Word: bestialized
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...prison world that the author depicts in most of his books is often compared to hell or a nightmare. Yet the author admits, "I have come almost to love that monstrous world." For, along with bestial cruelty and institutional torment, he found great courage and comradeship among fellow prisoners in the Archipelago. The memory of it has permanently shaped his attitude toward mankind. The "fearlessness of those who have lost everything" encourages him. "Own nothing," he counsels those who have been arrested. A food package, he warns, "transforms you from a free though hungry person into one who is anxious...
...construction of the Tower of Babel. Even in the compass of a page, Nimrod stands huge and commanding beside the rising tower. In the magnificent Book of Hours painted for Catherine of Cleves about 1440, there is a wildly imaginative image of the Mouth of Hell-three gaping bestial jaws flanked by towers, with sinners and demons scrambling about...
...species apparently prefer to regard humanity as elevated from the rest of the animal kingdom by virtue of a "soul" or other such mystical paraphernalia. Some, however, see the species as animal in origin, and regard sexuality in the same light. Opponents of pornography who argue that it is bestial in nature, and reduces human activity to the level of animals, are quite correct. This is, perhaps, my reason for being bored with current pornography. But it is beside the point. Pornography is not a popular view, yet it is a coherent one, one which can be argued to even...
...rendition of a not entirely satisfying play. Set in what appears to be an 18th or 19th-century court--or madhouse disguised as a court--the play uses the not-quite-worn-out vehicle of a play within a play to point up mankind's repertoire of vulgarities and bestial acts...
Stewart Smackenfelt seems incapable of doing anything else. He is, in fact, the most considerate character in all of De Vries' 17 novels. An intermittently employed actor, Smackenfelt begins his good works by servicing his id-his bestial Freudian self, whom he calls Blodgett. It lusts after Ginger Truepenny, who is not exactly Smackenfelt's mother-in-law, but close enough. She is the aunt who raised his orphaned wife Dolly, who spends most of her time writing plays. By such tasteful amendments does De Vries remove the curse of incest without seriously weakening the underpinning...