Word: anathemae
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lived to be military governor of occupied New Orleans and became known throughout the South as "Beast" Butler. Illinois' Senator Stephen A. Douglas, with his massive head and dwarfish body, was a man in the middle; in his efforts to please North and South, he became anathema to both. Illinois' Republican Representative Owen Lovejoy had seen his older brother, an abolitionist, killed by an Alton mob, and he knew what he thought about slavery: "It has the violence of robbery, the blood and cruelty of piracy, it has the offensive and brutal lusts of polygamy, all combined...
...long-term intelligence chief, and Hamilton, a man of many affairs, was reluctant to make a career out of CIA. Similarly, Woods was a genuine candidate for AID. But as chairman of the First Boston Corp., one of the nation's largest investment banking firms, he was anathema to several liberal Democratic Senators: it was First Boston that had arranged the financing for the abortive Dixon-Yates contract in 1954. When those Senators threatened to fight Woods's nomination, his name was dropped and Hamilton's substituted...
...film does suffer because all sense of gravity is sacrificed. A fine scene like Belmondo's staggering dance of death--it's like a pulse running out--evaporates. Since significance is anathema, nothing is terribly significant. Death itself becomes a gas, just like ever other New Experience...
...legendary "Curse of the Pharaohs," which purportedly killed three kinsmen and numerous members of the 1922 archaeological team that excavated the more than 3,000-year-old tomb of King Tut-Ankh-Amen; of a heart attack; in Geneva. Secretary to the Egyptian expedition that uncovered the hieroglyphic anathema-"Death shall come on swift wings to him that toucheth the tomb of the Pharaoh"-Lord Westbury 's father died six years after the discovery (also at 46), while his grandfather (who kept the Tut relics) and mother subsequently committed suicide...
...Winter of Our Discontent, Steinbeck tries to recover his angry young manner with a blast at the affluent society. Unfortunately, the book contains more pose than passion, and the moral anathema sounds curiously like late-middle-aged petulance...