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Example sentences for: anathema

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From the standpoint of style, clichés are anathema: they are boring, repetitious, and reflective of poor writing.
Back in 1931, however, when Bodenheim was coming into his own as a literary maverick, New York publisher Horace Liveright issued his novel— Naked on Roller Skates . The title is a grabber, but the book itself would be anathema to feminists since it features a heroine who wishes to be beaten and degraded:
"Islamists consider Islam to be as much a religion as an 'ideology,' a neologism which they introduced and which remains anathema to the ulamas (the clerical scholars)."
Exposure--of ignorance, of soft pink feet in a classroom of callused soles--is anathema.
The schwa is anathema in this pattern: uh substitutes for it.