The character's depravity and ghastliness are what make him Batman's greatest foe.
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Eldritch ghastliness awaits those who want to catch a glimpse into The Void.
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They gripe about the ghastliness of the journey and the inadequacies of their offspring.
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Unlike Mead, though, the ghastliness of the Trump Presidency has only hardened my resolve to stay.
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And though the future seems menacing, it's hard to fathom quite yet, given the ghastliness of the present.
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It is tempting to think that, for all its ghastliness, this campaign at least marks the end of the war.
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" In a letter back home, he confided that he had to "continually fight an inner depression over the ghastliness of it all.
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Not only were the Montagnards our protectors and comforters in the ghastliness of the jungle, but their cause seemed just, echoing the civil rights movement back home.
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Luridly photographed in all their quivering, aspic ghastliness, they're a cross between the stillborn horrors in '70s cookbooks and haute cuisine in the Escoffier style, from the days when white sauces flowed like plaster.
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What the world, and many rank-and-file Catholics, wants to know now is whether the church has the humility and honesty to acknowledge the ghastliness of child abuse, punish the perpetrators and regain public trust.
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Popularly regarded as a saint, she is the perfect counterpoint to the ghastliness around her, and yet she is as dead as the rest of them, a paradox that pours head-spinning ironies into the mix.
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"The long-term ghastliness of the legal complications is almost unimaginable," Sir David Edward, a former judge at the European Court of Justice and professor emeritus at Edinburgh University, told a committee of the House of Lords.
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Reverend Thomas James Stretch (17 January 1915 – 12 October 1973)Ancestry: Thomas James Stretch LifeStory was one of the first people to enter the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp when it was liberated by British troops in 1945. He commented that never in his life had he seen such damnable ghastliness.
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Both Proffitt and fellow North Carolina musician Doc Watson sang the older version of the tune, which had "a lively mocking tempo... that retained some of the ghastliness and moral squalor of an actual murder,"Cantwell, pp. 8 – 9. according to folk historian Robert Cantwell, who also notes that the Kingston Trio's version of the song left out several verses from the traditional lyric.Cantwell, p. 4.
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Lynn, 322 Howells and his daughter Mildred decided to spend part of the year in their Cambridge home on Concord Avenue; though, without Elinor, they found it "dreadful in its ghostliness and ghastliness".Goodman and Dawson, 402 Howells died in his sleep shortly after midnight on May 11, 1920,Goodman and Dawson, 432 and was buried in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Eight years later his daughter published his correspondence as a biography of his literary life.
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On August 24, 2007, Seale was sentenced to serve three life terms for his crimes.Twitter / Breaking News Alerts: AP: James Ford Seale, a for Twitter / Breaking News Alerts: Reputed Klansman James Ford Judge Wingate said that he took into account Seale's advanced age and poor health, but added, "Then I had to take a look at the crime itself, the horror, the ghastliness of it." Seale was imprisoned for a year at a medical facility.
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In > Vietnam, the rules of engagement were such as to make an atrocity – the > slaughter of the My Lai villagers took almost a day rather than a white-hot > few minutes – overwhelmingly probable. The ghastliness was only stopped by a > brave officer who prepared his chopper-gunner to fire. In those days there > were no precision-guided missiles, but there were "free-fire zones", and > "body counts", and other virtual incitements to psycho officers such as > Capt. Medina and Lt. Calley.
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Pauline Kael wrote: "Clayton is a felicitous choice to direct a character study film about a woman's rage against the Church for her wasted life. His first feature was Room at the Top with Simone Signoret and he made The Innocents with Deborah Kerr and The Pumpkin Eater with Anne Bancroft – he knows how to show women's temperatures and their mind-body inter-actions. Maggie Smith becomes the essence of spinster – she makes you feel the ghastliness of knowing you're a figure of fun."Kael, Pauline.
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He has to beware of the plane shifting and locking him inside. He also has to watch his air supply, and the freakish sight of the pilot's bloated body being eaten by all manner of fishes testifies to the "ghastliness inherent in material existence." Here Stone uses horror effects reminiscent of Peter Benchley's Jaws (1974), but he ties it thematically to Lara's attempts to get her brother's soul back from the depths of the ocean. Michael almost suffocates on his ascent from the plane, and he drops one of the more valuable packages, but he makes it back up—just to face a Colombian militia mystified and angered by his involvement.
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In April 1917 James McBey was appointed official artist for Egypt and Palestine, and William Orpen was sent to France. Orpen's work was criticised for superficiality in the pursuit of perfectionism: "in the tremendous fun of painting he altogether forgot the ghastliness of war". The most popular painting in the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1917 was Frank O. Salisbury's Boy 1st Class John Travers Cornwell V.C. depicting a youthful act of heroism. But of more artistic importance in 1917 was the establishment on 5 March of the Imperial War Museum and the foundation during the summer of the Canadian War Memorials Fund by Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere and significant work by Australian war artists.
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But the true > epicure of the terrible, to whom a new thrill of unutterable ghastliness is > the chief end and justification of existence, esteem most of all the > ancient, lonely farmhouses of backwoods New England; for there the dark > elements of strength, solitude, grotesqueness, and ignorance combine to form > the perfection of the hideous. As Lovecraft critic Peter Cannon writes, "Here Lovecraft serves notice that he will rely less on stock Gothic trappings and more on his native region as a source for horror."Peter Cannon, "Introduction", More Annotated Lovecraft, p. 2. Lovecraft's analysis of the psychological roots of New England horror is echoed in his discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne in the essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature".
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In Natural History of Religion (1757) he contends that polytheism, not monotheism, was "the first and most ancient religion of mankind" and that the psychological basis of religion is not reason, but fear of the unknown. “The primary religion of mankind arises chiefly from an anxious fear of future events; and what ideas will naturally be entertained of invisible, unknown powers, while men lie under dismal apprehensions of any kind, may easily be conceived. Every image of vengeance, severity, cruelty, and malice must occur, and must augment the ghastliness and horror which oppresses the amazed religionist. .. And no idea of perverse wickedness can be framed, which those terrified devotees do not readily, without scruple, apply to their deity.” (Section XIII) Hume's account of ignorance and fear as the motivations for primitive religious belief was a severe blow to the deist's rosy picture of prelapsarian humanity basking in priestcraft-free innocence.
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"But what was even more ironic was that Abelard had a reputation for being able to keep his head down during the worst of the regime's madness—for unseeing, as it were. In 1937, for example, while the Friends of the Dominican Republic were perejiling Haitians and Haitian- Dominicans and Haitian-looking Dominicans to death, while genocide was, in fact, in the making, Abelard kept his head, eyes, and nose safely tucked into his books (let his wife take care of hiding his servants, didn't ask her nothing about it) and when survivors staggered into his surgery with unspeakable machete wounds, he fixed them up as best he could without making any comments as to the ghastliness of their wounds." Yunior thus builds a context for the Dominican history, where the characters are used just as much in the footnotes as they are in the body of the novel. Many of the footnotes ultimately connect back to themes of coming to a new world (underscored through the novel's references to fantasy and sci-fi) or having one's own world completely changed.
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