Word: bestial
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...think in post-modern terms, Brazil offers the high and the low, especially when it merges the ideals of romantic love with a perpetual state of rut. The results include "the muck of the psyche," where "sex is nature's dirty work" and "perversity, like chastity, overcomes the bestial drive." The couple's caves of love take many forms: the leafy median of a busy highway, glittering condominium apartments, primitive gold- mining camps and the floor of the Amazon. The sacred and the profane are part of the same ooze. Lyricism mingles with basic Anglo-Saxon in much...
...exploded in virtually every newspaper and television station in the United States. Some argue that she is a merciless woman who attempted to castrate her husband as revenge for lack of sexual fulfillment. Other view her as the symbol of the battered woman who stood up against her bestial husband. In any event, "the cut felt around the world" has certainly reverberated throughout the American population...
McEwan goes beyond Conrad in his exploration of human psychology. He notes that bestial hatred and spiritual ecstasy are flip sides of the same coin: one begets the other. Sex best illustrates this paradox--in the tender, familiar love-making of the two couples and the vile bestial encounter with the dogs we are presented with the two ends of the scale. Even more frightening than the darkness is the idea that all good is dependent upon...
...superficially about slavery--about a world where girls had to breed, boys felt the humiliation of having sex with calves, men wore bits and saw roosters who were freer than they women were forced to forget their children and people had their most bestial characteristic recorded by a schoolteacher and his pupils. As a novel which documents the incredible the horrific, elements of slavery it is over whelming...
Freyer's is a largely bleak view of the operas' worlds. The evil courtiers who overthrow Akhnaten are costumed as devils and bestial thugs; Gandhi's followers, beaten by police near the opera's close, look like refugees from Night of the Living Dead. Yet there are stage pictures of surpassing beauty too, as when Akhnaten's domestic life is represented by a giant suspended wheel in which sit, friezelike, the Pharaoh and his six identical daughters. Almost unfailingly, Freyer has found an image to match the mood of the music, and it is in such audio-visual synthesis that...