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Word: bestial (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...some would look in a different direction, and find it in detachment. To all such, David Hume must be a great saint in the calendar.... To have no axe to grind is something very noble and very rare. It may be said to be the antithesis of the bestial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Joust for the White House? | 11/29/2000 | See Source »

...central motivations of most of the other characters, with the notable exception of Aaron the Moor (Harry Lennix), are more obvious. Tamora is (and is repeatedly represented as) a lioness, bestial in her pursuit of pleasure and fiercely protective of her young. Saturnius, the young emperor foppishly and petulantly embodied by the fine stage actor Alan Cumming, simply seeks to protect his authority and to be loved. Tamora's two younger sons (Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Matthew Rhys) are simply bored and callous, devoted to violence and provocation out of sheer idiocy and for want of a better option...

Author: By Dan L. Wagner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Taymor's Tricky Titus a Triumph | 1/14/2000 | See Source »

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