Word: horridness
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...violence from both jailers and the jailed. This regimen did not break Dostoevsky; it inspired him to see himself and those around him in a strange new light. He had been the dupe of a foreign ideology, which had seduced him toward treason; the other convicts, beneath their horrid exteriors, manifested a beatific, instinctively Christian and compassionate Slavic soul. Writes Frank...
Artistically, First Affair isn't worth the time of day--the acting is horrid, the plot sappy, the filming glossy if not outright sleazy, Enough said. But beneath the veneer of Hollywood melodrama lies the perfect admissions office cover girl--Melissa Sue Anderson as Toby King. Putting aside for the moment the fact that King has an affair with her Expos teacher's husband, takes a bus home to Nebraska in the middle of the term, comes down with mono and skips numerous classes without having to drop out of school. King and her application to Harvard would have thrilled...
...WELCOME TO N.E.P," reads a dimly scrawled sign on a grim black board as if an acronym alone is a raison d'etre for a new campus political group whose issues have been finely horrid to include the environment nuclear freeze Central America and whales. Soon students trickle in for the group's inaugural meeting each for a different reason, P.J. Kenney's Common Knowledge uses this fictitious organization to effectively examine why students are drawn to campus political groups a 1980's response to the lore of campus activism in the 1960s...
...lost our confidence early, especially since the hardest part of the season was our first two games." The Crimson fell to national powerhouses Johns Hopkins (top-ranked so far this year). 11-3, and to nine-time defending Ivy champion Cornell, 14-9, en route to a horrid 1-5 start...
...seventeen years old, bound for college in another year, and I didn't believe in such things as curses... I would not have granted you the power of the past to reach out horrid dead hands toward the living...