Word: horridness
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...second half brought little relief. Even while Cal shot a horrid 30 percent, Harvard failed to settle into any kind of offensive rhythm with all the turnovers it was committing. Bears reserve A.J. Diggs played only 11 minutes in the game, but even that was enough time to grab six steals. Prasse-Freeman was Harvard’s worst offender on turnovers—he coughed the ball up nine times...
When evil performs in public, it usually comes onstage in full makeup, with lurid lighting and horrid effects, riding a horse backward. Here we see evil backstage, with its makeup off--the smirking, kicked-back thuggishness, say, of gangsters twirling pasta and gloating over the success of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre...
...were scheduled to drop a sonic bomb of seismic proportions on the Boston massive, I was finding such a thing increasingly unlikely. The atmosphere was a let-down—instead of a noisy club filling to capacity, I found several handfuls of bored people idly listening to the horrid strain of Latin-lite fusion muzak filtering through the sound system. It was another half hour before the lights finally dimmed...
...possibly the play’s most powerful moment, treats a patient to whom she had previously given a picture of herself for support. Now dying, with his arms and legs grotesquely blown off, he returns the picture to her. The intense personal connection in a situation of such horrid human destruction is something Sissy is barely able to handle. Newhall plays the scene with a near-perfect, wonderfully understated sense of unresolved guilt as she watches the soldier convulse in terrible pain...
...personal chat with the News of the World, and the tapes would be hers. Or else. And so it was done. But alack! A Murdoch rival, the Mail on Sunday, printed "excerpts" overheard by bitter Wessex employees--including Sophie allegedly calling Cherie Blair, the Prime Minister's wife, "absolutely horrid horrid horrid," and boasting about her likeness to Princess Diana (whom Sophie then also allegedly dissed). Moral: Beware the wolf in sheik's clothing...