Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...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...
...Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout your bluebook 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 Natalie Wood. If you can’t come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudo-facts...
...what outgoing Spanish Interior Minister Angel Acebes said were "prepared and assembled bombs." The end of the Aznar era also creates what Zabaleta calls "a very propitious atmosphere for a truce." In his speech last week presenting his program, the incoming Prime Minister stressed a word that had been anathema to Aznar: dialogue. While promising a "battle without quarter against all terrorism," Zapatero clearly signaled a new approach to demands for greater autonomy from the Basque and Catalonian governments. This new willingness to talk could create an opportunity for ETA to renounce violence. Still, the government must stop...
...British design house seven years ago, she has convinced the style elite that the dormant, 148-year-old brand--with its placid beige plaid, which had been spotted, if it was noticed at all, lining the raincoats on markdown racks--not only is no longer a fashion anathema but is in fact a status symbol. Her feat has more than doubled the company's sales, turning it from a $470 million-a-year enterprise to a $1 billion behemoth...
...along fine with my buds in a nonemotional context, but something was awry, something not right. I came to know almost instinctively that I would never be a part of my family the way my siblings might one day be. The love I had inside me was unmentionable, anathema. I remember writing in my teenage journal one day, "I'm a professional human being. But what do I do in my private life...