Word: morbidness
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...near-fatal hunting trip to Montana, where he fell 500 feet down a cliff side. He was in critical condition for six days, spent three months after that in the hospital and still faces more surgery. With this in mind, the album's songs take on an eerie, almost morbid quality in places. For example, on "Can't See You," which closes side one, Williams sings...
SUCH SLAVE souls as ours!" wrote Ibsen in 1882. "Norway is a free country peopled by unfree men and women." When Ghosts was first produced, critics condemned the "morbid, unhealthy, unwholesome and disgusting story...
...ALWAYS been pretty morbid. Saturday afternoon's most gripping moment was always the beginning of ABC Wide World of Sports: "the thrill of victory" (as Pele lays in a goal on a soccer field and a teammate throws him up in the air) "and the agony of defeat" as an Olympic ski-jumper slides sideways off a 70 meter jump, taking a few saplings with him on the way to the infirmary. But this year's coverage of the Winter Olympics wins the all-time Hubert-Humphrey-"I-was-a-Jew-once-myself" Poor Taste Award, not just for morbidity...
Perfect Woman. In his attempt to be dutifully definitive, Biographer Clark plods doggedly, day by day, through all 98 years of Russell's life: from his miserably unhappy childhood spent in the morbid solitude of his grandmother's house ("She would call me by mistake the names of people who were dead") to his final years as the thundering, latter-day Ezekiel of the nuclear disarmament movement. The result is a work that is more thorough than thoughtful...
West's novella takes the form of a starkly concentrated interior monologue by the Miss Lonelyhearts figure; other characters are present mostly insofar as they impinge on the protagonist's morbid self-consciousness. In dramatizing Miss Lonelyhearts, Howard Teichmann necessarily invented much new dialogue, some of which functions to round out the motivations of the subordinate characters...