Word: hellish
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...spears and cuirasses along with the blond cigarette girls, the sexy shackled women in modern negligees and the awful birds with staring eyes that were one of Beckmann's prime images of fear and persecution. "Have you never thought," he wrote to a young woman artist, "that in the hellish heat of intoxication amongst princes, harlots and gangsters, there is the glamour of life?" That heat is everywhere in his paintings. If their forms weren't so fully and emphatically realized, if the bodies of men and women in his art were less dense and sensuously present, such dreams...
...love scientists; they are truly some of our brightest stars. Without them, life would be hellish; and because of them, life for the Methuselah wannabes will be hell. I am thrilled to see that scientists have found another way to let the wealthy inherit what's left of the earth. I say to the rich and famous, good luck, enjoy the long and youthful life your money will buy, strive to be like your furniture--antique--and change spare body parts as often as your cars do. Hold on to what's left of the earth--along with the nine...
...depressingly and forbiddingly unearthlike. We figured that life there, if at all possible, would probably come in highly exotic forms based on completely different chemistries from ours (silicon, for example). And yet here in front of our noses are deep-sea, carbon-based microbes able to live in hellish, almost Venus-like conditions. If here, why not out there...
...before, and after much ado and praise, it's here again. You stop and wonder to yourself, "Is it really worth all this hype? Can any musical in existence live up to the expectations people have created for it? Most of all, is it really worth going through the hellish hassle called TicketMaster to get tickets to "The Phantom of the Opera...
...interest of the U.S. and other outsiders. Shortly afterward, vicious, sustained civil war broke out. In the years since, five different armies have fought in Kabul's streets, battling from house to house, killing 45,000 in one six-month period. Jahannam, says the Koran, is a hellish place of "harrowing torment" where people are kept in "heavy fetters and a blazing fire." This is punishment for sinners in the afterlife; such a horror is not known on earth. Kabul must surely be close...