Sentence examples for odious thing from inspiring English sources

Prokofiev is a presence; Stravinsky is glimpsed; various cultural apparatchiks of the period whose names have mercifully faded (Pospelov? Khrennikov?) do their odious thing; and of course there is Stalin himself.

And remember, a tepid martini is an odious thing.

General Pinochet probably did some very odious things, but some of his opponents were no angels.

Mr Ahmedinejad may say some odious things about Israel, but Mr Putin actually sent troops into a neighbouring country.

ONE of the more odious things about modern presidential politics is the attempt to create "character" by injecting what screenwriters like to call "backstory".

You may remember Kelly for her rightfully challenging Trump on the ample number of odious things he's said about women – not to mention Trump later explaining her conduct as having sprung from "blood coming out of her wherever".

"Pedro thinks in a way that he called antipatico, a way of dealing with odious things, which I can only describe as 'Puh!' " said Bartlett Sher, the musical's director, who flicked his right hand dismissively as his lips spit out the word.

Holbrooke said Americans and their foreign partners in Afghanistan were fighting "a ruthless and determined enemy without any scruples at all, an enemy that is willing to behead women who dare to teach in a school to young girls, an enemy that has done some of the most odious things on Earth.

And there are other odious things.

For a long time it seemed as if someone could be a perfectly respectable Catholic thinker and also believe odious things about poverty and race.

That's what they have believed for a long time, and Clinton is rubbing their face in the fact that a portion of the Republican base actually does believe some pretty odious things.