Word: inhuman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...electrifying performances from his lead actors, and here Treat Williams joins the likes of Al Pacino in Serpico and Peter Finch in Network. But Lumet is just as skilled at finding, among little-known or even unprofessional actors, those faces that taken together compose a vision-grotesque, but never inhuman-of the urban landscape...
Bobby Sands spent most of his young Irish life under the inhuman conditions of a British prison, judged by British judges. His simple plea to be recognized as a political prisoner was the only way he could show his protest against British tyranny over Northern Ireland...
...like pen or silverpoint, but an impossible one (or so one would suppose) with red crayon. One of the minor technical mysteries surrounding Leonardo's work was how he made his chalk hard enough to hold a needle point when sharpened. The steadiness of his hand was almost inhuman-helped, no doubt, by the diet of fruit and water he was always recommending to others, and by his justified refusal to have anything to do with Florentine doctors. Until well into his 60s, he was producing postage-stamp drawings, such as his studies of the Adda River in Lombardy...
...quoted me as saying about Salvador Cayetano: "His eyes, they are hard. I wouldn't like to be his prisoner." This gives the impression that I am a supporter of the inhuman junta in San Salvador against which Cayetano is courageously fighting. The opposite is true. I was not criticizing Señor Cayetano but describing what I believe to be the result of the imprisonment and cruel torture he has suffered...
When the correspondent and his colleagues recorded inhuman sights -mounds of hair and gold teeth, rooms of crutches, emaciated corpses stacked like cordwood, ovens used for children-the world stared in disbelief. Today it seems difficult to understand the incredulity. For if more than 6 million Jews, gypsies and other "undesirables" perished in the camps, how was it possible to keep the Final Solution a secret from their neighbors, from soldiers and intelligence agents and the foreign press? In part, says Laqueur, with a screen of euphemisms and evasions. Even in Germany, Jews were not executed, they were officially "resettled...