Word: monstrously
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...bedraggled appearance and a resigned way of walking and speaking which well confirmed her statement at the end of the play that she has been a party to these lethal teacher student relations forty times a day ever since they began. The conclusion of the play inspires the monstrous vision of an endless succession of hapless pupils each turning up for the lesson which is to prepare her for adulthood, only to be done in and coffined by her instructor...
Under the laws of India, Untouchability no longer exists; it went out en self-government came in with the adoption of the Constitution of 9. But, as Harold R. Issacs new book makes clear, the monstrous tradition persists, a huge and melancholy w in India democracy and Indian nationhood...
...indeed responsible for a large part of the continuing desecration of the American landscape. California, probably the most beautiful state in the Union, is rapidly being ruined beyond all redemption by freeways. Here on the Peninsula, they are busy blasting the way for an eight-lane freeway. This monstrous road will cut through a scenery of hills and lakes that has been compared to the Lake District in England or Killarney in Ireland. The California Division of Highways simply has too much money and too few restrictions...
...each project, the committee has had to send Washington monstrous applications, ranging from 40 to 50 pages long. Some observers remark that the projects should have been selected faster, and the applications prepared sooner, in order to assure federal funds for the summer...
...people of a small village in Crete uniting to support the knife slaying of a young widow outside church and the robbing of a harlot on her deathbed. "Cretans should do something. This is disgraceful," declared Athens' daily Estia. The Pan-Cretan Union in Athens declared the film monstrous and insulting...