Thankfully for a handful of EPL teams domestic play resumes again in earnest after performances in the Champions League that can only be
described as abominations.
Not exact matches
It may well be that those critics are right who suggest that the model who sat for this portrait of the Man of Sin was the mad Emperor Caligula, whose attempt to set up his image in the Temple had deeply affronted Jewish sentiment, recalling,
as it did, the sacrilege of Antiochus Epiphanes, which Daniel had
described as «the
abomination of desolation.»
Often cited in the discussion regarding same - sex relationships are Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, which
describe same - sex behavior between males
as an «
abomination» punishable by death.
When First Minister Peter Robinson of Northern Ireland defended his wife, Iris, after she
described homosexuality
as an
abomination and advised a gay man it could be «cured» by psychotherapy, he responded, «It wasn't Iris Robinson who determined that homosexuality was an
abomination, it was the Almighty.»
«Phil Spencer actually sent us some personalised feedback
describing the fart organ
as «an
abomination against God», which was accurate, if a little hurtful.»
The first, shown at the 2009 Wallace Collection exhibition «No Love Lost: Blue Paintings,» was
described as «not worth looking at» by The Independent, while the later canvases shown in the 2012 «Two Weeks One Summer» exhibition at the White Cube gallery were called «
abominations unto the lord of art» by The Guardian.