Word: morbidly
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...chills looking at the photograph of a planeload of flag-draped coffins of U.S. soldiers. There was nothing morbid about the picture; it just showed the reality of war. It brought home the finality of some Americans' sacrifices for their country. Let the people see the price of freedom. Deanne Hunter Frankfort...
...chills looking at the photograph of a planeload of flag-draped coffins of U.S. soldiers [May 3]. There was nothing morbid about the picture; it just showed the reality of war. It brought home the finality of some Americans' sacrifices for their country. Let the people see the price of freedom. DEANNE HUNTER Frankfort...
...father suddenly dies, the children are left with no option but to sell their once opulent villa in order to support their mother. However, as money is, the proceeds are quickly spent by the children’s own families. Soon, the mother is passed around like a morbid game of hot potato from child’s house to child’s house, carrying her bird and plants and leaving behind her dignity like Hansel and Gretel’s crumbs. Shouldn’t it be enough that her kids chant forcefully of their dedication to filial...
...Dylan Klebold killed 14 classmates and one teacher at their Littleton, Col., high school, memories of that day remain vivid for anyone who was or knew a high school student at the time. Attempts to identify the “cause” of the murders became a morbid national pastime, with the media and high profile Congress members simplistically blaming everyone from Marilyn Manson to the National Rifle Association for the boys’ lethal actions. Even Michael Moore’s wry and often insightful investigation of the tragedy, last year’s Oscar-winning documentary Bowling...
Readers—such as myself—of Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation resist the seduction of a flavorful McDonald’s hamburger not just out of a morbid fascination with the steak-cooking techniques of the family restaurants of the tri-state area, but also because we know that ground or shredded meat is generally the disturbing equivalent of mystery meat. With the possibility of them harboring everything from nervous tissue to salmonella, processed meat of any variety seems less like a food product, and more like a recipe for illness...