Word: morbidness
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EVERYBODY HAS a theory about what Napoleon did with his hand stuck inside his coat: more accurate accounts have it that he had a bad case of gout or rheumatism, that his hand was relatively useless. More morbid conjecturers claim that he had a bad case of the claw--his hand tightened up into a gruesome eagle-grip. But the wildest theory I've heard yet was that he had a thirty-eight inch cock. Of course this is mere speculation--nobody really knows for sure what compelled Napoleon to do all the things he did. But George Bernard Shaw...
...threatened manner. They were able to come here because they generally were rich and could afford the expensive American education. But they say they will rejoin their culture as soon as they can, and in the meantime they follow the daily political developments in their homeland with a morbid interest. And they say they became radical as the students in their own homeland became radical over the last few years...
...patient is dying of cancer, but all of them are terminal cases. One is a hopeless alcoholic; another is drowning in a morbid, pervasive melancholia; still another, a boy of 19, has not only totaled his motorcycle but also his mind. Several are old, old men for whom life has become the cruelest possible bondage. The hospital can offer them everything except dignity...
More Stately Mansions is among Eugene O'Neill's best voyages into the entrails of possessiveness, guilt and morbid neuroticism. The first big Harvard Dramatic Club production of the year will open at the Loeb tonight at 8 p.m. and play through Sunday, and again October...
...writes with a powerful insight of the problems of man's relationship to the world and to reality. The clarity of his perception is stunning, as the various characters of the book unfold their complex metaphysical relationships. Long passages describing intense self-scrutiny hold the reader in an almost morbid fascination, until he must be relieved at the end to see Honda give up his vain attempts at understanding...