Word: bestial
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...principle of integration and intimidated by the knowledge that thought is conditioned by hunger and desire. . . . This is the moment of potential anarchy when the community lacks any explicit principle of order which can be effective under the conditions of the time. This is the night of violent and bestial release, the opportunity of the inhibited perversions which can now ally themselves with technical power. The dominance of the dissociated idealisms is over, and the two remaining active principles, sadistic vitality and technical power, join forces in a brief period of dominance ... [a] short reign of Antichrist...
...still no possible numbering of the wounded and the mutilated who survived, or of those who must yet die for lack of the simplest medical facilities, or of so much as a roof over their heads. It is unbearable, and unwise as well, to cherish memory of the bestial atrocities which have been perpetrated by Moslem and Sikh and Hindu alike. It is beyond human competence to conceive, far less to endure the thought of, the massiveness of the mania of rage, the munificence of the anguish, the fecundity of hate breeding hate, perhaps for generations to come...
...most intimate friends work against each other, man and wife deceive each other . . , the spirit becomes bestial . . . snakes crawl through the town . . . horses and cattle begin to talk...
...directions: "Pass Section F through Slot AA, taking care not to fold tabs behind washers (see Fig. 9). . . . Lock into box shape by inserting tabs C,D,E,F,G,H,I,K, and L into slots C,D,E,F,G,H,I,K, and L. . . ." - "with a bestial oath, I drove a safety pin through them and lashed them to the roof...
...good old ignorant days of Sherlock Holmes and Arsene Lupin, the thriller was a mild, usually non-murderous affair in which there was nothing more bestial than a hound with phosphorescent jowls. Today, when "emancipation is complete [and] Freud and Machiavelli have reached the outer suburbs," the pulp thriller is "a daydream appropriate to a totalitarian age . . . a distilled version of the modern political scene, in which such things as mass bombings of civilians . . . torture to obtain confessions . . . execution without trial . . . drownings in cesspools, systematic falsification of records and statistics . . . bribery and quislingism are normal and morally neutral, even admirable...