Word: ghoulishness
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...they are spoiled, ruined to the core, every one of them. Ruined by a cloying insatiable, pathological subjectivity. It is ghoulish and does not suggest the human, even the eccentric. And even Mr. Lawrence's ticket takers, and farmers and young country girls, are all of them stark mad, mad in an unpleasant rasping way. All of his characters have un-natural lights in their eyes, and their brains are pounding with agonies of an existence which they do not understand. All of this is cleverly written and may be what Mr. Lawrence is after...
...recent small attack on Cologne with larger and more destructive raids, and in one of these the cathedral at Cologne should be wrecked, its destruction would make but a poor exchange for the Cathedral of Rheims. And now there are well grounded fears for beautiful Amiens! What ghoulish satisfaction the Germans must have--even at the moment when the British and French are sparing their great temple at Cologne--in destroying the finest piece of Gothic church architecture in France! --Boston Transcript...
...perfectly decent and gentlemanly throughout the game. It seems to be a rule among press reporters, whenever they can make out a story which will injure college men, that it is their duty to do so, and they follow the paths of their so-called duty with a ghoulish glee that is positively sickening. There are certain papers in Boston which seem to make a business of filling up their columns with false trash about Harvard whenever they are hard up for stuff. People easily believe sensational stories about the college. particularly when little occurrences are made to assume...
This trait in our national character would not appreciate, if their extent and tendency were fully appreciated, the silly, mean, cowardly lies that appear in the columns of certain newspapers, violating every instinct of American manliness, and, with ghoulish glee, desecrating the most secret relations of private life. [Applause...