Word: grossest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soon deliberately took another lover, the grossest, most insulting she could find, to torture Christopher. The selection of this man seemed to her a positive inspiration. Christopher's emotional control, bordering on stolidity, was the antithesis of her neurotic nature, which was of a lasciviousness so intense as to be quite "pure." A Catholic, she could not divorce him. An old school Tory, he would not divorce her. He set his jaw, closed his mansion, saw his father commit suicide, his mother die of grief, when he was bruited a maquereau, (wife-seller). His code, so ancient that society could...
...course, we should be broadminded; and priggery ought to have no place in our attitude toward the stage. We are not, however, called upon to countenance the grossest vulgarity and almost absolute nakedness...
...exacting toil, is regaling a few intimates with a case of oranges. All he has to do to secure absolute privacy is to turn the sign to "Go" if that is the word selected to indicate that an intellectual quarantine has been established--and no one, save only the grossest trespasser, will venture to interrupt. The engineers it seems have hit upon a most desirable, almost indispensable invention. It is really difficult to understand how undergraduates have managed for so long to do without...
...audience is then escorted through the lines and presented to the English leaders. Coming as it does in the exact middle of the play, the interminable conversation put into their mouths seems the grossest of dramatic errors. If the talk were bright and new there might be justification; for the most part it is repetition of the author's well-known tenets on England and on Christianity...
...flesh. He measures the sensations of the lower middle class on the scale of his own--as he would have us believe--hyper-sensitive palate and nostril. In his eyes they know no beauty whatsoever, and no pleasure but that which he takes pains to depict as of the grossest sort. Inasmuch as he cannot see life as they see it, he is as inadequate to depict their world as is a blind man to describe the glories of a rainbow...