Word: hideous
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...throwback on the British military tradition. Before descending to specific criticism, it may be well to point out that this is not a pacifist play. It attacks the ideals of imperialist wars, not wars whose goal is peace. As Owen remarks, "I find the ideals of war benighted, stupid, hideous; and find our tribute to those who wage it--when they wage it destructively enough--a worship of gods as false as the idols of savages." But he has in mind the wars fought by his ancestors, fought in the classic mould dwelt on by Kipling. Owen, indeed, later says...
...York's state legislators get an annual salary of $2,500, second highest of any state.* But in New York, as in most legislatures, there are ways of eking out such a meager sum. For years, the men in Albany's hideous State Capitol have voted themselves and their friends odd petty sums "in lieu of detailed itemized expenditures." In time this custom came to be known to legislators and correspondents as "the wonderful lulu system...
...scene was London's solemnly hideous Albert Hall. For the observance of U.S. Thanksgiving Day, its dark Victorian interior was blanketed with American flags, and the flags of all 48 states. A portrait of Lincoln hung from the proscenium; a spotlight played on an American eagle...
...Passchendaele, Canadian Historian George M. Wrong wrote: ". . . perhaps the most hideous fight in the whole war. Hundreds of horses and men were drowned in the liquid...
When they took refuge in riverside cabins, the night was made hideous by the "howls, wails and shrieks" of the Yukon's "coal-eyed, shark-faced shrews"-three-inch rodents which eagerly devoured one another. Natives told the appalled young couple about the man who had died in his cabin and not been found for seven months. Rescuers who lifted his body found it "as light as ashes. The shrews had gone in from the cheeks and down inside, hollowing...