Word: horridness
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...reporters who pound the pavement, even for criminals who try to follow some kind of code. The Wire offers a bird's-eye critique of society, but it doesn't look down on individuals. Its heroes are flawed, fated people who try even without hope, who teach kids with horrid home lives, who try to kick unshakable addictions, who do the hard labor of investigations even when their bosses punish them...
...response, the police gave the advice any parent would give about that horrid playground bully of grade school—just hang up and ignore him. But this was apparently not enough for some survivors of the verbal attack, who reported feeling “terrified,” reduced to tears, or deeply disturbed. Some—it should be said, not all—women wanted the man tracked down and stopped. The police should do something, they said...
...visiting floating markets or trekking through temple ruins. These kinds of blended experiences are key to the multifaceted cultural education that tour operators are aiming for. "You don't walk away from the destination only with this snapshot in your mind of 'Oh, my gosh, it's this wretched, horrid poverty,'" says Voluntourism.org founder David Clemmons. "You see there are other sides...
...backbiting a new crudeness. We have eschewed toady gentility in favor of self-serving strife. And now the scoundrels bring us Risk, to rearrange that nasty competitive instinct along arbitrary House lines. The opening bell had hardly sounded before the color-coded trash-talk began. Those same horrid specimens who might otherwise have greedily withheld a study guide or sabotaged a classmate’s project instead spend their hours hijacking his account and sending his beloved soldiers to their doom. The effect is less severe, but the motive just as inglorious...
...referring, of course, to the scandal unfolding at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The horrid and pathetic treatment of our uniformed men and women—who haven’t merely given their service, but their limbs, eyes, their ability to speak, to think, to hear—is not merely a scandal, but a national shame...