Word: anathema
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...homicidal conduct of murdering spouses," to a flight attendant on Simpson's flight to Chicago. The defense has already found much to contest on this list. Still, Ito keeps trying to keep things moving. At one point, the judge sternly warned the lawyers, "Delay is something that will be anathema next week." Surely by now even the judge must realize that delay is, in fact, second nature...
...least that's what will happen if Social Security endures in something like its present form. Should it? Though it's anathema to most politicians to say so, among the scholars and policy analysts who study the budget charts and chew their nails in suspense as the baby boomers inch toward later life, the verdict is just about unanimous: as Social Security nears its 60th birthday, it is ripe for retirement...
Castro has been loath to respond by renouncing his socialist credo in the fashion of former communists like Boris Yeltsin. But to salvage what remains of his economy, he has been forced to adapt, imposing some measures that are anathema to his beliefs. In 1990, for example, Castro began soliciting foreign investment. Though he continues to declare that Cuba will never sell off its state-run companies, he has opened up strategic areas such as telecommunications, oil exploration and mining to joint ventures. The latest shocker: condominiums for sale to foreigners, with titillating hints that even land ownership may soon...
...verbal character of the statement chosen by these students shows at least a lack of faith--if not an outright disavowal--of the power of reasonable argument to approach and define the truth of a matter. This reliance on symbolism rather than substance should be anathema to both the Left and the Right...
...them, inset them in outline form: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all the exams insist at the top, "Illustrate;" "Be specific;" etc? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout your blue book will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote; don't just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like...