Word: vileness
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...stood around in small groups, talking. One long-haired youth got into a discussion with a middle-aged husband and his petite wife, who had been standing around watching the meeting. The woman kept insisting that she sympathized with the hippies, but why did they have to use such vile language, and why did they want to fight with the cops. The youth answered that they just wanted the right to sleep on the Common...
...part. As he talks sense to his fellow Trojans and debates with the wily Ulysses, Hector seems always on the verge of averting the madness of war. Actually, it is merely a delaying action against ultimate defeat. For Giraudoux is bent on proving that there is a vile instinct in man that wills to kill. The play ends sadly and cynically with war breaking out and Helen kissing a new lover, Troilus...
...good peasant, Bert. Direct. But an adaption? As I sat there, backstage, listening to his words and repeating my words softly for my own ears, I felt as though my body was being desecrated. Once I looked down and I swear my legs ended at the knees. Oh McBain, vile college lad, why did you poke about in the Doctor's speeches and spoil all the careful development of the younger-generation-knocking-on-the-door theme? There was no method to your wretched emmendations...
...good white against the bad colored. It's the pure and powerful . . . against the vile and unclean troublemakers. It's racial violence," one student said...
...mass of Russians have ever had before. Gone is the obsequious muzhik whose manners were formed by centuries of serfdom. No longer pervasive is the type that Lenin belittled as "the exhausted, hysterical, misery-mongering intellectual who, publicly beating his breast, cries: 'I am bad, I am vile...