Sentence examples for to be detestable from inspiring English sources

Goethe considered Beethoven to be "an utterly untamed personality, who is not altogether in the wrong in holding the world to be detestable, but surely does not make it any the more enjoyable either for himself or for others by his attitude".

"Homosexual conduct is declared to be detestable because it is out of harmony with the purpose for which God created human beings".

This is what's supposed to be detestable about selling sex: It objectifies and sexualizes, it flattens the self into an image, consumable in a single sitting.

Meanwhile, DedSec itself is made up of characters so whacky that they would be detestable if the script didn't hold it together so well.

And given that I'm a longtime film critic and lifelong film freak, I find the idea of censorship to be truly detestable.

A facile reading of the current production of "Three Tall Women" would be that Albee was a misogynist, but that would be reductive: what if the person you were supposed to love the most was detestable, and happened to be a woman?

Many described their sex lives to have been negatively impacted because of the excess fluid, which was detestable to both the women and their partners.

Jesus responds to people who believe they are religious and deserve heaven by saying that their outward religiosity is detestable to God and the only thing God desires is that they would exercise their faith by obeying the command of God- to do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly.

Leviticus says that "whatever is in the seas and in the rivers that does not have fins and scales... they are detestable things to you".

However, the Byzantine commander, Niketas, surrendered the fortress to Duke Géza instead of the king; he knew that Solomon "was a hard man and that in all things he listened to the vile counsels of Count Vid, who was detestable in the eyes both of God and men", according to the Illuminated Chronicle.

The rosy prospect of his socialist future stands in stark contrast to his miserabilist view of present humans: "We have to confess it: capitalist mankind in the lump is detestable".