Word: morbid
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...this reason, tragedy is an "explora- the morbid," and a "disturbance" as an outlet for guilt. Shake tragedy, Bentley said, "finds soft in human nature. It is Macbeth, Chatterly's Lover, that should from the mails...
...hard to see how even the most hairy-handed technique could tarnish a play about Sigmund Freud's first case. There is a certain morbid fascination about a pretty young lady in the throes of psychosomatic illness that would enlist most people's interest even if it were done by marionettes in High German...
...writers who purvey more violence and tough talk than I ever did." Critic Spillane, whose seven books have sold more than 30 million copies, is equally unimpressed by Nobel Prizewinner William Faulkner: "He doesn't write for the people. And why does he go in for all that morbid stuff...
Melancholy Obsession. The unabashed sexuality of so many of his paintings was not the only thing that kept the public at bay: his view of the world was one of almost unrelieved tragedy, and it was too much even for morbid-minded Vienna. He was obsessed by disease and poverty, by the melancholy of old age and the tyranny of lust. The children he painted were almost always in rags, his portraits were often ruthless to the point of ugliness, and his nudes-including several self-portraits-were stringy, contorted and strangely pathetic. The subject he liked most...
...laughed about my so-called 'death' before," he said last year, when his health seemed excellent and he smilingly scotched the sort of morbid rumor that forever comes up in the career of an aging giant. Of course he was not dead. The lines of his face had deepened and the skin had toughened. There was less gloss and more grey in his hair. But this was like seasonal change on a mountain. The basic topography was nearly permanent. He was, after all, Clark Gable...