Sentence examples for execrate from inspiring English sources

Without the French to execrate, the British would have had no more idea of who they were than a spaniel.

By opening our minds to this initially alien symbolism, we can begin to learn, like Spinoza, the crucial art – much needed today – of making room in our minds for the other: "I have laboured carefully, when faced with human actions, not to mock, not to lament, not to execrate, but to understand".

Without the money, the execrated attraction would probably have closed.

Our Piety execrates men of violence.

Thus, the Allied "intervention" in Russia on the side of the anti-Bolshevik ("White") forces, long to be execrated by Soviet historians, began with an Anglo-French landing at Murmansk, in the far north, on March 9 , 1918

Execrated by political radicals as a spy in the pay of a reactionary power, Kotzebue was assassinated by Karl Sand, a member of a radical student association.

It may be execrated, but it has shown its strength as it did when it destroyed the Russian aircraft over Sinai on 30 October.

Luther execrated Müntzer's memory because he seized the sword in defense of the gospel and challenged the social order.

And now, perhaps, it has ridden in on the coattails of the iconoclastic trend in the modern study of fairy tales, with Disney's prettified versions being execrated by feminists and queer-studies writers.

Saint Laurent was the designer who, in 1971, with his widely execrated but enduringly influential "Libération" collection (the title refers not to the liberation of women but to the Liberation of France in 1944), invented "retro" in the form of, among other beguilingly updated throwbacks, an absinthe-green fox chubby.

And Servilia execrates fickle Caesar with chilling precision: "Let his penis wither, let his bones crack, let him see his legions drown in their own blood".