anathema
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"The path to rebuilding the right can only happen with the broadest possible spirit of unity, without exclusion and without anathema," he writes.
From Barron's ● Dec. 17, 2025
Commercials were anathema to Hastings, but Netflix has now built an ad business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025
“Self-consciousness and judgment—whether from yourself or other people—are anathema to flow, as is any form of distraction,” she writes.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2025
An inherent suspicion of good writing is probably anathema to producing good writing.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2025
This choice was anathema to Sullivan, who abhorred derivative architecture, but during the meeting he made no objection.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
As he pronounced anathemas on you and your kind, the smile peeked out beneath the sneer.
From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2011
The next year the spiritual leaders of Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy withdrew the mutual anathemas that their predecessors had hurled at each other a full millennium before.
From Time Magazine Archive
When he hurls his anathemas, he tends to scream unintelligibly, suggesting the hapless actor of whom Kenneth Tynan wrote that listening to his Lear "was like lip reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning."
From Time Magazine Archive
Theologians from both traditions eventually concluded that the 16th century anathemas were more a function of crossed wires than a denial that salvation is a no-strings-attached gift from God.
From Time Magazine Archive
All those with whom she had to do--except Doreen--were for ever prating of the Saxon's iron heel, shaking their fists at Heaven, venting dark anathemas and muttering such threats as terrified her.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
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