Word: hideousness
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...1970s while studying history at university. He was later forced by the authorities to work as a house-painter because of his dissident activities. Tusk shared with Lech Walesa and other Solidarity leaders an antipathy to the government that he says was self-evident: "Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around...
...estate. As soon as Penelope turns 18, her mother hires a matchmaker and lines up a gaggle of eligible young aristocrats to woo her daughter and lift the curse. Despite Penelope’s cheerful nature and sizeable dowry, her would-be suitors all skedaddle once they see her hideous pig face. Max (James McAvoy, “Atonement”), a gambler enlisted to help get a photo of Penelope, develops a touching relationship with her, despite the fact that she is hidden behind a mirror during their courtship while he is trying to exploit her. They immediately click...
...Shook Up,” the latest exhibition to grace the art gallery inside of the Boston Athenaeum, photographer Thomas Kellner presents a modern take on Boston’s oldest independent library that manages to be a fitting re-imagination instead of a hideous attempt at revision. In July 2006, Kellner spent two weeks at the Boston Athenaeum on the eve of its 200th anniversary, serving as bicentennial artist-in-residence. The commissioned pictures of the Boston Athenaeum lend the building a “kinetic energy that metaphorically invokes the intellectual and cultural vitality of the institution...
...perfected by myopic postcolonial leaders who were keener on self-aggrandizement than on improving living conditions for poor folks. Developed countries like the U.S. are not half as enthusiastic about a stable democratic Africa as they are about forging partnerships against terrorism and for their multinational corporations, even with hideous and illegitimate regimes. Rich nations are very much a part of the demons that haunt Africa. Mark Evans Ondari, East Lansing, Mich...
...perfected by myopic postcolonial leaders who were keener on self-aggrandizement than on improving living conditions for poor folks. Developed countries like the U.S. are not half as enthusiastic about a stable democratic Africa as they are about forging partnerships against terrorism and for their multinational corporations, even with hideous and illegitimate regimes. Rich nations are very much a part of the demons that haunt Africa. Mark Evans Ondari, EAST LANSING, MICH...