Word: bestial
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...That bestial scar on the angelic face...
...audience, reached too far down and has to be slapped back up again. Fanny Hill's malefaction is both to broaden and to elevate. The book succeeds in showing that sex need be neither an indecorous procreative necessity, as the better people ought to believe, nor a merely bestial gratification or exploitation, as the others are supposed to believe and prefer. It reaches too far in every direction and, therefore, has to be quashed...
Besides its philosophical protagonist, the work draws on a Goethean, even Shakespearean gamut of characters--from a university professor to the almost bestial beings that infest Central Park. And Miller's language rises at times to impressive prose poetry: "The wish to kill is never killed, but with some gift of courage one may look into its face when it appears and with a stroke of love--as to an idiot in the house--forgive...
...play, whether serious or satirical, which affirms that man has bestial tendencies merely states a truism if the production is poor. On the program of Oh What A Lovely War are quotations denouncing war from such diverse men as Mathiez and MacArthur, giving credence to the assertion that it is only a propaganda piece embellished by slick staging. As such it pales in comparison to The Rabbit Race which is more caustic and convincing by treating fresh characters, not tired caricatures...
Speaking before the International Relations Council, Cvijete Job asserted that Albania and the Chinese have been "very bestial to us. Since 1953 China has gone out of her way to attack us." There has been a "constant campaign of slander" conducted by the Chinese, he said, and relations with them are "most tenuous...