Word: morbidity
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...could speculate endlessly about the source of our fascination with catastrophe: it could stem from an intrinsic human penchant for the morbid, from a profound national boredom rooted in suburbanization, from an intense nervousness about what the future holds for those who lived through the profligate America of the 1980s, or from any other number of conditions or some combination thereof...
...beginning of the movie is predicatable but funny, with Ryan as an uptight good girl who doesn't eat between meals, and Crystal playing an arrogant and morbid bullshit-artist. It reads like the old boy-meets-girl formula, with a modern twist...
...satisfy a personal need, but Sherry's tribulations do not yield much about Greene's nature. For that, the biographer hits the conventional paper trail: books, journals, diaries, letters and periodicals. His impressive accumulation supports what readers of Greene's writings have already had reason to suspect: his morbid childhood fears ripened into the themes...
...last week the attack had escalated from a local tragedy into a morbid national obsession. Perhaps the story resonated across the country because the victim was a wealthy, white financier with degrees from Wellesley and Yale. Or because the scene was Central Park, the backyard of powerful news media and a symbol of everything Americans most fear about New York City. Or it may have been because of the word wilding, which seemed simultaneously to define and obscure the transformation of a group of teenage boys into a bloodthirsty...
...Initially, I felt that it was a little bizarre. The main problem with this is that people find it morbid that the university is investing in the student's death," said freshperson Matthew G. Mercurio. But, he added, "What you have to realize is that this is what insurance companies do everyday...