Word: bestial
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Thus, with tart wisdom in his spoofing, Dr. Herbert Levinstein, president of the British Institute of Chemical Engineers, addressed last week at Bristol the Royal Institute of Chemistry. As a chemist, he scoffed at "the popular fallacy that to blow combatants to bits with high explosives is less bestial, wicked and cruel than to attack them by gas." President Levinstein strongly implied that rather than be blown to bits he would prefer to die gassed...
Sample of Author Muggeridge's distaste for Russia: "Jerry-built immensity made and inhabited by slaves. Everything most bestial and most vulgar-barbarian arrogance and salesman servility; humanitarian sentimentality and hypocrisy; rotarian Big Business and Prosperity. . . . Do you really believe . . . that these awful plays are good; these wretched people happy; these revolting Jews, great leaders and prophets; these decrepit buildings, fine architecture; these dingy slums, new socialist cities; these empty slogans bawled mechanically, a new religion; these stale ideas (superficial in themselves and even then misunderstood), the foundation and hope of the future...
...story more easily, more quickly, and more convincingly than any conceivable collection of words. The tragic picture of Herbert Hoover and President Roosevelt driving together on March 4, 1933, both subdued at the ruins of a great country, approaches the classic. The photographs of riots and lynchings; cruel, pathetic, bestial, describe the animal man with a conciseness unattainable otherwise. The titles and the selection of pictures of "The Roosevelt Year" are sometimes monotonous and disappointing, but this is relatively unimportant...
...make in Mexico and show all over Latin America a cinema based on a typical U. S. lynching, with no ferocious detail or bestial fact omitted...
...never held that man was vile. It was for this very reason that he found himself in disagreement with the teachings of Christianity. He spoke of the original sin as a "theological nightmare." La Rochefoucauld was as much his enemy as Rousseau. For him, man was neither bestial nor divine; he was human; that is, he was torn between a higher will and a lower...