Word: anathema
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...peace. Lebanon's 15-year civil war ended last October, when Syrian troops ousted General Michel Aoun, the renegade Christian leader, from his power base in Beirut. Over the past few months, thousands of Lebanese tourists have begun to return to Baalbek, and both their dress and behavior are anathema to Islamic fundamentalists...
...conservative today because of the context, and the context is that for the past 25 years civil rights organizations have focused one-dimensionally on our oppression and demanded redress based on that. Well, here comes a man in 1991 who stands for self-help, and so he is anathema. The principle of self-reliance seems to devalue victimization as a source of power. I don't think it necessarily does, but it seems to. And so Thomas seems to be against the interests of black people merely by standing for self-reliance. He's not remotely anti-black...
...that matter, doesn't Unplugged, with its absence of flashy imagery and souped-up electronics, run against the whole idea of MTV? "In some ways it sounds like it would be anathema," McGrath concedes. "But there's something about Unplugged that's very simple and very clear. You can appreciate that there's somebody out there playing it one time, with no chance...
...capitalize them, inset them in outline form: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all 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 ther. 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...
...AALARM points out, traditional Judiasm, like Christianity, does prohibit homosexual activity. Judiasm does not, however, prohibit homosexuals. This distinction is obviously lost on AALARM, which called for the exclusion of homosexuals from Harvard and their imprisonment in last week's postering campaign. Such personal attacks are anathema to the entire Jewish tradition; our history has taught us to resist hate and persecution and to defend others who are victims of hate and persecution...