Word: morbid
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...pushed James Byron Dean very close to his brilliant acting ceiling in Giant, once phrased an obituary that is probably far more accurate than the Story: "Jimmy was just a regular kid trying to make good in Hollywood. Someone's making a pile of dough out of this morbid Dean business, and that's one reason they're working so hard to keep it alive. But the full irony of Dean's plan to win fame and glory was that his fatal accident wasn't a part of the scheme. Yet, that really made...
Most horrifying of all (to a novelist), Pinfold hears a man called Clutton-Cornforth reviewing his books on the BBC: "The basic qualities of a Pinfold novel . . . may be enumerated thus: conventionality of plot; falseness of characterization; morbid sentimentality; gross and hackneyed farce alternating with grosser and more hackneyed melodrama; cloying religiosity...
...depict them in terms of man's paralysis and anxiety when faced with them as raw forces in nature. Much of his anxiety had its roots in his early semi-invalid youth. His mother died when he was five; his father, a military surgeon, gave way to morbid religiosity and insane outbursts at his children. Recalled Painter Munch bitterly: "I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick and threatened with punishment in Hell...
...when he watched the show for the first time. "The pins go down-or don't go down, as the case might be-and that's about it." But like millions of other televiewers, Crosby kept right on watching. "The darn thing does have a sort of morbid interest," he discovered. "First one guy's ahead, then the other one. Pretty soon you find yourself rooting for one or the other...
...quadrangle one dark night. Next morning, when the boy is found and expelled from the academy for drinking on the campus. Jocko's hands are clean because so many others' are dirty; nobody dares to talk for fear of expulsion. After that, the camera watches with morbid fascination as the event, like an evil serpent, tumbles out coil after coil of consequences that ultimately crush the villain. His final lagonies make quite a spectacle...