anathema
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Succession actor Jeremy Strong plays Zuckerberg as a "full-on villain", according to a review in the Hollywood Reporter, "stoically arguing that even the slightest gesture of responsibility is anathema where money is concerned".
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
As somebody who was at the DOJ for 21 years, I find that to be anathema to how I thought about public service.
From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2026
Commercials were anathema to Hastings, but Netflix has now built an ad business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025
The casual word “untitled” was pretty common in art, but it possesses an air of disinterest that seems anathema in the vicinity of a Therrien.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
The latter, never mind everything else about Massenet, would have been anathema to drama-obsessed Wagner.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
As he pronounced anathemas on you and your kind, the smile peeked out beneath the sneer.
From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2011
She utters her prophecies and anathemas as if the blood of Cassandra were coursing through her veins.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Welles-Houseman partnership ended badly, with Welles hurling blazing Sterno heaters at Producer Houseman and howling anathemas at him in that voice of Zeus.
From Time Magazine Archive
He can insinuate like a violin, wheedle like a clarinet and thunder anathemas like a great bass drum.
From Time Magazine Archive
The abolition churches of the North received the anathemas of the churches of the South and vice versa.
From The History of the Negro Church by Carter Godwin Woodson
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