Word: vile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues...
...combat lethal roads, official harassment and wandering bandits, drivers adopt aggressive attitudes, complete with tattoos, earrings and vile vocabularies. They cannot quite disguise the soft hearts beneath their flamboyant T shirts. When an East German family gets stranded on the road in Yugoslavia, it is hauled back home gratis. As the journey concludes, a trucker wistfully remarks, "I was born in the wrong century. I should have sailed with Sir Francis Drake." Perhaps he should have, with Hutchison along to take notes. The world would then know a lot more today about what went on in the 1500s...
Hedda seems to be convinced that everything she touches turns ridiculous and vile. Actually, the show suffers when Cate is out of reach. With few exceptions, the rest of the cast seems to dote on the wild fancies of the beautiful Hedda. They come to life with her fiery entrances and languish miserably in her absence...
...vividness by Evelyn Waugh, then a correspondent for Fleet Street. By contrast, Thesiger notes sadly that during his absence of eleven years "the age-old splendour of Abyssinia" had been fading. The Emperor's bodyguard wore khaki; the palace secretaries were in tailcoats. Thesiger met the celebrated author of Vile Bodies and found him foppish and petulant. He refused Waugh's request to accompany him on an expedition among the touchy Danakil. "Had he come," he adds menacingly, "I suspect only one of us would have returned...
...could only get my hands on you--the thinker of the above quote--oh, how I would hurt you so. You are vile. Listen to me--the relation between a system's theory and its actual practice is often as secure as a pre-wealth student at recruiting time...