Word: morbidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Servant plays morbid variations on the theme of Othello. Directed in Britain by Joseph Losey, an American who lives and works in Europe, the film tells how a sinister servant destroys his master by playing to his weakness for women...
With three weeks of the regular season still to go, the year of the pitcher is already so well established that most fans follow the gloomy batting averages and the paltry home-run statistics with little more than morbid fascination. Only four batters in the American League are hitting over .300, not a single Yankee is among the top ten, and guess who's leading the Yankee-eclipsed league in home runs? Somebody named Dick Stuart of the Boston Red Sox, with 36. The team batting average of the National League-leading Dodgers this year is .251; last year...
...front of Weld Boat House on the Charles River. His two companions swam safely to shore. MDC patrol boats dragged the river for two hours before finally recovering his body at 12:40 a.m. while a small group of summer school gathered on the banks to watch the morbid proceedings...
...first evidence of interest in psychology specifically came just after senior high school: "The girl I was fondest of said, 'Don't take psychology, it will make you morbid.' That probably had something to do with...
...these things together do not make saints infallible. When their intellectual outlook is narrow, they fall into all sorts of holy excesses, fanaticisms or theopathic absorption, self-torment, prudery, scrupulosity, gullibility, and morbid inability to meet the world. By the very intensity of his fidelity to the paltry ideals with which an inferior intellect may inspire him, a saint can be even more objectionable and damnable than a superficial carnal man would be in the same situation. We must judge him not sentimentally only, and not in isolation, but using our own intellectual standards, placing him in his environment...