“It is an anathema to me to suggest that someone in their 60s is past their sell-by date.”

“The prophet thereby pronounced an anathema on the city's leaders.”

“The idea that simply being out on the water on a nice day somehow makes up for not catching anything is anathema to genuine fishos.”

“Venerable parent promptly resorts to anathematization, and turns him out.”

“Douglas Cleverdon produced dramatised readings of In Parenthesis and The Anathemata for the BBC Third Programme.”

“Until 1960, Jones worked on a long poem, of which The Anathemata was intended to form part.”

“Ironically, at the very end of this millennium, demotions, warnings, and anathemas have again come into vogue in several regions of our nation.”

“Modernism for its own sake, untested against the past, drew anathemas from him.”

“The book inveighs against the sinful ways of the businesses that handle retirement saving. Mr Blackburn picks a soft target for his anathemas.”