Word: hideous
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...leave the courtroom and turn to my wife who is the most hideous creature I have ever seen--an unsightly cross between Joan Rivers and Tammy Bakker. As my client is led away to death, I sob uncontrollably into my hands--"Will I still get paid, and why did I marry this horrible woman?" I wake up screaming...
...professional musician said that at first she, too, found the rehearsals too amateur for her. "It started off awful. It was such a disappointment," Bley said. However, she said, "It's gone from hideous to incredible in two days...
...uniforms are ugly, and everybody knows it," Gaffney says. "We don't know who picked out these hideous colors [red and gold], but we need new ones. Whoever runs the intramurals has drastically reduced the budget this year...
Redford hopes the homecoming crowd enjoys some such feeling. They will, she thinks, if they set aside their rage at the hideous fact of slavery and let new knowledge make them feel more complete. This, she says, is what she means when she speaks of the homecoming as a "healing...
...itself by the open spaces it can occupy and eventually foul. The synthetic environments of Coldharbor and the Owners' vicarious entertainments pervert the definition of nation, to say nothing of personality. Connected by computer, talking to one another through radio-helmets, Theroux's privileged few incubate fantasies and promote hideous realities. The worst is a pornography of violence practiced by a private police force known as Godseye. They roam Manhattan's abandoned neighborhoods in murderous gunships looking for excuses to "burn" the Starkies, Skells or whatever other name they can devise to distance themselves from the underclass...