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This execrable 85033 presidential election crawls to a close today.

Then there's the execrable headline about young Muslims being ''time bombs.

The discussion of the article during Judge Barrett's confirmation hearing was execrable.

Smackdown television is execrable, but pretty much all of WWE's TV shows are terrible.

Trump can and should free America from this execrable deal at the earliest opportunity.

Weis was of roughly normal human proportions, a fine fielder, and a cosmically execrable hitter.

"Trump can and should free America from this execrable deal at the earliest opportunity," Bolton writes.

CATTARAUGUS INDIAN RESERVATION, N.Y. — If ever you wanted a tangible symbol of the execrable relationship between Gov.

Heck, Derek Carr's rookie tape was execrable, but he was immediately better last year (if not last night).

"The pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation," writes a minor British musician in an execrable piece of erotic fiction.

Also, you're relying on a pair of rookie guards and Russell Okung to save your execrable o-line. 2.

I don't recommend Lee for standard-leaguers because he's the fourth or fifth receiving option on a truly execrable NFL offense.

Yet when we ask how the execrable Johnson came to occupy the highest office in the land, the answer is Lincoln.

"From America's perspective, New Start is an execrable deal, a product of Cold War nostrums about reducing nuclear tensions," he wrote.

He embellished his vision with snatches of his execrable poetry, which had been widely mocked in the intellectual salons of prewar Sarajevo.

It was, by most measures, a really enjoyable show, which on its own is no small matter after last year's execrable effort.

When her boss does something execrable, she validates it at greater length and with more passion than most paid sycophants would muster.

But I think Booker is a way better player than Bibbs and will get right Week 10 against an execrable Saints run defense.

Butter or any butter-based sauces, though, were, "execrable compounds, more fit for the soap-boiler's vat than the human stomach!" wrote Graham (exclamation his).

Schools in such areas tend to be poor—the quality of public schools in Chicago's South Side, where many blacks live, ranges from poor to execrable.

WWE's run of execrable to mediocre pay-per-views for the past six months, starting with WrestleMania and lasting through SummerSlam, mercifully ended on Sunday night.

While North Korea's nuclear and missile programs constitute the immediate crisis, the president has put another critical issue on the table: Pyongyang's execrable human rights record.

Unfortunately in America the character is best known from the execrable 1995 Sylvester Stallone vehicle Judge Dredd, which turned the character into something of a punch line.

If baby boomers got "The Big Chill" and Generation X got "Reality Bites," millennials get … the execrable Lindsay Lohan thriller "I Know Who Killed Me" (on Friday)?

The last was in November, in Malta (pictured above); the one before that, in Sri Lanka in 180, was overshadowed by the host government's execrable human-rights record.

In the very same pay-per-view that had the execrable House of Horrors match, Strowman beat Reigns and left the WWE's golden boy spitting up fake blood.

JEFFERY AMHERST, who commanded British troops in North America during the Seven Years War in the mid-18th century, described indigenous people who fought for France as an "execrable race".

It deserves to be remembered as a great video game, one worth playing even for the first time in 2016, and not as the basis for an execrable movie adaptation.

And he has now appointed a climate change denier from the execrable Heartland Institute — an industry front group funded by the Koch brothers and others — to oversee the transition at NOAA.

" He called the book a work of "nonsensical history and execrable citizenship," which, he added mordantly, "should come with a warning: 'Caution — you are about to enter a no-facts zone.

The total number of TV shows — not just scripted, but reality and late-night and kids shows and on and on — numbers well into the thousands, and many of those are execrable.

SAN's ads, as far as they related to immigration and refugees, were execrable scaremongering, invoking the phantom threat of Sharia law being applied worldwide — the Mona Lisa wearing a niqab, for instance.

" Pope Victor III, in his third book of Dialogues, wrote that Benedict IX had a "life as a pope so vile, so foul, so execrable, that I shudder to think of it.

His affection for Kellyanne Conway hinges on her superhuman power not to break into laughter or spontaneously combust when she puts the most ludicrously adulatory spin on his most transparently execrable deeds.

His main threat to the nomination, the execrable Ted Cruz, followed Trump's lead, calling for a police state in which the authorities would "patrol and secure" Muslim neighborhoods in the United States.

In places she just aims for pure joy, like on "Hey Hey Hallelujah," a duet with another of last year's unexpected pop breakouts, Andy Grammer (of the execrable fidelity anthem "Honey I'm Good").

Trump's high-intensity focus on North Korea's execrable human rights record was on world display in three major speeches — at South Korea's National Assembly, the United Nations, and the State of the Union address.

Nevertheless, on August 15, Pelosi issued a strongly worded statement slamming the National Park Service decision to permit the next event at Golden Gate, and claimed that Patriot Prayer is actually an execrable hate group.

Ivanka may have denied that she was in Germany representing her brand, but she was most definitely there on behalf of her father and his government, whose track record on advocating women's issues is equally execrable.

And thanks to widely publicised incidents of execrable police brutality the relationship between the Chicago Police Department and the black community, which has been conflictual even in better days, soured further in the last few years.

We need to look only as far as the recently concluded Senate race in Faulkner's home state of Mississippi, where the execrable Cindy Hyde-Smith defeated Mike Espy, her African-American challenger, by nearly eight points.

Wentz's ownership has dropped below the one-third threshold, making him eligible for this column for the first time in more than a month, and just in time: the Eagles get an execrable Packers pass defense Monday.

" Theroux possesses a fabulously nasty sense of humor, at its best when Jay is describing Mother's execrable cooking: "Everything Mother made looked like cat food, including the mittens she knitted, so her gifts were all a form of mockery.

If an agent were to receive a manuscript from a "gay transgender Caribbean who dropped out of school at seven and powers around town on a mobility scooter" it would be published, even if its quality were execrable, warned Ms Shriver.

Our Egyptian hosts also sent us frequent invitations to Foreign Ministry receptions, affording us a chance to practice our kindergarten Arabic and execrable French with low-level envoys from minor nations while sipping fruit juice in a genteelly shabby salon.

When the Mets fell two runs behind the execrable and flagrantly checked-out Phillies in extra innings, the day after being swept by the only slightly less depressing Braves in a three-game series at home, I bailed on the game.

So if you live in San Francisco, like me, you'll be forced to watch the execrable Oakland Raiders (as long as they're still here) and San Francisco 49ers (who now play in Santa Clara), even though I'm a die-hard Seahawks fan.

He has vowed to improve the status of women, announcing that the ban on women driving will be lifted next year, and limiting the scope of the execrable "guardianship" system, which treats women like children, requiring permission from male guardians for basic activities.

Now, Trump, whose behavior is execrable (as an Army officer, I never thought I'd be cheering on a porn star against the President of the United States), nonetheless has done a few useful things, such as facilitating our military's response to the Islamic State.

He busted out Week 22 against the Dolphins (admittedly a team with a pretty execrable secondary) to the tune of eight grabs and 245 yards receiving from the immortal Cody Kessler, tacked onto a bunch of Wildcat snaps at QB and a rushing touchdown.

Footage shows Napoli's followers enduring execrable abuse from supporters of northern Italian teams: visiting fans hold banners which read "cholerati" ("cholera infected")—there had been an outbreak in Naples in 1973 in which people had died—and chant that Mount Vesuvius should "wash them with fire".

" When Bolton moved into his office, down the hall from the President's, he hung a framed copy of Trump's executive order nullifying the U.S.'s nuclear agreement with Iran —one of President Obama's signature foreign-policy achievements, which Bolton, a ferocious critic of Iran, has described as "execrable.

And while anyone who has spent time with the album has a pocket list of songs they'd cut immediately — I'd knock off the overstuffed intro and outro tracks and the execrable What a Time to Be Alive leftover "Grammys," for starters — there's weight that could be shed on every track.

Told in the third person, but using Bob's writing as the source, Allen describes the life of a man who is institutionalized during adolescence at an execrable facility for problems with "reality," then wavers on and off medication while pursuing his desires and fleeing his fears in hippie-ish California.

Anyone wondering why I color my hair just has to look at the execrable comments about Keanu's (awesome) girlfriend The critiques of Grant's hair are tied up in expectations of women "aging gracefully" and the many double standards for men and women — which brings us to the debate over Grant's age.

The sexual harassment stories continue to spread far and wide: from the NYT's deep investigation of those around Harvey Weinstein who facilitated his execrable behavior to Bruce Weber (of the naked-guys-n-dogs Abercrombie ads, among others, and fashion fame), who has been accused of sexual harassment by two models.

Rather than Jay and the Americans' execrable "Johnny B. Goode," how about Peter Tosh's or the Dead's; rather than the Hollies' "Sweet Little Sixteen" album filler, Ten Years After's balls-out festival rocker or even Cliff Richard's Beatles move; rather than Marty Robbins's wan "Maybellene," George Jones and Johnny Paycheck's rowdy one.

Indeed many depictions, whether on the page or on screen, struggle to put convincing words in the mouth of a man renowned for writing excellent dialogue ("Anonymous", Roland Emmerich's execrable film, gets around this by suggesting that Shakespeare was a fraud and never wrote a line of the work attributed to him).

"Over the course of the 2016 Presidential campaign, an execrable trend has emerged: reporters who voiced even slightly negative opinions about presidential candidate Donald Trump have been targeted relentlessly on social media by the candidate's self-styled supporters; reporters who are Jewish (or are perceived to be Jewish) have borne the brunt of these attacks," the group said.

He's as funny as the assistant to Gwyneth (who needs a table for 15 on Saturday, no "female wait staff," no legumes) as he is playing the steamroller socialite Carolann Rosenstein-Fishburn, who's appalled that she has been on hold for fully two minutes and even more disgusted at the execrable music she has been forced to endure while waiting.

Another problem is that by simplifying the growing of almost unimaginably large tracts of crops, especially corn and soybeans, G.M.O.s have become an indispensable crutch for the fertilizer- and pesticide-dependent monoculture that is wrecking our land and water and generating the execrable excess of corn- and soy-based junk food that is sickening our population and decreasing our life spans.

The name is anodyne, but the group is anything but: Perhaps he was so attracted to the AAPS vision of doctors as special and "outside of the herd" to the point that he ignored its simultaneous promotion of dangerous medical quackery, such as antivaccine pseudoscience blaming vaccines for autism, including a view that is extreme even among antivaccine activists, namely that the "shaken baby syndrome" is a "misdiagnosis" for vaccine injury; its HIV/AIDS denialism; its blaming immigrants for crime and disease; its promotion of the pseudoscience claiming that abortion causes breast cancer using some of the most execrable "science" ever; its rejection of evidence-based guidelines as an unacceptable affront on the godlike autonomy of physicians; or the way the AAPS rejects even the concept of a scientific consensus about anything.

His execrable Actions. 3. His lamentable End. By T. E. Bach: Art. Cantab.,’ Lond. 1615.

Allmovie called the film "execrable" and an "exploitational slice-n-dicer masquerading as a police thriller".

Whence and what art thou, execrable shape, That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance Thy miscreated Front athwart my way To yonder Gates?

The English translation of The Savage Mind appeared in 1966. However, the anthropologist Clifford Geertz called the translation "execrable" and insisted on using his own translations from the French edition.

According to Buchan's preface, the book's title is taken from Psalm 68: "He letteth the runagates continue in scarceness", a reference to the "execrable" quality of the club's food and wine.

He published in 1621 a first instalment of moralistic but sensational stories; he feigned that these were translations from the French, but in fact they were of his own composition. The collective title of what became a series of publications was The Triumphs of God's Revenge against the crying and execrable Sinne of Murther.The initial title in 1621 was The triumphs of Gods revenege , against the crying, and execrable sinne of murther. . Five other similar collections followed the first one, in separate volumes.

Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology. New York, McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages. . called the channel's hosting the ancient astronaut theory, "execrable bullshit"." Ancient Alien Astronauts: Interview with Ken Feder".

Sean Cross, standing in for the author. In The Nation, Michelle Goldberg called it "an execrable novel" but also "a fascinating book" given King's public positions.Michelle Goldberg, "The 'Hero' of the War on Terror ", The Nation, February 28, 2011.

" The St. Petersburg Times described Hubbard's piano compositions as "fresh, haunting melodies". In a review of the album for The Harvard Crimson, Thomas M. Levenson wrote, "Hubbard's music does not, as a result, offend the listener. It's not execrable. It is just extraordinarily dull.

His support of the King's policy was denounced as subservience to Hanover. Pitt called him "an execrable, a sole minister who had renounced the British nation". A few years later Pitt adopted an identical policy, and professed that whatever he knew he had learnt from Carteret.

In mid 2013 he re-appeared in Spain, with a big media impact. Some of his former fellows consider him a "dead man". But the local media managed Amodio's unexpected presence as an occasion to open up the "most execrable and obscure part of the Tupamaros' history".

Execrabilis is a papal bull issued by Pope Pius II on 18 January 1460 condemning conciliarism. The bull received its name from the opening word of its Latin text, which labelled as "execrable" all efforts to appeal an authoritative ruling of a Pope to a council.

Kross played under the baton of the conductor Eduard Nápravník, and in the presence of the composer. His performance was by all accounts execrable. Tchaikovsky referred to it as "an atrocious cacophony",Letter to Lev Abramovich Kupernik, 26 November/8 December 1875, in П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, Vol.

In R. Wolin (ed.) The Heidegger Controversy: A Critical Reader. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 1993, p. xiii. In 1991, when Wolin published a Derrida interview on Heidegger in the first edition of The Heidegger Controversy, Derrida argued that the interview was an intentionally malicious mistranslation, which was "demonstrably execrable" and "weak, simplistic, and compulsively aggressive".

"My response was, I'd be happy to be on your show, but you should know that I think that the ancient astronaut hypothesis is execrable bullshit," he said in an interview. "I haven't heard back from them, rather remarkably. So, I guess maybe they're not interested in the other point of view."Ancient Alien Astronauts: Interview with Ken Feder. Skeptic.

Some of these papers were printed at Dublin in 1882, in the 'History of the Irish Confederation and War in Ireland, 1641-1643. Borlase's ' History ' was republished at Dublin in 1743, without the author's name. In this edition the word ‘execrable’ was omitted from the title, and some documents not previously printed were given in an appendix to the volume.

After he was injured, Alec Burdon assumed the captaincy for the 3rd Test. One of the players Pat Walsh sailed to Britain separately on the ship, Salamis and brought the live Kangaroo mascot with him. Walsh arrived in England for the 5th match of the tour against Salford.The team's live marsupial mascot died before the end of the tour due to the execrable weather.

The series aired in 2005 and featured Houston in unflattering moments. Years later, The Guardian opined that through her participation in the show, Houston had lost "the last remnants of her dignity". The Hollywood Reporter said that the show was "undoubtedly the most disgusting and execrable series ever to ooze its way onto television".Barry Garron, "'Being Bobby Brown' Is Disgusting", MSNBC, June 29, 2005.

The preamble described the ubiquity of the "horrid, impious, and execrable vices of profane cursing and swearing" in the country, saying that this "may justly provoke the divine vengeance to increase the many calamities these nations now labour under", and that the existing laws designed to prevent this were ineffective. Many of the provisions in this Act were essentially the same as those in the 1694 Act which it replaced.

However, this edition engendered a new quarrel. William Warburton had supplied some notes for the edition to a mutual friend, and Warburton claimed that the notes were used without explicit permission, and Warburton said that the edition was an "execrable heap of nonsense." Grey fought back against Warburton. He issued three pamphlet replies, and in 1747 he produced Remarks upon a Late Edition of Shakespeare in response to Warburton's Shakespear.

The play was acted by Queen Henrietta's Men at the Cockpit Theatre, as were most of Shirley's plays in this era. The 1639 quarto was issued by the bookseller William Cooke, and was dedicated by Shirley to Henry Osborne, esq. Shirley based his plot on the seventh story in the collection by John Reynolds called The Triumphs of God's Revenge Against the Crying and Execrable Sin of Murder.Forsythe, p. 136.

The adaptation has been called "execrable" and confusing for those not already familiar with the plot. A children's opera was written and premiered in 2004. Composer and librettist Dean Burry was commissioned by the Canadian Children's Opera Chorus, who produced the premiere in Toronto, Ontario, and subsequently toured it to the Maritime provinces the same year. The opera has since been produced several times in North America including in Tulsa, Sarasota and Toronto.

Unlike the Quakers and Puritans, feasting with an abundance of food and drink was never discouraged and practiced as often as was feasible. Generally, backcountry cuisine shared neither the religious austerity of the North nor the refinement of the South and was therefore denigrated by outsiders. An apparent lack of fastidiousness in preparing the food provoked further criticism from many sources. The Anglican Woodmason characterized backcountry cooking as "exceedingly filthy and most execrable".

Del Corro supported the initial purpose of the Inquisition which was to persecute false converts and he had not foreseen that his book would be used to support the Black Legend in a similar manner to that of Bartolomé de las Casas. He was convinced that the Dominican friars had converted the Inquisition into something execrable, that Philip II was not aware of the true proceedings and that the Spanish people were opposed to the sinister organization.

Dogs In Landscape - Setters The finest of Morland's pictures were executed between 1790 and 1794, and amongst them his picture The inside of a stable (Tate Britain, London) may be reckoned as a masterpiece. In the last eight years of his life Morland produced some nine hundred paintings, besides over a thousand drawings. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy from 1784 down to 1804. Amongst these was the remarkable 1788 picture Execrable Human Traffic or the Affectionate Slaves.

After his consecration, Archbishop Steenoven wrote to Pope Benedict XIII and other chief Roman Catholic bishops to inform them of his consecration. He wrote a manifesto explaining the principles on which he and his clergy had acted, appealing to a future General Council of the church. On February 21, 1725, Pope Benedict XIII issued a brief declaring the election of Steenoven null and void, calling his consecration "illicit and execrable," and censuring Bishop Varlet.Moss, p. 124.

Robert Dale reviewed Elves for White Dwarf #57, giving the book a rating of 3 out of 10 overall. He called Elves "execrable, excruciating and extortionate", stating that "the price should dissuade any self-respecting gamer" from buying it. He felt that the purpose of the book, to aid roleplaying, is negated by the pseudo-scientific style in which the material is presented. He found that the adventures in the book were not specifically designed for elves.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972.pg 80 As such, Pope John's involvement with witchcraft persecution can be officially traced to his 1326 Papal Bull Super illius specula in which he laid out a description of those who engage in witchcraft. Pope John also warned people against not only learning magic or teaching it but against the more “execrable” act of performing magic. Pope John stated that anyone who did not heed his “most charitable” warning would be excommunicated.

An Act of Edward VI (the Sacrament Act 1547) set a punishment of imprisonment for reviling the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. It was repealed by the First Statute of Repeal in 1553 and revived again in 1558. The interregnum Parliament in 1650, "holding it to be [its] duty, by all good ways and means to propagate the Gospel in this Commonwealth, to advance Religion in all Sincerity, Godliness, and Honesty" passed "An Act against several Atheistical, Blasphemous and Execrable Opinions, derogatory to the honor of God, and destructive to humane Society", known as the Blasphemy Act of 1650 and intended to punish those "who should abuse and turn into Licentiousness, the liberty given in matters of Conscience".August 1650: An Act against several Atheistical, Blasphemous and Execrable Opinions, derogatory to the honor of God, and destructive to humane Society, accessed 15 April 2016 Profane cursing and swearing was made punishable by the Profane Oaths Act 1745, which directed that the offender be brought before a justice of the peace, and fined an amount that depended on his social rank.

Mitchell (The Mahler Companion), p. 557 The Hallé Orchestra brought Das Lied and the Ninth Symphony to Manchester in 1931; Sir Henry Wood staged the Eighth in London in 1930, and again in 1938 when the young Benjamin Britten found the performance "execrable" but was nevertheless impressed by the music. British critics during this period largely treated Mahler with condescension and faint praise. Thus Dyneley Hussey, writing in 1934, thought the "children's songs" were delightful, but that the symphonies should be let go.

On the way to the scaffold he is said to have insulted the clergyman accompanying him and uttered "execrable blasphemy" to the last. Of his fellow conspirators, Coppinger starved himself to death in Bridewell, though Arthington, claiming that he had been the victim of witchcraft, and after a penitent apology, was released in the following year. A Life, Arraignment, Judgement, and Execution of William Hacket was licensed for publication to Robert Bourne on 28 July 1591. No copy seems to have survived.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 271, a resolution adopted on September 15, 1969, in response to an arson attack on the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem by Denis Michael Rohan, the Council grieved at the extensive damage caused by the arson. The Council determined that the execrable act only highlighted Israel's need to respect previous UN Resolutions and condemned Israel for failing to do so. The resolution was adopted by 11 votes to none; Colombia, Finland, Paraguay and the United States abstained.

Supported by Rangers, and some Light Horse, who would I think effectively extirpate or remove that Vermine." In response, also in a postscript, Amherst replied: :"P.S. You will Do well to try to Innoculate the Indians by means of Blankets, as well as to try Every other method that can serve to Extirpate this Execrable Race. I should be very glad your Scheme for Hunting them Down by Dogs could take Effect, but England is at too great a Distance to think of that at present.

Clench resided in Brownlow Street, Holborn. He was murdered between nine and eleven o'clock on the night of Monday, 4 January 1692. 'This week,' writes Evelyn, 'a most execrable murder was committed on Dr. Clench, father of that extraordinary learned child whom I have before noticed. Under pretence of carrying him in a coach to see a patient, they strangled him in it, and sending away the coachman under some pretence, they left his dead body in the coach, and escaped in the dusk of the evening'.

Lord Amherst is also known for initiating the practice of giving smallpox blankets to Native Americans in an effort "to Extirpate this Execrable Race" (as quoted from his letter to Colonel Henry Bouquet on July 16, 1763). In 1770, Amherst became the county seat of Hillsborough County, due largely to its location on the county's major east-west road. It continued to prosper through the Revolutionary War and afterwards. In 1790, the southwestern section broke off and became the town of Milford, and in 1803, the northwest section departed to become Mont Vernon.

The nave ceiling is a flattened barrel vault, divided into panels by ribs. The panels are decorated in stucco with cherubs, clouds, shells and scroll work, executed by Giuseppe Artari and Giovanni Bagutti. Until the creation of Trafalgar Square in the 1820s, Gibbs's church was crowded by other buildings. J. P. Malcolm, writing in 1807, said that its west front "would have a grand effect if the execrable watch-house and sheds before it were removed" and described the sides of the church as "lost in courts, where houses approach them almost to contact".

Critics have varied widely, even wildly, in their responses to the play. Many have recognised the play's power, but have complained about the play's extremity and artificiality. (People who dislike aspects of Beaumont and Fletcher's work will find those dislikes amply represented, even crystallised, in this play.) John Glassner once wrote that to display "the insipidity of the plot, its execrable motivation or the want of it, and the tastelessness of many of the lines one would have to reprint the play."Terence P. Logan and Denzell S. Smith, eds.

La Semaine Sainte is an historical novel by French writer Louis Aragon published in 1958. It sold over 100,000 copies. An English translation by Haakon Chevalier was published in 1961 under the title Holy Week by Hamish Hamilton, London, to mixed reviews: "It is a very bad book, so bad that one doesn't want to write about it, and if it weren't by Aragon, France's according-to-blurb "leading poet-novelist", one wouldn't....The translation, incidentally, is execrable throughout."Brooke-Rose, Christine, "Aragon meets his Waterloo", The Observer, Sunday, October 15, 1961.

"The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada, Francis Parkman, 1886 - Vol. II, p. 39 (6th edition) Bouquet agreed, replying to Amherst on 13 July: "I will try to inoculate the Indians by means of blankets that may fall in their hands, taking care however not to get the disease myself." Amherst responded on 16 July: "You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians by means of blankets, as well as to try every other method that can serve to extirpate this execrable race.

The Privy Council's response on 30 June condemned the "execrable paper" as tantamount to a declaration of war and declared the participants "open and notorious traitors and rebels".Grant, The Lion of the Covenant, p.251 Cameron had a price of 5,000 merks placed on his head, while 3,000 merks were offered for three other identified ring-leaders of the group, including Cargill (who, because of personal reservations, had not in fact been present at Sanquar) and 1,000 merks for each for the others.Grant, The Lion of the Covenant, p.

A Talent to Deceive – an appreciation of Agatha Christie – Revised edition (p. 203). Fontana Books, 1990; According to The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English, this novel is one of the "execrable last novels" in which Christie purportedly "loses her grip altogether". A Canadian study which compared the texts of a number of Christie novels indicated that her later works, including Postern of Fate, showed a 30% decrease in vocabulary. This change, along with the use of indeterminate words and repetitiveness, are indicative of Alzheimer's disease, although Christie was never diagnosed with the disorder.

The essay is often attributed to Paine on the basis of a letter by Benjamin Rush, recalling Paine's claim of authorship to the essay. The essay attacked slavery as an "execrable commerce" and "outrage against Humanity and Justice." Consciously appealing to a broader and more working class audience, Paine also used the magazine to discuss worker rights to production. This shift in the conceptualization of politics has been described as a part of "the 'modernization' of political consciousness," and the mobilization of ever greater sections of society into political life.

Released on the Disco Demand label in late 1974, the remixed and overdubbed record reached the UK chart in January 1975. The B-side was a true Northern soul favourite, "Seven Days Too Long" by Chuck Wood. When "Footsee" was featured on BBC Television's Top of the Pops, dancers from the Wigan Casino gave a demonstration of the Northern Soul style of dancing, in the absence of a real group to promote the record. Music journalist, Stuart Maconie, described the record as an "embarrassing novelty" and "execrable" in his autobiography, Cider With Roadies.

On the film review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a mediocre approval rating of 40% based on 47 reviews, with an average rating of 4.73/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Audiences who enjoy Adam Sandler's belligerent comic energy may find him in joyously obnoxious form as Billy Madison, but this thinly-plotted starring vehicle surrounds its star with an aggressively pedestrian movie." On Metacritic gives the film a weighted average score of 16 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "overwhelming dislike". Richard Schickel panned the film, calling it "one of the most execrable movies ever made".

Dutton's Narration of the Wonders of Grace (1734) was a 1500-line poem in heroic couplets, complete with marginal references to Scripture, reviewing redemption history from the point of view of Calvinist Baptists. (A modern scholar has called it "execrable verse, interesting only as testimony to the mental tilt of a particular kind of zealot".) In her correspondence with Wesley she differed with him over the question of Election. A Brief Account of the Negroes Converted to Christ in America was one of 13 tracts and letters she published in 1743 alone. George Whitfield was another recipient of her work.

He was a prolific writer, though his handwriting was execrable. During his time in Adelaide he also supplied individual essays to The Argus, the Sydney Morning Herald, and the Brisbane Courier, and a weekly letter to selected country newspapers. While in Europe he continued sending copy to The Register, and acted as that paper's correspondent covering the Franco-Prussian War, for which he had the advantage of a fluent knowledge of German. On reaching England he found employment with the London Standard, the Evening News, the Financial News and the Financial Times, which he served as Editor 1890–1891.

Supported by Rangers, > and some Light Horse, who would I think effectively extirpate or remove that > Vermine. Amherst replied on July 16: > P.S. You will Do well to try to Innoculate the Indians by means of Blankets, > as well as to try Every other method that can serve to Extirpate this > Execrable Race. I should be very glad your Scheme for Hunting them Down by > Dogs could take Effect, but England is at too great a Distance to think of > that at present. Historians are at odds as to how much damage was caused in the attempt to spread smallpox at Fort Pitt.

The film was scheduled to be televised with heavy cuts on 24 March 1981. Because of the planned cuts, in late 1980, Hanson attempted to buy the film back from ITC to prevent ITV screening the film. The cuts, he said, would be "execrable" and added up to "about 75 minutes of film that was literal nonsense". It was also reported at the same time that Bob Hoskins was suing both Black Lion and Calendar Films to prevent their planned release of a US TV version in which Hoskins' voice would be dubbed by English Midlands actor David Daker.

Aristophanes called the elder Xenocles an execrable poet and was never tired of ridiculing him; describing, along with his father, Carcinus of Agrigentum, three brothers and a member of the third generation (also called Carcinus), "a whole potful of tragic crabs". He also wrote that "Xenocles, who is ugly, makes ugly poetry". In his play Thesmophoriazusae the chorus claims "Even this audience, I'm sure/Would find the man a crashing bore" which highlights his doubtful views on Xenocles as a writer. However, in 415 BC Xenocles gained the first prize with one of his trilogies when in competition with Euripides.

John Foxe (1516–1587) in an engraving by an unknown artist. This identification by the Protestants with heretics from the time of the conversion of Imperial Rome until the 15th century lad to the creation of martyrologies in Germany and England, description of the lives of martyrs in morbid detail, usually heavily illustrated, that circulated among the poorer classes and which incited indignation against the Catholic Church. One of the most famous and influential was the Book of Martyrs by John Foxe (1516–1587). Foxe dedicated an entire chapter to the Spanish Inquisition: The execrable Inquisition of Spayne.

Circumcision in particular was regarded as a token of the membership of the Abrahamic covenant, and the most traditionalist faction of Jewish Christians (i.e., converted Pharisees) insisted that Gentile converts had to be circumcised as well. By contrast, the rite of circumcision was considered execrable and repulsive during the period of Hellenization of the Eastern Mediterranean, and was especially adversed in Classical civilization both from ancient Greeks and Romans, which instead valued the foreskin positively. Paul objected strongly to the insistence on keeping all of the Jewish commandments, considering it a great threat to his doctrine of salvation through faith in Christ.

Hannaneh also composed soundtracks for Persian films and he was the first composer who composed music for films in Iran. Hannaneh's most important works include "The Execrable Capriccio per pianoforte e Orchestra"; "Hezar-Dastan Overture" (on a melody by Morteza Neydavoud; for symphonic orchestra); "In Memory of Ferdowsi" (for soprano and piano), the books "Lost Scales"; "The Even Harmony"; (in Persian), etc. In addition to being an outstanding composer Morteza Hannaneh was a great teacher and mentor to many. One of his notable students is Canadian composer, conductor and strategist Joseph Lerner and Iranian musician Amir Ali Hannaneh.

For the purposes of his work, Borlase obtained a copy of an unpublished treatise on Irish affairs by Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon. This he unskillfully altered and interpolated, to make it accord with his views. Borlase's work, after expurgation by Sir Roger L'Estrange, was published at London in 1680: 'The History of the execrable Irish Rebellion, trac'd from many preceding acts to the grand eruption, the 23 of October, 1641, and thence pursued to the Act of Settlement, 1662.' The publication attracted little attention, owing to the defective style and absence of the author's name.

The inscription on the monument (translated to English) reads: In this place were razed to the ground and salted the houses of José Mascarenhas, stripped of the honours of Duque de Aveiro and others, convicted by sentence proclaimed in the Supreme Court of Inconfidences on the 12th of January 1759. Brought to Justice as one of the leaders of the most barbarous and execrable upheaval that, on the night of the 3rd of September 1758, was committed against the most royal and sacred person of the Lord Joseph I. On this infamous land nothing may be built for all time.

'Walpole's Letter to George Selwyn; The > Letters ed. Mrs Paget Toynbee, VIII, 1904 p. 193 Walpole was not as complimentary of Blenheim, describing it as 'execrable within, without & almost all round' and went on 'a quarry of stone that looked at a distance like a great house'.Walpole's letter to George Montagu, 20 May 1736; The Letters ed. Peter Cunningham, I, 1906 p. 6 In 1773 Robert Adam and James Adam in the preface to their Works in Architecture wrote that: > Sir John Vanbrugh's genius was of the first class; and, in point of > movement, novelty and ingenuity, his works have not been exceeded by > anything in modern times.

Suffolk Institute of Archaeology 10 Part 2, 199. He abandoned his monastic vocation, and got married, saying, "that I might never more serve so execrable a beast, I took to wife the faithful Dorothy." He obtained the living of Thorndon, Suffolk, but in 1534 was summoned before the Archbishop of York for a sermon against the invocation of saints preached at Doncaster, and afterwards before John Stokesley, Bishop of London, but he escaped through the powerful protection of Thomas Cromwell, whose notice he is said to have attracted by his miracle plays. In these plays Bale denounced the monastic system and its supporters in unrestrained language and coarse imagery.

The frustration was so great, he wrote to Colonel Henry Bouquet and instructed him not to take any Indian prisoners. He proposed that they should be intentionally exposed to smallpox, hunted down with dogs, and "Every other method that can serve to Extirpate this Execrable Race." Amherst had directed Bouquet to take his troops to relieve Fort Pitt, a march that would take several weeks. At Fort Pitt, the siege didn't let up until August 1, 1763, when most of the Indians broke off their attack in order to intercept the body of almost 500 British troops marching to the fort under Colonel Bouquet.

William Tuckwell wrote of Linwood: > He was a rough, shabby fellow when I remember him, living in London, and > coming up to examine in the Schools, where he used to scandalise his > colleagues by proposing that for the adjudication of Classes they should > "throw into the fire all that other rubbish, and go by the Greek Prose." It > was said of him that somewhat late in life, reading St. Paul's Epistles for > the first time, and asked by Gaisford what he thought of them, he answered > "that they contained a good deal of curious matter, but the Greek was > execrable."Tuckwell, William (1900). Reminiscences of Oxford.

There were some teething problems, and the canal was closed for two weeks in April 1829 while problems with the Banavie locks were rectified. James Loch, who produced a report on the canal in 1835, declared that the inn at Banavie was too small, and too far from Corpach, despite having praised it the previous year. George May produced another report in 1837, in which the Banavie locks were heavily criticised. He described the masonry as "execrable", and argued that the contractor who had built them had not expected them ever to be used, but had somehow managed to hide the poor workmanship from Telford.

He was a clerk of All Souls College, Oxford, in 1594, at the age of nineteen, graduated B.A. on 3 November 1601, and M.A. on 3 July 1605, and took orders. In 1618, he was appointed minister of St. Mary's Church, Shrewsbury, "where he was much resorted to by precise people for his edifying and frequent preaching" (Wood). In spite, however, of this notice of his ministry in the 'Athenae Oxon.,' Browne can scarcely have been a puritan, for in the curious little book entitled 'The Looking-glasse of Schisme, wherein by a briefe and true Narration of the execrable Murders done by Enoch ap Evan, a downe-right Nonconformist . . .

He also criticized the Democratic Party for being "torn between totalitarian instincts on one side and complete political malpractice on the other" and said that the party's behavior during the Kavanaugh hearings, with the exception of Senators Chris Coons, Sheldon Whitehouse and Amy Klobuchar, was execrable but that the Republicans have become a threat to the rule of law and to constitutional norms. In an opinion column, Nichols cited the Mueller Report to argue that Trump failed in his role as a citizen and then as commander-in-chief by not doing more to prevent and punish the Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

A reconstructed score arranged by Phillip Lane and performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in March 2016. The DNL reserved their criticism for Vaughan Williams's score feeling that it was "execrable" and that "One is conscious only of obtrusive and disagreeable noise intruding between the audience and a moving story". This was the last of the British propaganda films that Vaughan Williams scored. Jeffrey Richard in his 1997 book Films and National British Identity wrote that Vaughan Williams's score could "stand on its own" as "an atmospheric and economical but musically sophisticated and multi-layered evocation of the various facets of post-war reconstruction".

I told him that I felt like a fascist myself... In spite of being extremely busy, Mussolini did me the great honour of conversing with me for three-quarters of an hour. We talked about music, art and politics". When the Nazis placed Stravinsky's works on the list of "Entartete Musik", he lodged a formal appeal to establish his Russian genealogy and declared, "I loathe all communism, Marxism, the execrable Soviet monster, and also all liberalism, democratism, atheism, etc." Stravinsky conducting in 1965 Upon relocating to America in the 1940s, Stravinsky again embraced the liberalism of his youth, remarking that Europeans "can have their generalissimos and Führers.

Early Methodists advocated on behalf of the marginalized black members of their society, both slaves and freed people. John Wesley, just six days before his death and after reading the testimony of former slave Gustavus Vassa wrote a letter to William Wilberforce in an unsuccessful attempt to pass abolition legislation that stated: "I see not how you can go through your glorious enterprise in opposing that execrable villainy, which is the scandal of religion, of England, and of human nature." Joseph Pilmore openly accepted and administered to the black community in Philadelphia and elsewhere in his ministry. St. George's licensed Richard Allen and Absalom Jones, the first black lay preachers in Methodism in 1784.

Popular belief has it that he supported the American side in the Revolutionary War and resigned his commission rather than fight for the British. Baron Amherst actually remained in the service of the Crown during the war—albeit in Great Britain rather than North America—where he organized the defense against the proposed Franco-Spanish Armada of 1779. Nonetheless, his previous service in the French and Indian War meant he remained popular in New England. Amherst is also infamous for recommending, in a letter to a subordinate, the use of smallpox-covered blankets in warfare against the Native Americans along with any "other method that can serve to Extirpate this Execrable Race".

The inclusion of Gentiles into early Christianity posed a problem for the Jewish identity of some of the early Christians: the new Gentile converts were neither required to be circumcised nor to observe the Mosaic Law. Observance of the Jewish commandments, including circumcision, was regarded as a token of the membership of the Abrahamic covenant, and the most traditionalist faction of Jewish Christians (i.e., converted Pharisees) insisted that Gentile converts had to be circumcised as well. By contrast, the rite of circumcision was considered execrable and repulsive during the period of Hellenization of the Eastern Mediterranean, and was especially adversed in Classical civilization both from ancient Greeks and Romans, which instead valued the foreskin positively.

Burke revealed a dagger he had concealed in his coat and threw it to the floor: "This is what you are to gain by an alliance with France". Burke picked up the dagger and continued: > When they smile, I see blood trickling down their faces; I see their > insidious purposes; I see that the object of all their cajoling is—blood! I > now warn my countrymen to beware of these execrable philosophers, whose only > object it is to destroy every thing that is good here, and to establish > immorality and murder by precept and example—'Hic niger est hunc tu Romane > caveto' ['Such a man is evil; beware of him, Roman'. Horace, Satires I. 4.

To orthodox thinkers, Epicureanism was still regarded as immoral and heretical. For instance, Lucy Hutchinson (1620–1681), the first translator of Lucretius's On the Nature of Things into English, railed against Epicurus as "a lunatic dog" who formulated "ridiculous, impious, execrable doctrines". Epicurus's teachings were made respectable in England by the natural philosopher Walter Charleton (1619–1707), whose first Epicurean work, The Darkness of Atheism Dispelled by the Light of Nature (1652), advanced Epicureanism as a "new" atomism. His next work Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charletoniana, or a Fabrick of Science Natural, upon a Hypothesis of Atoms, Founded by Epicurus, Repaired by Petrus Gassendus, and Augmented by Walter Charleton (1654) emphasized this idea.

By 1908, the Tribune was losing $2,000 a week. In an article about New York City's daily newspapers that year, The Atlantic Monthly found the newspaper's "financial pages … execrable, its news columns readable but utterly commonplace, and its rubber-stamping of Republican policies (making) it the last sheet in town operated as a servant of party machinery". The Herald also saw its reputation for comprehensiveness challenged by the Times, purchased by Chattanooga Times publisher Adolph Ochs in 1896, a few weeks before the paper would have likely closed its doors. Ochs, turning the once- Republican Times into an independent Democratic newspaper, refocused the newspaper's coverage on commerce, quickly developing a reputation as the "businessman's bible".

342 Those who adopted a more negative view at the time of the film's release came mostly from the classical music community. Many took fault with Stokowski's rearrangements and abridgements of the music. Igor Stravinsky, the only living composer whose music was featured in the film, expressed displeasure at how in Stokowski's arrangement of The Rite of Spring, "the order of the pieces had been shuffled, and the most difficult of them eliminated", and criticized the orchestra's performance, observing that the simplification of the score "did not save the musical performance, which was execrable". Other composers and music critics leveled criticism at the premise of the film itself, arguing that presenting classical music with visual images would rob the musical pieces of their integrity.

The beard of the pirate Bluebeard is more false than a note of R$13.50 reais and the monsters wear costumes that seem to have been rented in a And the worst of it, the color of the fake nose used by Claudia Raia when she becomes the Evil Queen is quite different from her skin". concluding that the "film only proves how much the Brazilian people still need to grow culturally". writing for Epipoca, Rubens Ewald Filho considered the film "less execrable than the others, in this, there is even a figure in animation, the talking cricket of "Pinocchio", which has a nice intervention. He also praised the participation of the actors, but considered them poorly used in the film.

Pebekkamen was an ancient Egyptian official during the reign of pharaoh Ramesses III of the 20th Dynasty. Along with the official Mesedsure and the secondary queen Tiye, he was a primary conspirator in the Harem conspiracy, a plot to overthrow Ramesses.James Henry Breasted, Ancient Records of Egypt, IV, Chicago 1906 The conspiracy, organised primarily by Tiye, intended to depose or assassinate Ramesses III and place Pentawere, her and Ramesses' son, onto the throne instead of his elder half-brother Ramesses IV. The Judicial Papyrus of Turin indicates that prior to his arrest, Pebekkamen had served as "chief of the chamber" to Ramesses. Like the names of many other conspirators mentioned in the Judicial Papyrus, "Pebekkamen" is actually a pejorative pseudonym reflecting his execrable behaviour; his true name is never revealed.

Early reception of the "Haydn" Quartets was both enthusiastic and disgruntled. An anonymous early reviewer, writing in Cramer's Magazin der Musik in 1789, gave a judgment characteristic of reaction to Mozart's music at the time, namely that the works were inspired, but too complex and difficult to enjoy: > Mozart's works do not in general please quite so much [as those of Kozeluch] > ... [Mozart's] six quartets for violins, viola, and bass dedicated to Haydn > confirm ... that he has a decided leaning towards the difficult and the > unusual. But then, what great and elevated ideas he has too, testifying to a > bold spirit!Quoted in Deutsch (1965, 349) Giuseppe Sarti later published an attack against the "Dissonance" quartet, describing sections as "barbarous", "execrable", and "miserable" in its use of whole-tone clusters and chromatic extremes.

Overall, the rite of circumcision was especially execrable in Classical civilization, also because it was the custom to spend an hour a day or so exercising nude in the gymnasium and in Roman baths, therefore Jewish men did not want to be seen in public deprived of their foreskins. As for the anti- circumcision law passed by Hadrian, it is considered by many to be, together with his decision to build a Roman temple upon the ruins of the Second Temple and dedicate it to Jupiter, one of the main causes of the Bar Kokhba revolt (132135 CE), which was brutally crushed;Cassius Dio, Roman History, book 69, 12.1-14.3. Loeb Classical Library, 9 volumes, Greek texts and facing English translation by Earnest Cary (1914-1927), Harvard University Press.

Despite his own previous opposition to the King, he found it hard to forgive anyone, even a friend, who fought for Parliament, and he severed many personal friendships as a result. With the possible exception of John Pym, he detested all the Parliamentary leaders, describing Oliver Cromwell as "a brave bad man" and John Hampden as a hypocrite, while Oliver St. John's "foxes and wolves" speech, in favour of the attainder of Strafford, he considered to be the depth of barbarism. His view of the conflict and of his opponents was undoubtedly coloured by the death of his best friend Lord Falkland at the First Battle of Newbury in September 1643. Hyde mourned his death, which he called "a loss most infamous and execrable to all posterity", to the end of his own life.

Historian Roy Jenkins says he was "too much of a party man. In manner and by origin he was a patrician figure, but he saw most issues exclusively in terms of parliamentary infighting....His views were usually much more of a reaction to what his political enemies, in the other party and in his own, were saying then the result of any objective thought. He inspired considerable loyalty among his followers--the Great Gladiator he was sometimes enthusiastically called--but his colleagues, partly as a result of his execrable temperament and his bullying...found him a difficult man with whom to work."Roy Jenkins, "From Gladstone to Asquith: The Late Victorian Pattern of Liberal Leadership," History Today (July 1964) 14#7 pp 445-452 at page 446-447.

Instead, however, Gildo proved as execrable a tyrant as his brother, and ruled the province with the iron hand of a despot during twelve long years, in which the Roman government could not muster the will or moral courage to bring him to account.Gibbon, p. 1040 When Theodosius died in 395 and the empire was divided between his sons into East and west, Africa became a part of the western Empire, nominally ruled by Honorius, but really by his energetic and conscientious Vandal minister, Stilicho. Since the latter was not likely to continue tolerating Gildo's abuse, the latter decided to deliver his allegiance to the eastern empire of Arcadius, who, under the influence of his favorite Eutropius, was hostile to Stilicho, and eager to detract from his possessions.

Anyone thinking about taking this journey needs to be given a travel advisory: much of the prose is execrable ... I could say that it is a pity that Tony Blair did not employ a ghostwriter to prettify the prose and organise his recollections more elegantly." Rawnsley does, though, praise the book as being "a more honest political memoir than most and more open in many respects than I had anticipated." Julian Glover, a columnist in The Guardian, said that "no political memoir has ever been like this: a book written as if in a dream—or a nightmare; a literary out-of-body experience. By turns honest, confused, memorable, boastful, fitfully endearing, important, lazy, shallow, rambling and intellectually correct, it scampers through the last two decades like a trashy airport read.

The border between Poland and East Germany was open to civilian traffic but the economies of the two countries were not well connected and auto traffic between them was not significant for many decades. Given these conditions, some segments of Berlinka became a minor tourist attraction in the years after the war, as an example of a Nazi-built autobahn preserved in an almost pristine state, carrying very little or no traffic. A number of movies made in Poland and the USSR that were set in Germany had their autobahn scenes shot on Berlinka sections. A popular Polish book and television series about Pan Samochodzik had a high speed car chase that was set on Berlinka (as at the time one of the few places in Poland where a high speed car chase was even plausible, given the execrable condition of other roads).

By the late Middle Ages, the term "sodomy" had come to cover copulation between males, bestiality, non-vaginal heterosexual intercourse, coitus interruptus, masturbation, fellatio and anal sex (whether heterosexual or homosexual); and it increasingly began to be identified as the most heinous of sins by authorities of the Catholic Church. In Italy, Dominican friars would encourage the pious to "hunt out" sodomites and hand them to the Inquisition to be dealt with accordingly: "These clerical discourses provided a language for secular authorities to condemn sodomy, ...By persecuting sodomites as well as heretics, the Church strengthened its authority and credibility as a moral arbiter". Pope Leo IX labeled homosexuality in the 11th century as "filthy," an "execrable vice," and "obscene." Likewise around 1051, Peter Damian penned the Liber Gomorrhianus in which he argued for stricter ecclesiastical punishment for clerics guilty of "sins against nature".

Justiçado como um dos chefes do barbaro e execrando desacato que na noite de 3 de Septembro de 1758 se havia commetido contra a real e sagrada pessoa de D.José I. Neste terreno infame se não poderá edificar em tempo algum. ("In this place were put to the ground and salted the houses of José Mascarenhas, stripped of the honours of Duque de Aveiro and others, convicted by sentence proclaimed in the Supreme Court of Inconfidences on the 12th of January 1759. Put to Justice as one of the leaders of the most barbarous and execrable upheaval that, on the night of the 3rd of September 1758, was committed against the most royal and sacred person of the Lord Joseph I. In this infamous land nothing may be built for all time.") After 1759 the title was extinct.

32, available here and proved a market success, with re-run issued shortly.see a review on his publications on AbeBooks service, available here Moreover, given Segura had been expelled from Spain by the new Republican authorities, the book sounded like Requejo's political declaration. Confirmation of his new militant line came with publication of Las fuerzas secretas de la revolución (1932), Requejo's translation from Léon de Poncins, and with his own De la Revolución española. Los Jesuitas (1932), prologued by Herrera Oria; both pamphlets denounced militantly secular policy as driven by anti-Church conspiracy and declared expulsion of religious orders, especially Jesuits, part of this plot.in Los Jesuitas Requejo noted: “Qué importa que los modernos Césares abran de nuevo las puertas del circo? Pasarán, como pasaron aquéllos, y la Historia los presentará a las generaciones venideras con la execrable silueta de sus desmanes”, referred after Hoja Oficial de Lunes 12.06.

The execrable Inquisition of Spayne on John Foxe's Book of Martyrs Extract: Many of the themes that are repeated later on are to be found in this text: anyone can be tried for any triviality; the Inquisition is infallible; people are usually accused to gain money, because of jealousy or to hide the actions of the Inquisition; if proof is not found it is invented; the prisoners are isolated with no contact with the outside world in dark dungeons where they suffer horrible torture etc. Foxe warned that this sinister organization could be introduced into any country that accepted the Catholic faith. Another influential book was the Sanctae Inquisitionis Hispanicae Artes (Exposition of the Arts of the Spanish Holy Inquisition) published in Heidelberg in 1567 under the pseudonym Reginaldus Gonsalvius Montanus. It appears that Gonzalvius was a pseudonym of Antonio del Corro, a Spanish Protestant theologian exiled in Holland.

Usually Satan travels to the living world to display the more contemptible sides of human nature, such as snipers shooting old ladies in Bosnia or prostitution in Thailand, to a generally horrified Professor. At other times he introduces the Professor to historical personages the Professor holds in high esteem but who are now languishing in Hell, such as Leonardo da Vinci, William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, showing him how petty and mendacious they really are. However, the Professor's idealism is usually shown to have some validity as well, and more often than not he wins the argument (although Satan always insists he hasn't). The other main human character is Thomas Quentin Crimp (Jimmy Mulville), an execrable type with few (or no) morals, held out by Satan as an example of all that is detestable about humanity and often described (especially by God himself) as the most venal and corrupt human being who ever lived.

Judaising Gentiles and God-fearers are considered by modern scholars to be of significant importance to the growth of early Christianity; they represented a group of Gentiles who shared religious ideas and practices with Jews, to one degree or another. However, the God- fearers were only "partial" converts, engaged in certain Jewish rites and traditions without taking a step further to actual conversion to Judaism, which would have required full adherence to the 613 Mitzvot (including various prohibitions such as kashrut, circumcision, Shabbat observance etc.) that were generally unattractive to would-be Gentile (largely Greek) converts. The rite of circumcision was especially unappealing and execrable in Classical civilization; because it was the custom to spend an hour a day or so exercising nude in the gymnasium and in Roman baths, therefore Jewish men did not want to be seen in public deprived of their foreskins. Hellenistic and Roman culture both found circumcision to be cruel and repulsive.

The Council of Jerusalem is generally dated to 48 AD, roughly 15 to 25 years after the crucifixion of Jesus, between 26 and 36 AD. Acts and Galatians both suggest that the meeting was called to debate whether or not male Gentiles who were converting to become followers of Jesus were required to become circumcised; the rite of circumcision was considered execrable and repulsive during the period of Hellenization of the Eastern Mediterranean, and was especially adversed in Classical civilization both from ancient Greeks and Romans, which instead valued the foreskin positively. At the time, most followers of Jesus (which historians refer to as Jewish Christians) were Jewish by birth and even converts would have considered the early Christians as a part of Judaism. According to scholars, the Jewish Christians affirmed every aspect of the then contemporary Second Temple Judaism with the addition of the belief that Jesus was the Messiah.McGrath, Alister E., Christianity: An Introduction.

It is regarding the fatherland not merely as a real resting-place like an inn, but as a final resting-place, like a house or even a grave... Even if we can bring ourselves to believe that Disraeli lived for England, we cannot think that he would have died with her. If England had sunk in the Atlantic he would not have sunk with her, but easily floated over to America to stand for the Presidency... When the Jew in France or in England says he is a good patriot he only means that he is a good citizen, and he would put it more truly if he said he was a good exile. Sometimes indeed he is an abominably bad citizen, and a most exasperating and execrable exile, but I am not talking of that side of the case. I am assuming that a man like Disraeli did really make a romance of England, [as did Dernburg Germany], and it is still true that though it was a romance, they would not have allowed it to be a tragedy.

Sergius III as depicted in the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls Much of Sergius’ pontificate has been maligned throughout history, principally through the reporting of his character and the state of Rome at the time by Liutprand of Cremona. His recounting of the period was remarkable for the rise of what 19th century papal historians saw as a "pornocracy", or "rule of the harlots", a reversal of the natural order as they saw it, according to Liber pontificalis and a later chronicler who was also biased against Sergius III. This "pornocracy" was an age with women in power: Theodora, whom Liutprand characterized as a "shameless whore... [who] exercised power on the Roman citizenry like a man" and her daughter Marozia, the mother of Pope John XI and reputed to be the mistress of Sergius III, largely upon a remark by Liutprand. Caesar Baronius, writing in the 16th century, and basing himself on Liutprand, was particularly scathing, describing Sergius as: ”a wretch, worthy of the rope and of fire... flames could not have caused this execrable monster to suffer the punishments which he merited.

His palace was demolished and his land was salted.Joseph Hughes, An authentick letter from Mr. Hughes, a Gentleman residing at Lisbon ..., London 1759, p. 25 A stone memorial now perpetuates the memory of the shame of the Duke, where it is written: > In this place were put to the ground and salted the houses of José > Mascarenhas, stripped of the honours of Duque de Aveiro and others ... Put > to Justice as one of the leaders of the most barbarous and execrable > upheaval that ... was committed against the most royal and sacred person of > the Lord Joseph I. In this infamous land nothing may be built for all time. In the Portuguese colony of Brazil, the leader of the Inconfidência Mineira, Tiradentes, was sentenced to death and his house was "razed and salted, so that never again be built up on the floor, ... and even the floor will rise up a standard by which the memory is preserved (preserving) the infamy of this heinous offender ..." He suffered further indignities, being hanged and quartered, his body parts carried to various parts of the country where his fellow revolutionaries had met, and his children deprived of their property and honor.

Following the success of his previous film Lepa sela lepo gore, Dragojević signed with the William Morris Agency and was in advanced talks throughout late summer and early fall 1996 about moving to Hollywood. Meanwhile, back home in Serbia he had two film ideas in the early stages of development — the epic World War I story St. George Slays the Dragon and a smaller film based on the television news report about two teenage criminals in contemporary Belgrade — both of which his Serbian producers, Cobra Film owned by the Bjelogrlić brothers (Goran and Dragan), wanted him to do before potentially going to America. In the end, after going through several Hollywood meetings during which he reportedly got offered scripts that he found "execrable",Pretty Village, Pretty Flame:Gerald Peary, April 1998 Dragojević decided not to move to America, choosing instead to do the smaller of the two films in Serbia. The story is built around a real-life occurrence depicted in a 1994 episode of Tragač, television series hosted and produced by Predrag Jeremić that aired on RTV Studio B, about Mirko "Beša" Bešević and Marko "Kameni" Pejković — two criminally-involved Belgrade adolescents who started out as friends before turning on one another.