Word: leprously
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...they were men. As Gheerbrant came to know them, he noted in their skeletal figures and leprous faces "gentle curves, tender gestures, naive curiosity and strange wishes and desires," and realized that despite the thousands of years that separated him from them they were linked by the common bond of humanity...
...allows the human body to be born disfigured, twisted and crippled, and to become palsied, leprous and maimed before reaching the grave-but He also gives each man a perfect soul at birth, the final appearance of which is man's work alone. The smug physical perfections of this world would do well to concern themselves more with the condition of their own souls...
...screen play of her book Fanfare For Elizabeth (about Anne Boleyn and young Elizabeth). Said she: "My first scene will be most appallingly morbid. It almost frightens me. The story opens in London. Murder hovers around, and there will be an absolutely superb scene in the hospital for leprous virgins." What about censorship? "Not necessary," beamed Dame Edith. "The patients will be dressed as nuns. The lust of the era I manage beautifully." Her working plans include doing most of her writing in bed ("I hardly ever get up, unless there is some party which I think I will enjoy...
...wrote us recently that if the newborn infants could be separated from the leprous parents immediately after birth they would not develop the disease. The parents want desperately to give their children this chance. The problem is that some kind of housing must be provided for these children, to say. nothing of food and clothing...
Goya's Spain was as rotten and bankrupt a monarchy as Europe had ever seen. Leprous beggars and pockmarked peasants scratched their lice and wallowed in filth unmatched since the Middle Ages. Degraded courtiers wasted themselves lewdly in fashionable excesses copied from the French court of Louis XVI. The harlot Queen Maria Luisa, a green-complexioned, toothless masterpiece of stale flesh, wore herself out with dissipation, while her doltish husband hunted serving wenches and rabbits. (Of Maria Luisa Napoleon said: "Her character is written on her face; it surpasses anything you dare imagine.") Spain's strong...