Sentence examples for a detestable from inspiring English sources

"Photographic memory is a detestable myth.

But Lévi-Strauss was known to regard the interview as "a detestable genre".

For you must realize that I wouldn't want to sully your house through a detestable act.

Others – not least Agatha Christie, who branded her creation a "detestable, bombastic, tiresome, egocentric little creep" – don't.

Isaiah Berlin thought "Thieves in the Night" "a detestable and vulgar book"; Clement Greenberg, in Partisan Review, was more critical.

It's the look of depraved triumph, mirrored in the eyes of a detestable character and a smashing actor.

Filmed on a bare-bones budget, the film depicts a party of ghouls laying siege to a generally detestable group of human beings trapped in the now famous Pennsylvania farmhouse.

THIS Monday's New York Daily News printed a delicious bit of character assassination: "He's a vile, detestable, moralistic person with no heart and no conscience who believes he's been tapped by God to do very important things".

The filmmakers also made the conscious choice to turn Tommy into more of a sympathetic victim, and by extension, Amy becomes a more detestable villain.

Mr Phelps describes Robinson as a "disgusting, detestable, loathsome, filthy, abomination - the Great Whoremonger".

Missy Alden has long been a thoroughly detestable character in the series, always deriding Joe as being unworthy of her beloved daughter.