The havoc wrought by German shells in French and Belgian churches and cathedrals stands recorded in countless photographs and other illustrations, to form a permanent Indictment of Germany's methods of warfare that will make her name execrated by posterity. ❋ Various (N/A)
"I shall leave a name execrated by every monopolist who, from less honorable motives, clamors for protection because it conduces to his own individual benefit. ❋ Joy, James Richard, 1863- (1902)
My awful punishment makes my name execrated everywhere, as if I must have been superlatively bad to have earned it. aforetime ... tabret -- as David was honored (1Sa 18: 6). ❋ Unknown (1871)
O'Connell's record of embezzlement, contractor boondoggles, handpicked mayors and election theft is both exalted and execrated in the novels' vivid fictional composites. ❋ Sam Sacks (2011)
Yet she appeared confident in innocence, and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands; for all the kindness which her beauty might otherwise have excited, was obliterated in the minds of the spectators by the imagination of the enormity she was supposed to have committed. ❋ Unknown (2010)
For the part he had played, the details of which were practically all rumor and guesswork, quickly leaked out, and in consequence he became a much-execrated and well-hated man. ❋ Unknown (2010)
If any of these magazines (not to mention People, for which Luce bears none of the blame and which he surely would have execrated) is impelled by a vision, it is not evident in the published products. ❋ Jonathan Yardley (2010)
Having taken prize money from the officialdom he execrated, Bernhard delights, retrospectively, in the consequences. ❋ Benjamin Lytal (2010)
OK aunty Flo, but these people whom I have execrated are NOT old style right of centre liberals (like me and you.) ❋ Newmania (2007)
Overheated sections of the right - first the 'birthers,' now the 'speechers' - are meting out to Obama precisely the sort of disrespectful treatment they execrated when it was directed by the left at President Bush. ❋ Burke's Corner (2009)
Derided by Berkeley in the 18th century as “ghosts of departed quantities”, in the 19th century execrated by Cantor as “cholera-bacilli” infecting mathematics, and in the ❋ Bell, John L. (2009)
'What goodness is this! what encouragement to hope some indulgent intercession here – where the sense that now breaks in upon me of ungenerous ... ever to be lamented – and I had nearly said, execrated doubt, fills me with shame and regret – and makes me – even at this soft reviving, heart-restoring moment, feel undeserving my own hopes!' ❋ Unknown (2008)
- Cheney "claimed authority to detain American citizens as enemy combatants indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay on the President's say-so alone, a frightening power indistinguishable from King Louis XVI's execrated lettres de cachet that occasioned the storming of the Bastille." ❋ Unknown (2008)
Every one execrated Rufinus and extolled mg conduct. ❋ Apuleius (2008)
Privately married, parted from her husband at the very moment of their union, a husband by whose hand the apparent friend of her earliest youth was all but killed, whose father had execrated the match, whose mother was now falling a sacrifice to the vehemence with which she had opposed it, and who himself, little short of an exile, knew not yet if, with personal safety, he might return to his native land! ❋ Unknown (2008)
Why would anyone here possibly care that I execrated the memory of William F. Buckley? ❋ Unknown (2008)
It execrated him even more than it did Robespierre. ❋ Unknown (2008)
