Word: morbid
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...ruin. Chickens, ducks, pigs, goats, dogs roamed at will through its high-ceiled rooms. Filth and trash littered the floors. Old tin cans were strewn about a dusty library of fine volumes, furniture vanished in debris. The squalid scene with its half-mad characters was strongly suggestive of the morbid Southern melodramas of Mississippi's Author William Faulkner who specializes in social decay amid evil surroundings...
...show the real, unheroic, revolting side of war. Pictures and scraps of poetry gleaned from the work of soldiers compose the book. It comes up to the standard of ghoulish horror which Time's picture promised, and it is admittedly not pleasant; it might even be condemned as morbid if there were not a saving grace in the purpose for which it was printed...
...last year) the Save-a-Life League gives money to the indigent, gets employment for some, gives luncheon tickets "to unemployed, respectable, middle-aged women, unaccustomed to asking for aid," lodges men at the Salvorium (its rest home at Hastings-on-Hudson). Said Dr. Warren last week as morbid June 11 ap- proached: "We pray with them when they come, and we give them a Bible when they...
WHEN the heavy clang of iron gates puts an end to the orgiastic exploitation by the press of a macabre criminal career and conviction, a vindicated public forgets abruptly the object of its morbid attention, and, satisfied, turns avidly to others. Before incarceration the audacious criminal is a romantic figure, afterwards he is a convict, a marked man,--one to be despised, and feared, and rejected. Behind the impenetrable branding gray of prison walls dwells a race apart, whose unnatural existence is seldom probed, in whom society's only interest is the enforcement of its due. But in the last...
...heard cases of actresses becoming affected by the parts they play, but the moment the curtain falls, I promptly forget every word. Nor am I unduly severe or morbid because of the part. And it doesn't affect me subconsciously for I never even dream about...