Word: morbidly
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...postwar years. (Faurer's personal archives were messy; we are sure only that the picture was taken sometime between 1949 and 1952.) The nominal subject is a boy turning away from the site of a car accident. At the center of the image is a bit of morbid official graffiti--a chalk outline of the victim's body that is unmistakably phallic, so that love and death are strangely and also childishly intertwined. The boy hugs himself in a gesture that may or may not be dread. His expression is soft and distracted, as though he is thinking over...
Though Fefu’s troubled marriage and off-kilter proclamations that women are loathsome creatures hint that she is bound for the sort of morbid state that envelops Julia, she maintains a cheerfully unsettling demeanor most of the time...
From this beginning, daguerreotypy was also employed in cataloguing, in exquisitely grotesque detail, any number of deforming physical ailments confounding Victorian doctors. Contorted limbs, lesions and cancerous bumps provide morbid fascination as representative instances of medical and record through daguerreotypes...
...thing to expect someone to die; it's another to look forward to that day, not secretly, guiltily, but openly, eagerly, a morbid jubilee. Osama bin Laden's casually pitiless confession, released by the Pentagon just as U.S. forces seemed to have him cornered, meant that at the moment that his death appeared more certain it also seemed all the more just. People who reject the death penalty, who teach their children not to use the word hate, who believe in balancing justice with mercy, who prize due process--people, in other words, unaccustomed to bloodlust--now watch the daisy...
...Brokaw clenching back purple rage on his own newscast and journalists around the country imagining their own kids in the position of that ABC producer's baby. (My own two-month-old visited my office a couple of weeks ago. He's doing fine; his dad's overactive, morbid imagination - that's another story...