- "there is an
important difference in how the
world has
treated these two
execrable phenomena.": The
failure of
Communist governments to live up to the ideal...
-
especially the
practice of male cir****cision,
which was
condemned as
execrable and
repulsive in the Greco-Roman
world during the
period of ****enization...
-
confounding things human and divine, and is
attempting things unutterable,
execrable.
Protestant Reformers,
including John Wycliffe,
Martin Luther, John Calvin...
- also go hang my head in
shame when a
member of my race does
something execrable? The
white race did not go into a
laboratory and
invent incandescent light...
-
their cajoling is—blood! I now warn my
countrymen to
beware of
these execrable philosophers,
whose only
object it is to
destroy every thing that is good...
- "tremendously impressed" by the music,
though he
thought the
performance "
execrable". The critics'
outrage at the
presumption of
Auden and
Britten in writing...
-
against Epicurus as "a
lunatic dog" who
formulated "ridiculous, impious,
execrable doctrines". Epicurus's
teachings were made
respectable in
England by the...
-
Voyage to Surat: "Since the ****metans
became Masters of the Indies, this
execrable custom is much abated, and
almost laid aside, by the
orders which nabobs...
- won a
Peabody Award for his teleplay,
though critics described it as "
execrable" and "confusing". A children's
opera composed by Dean
Burry appeared in...
-
Reporter said that the show was "undoubtedly the most
disgusting and
execrable series ever to ooze its way onto television".
Despite the
perceived train-wreck...
