Word: morbidly
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...drama played out here was not a fantasy contrived to satisfy a casual fancy for morbid amusement; it was real, permanent and tragic...
...determined Agnew, meanwhile, continued to show every outward sign of confidence that he will survive his crisis. At a local Republican rally in St. Charles, Ill., he assailed what he termed "the morbid preoccupation with Watergate" and claimed that one "insidious byproduct of the affair" is that there is now a "persecutorial atmosphere hanging over the American political system." The implication seemed to be that he considers himself one of the persecuted...
...daydreams of alternate occupations are part of his openly boyish nature. He has just discovered mortality, for instance. Didn't know it was there before. "I'm like a kid with a strangely ugly new toy. I used to think writers who bore in on it were morbid. Now I think of certain people dying-my wife, my dog, my friends-and it's perfectly unbearable...
...used to be made about tycoons and entrepreneurs. The rise of rock as the most dynamic mass art form has passed the heroic mantle from businessmen and badmen to rock stars. And rock has accentuated a theme which has always been implicit in the hero as desperado: a morbid fascination with living life as quickly as possible, with life only in the present, and pain collapsed into conclusive drama...
...confusions of Watergate can even become mildly fratricidal. When Senator James Buckley of New York tried to dismiss the whole affair as "morbid cynicism," he prompted a public protest from his younger brother Bill, who accused Nixon of "taking the Fifth Amendment" on the problem...