Word: uglier
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...this is a good thing, right? Striving people come here to succeed--and do. While there are plenty of benefits that undeniably come with learning the ways of ambition, there are plenty of perils too--many a lot uglier than high school students cheating on the trig final...
...intelligent, would be forced to find a solution other than war for their disputes. ''Nature,'' Kant thought, ''guarantees the final establishment of peace through the mechanism of human inclinations.'' The race of devils was busy in 1993, but the mechanism of human inclinations was working as much in the uglier direction, toward war. The global village is really a large, disorderly global city, with many poor neighborhoods, a few that are rich and a number that are terribly dangerous. But as the Balkans reminded everyone, the global city has no police force. Bosnia has been a tragedy of peacemaking turned...
...Skin Deep: Tales of Doomed Romance,” the collection which included “Dog Days,” the tale of a teenaged boy who receives a canine heart transplant. Another Burns favorite is “Big Baby,” an uglier version of “Desperate Housewives” with more violence, told from the point of view of a strange child...
...feelings. No matter how much a girl and her friends are torturing one another with gossip in school or instant messages from home computers, she is convinced that if you knew what she was saying, you would disapprove or, even worse, try to interfere and make a bad situation uglier...
Still, the Sheffield incident was a little uglier than most of the confrontations in Silvera’s playing days...