| But it transformed the professor of comparative literature at Columbia into a very public intellectual, adored or execrated with equal intensity by many millions of readers. |
| I found that I didn't much miss Ireland as such, and in fact in many ways I execrated it. |
| The respectable part of the Spanish nation, and more especially the honourable and toilworn peasantry, loathed and execrated both factions. |
| Those who murdered tourists in Egypt were widely execrated and not just because they threatened to ruin the tourist industry. |
| Just because he remained so steadfast in an execrated cause, entry into the acceptance world seems to have acquired all the more value. |
| There, Alexander is to be execrated because he conquered foreign peoples and overthrew an ancient empire. |
