Word: inhumanity
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...days I had to drink Budweiser beer-and I don't even like beer." Says Kokoschka, waving an abstract catalogue: "This man makes patches for the pants. I say man is a magical thing, full of magical powers. This cold-way art leads to evil-it makes art inhuman. I know the individual is doomed, but as long as I live, I stand on my own legs...
Back in Moscow, Mark Surov is assigned a minor Kremlin post. His heart has turned away from the inhuman regime, but what to do next he does not know. The great purges are beginning; fear floods the city. When Mark invites friends to a party, he must inform the NKVD so that it can send an extra guest...
...close across madam's own well-developed bust, she said: "See what I mean? Designers keep forgetting that women are females, human beings with legs, bosoms, hips. I am sick of the cardboard silhouette. I am cutting out the frills, the whalebones, the stiff flounces, all that inhuman nonsense...
...airmen, giving their names and serial numbers, and quoting their alleged denunciation of the "inhuman Wall Street capitalism" that forced them to engage in germ warfare...
...unknown nowadays, requires planets, galaxies, universes and all the latest portents of physics. He sets out, as Defoe did, to make the reader's imagination whirl with mingled curiosity and alarm; but where Defoe found novelty in a human footstep, the science-fictioneer stakes everything on such inhuman images as "a six-foot egg made of greenish gelatin" or "nine feet of slimy green trunk tapering ... to a pointed top." Where Defoe laid down his ideas in a prose as plain as his images, his successor revels in portentous complexity, e.g., "Remembrance occurs when, at all the synapses...