Word: hellishness
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...disease of the soul which starts by ravaging one noble custom and then infects all, until it has denuded the landscape of that which gave it beauty; a fire, which leaves one great oak a smouldering heap of common ashes and then disappears underground, slowly to burn its hellish fire through a subterranean network of roots until it bursts forth once again as a great blaze, consuming all and leaving nothing...
...hers is that Socialism and Weakness make Right. Confronted, for instance, with that troglodytic species, the Manhattan bus driver, he remarks that bus drivers in Xew York are churlish savages, which is true, and she replies that they are working men whose low pay is small compensation for a hellish job-also true...
...fourth participant in the hell scene, an apostate from heaven who has left the "icy mansions of the sky" to embrace hellish hedonism, is Don Juan's Mozartean enemy the Statue, here transformed into a good-natured, brainless chap who "always did what it was customary for a gentleman to do." He and his modern avatar are played for less than they are worth by William Swetland, who employs the gimmicks actors use for self-important middle age with competence but no distinction...
...RESIDENT OF FIJI WHO DISLIKES THE GOVERNMENT AND CONDITIONS IS PERFECTLY FREE TO LEAVE AND GO TO LIVE IN ANY PLACE OF HIS CHOICE, HEAVENLY OR HELLISH. AS A VISITOR TO FIJI, I FIND IT DELIGHTFUL AND NEITHER A HELL NOR A HEAVEN FOR ANYONE...
When hand-stoked coal drove Old 97 down that mighty rough road from Lynchburg to Danville, the brawny fireman was as essential as the engineer himself. Sweatily, he swung the heavy scoop between the clanking tender and the hellish firebox, pausing only rarely to rest his arm on the ledge of the left-hand window. But Old 97 and almost all the other steam locomotives have given way on U.S. and Canadian railroads to unsung diesels...