Word: morbid
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These problems were twofold: 1) internal political disunity (the Chinese Communists) and reform (at Chungking); 2) China's relations with Russia. The two problems were organically connected by many visible and invisible layers of ragged political nerves and morbid social tissue...
Martin Doyle, 12-year-old New York City orphan, hungry for love and security, finds only condescension and haunting insecurity in the lavish country home of Mrs. Henry de Rendon. An in tense, morbid, misty character study...
...bilingual "little mags." Evenings, she dressed her gibbons in sable fur coats, took them to cocktail parties and dinners. But after a while Emily felt bored and lonely. "I'll get old and fat out here," she complained to her Chinese boy friend Sinmay, a publisher. "You are morbid," said Sinmay, "you must marry me." She went to his lawyer and signed a paper "declaring that I considered myself his [Sinmay's] wife 'according to Chinese law.' " Nobody, Emily least of all, seemed to know just how married this made...
Simple Absurdities. Here & there flurries of violence spotlighted the morbid aimlessness. A Roman mob beat and drowned a hated Fascist (TIME, Sept. 25). In other cities there were other acts of mob violence. Barefoot carabinieri flunkied for Allied officers. Once they had been traditional symbols of legality and order. Now they were simple absurdities. But the mobs had not coalesced into a movement. Most Italians were too preoccupied with keeping alive, or too weak from hunger to stir...
These events, climaxed by satisfactory violence, persuaded the publishers to describe Lie Down in Darkness as "a devastating picture of the 'society' which it mirrors." It is nothing of the sort. It is an orchidaceously morbid psychological thriller, smooth, fast-paced, taut with suspense...