Sentence examples for very loathsome from inspiring English sources

In 1604 the Commons committed someone to the Little Ease, a "very loathsome" dungeon in the Tower of London, only four feet square, which prevented the prisoner lying down.

"They may be very loathsome people," he says, "and I'd want to count my fingers after I'd shaken hands with some of them, but the model is good because these guys have their own money at risk and they're not too big too fail".

Wahhabi Islam really is a loathsome and dangerous ideology.

It's about an almost completely feral family called the Herdmans whose six loathsome children hijack a very proper middle-class church nativity play and turn it into something much more exciting and meaningful for everyone.

For several decades, in world theatre, the very notion of the "well-made play" was loathsome, derided by all.

Although he describes himself as a "very poor scholar who thought school was fairly loathsome", there was an English teacher who encouraged him to "stumble" into the local university in Aberdeen, where he read English.

Tamblyn made her loathsome character pop and fizz, Jackson was very Jackson (at one point, he bursts out laughing and say, "I can't believe I'm reading this.... .. - a horrifying, blowjob-heavy soliloquy), and Goggins earns his second-lead status effortlessly.

Poignantly, such commentators were espousing the very paradigm that drove Gandhi to implement the most loathsome abuses in the history of family planning.

"Inconveniently for those who think the director's crime loathsome – a group that includes me – he has made a very good film," writes our own Peter Bradshaw.

Yes, her solution to the question of why so many women disdain sport – 1.8 million fewer women than men take part in it regularly – certainly sounds loathsome to me (she considers cheerleading and rollerskating to be "very feminine" and thinks those who take part in them look, as if they were starring in ads for antiperspirant, "absolutely radiant").

Inconveniently for those who think the director's crime loathsome – a group that includes me – he has made a very good film, a political satire which is also a terrific conspiracy thriller in the Hitchcock mode, ending with a deadpan black-comic image the master himself might have admired.