Sentence examples for execrable action from inspiring English sources

"Soldiers of Fortune," an execrable action thriller plopped into a few local theaters without screenings for critics, is one abortive military mission.

Three years before Garrick took over Drury Lane, Goethe wrote: "English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable English Theatre!" Samuel Johnson, Garrick's great mentor and friend, wrote the prologue to Garrick's first season as manager.

Jefferson Davis called Lincoln's action "the most execrable measure recorded in the history of guilty man".

Granted, his pride in "straight talk" may arise partly because he is an execrable actor.

Then, in 1996, he championed the equally execrable Proposition 209, which banned affirmative action.

Bay doesn't deign to extend his extraordinary control to the images; he substitutes attitude for comprehension and swagger for observation, and, for all his meticulous command over the movie's elements of action and design, performance and effect, his taste is cheerfully execrable.

Following the tempestuous action of the English and Scottish scenes — in which murder, rape, cross-dressing and execrable parenting have featured prominently — the transition to South Africa temporarily creates a bit of a lull.

Can we focus?" Jones gives a very droll and intelligent comic performance - and compared to the sloppy and overdone work he was doing in the execrable teen pic Say It Isn't So, his presence here is a virtual object lesson in how action comedy should be played, and how comic actors should be directed.

Its policy presentation is execrable.

Even the coffee is execrable.

Thank you, execrable teachers from my past.