Word: bestial
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Epstein's statues have started riots, thrown academicians into fume and sputter, horrified bishops, even worried Scotland Yard. They have been tarred and feathered, lathered with green paint, censored with fig leaves. They have been called ''bestial, hideous, obscene, monstrous, misshapen, vile...
John Dos Passos, William Saroyan. Her backers have been much impressed by two eminent French appraisals of Marianne Oswald : "She is an actress of song. She has a kind of bestial ugliness. But beauty passes, as they say, and the art of this ugly child will remain."-Colette...
...mean the end of freedom and democracy and culture throughout all Europe in our time. ..." Colonel Frank Knox wrote some 1,500 scorching words in the Chicago Daily News, exhorting preparedness, demanding the U. S. "help in every way short of war itself, those who are now fighting the bestial monster that is making a shambles of Europe." ¶Words of the late General Billy Mitchell, U. S. Air Chief in World War I, who was demoted, court-martialed...
...Finns were suddenly pictured as dreaming "dreams of aggression." The Finnish Government became "marionettes chained to the hounds and incendiaries of war," a "gang of hired bandits of capitalism," "bestial murderers mad with their savage dreams of a Greater Finland up to the Urals...
...General Göring-beg pardon, Field Marshal Göring, who is one of the few Germans who has been having a pretty good time for the last few years-says that we have been spared so far because Nazi Germany is so humane. . . . When we remember the bestial atrocities they have committed in Poland, we do not feel we wish to ask for any favors...