(1) In one of his last letters, he voiced his dismay at the disorder he fought for so much of his life: “Oh, if I could have worked without this accursed disease - what things I might have done.” In 2014, Rothernberg published a book, “ Flight of Wonder: an investigation of scientific creativity ”, in which he interviewed 45 science Nobel laureates about their creative strategies.
(2) How can that compare with the surging joy of flattening Arsenal, of dismantling Arsène Wenger's team and savouring a rout rather than the accursed moral victory in which Spurs have too often traded?
(3) Then they went home and played the accursed thing, and second-hand shops nationwide braced themselves for the deluge.
(4) Four decades on, in a world (and an America) accursed by poverty and drugs, there is almost universal agreement that the war on drugs has failed as thoroughly as that on poverty.
(5) Accursed Kings series Maurice Druon £11.99 (prices for the rest of the series may vary) The book that inspired George RR Martin’s epic, Game of Thrones.
(6) It was a price that far exceeded expectations for the famously troubled site, which had already foiled a previous attempt to revive it by Brookfield Multiplex in 2011 – an effort that ended in a sticky mess of legal battles over the accursed stump.
(7) I never meant to give up the possibility of a lucrative career in the law just to be an advocate for the accursed and rejected – and to be accursed and rejected myself.
(8) Vanessa McC (@NeedaGin) @GuardianTeach working my way thru the Accursed Kings series (on book 4 atm).
(9) Gentlemen in England now abed, or just watching it on TV, will think themselves accursed they weren’t there.
(10) He preaches under the slogan "Any diversion from the true path will be the path of accursed Satan".
(11) Van Gogh put it best: “If I could have worked without this accursed disease, what things I might have done.
(12) I felt if I was doomed already to be thrown into this accursed land, then at least I would map it as much as I could, and for me mapping is writing about it.
(13) It was my accursed honour, along with Penny Marshall of ITN, to stumble into and reveal the existence of concentration camps in the far north-west of Bosnia, Omarska and Trnopolje, into which thousands of non-Serbs were corralled to be killed, tortured, raped – and the survivors deported.
(14) We were climbing one of the seemingly interminable flights of limestone steps when Speer observed an enormous ragweed, an accursed thing the size of a sequoia, sprouting from a crack in the limestone cladding covering the reinforced concrete understructure.
Execrable
Definition:
(a.) Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch.
Example Sentences:
(1) All the statistics released about the Work Programme show execrable results, and yet we've heard nothing about penalties, or remaking the contracts, or rethinking the system.
(2) A critical review of epidemiological and experimental data from the literature has been made in an attempt to present an objective picture of this controversial and sensitive question and to encourage further research, which may ultimately determine whether arsenic deserves its execrable reputation.
(3) LP: My only experience of this was - and this might end up selling a lot of videos of a film that no one's ever seen - I produced a really execrable film in the mid-70s called Lisztomania, and I hope that no one here's seen it.
(4) Unrecorded in the YouGov poll are people who dislike all-women shortlists but dislike yet more the reason for their continued existence: the very culture that just created the execrable, the relentlessly mocked Woman Who Made up Her Mind .
(5) Its performance over the scandal of Winterbourne View was execrable, and this seemed to speak of much wider and more fundamental problems in its approach, resourcing and leadership.
(6) For the dark knight, readers will recall with horror George Clooney's bemused and Bat-nippled turn in the execrable Batman and Robin in 1997.
(7) The narrator, Nancy Hawkins, is a woman editor in a publishing house in the 1950s; her sworn enemy the execrable, self-congratulatory writer Hector Bartlett, to whom she refers to as the pisseur de copie.
(8) They included "the massacre of people solely for reasons of their religious adherence"; "the execrable practice[s] of decapitation, crucifixion and hanging of corpses in public places"; "the choice imposed on Christians and Yazidis between conversion to Islam, payment of a tax (jizya) and exodus"; "the forced expulsion of tens of thousands of people, including children, old people, pregnant women and the sick"; "the abduction of women and girls belonging to the Yazidi and Christian communities as war booty (sabaya)", and "the imposition of the barbaric practice of infibulation".
(9) PII certificates, he said, had previously been greeted by "howls of execration".
(10) Those movies include turkeys such as Jack and Jill and the execrable That's My Boy , though the rather better-performing Grown Ups 2 does not feature for statistical purposes because it falls outside the time period being factored in by Forbes.
(11) Lucas, the ultimate fanboy, has been the biggest culprit with his execrable prequels.
(12) I can already hear the howls of execration: now you're claiming that this cooling is the result of warming!
(13) His sweeping pronouncements never fail to set the leaves aflutter in the groves of academe, and his name surely is execrated in cultural studies departments from sea to shining sea across America.
(14) I’d like to be there, watching, when the old family films are played, and I’d like to impose my execrable musical taste on my friends and watch their faces as they suffer it.
(15) Ford, who is currently promoting his role in the sci-fi movie Ender's Game , is also taking a role in the latest film in Sylvester Stallone's execrable Expendables series .