Word: anathemae
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Indeed, people are still surprisingly sexually conservative in our time: gay marriage and gay, period, in most conservative circles still represent an anathema; an antiquated, often religion-bound outlook on sexual behavior still abounds among the majority of Americans. Kinsey, which touches on several sexual taboos, is going to spark several discussions on this front...
Painted and tailored props, actors with unrelenting good looks—the things some directors spend their days striving for are anathema to Payne. His films, he says, aim to fulfill the fundamental job of movie-making: to mirror the real world as closely as possible...
...statement, Miller asserts that Harvard inheriting the trust money “clearly is not what my grandmother would have wanted” and “would have been anathema...
...poll conducted for the European Parliament, Euro-skeptic M.E.P.s will constitute about a tenth of its membership, and possibly hold the balance of power on some issues. As E.U. leaders assemble in Brussels this week in hopes of finally agreeing on a long-delayed constitution that is anathema to these newly invigorated skeptics, this election was one more crack in the plaster of the European project. Despite its poor showing, Labour avoided a total meltdown, allowing Blair to once again scrape through with his political skin more or less intact. The newspapers have left him for dead countless times...
...pilloried by the left wing of the Scottish press,” Glaeser said. “The car is so anathema to them that saying anything accepting of the automobile is considered outrageous...