Sentence examples for detestable character from inspiring English sources

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Played with customary zest by David Tennant, Porter is a compellingly detestable character delivering speeches of virtuoso rage, vicious humour and dazzling invective.

Much of the all-encompassing madness has everything to do with the malevolent machinations of motorcycle mama Gemma Teller (Katey Sagal), easily the most detestable character on television now that King Joffrey is rotting in his grave on HBO's Game of Thrones.

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Rob Owen of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette felt that "[Benjamin] McKenzie, at times, is prone to overdramatizing scenes", and considered the young characters "so detestable and yet bland" that it made the show "almost painful" to watch.

This film might have been okay, but I found there was one major flaw with it: Every single fucking character was a detestable piece of self-indulgent human garbage.

This film might have been OK, but I found there was one major flaw with it--every single fucking character was a detestable piece of self-indulgent human garbage.

It is rather that there is a tendency to relapse into that class of ideas, expressions, and circumstances, which is most connected with the grosser and more animal portion of our nature; and that the detestable morality of the most prominent character in the story is accompanied with every sort of palliation short of unblushing justification".

Make this character very admirable or detestable.

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 character is one of the most detestable in drama; yet McCabe, playing him as a monstrous egotist who cuts off the heads of drawing-room roses before graciously presenting them to his hostess, makes him irresistible company.

Right in the middle of the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey's exuberant new production of Molière's farce "The School for Wives," one character mentions that Arnolphe (Bruce Cromer), our deliciously detestable protagonist, is 42 years old.

Meanwhile, DedSec itself is made up of characters so whacky that they would be detestable if the script didn't hold it together so well.

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