Word: hidcous
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...three local aristocrats are very impressive, squatting over the toilet bowl, that is Gilbert's life. They are like three hidcous pagan idols Elliot's Swaby is a power-hungry manifestation of Blind Ambition, who gleefully leaps at every opportunity to torture Gilbert Griffiths' Allardyee is towering Gluttony, who constantly stuffs his face with chocolates, wafers, seal paines and even his beloved Betty And Normington's Lockwood is personified Snobbery, who looks and acts exactly like John Gielgud. At all times, these societal demi-gods keep their aristocratic buttocks firmly over the lid of Gilbert's private hell...
...Most people who just come in to visit think it is hidcous," says Sackler security guard Michael Pelham, "The design students and professors come over from Gund Hall to laugh...
...course of purging the city of its sins, Angelo condemns to death a young gentleman, Claudio, for getting his finance, Juliet, with child. Claudio's sister, Isabella, pleads in vain for her brother's life. Angelo in return displays a lack of pity which proves all the more hidcous when his own unbridled lust is uncovered. In the end, Christian mercy and the "natural order" of life prevail over the "artificial" systems of government or morals...
...beginning, everything was as it should have been. The snow fell exactly with the beginning of vacation, clogging transportation everywhere, rendering life pleasantly hidcous in New York, turning the rutted streets of Cambridge into a shiny, insidious menace...
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