Sentence examples for odious example from inspiring English sources

Deeply flawed and highly publicized sociological nonsense claims that black people are less intelligent (The Bell Curve as one odious example, despite clear, less-publicized research that identifies racism and oppression, not lesser intelligence, as the cause of suppressed performance on standardized measures.

There's something else too, a rarely spoken cultural truth, that used to be the case in some parts of British education and society, which might explain some of the more odious examples of outright sexism in musical life, such as the brass-player gags and a Thomas Beecham anecdote that Dame Jenni quotes.

These are just the most recent examples of petro-politics; next month there will be different, equally odious examples.

The third are metamorphoses of truly English experiences or objects into something different, but distinctly American: crumpets to English muffins, for example (a particularly odious change, in my opinion).

It's perfectly reasonable to be repelled by preachy shows, although I confess that I dislike them primarily when they promote values that I find odious; "Thomas and Friends," for example, a depressingly popular British series, might as well be a blueprint for Victorian economics, with its fetishistic emphasis on "usefulness" and docility.

'If anything could make intellectual culture odious and terrible, it is the example of that overstrained infant,' wrote Harriet Grote, appalled by a programme that ignored or actively repressed both physical and emotional development.

An example of vile provocation, of odious falsification and of criminal violation of revolutionary legality is the case of the former candidate for the central committee politburo, one of the most eminent workers of the party and of the Soviet government, comrade [Robert ] Eikhe who had been a party member since 1905.

The worst examples – I'm thinking the odious Jodie Foster vehicle Contact – have shown us almost nothing at all by the time the credits roll, their alien entities dressed sumptuously in the cosmic equivalent of the emperor's new clothes.

Officer John Ryan in Crash, for example, played by Matt Dillon, comes off as an odious racist until we understand the personal history that drives his reactions.

For example, since taking office the president has lifted the odious gag rule that former President George W. Bush imposed on international family-planning groups and moved to rescind an 11th-hour Bush regulation aimed at hindering women's access to abortion, contraceptives and the information necessary to make decisions about their own health.

Some of the most odious of human behaviors, including torture, public stonings and lynchings, may all be examples of the meting out of altruistic punishment run amok.