Word: hideous
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...velvet smock with a collar so high and broad that the tailor told Picasso: "Your head emerges from the collar like a flower from a pot." In return, Picasso has given him about 50 paintings and sketches - including a powerful War and Peace pastel contrasting dancing nymphs with a hideous fire-belching monster. According to a Riviera dealer, the work, which Picasso gave in payment for a pair of trousers, would now fetch...
...Wind Ensemble definitely demonstrated that wind music need not be puerile bravado or hideous sentimentality. Their maiden concert allowed the genius of the wind instruments to enjoy full play...
...three male bodies, to be sure, shows one crouched like a foetus and another with his leg in a splint, but the third, who dangles apelike from a pole, has an amiable if freakish mien. A woman lounging in a deck chair turns a face wreathed in a hideous grimace-yet, on second glance, it is obviously nothing more than the grin of a well-fed Cheshire...
...psyche. Her husband Frederick, an intelligent, surly man, is a much-photographed adjunct of the image, and when he sees his wife retreating into fantasy, he dramatically kills himself at the spot commemorating the martyrdom of St. Paul. Why? To shock Annabel back to herself? Or to play a hideous joke? Frederick leaves four ludicrous letters-all accusing Annabel of scandalous behavior-in a place where they will be found by his old friend Billy, who happens to be a veteran blackmailer...
...Magnificently ugly," the young Henry James summed her up in 1869, "deliciously hideous." But in the ugliness of "this great, horse-faced bluestocking," James admitted with some awe, "resides a most powerful beauty . . . and sweetness-a broad hint of a great underlying world of reserve, knowledge, pride and power...