Word: monstrously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Media critics also maintain that television coverage portrayed American soldiers as monstrous killers with no qualms about killing Vietnamese civilians. But according to Hallin, TV reports attributed fewer than one-third of all civilian casualties from 1965 to 1973 to U.S. forces. The incredible tonnage of bombs dropped on Southeast Asia during the war--more than three times that of World War II--almost makes this a statistical impossibility. And of all the television time devoted to the war between 1965 and 1973, only 11.8 minutes focused on civilian casualties in North Vietnam...
...Central Artery must be built and some form of Scheme Z must be constructed in East Cambridge. But the monstrous design on the table now is too high a cost for Cambridge or any community to bear...
That may be harder than it seems. The ideological right wing seethed with rage at what it saw as Heseltine's betrayal in contesting Thatcher for the leadership. In an editorial, the London Times said the challenge was "monstrous cruel," exemplifying "squalid maneuvering by an introverted male establishment terrified it might lose office." Still, the voice of that same British establishment went on in its editorial to fault Thatcher for complacency. She was blamed for failing to defuse the threat to her position that had begun 10 days earlier with the devastating resignation speech in the House of Commons...
Party chairman Gregor Gysi, who called the raids a monstrous action, said they were carried out without search warrants. Otto Lambsdorff, head of the Free Democratic Party, a partner in the coalition government in Bonn, said he learned with "extreme regret" that prosecutors had not obtained the warrants...
RICHARD III. Funny but never scary, Stacy Keach's inexplicably ballyhooed performance at Washington's Folger Theater suggests Captain Hook more than Shakespeare's monstrous monarch. The ensemble surrounding him is strictly amateur night, a melange of mincing courtiers portraying what are supposed to be buccaneer politicians. The sole saving grace is K. Lype O'Dell's intelligent, opportunistic and mercifully underplayed Hastings...