Word: morbid
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...Communists) but like a case of impetuous defection at the height of an emotional jag. John had been hitting the bottle, and telling friends of his concern over what he regarded as the return to power in West Germany of former Nazis. He disappeared immediately after attending the morbid anniversary observance of the July 20, 1944 attempt on Hitler's life (his own brother was executed in the bloody aftermath of that unsuccessful plot...
...hairless brushes, he powerfully portrayed the hunched reticence of schizophrenia, the hauteur of megalomania, the stares of poverty and disease. His show of 43 ink drawings and watercolors at Washington's Pan American Union caused one old lady to ask: "How can you be so young and so morbid?" To this often repeated question, Cuevas replies flatly: "My interest in the dying and the insane is my vision of modern life...
...hearings to nothing else, they will give Mr. Fowler's remains a measure of morbid exercise, gyrating in the grave with the pomp that the gentle linguist always deplored...
...short, Carnival by the Sea would be downright unbearable, not merely morbid, if 31-year-old Author Sigrid de Lima had not fashioned it with a sensitive mind and a good writing hand. Mrs. Albany's troubled character and Author de Lima's basic theorem become clearer with the turning pages. In effect, it is that love is a current, and that stagnant love turns to hate. As a new bride, Mrs. Albany had been shocked to discover that her husband had married her only to give his first wife's children a mother; the springs...
America's attention, so long fixed in morbid fascination on the sickness of France, was rudely diverted last week to an even more dramatic threat to the family of the West. Democracy is seriously ill in Italy...