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It may be argued that in a descriptive grammar—how can a grammar be anything but descriptive? —comment about good and bad English are anathema, but weasily little comments can be inserted (as they are in dictionary usage notes) referring to careful speakers, educated users, their peers, and others whom users of a grammar might, conceivable, wish to emulate.
The WP is good on the particular politics of Clinton's Social Security proposals, saying that it is classically Clintonesque in that it preserves the program's size but only by accepting something that was anathema to earlier Democrats--partial privatization.
Romantic yearnings for an imaginary past were, to him, anathema, and conservatives of many kinds were early subject to his critical strictures: The rights of man [the conservative] has gradually grown used, after long years of disquietude, to hear talked of, without apprehension of catalepsy; but you must wait for his son, or for his son's son, if you would get a candid hearing for the rights of woman.
From the standpoint of style, clichés are anathema: they are boring, repetitious, and reflective of poor writing.
To understand the nature of this challenge, you need to realize that although the name of John Maynard Keynes is anathema to many conservatives, it was in fact Keynesian economics that allowed capitalism as a system--as well as belief in the efficacy of free markets--to survive the Great Depression.