Word: hideous
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...contrasted 19th century American "innocence" with Old World decadence and guile. Assured, high-mettled Isabel Archer wants ardently to live without knowing too much about life. She rejects the safe and familiar, only to marry a corruptly overcultivated expatriate who wants only her money. The awakening is hideous; but having made her bed of spikes, Isabel sentences herself...
Betty: I myself think those double flowers are always hideous, but of course it was a wonderful show. I went with Emily, who is a botanist, and she told me many amazing things about flowers...
...whole strategic position in the world which make the thoughts which were well founded and well knit together a year ago utterly obsolete." What the great old man was referring to here is the fact that the hydrogen bomb has turned out to be an even more hideous and destructive weapon than was planned and expected. It has now been discovered that in certain special cases the heat and blast may be no more than the percussion cap of a much larger phenomenon...
...side. My own son ran with him the risk to which all Brazilians living under a regime of corruption and terror are subject. Those who resist corruption fall victims of violence . . . The sight of Rubens Vaz lying in the street . . . prevents me from analyzing coldly at this moment the hideous ambush of tonight. But before God I accuse only one man as responsible for this crime. He is the protector of thieves, whose impunity gives them audacity for acts like this one tonight. This man is Getulio Vargas . . . Rubens Vaz died in the war ... of the unarmed against the bandits...
Even in Tennyson's day, everyone knew that the order to charge had been a hideous mistake. But publicly, "the reason why" was long a mystery. Mrs. Cecil Woodham-Smith's book is the best untraveling of the old story...