The stadium isn't actually full, although that's because there are hot dogs to buy and execrable 'beers' to serve and everyone will probably file in just as the first serve is about to be served.
It is customary at this point to tut-tut about the ways that American culture forces its leading lights to work on execrable junk to remain solvent.
He went up and saw the cross, "an execrable symbol to him.
Everything from "execrable rubbish" to "excellent article" littered my inbox, with the majority of messages - dispatched with a fair dose of emotional vitriol rather than reasoned argument - tending towards the former.
The zillion spin-offs of Pride and Prejudice could easily be considered a stain on the memory of Austen's classic, and the ones I've glanced at in bookshops have, indeed, been execrable (though to be fair, I loved the idea, at least, of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies).
The prosecutors broke up the factory, and in the suit that followed, they deemed the conditions they'd found execrable enough to constitute slavery.
"[Goold's] production is a disaster," he splutters, "lurching in three acts from bad to worse to execrable … There are ideas and theatrical sparks aplenty, but they shoot in all directions: one senses no controlling vision, no discrimination between what might work on the operatic stage and what doesn't".
PROVIDE BONUS COVERAGE ON CHANNEL 2 Try to negotiate a deal with those cable systems -- we know, that's all of them except the lone execrable holdout -- to allow New York's CBS affiliate to pick up a few extra games, as long as they are not against Tampa Bay.
The expansionism "is shown to be characterised by corruption, fraud, people-smuggling, endemic secrecy, cosying up to execrable regimes, and the brutal exploitation of its own and other countries' labour forces on a global scale".
(What an execrable scene, humiliating to the character and the wonderful actress, Joanna Cassidy, who portrayed her).
