Word: monstrously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...general public wanted to know whether one of America's commercial airliners had been blown out of the sky by terrorists. These questions, during a grueling and sometimes chaotic week, seemed at times incompatible--urgencies with different priorities. Investigators looked for bodies and for signs of a monstrous crime. They found fewer of both than many had hoped, but perhaps more than could reasonably be expected, given the formidable obstacles to discoveries of any sort...
...supporting characters are less fully developed but no less perversely compelling. Ronet as the monstrous Philipe is the model of the Ugly American, throwing around money, speaking loudly, insulting everyone around him. His knife-in-the-back treatment of Tom-- he sets Tom adrift on a dinghy, embarrasses him by making him seem ill-bred, makes him steer the boat while he has sex with Marg-- makes him hard to like by any standards. The hapless Marg is wholly pitiable, toting around a guitar to which she croons mercilessly, plotting out her book on Fra Angelica, becoming a pawn...
...absolutely shocked. I think it was more of a recognition of our team accomplishments," she said. "It was a monstrous year, and for us to be recognized for this [is great...
...America the great moral barrier protecting us from such monstrous God-doctoring is the one separating passive from active euthanasia. Pulling the plug for the dying is permitted. Prescribing death-dealing drugs to those who are quite self-sustaining is not. It is this distinction that the judges are intent on destroying...
SEEMINGLY PERPLEXED BY THE LACK OF A "monstrous cause" for such a "monstrous effect" as the slaughter of innocents in Dunblane, Lance Morrow [ESSAY, March 25] noted that "only the vocabulary of evil" could explain what happened there. But as long as social commentators feel they can justifiably use the term nonentity to refer to any human being, society will continue to be plagued by eruptions of violence like the one at Dunblane. BRUCE A. FRENCH Guilford, Connecticut Via E-mail...