North Korean commandos in 1960, and he clearly harbors a visceral hostility for North Korea - which it reciprocates.

But his visceral hostility toward Democrats generally was quickly tempered by his tendency to see people as individuals and judge them that way.

He wants to know just how the energy and enthusiasm of Washington in the Kennedy years managed to transform itself into the visceral hostility to government that created Newt Gingrich and the 104th Congress.

All of it was nonsense, the bureaucratic camouflage of a visceral hostility, a reflexive prejudice.

His study of Islam and the muslim world, Among the Believers, and its important sequel, Beyond Belief, still arouse visceral hostility.