Word: ghoulish
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...starry nights, couples walk along the winding paths and recline in meadows. The area is also a mecca for campers. This year, however, local lovers and lovers of nature are thinking twice before taking their pleasures alfresco. Italians are simultaneously repulsed and riveted by an 18-year string of ghoulish murders around Florence. With the camping season about to start, Italy is anxiously looking toward that city...
...politician, they see the men around Reagan as undignified novices who are ill-equipped to handle the heavy duties of a superpower. In Washington, a State Department official conceded that presidential advance teams often "swarm all over our embassies and reduce local protocol to rubble." In this case the ghoulish exercise of selecting a death camp for Reagan to visit appalled many Germans. White House aides would not explain just why Bergen-Belsen was finally chosen. It is conveniently close to Frankfurt, its park-like setting is photogenic, and, since the camp was burned to the ground in 1945, there...
...really is quite ghoulish for anybody to seek to hold on to human remains," says Queensland Natural Resources cultural heritage unit director Paul Travers, who helped draft the law. "The legislation recognizes that Aboriginal people own their human remains. The approach of saying these remains have some scientific value is just outdated...
Since childhood, Constantine has been able to recognize the ghoulish “half-breeds,” who, as hybrid demon-human creatures, can cross the border between heaven and hell and upset “the balance” between God and Satan’s bid for human souls. Young Constantine’s terrifying visions classify him as a psycho. As a result of the trauma of his visions and equally horrific “therapy,” he commits suicide...
Since childhood, Constantine has been able to recognize the ghoulish “half-breeds” who, as hybrid demon-human creatures, can cross the border between heaven and hell and upset “the balance” between God and Satan’s bids for human souls. Young Constantine’s terrifying visions classify him as a psychotic, and as result of the trauma of his visions and equally horrific “therapy,” he commits suicide...