If Ford is lying, it's the most monstrous lie imaginable.
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Most monstrous was Canetti, who liked to role-play rape with her.
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The work that is the most monstrous feels the most like me.
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Indonesian wildlife officials might've found the most monstrous flower of them all.
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Then there is perhaps the most monstrous application of racial terror in our historical register: Aug.
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But, in Campbell's case, this new world order is an opportunity to perfect his most monstrous impulses.
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Death has a way of ingratiating even the most monstrous toward their families ... once the offenders are safely passed on.
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"Shadow" (season 5, episode 24) Could Buffy turn cancer — one of the most monstrous of diseases — into fodder for its storytelling?
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The quadruple homicide on Saturday, one of the most monstrous crimes in New York's recent history, has prompted reflection from every angle.
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Timothy Stanley: Kavanaugh decision moment: A horrendous act or a monstrous lie If Ford is lying, it's the most monstrous lie imaginable.
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The idea is to examine that "thin line" between man and beast — so maybe the werewolves aren't the most monstrous things among us.
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Having proved that it will stick with even its most monstrous allies, Russia is now seen by many as the region's indispensable power.
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"Nothing could be more important than organizing the opposition against what's going to be the most monstrous presidency of our lifetimes," he said.
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That said, the Sub isn't going to win any contests for most monstrous subwoofer, suggesting it doesn't have the goods for really impressive bass.
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What is the danger of this framing of an archetypal story of Harvey Weinstein, for example, as "the most monstrous abuser there ever was"?
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Yet a huge testament to the show's storytelling (and Lena Heady's acting) was that even her most monstrous acts came from deeply human fears.
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In the elite press—on cable news, in newspaper opinion sections—you can say the most monstrous things imaginable, as long your language is polite.
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The most monstrous work in the show, it combines his multiple obsessions: guy tied to tree, torture, martyrdom, creative poses, anatomical exactitude, and tranquility joined with pain.
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Jackson's own father has been called "one of the most monstrous fathers in pop" -- and we know how many children of abuse go on to abuse others in turn.
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Far from the happy escapism of its early years, the game is now about the unrelenting bleakness of our existence, making you confront the harshest of realities and the most monstrous of human fears.
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Yet out of all the curiosities encountered during their cultural expedition, a chance piece of trash — ordinary, irrefutable evidence of the tumultuous changes their own bodies are undergoing — proves to be the most monstrous, provoking that primal reaction: violence.
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All that remains is individual hatred in the souls of the most monstrous among us — or else, depending on whom you ask, in vengeful minorities who want to nurse grievances and see whites suffer for the sins of past generations.
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Grann's revisiting isn't just in history, though; it is a true reopening of an investigation, including new and previously unpublished evidence, all of which creates a more complete, captivating, and damning portrait of one of America's most monstrous crimes and cover-ups.
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Her work not only provides a look at how two of the most monstrous regimes in history came to power in the 20th century, but a more universal sort of anatomy of what Margaret Atwood has called the "danger flags" that make people susceptible to demagoguery and propaganda, and nations easy prey for would-be autocrats.
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This comical recital occurs as part of an excellent set piece of a dinner held at Huis Doorn, where Judd lets the eccentricity of the emperor and the bribing of Himmler by Princess Hermine run along at a conversational pace, in the midst of which the most monstrous propositions are quietly uttered, allowed to take up room for themselves precisely because all that preceded them was so banal.
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The most monstrous thing has to be, in accordance with the law of the opposite analogies, the counterpole of the most magnificent thing.
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Miniatures Handbook. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2003 Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition for Dummies describes the Wand of Orcus as being part of what makes Orcus "the most monstrous evil in the game".
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Lummis' writings - many of which concern Japan's relationship to the United States - are extremely critical of US foreign policy.Karel van Wolferen. "The most monstrous lie of the twenty-first century" karelvanwolferen.com, jottings, articles, books, 19 Sep.
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His men committed "most monstrous misdeeds," torturing and murdering hundreds of prisoners of war, including a French general. He was so ferocious that for a time Cardinal Ruffo placed him under arrest for his many atrocities.Finley, p. 76; Lister, p. 54.
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Mary cannot believe it, but her mother ensures that Hamilton is arrested and prosecuted. She is sentenced to imprisonment and to four public whippings in the market towns of Somerset. Fielding claims that "on the very evening she had suffered the first whipping, she offered the gaoler money, to procure her a young girl to satisfy her most monstrous and unnatural desires."The Female Husband: or, the Surprising History of Mrs.
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Instead of receiving essential advice from a mythical being, the protagonist would be given advice from omniscient Stalin. If the character followed Stalin's divine advice, he could be assured success in all his endeavors and a complete transformation into the "New Soviet Man."Miller, "Image of Stalin," 55. The villains of these contemporary fairy tales were the Whites and their leader Idolisce, "the most monstrous idol," who was the equivalent of the tsar.
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Original Italian: Teatri, arti e letteratura described the libretto as "in every aspect, one of the most monstrous productions that has ever come from the pen of a poetaster."Teatri, arti e letteratura (10 March 1836) p. 10. Original Italian: Shortly after the premiere, Casa Ricordi published several excerpts from the opera as sheet music, including the duet sung by Giovanna's husband and father in Act 2, ' (Look around you), and Giovanna's final cavatina of the opera, (Dear one! Dry your tears).
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These new folktales replaced magic with technology and supernatural forces with Stalin. Instead of receiving essential advice from a mythical being, the protagonist would be given advice from omniscient Stalin. If the character followed Stalin's divine advice, he could be assured success in all his endeavors and a complete transformation into the “New Soviet Man.” The villains of these contemporary faerie tales were the Whites and their leader Idolisce, “the most monstrous idol,” who was the equivalent of the tsar.
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He spoke with a New Orleans journalist about some of his earliest guitar influences: "A bunch of really strange guitar players I met in the 80s really influenced me. Danny Gatton, who committed suicide, was one of the most monstrous Telecaster players to ever walk the planet. Gatton worked with another guy I met named Evan Johns. They were both from Washington, D.C. and played in rockabilly bands, but the rockabilly kind of turned punk. Evan introduced me to Danny Gatton’s style," Davis said.
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Generally, however, it is a well-crafted, brave, and painful examination of one of the most monstrous issues of our time." The review in Publishers Weekly found the book to be an "engrossing, lyrical page-turner". Author Nicholas Pashley reviewed the book for the National Post, writing that "Some readers might find MacIntyre's frequent timeshifting a distraction, but by and large the author handles the various decades of his tale deftly. And as a native Cape Bretoner himself, he brings the region and its residents vividly to life.
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Blair was born in Richmond, Virginia on June 21, 1834 to John Geddes Blair and Sara Ann Eyre Heron Blair. He had some formal schooling, but received most of his education through reading. During the Civil War Blair fought with the Confederate States Army with the Company A, 13th Battalion Virginia Light Artillery, where he was known for "challenging authority, engaging in fistfights, and spending time in stockade confinement". Blair would later consider his time spent with the Confederate army a waste, as he considered slavery a "most monstrous institution".
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Lutzer, EW., Seven Reasons Why You Can Trust the Bible, Moody Publishers, 2008, pp. 16 & 34. Critics of traditional Jewish and Christian belief have also argued that inconsistencies undermine the value of scripture. The deist minister Joseph Barker, speaking in 1854 at the Hartford Bible Convention, described the Bible as "the most inconsistent, the most monstrous and blasphemous representations of God that can possibly be conceived by the human mind" and argued that "The book that contradicts science and contradicts itself is a book of no authority whatsoever".
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Later that month, he was a main advocate for rejecting the Hitler administration's Enabling Act, calling it the "most monstrous resolution ever demanded of a parliament." Having received assurances from Hitler that the Centre Party would not be banned he yielded to party discipline and voted in favour of the bill. With the Communist Party's deputies already banned from the Reichstag, only the Social Democrats voted against the law. When Kaas was held up in Rome and resigned from his post as chairman of the Centre Party, Brüning was elected chairman on 6 May.
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WWE also promoted Moolah as having "challenged the gender norms of a once male-dominated sport", but Bixenspan described that Moolah, by wrestling and teaching her students an "in-ring style low on athleticism and heavy on hair-pulling", relegated women's wrestling to "much more of a sideshow" instead of a "legitimate headline attraction" in the previous era. Mad Maxine, a wrestler trained by Moolah, commented that Moolah was the most "monstrous" person she had ever met, and that wrestling is "about generating heat. And you can't draw more heat than naming a match for The Fabulous Moolah." On March 12, a Change.
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Jarry and his classmate, Henri Morin, wrote a play they called Les Polonais and performed it with marionettes in the home of one of their friends. The main character, Père Heb, was a blunderer with a huge belly, three teeth (one of stone, one of iron and one of wood), a single, retractable ear and a misshapen body. In Jarry's later work Ubu Roi, Père Heb would develop into Ubu, one of the most monstrous and astonishing characters in French literature. At 17 Jarry passed his baccalauréat and moved to Paris to prepare for admission to the École Normale Supérieure.
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Fra Diavolo (lit. Brother Devil; 7 April 1771-11 November 1806), is the popular name given to Michele Pezza, a famous guerrilla leader who resisted the French occupation of Naples, proving an "inspirational practitioner of popular insurrection".Piero Pieri, Storia militare del Risorgimento (Torino: Einaudi, 1962), p. 18. The short accounts in Pieri and Tommaso Argiolas' Storia dell'Esercito Borbonico (Napoli: ESI, 1970), provide succinct treatments of the Neapolitan insurrection of 1799; Milton Finley's The Most Monstrous of Wars: The Neapolitan Guerrilla War in Southern Italy, 1806–1811 (Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina, 1994), provides an account of the second Neapolitan insurgency against the French.
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The story begins with 12-year-old Gustave, captain of the Aventure as he attempts to escape the deadly Siamese Twins Tornado. When the storm finally catches up with his crew, everyone is killed except Gustave, who meets Death, and his crazy sister Dementia. After the wicked siblings play dice for Gustave's soul, Death gives him six seemingly impossible tasks in order to stay alive. In one night, he must face six giants, rescue a damsel in distress from the clutches of a dragon, make himself conspicuous amidst a forest of evil spirits, encounter the Most Monstrous of all Monsters, and even meet himself.
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"The Idol of the Flies" from the June 1942 issue has also been frequently anthologized; it concerns an evil boy named Pruitt who has been called "one of the most monstrous children in literature". After the war she wrote for the slicks and women's magazines, including Colliers, Ladies' Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, and Charm. After a hiatus lasting several years she wrote stories for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in the late 1950s, and in 1966 published the story "The Loolies Are Here", written in collaboration with Ruth Allison under the name Allison Rice in the anthology Orbit 1 (1966), edited by Damon Knight. In the 1980s she resumed writing with a number of atmospheric mystery short stories for Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.
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The next day, the Preussische Pressedienst (Prussian Press Service) reported that "this act of incendiarism is the most monstrous act of terrorism carried out by Bolshevism in Germany". The Vossische Zeitung newspaper warned its readers that "the government is of the opinion that the situation is such that a danger to the state and nation existed and still exists".. Walter Gempp was head of the Berlin fire department at the time of the Reichstag fire on 27 February 1933, personally directing the operations at the incident. On 25 March he was dismissed for presenting evidence that suggested Nazi involvement in the fire. Gempp asserted that there had been a delay in notifying the fire brigade and that he had been forbidden from making full use of the resources at his disposal.
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"The second sea filled the Petite Jeanne's decks flush with the rails, and, as her stern sank down and her bow tossed skyward, all the miserable dunnage of life and luggage poured aft. It was a human torrent.... Out of all my experiences I could not have believed it possible for the wind to blow as it did.... It was a monstrous thing, and the most monstrous thing about it was that it increased and continued to increase." The Petite Jeanne is destroyed in the hurricane, and Charley survives by clinging to a hatch cover from the boat, sharing it with a Kanaka named Otoo. Eventually Charley loses consciousness, and comes to on the beach of an atoll; Otoo has saved his life by pulling him from the water.
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' Notes written by Kerr and found in his file at Chiswick give an indication of his mental condition at this time: > 'Dear Dr Tuke, > I wish I c[oul]d have some more brandy: it is like being in prison to be > deprived like this of ordinary necessities. > C.K. > Also if you c[oul]d lend me a hypodermic syringe I s[houl]d be very much > obliged.' > > 'Dear Dr Tuke > Last night, the morphia bottle was not found in my room: so Mr [illegible] > refused to give me a dose at all: this, I regard as the most monstrous piece > of insolence in a paid [illegible] I have ever heard of: but not by any > means the only bit of impertinence I have been subject to. The morphia you > have given me has had no effect at all.
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Harlow is reached from junction 7 of the M11 motorway, which runs from London to Cambridge, placing it within a short distance of Stansted Airport and the A120 and the orbital M25 motorway. The M11 motorway was originally planned to run to the west of Harlow, not the east as it does today. Having planned for one of the two big industrial estates to be built to the west of the town for easy motorway access, Sir Fredrick Gibberd was appalled when the motorway was eventually built to the east of the town instead, describing it as "just about the most monstrous thing to ever happen to me as a planner" during a 1982 interview. Running through the town is the A414, a major road from Hertford to Chelmsford and linking the town with the A10 to the west.
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According to Raphael Volterrano: "It was a revolting scene to look at that deformed, blackened corpse, prodigiously swelled, and exhaling an infectious smell; his lips and nose were covered with brown drivel, his mouth was opened very widely, and his tongue, inflated by poison, ... therefore no fanatic or devotee dared to kiss his feet or hands, as custom would have required." The Venetian ambassador stated that the body was "the ugliest, most monstrous and horrible dead body that was ever seen, without any form or likeness of humanity". Ludwig von Pastor insists that the decomposition was "perfectly natural", owing to the summer heat. It has been suggested that, having taken into account the unusual level of decomposition, Alexander VI was accidentally poisoned to death by his son, Cesare, with cantarella (which had been prepared to eliminate Cardinal Adriano), although some commentaries doubt these stories and attribute the Pope's death to malaria, then prevalent in Rome, or to another such pestilence.
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The mid-1960s saw the emergence of the hippie scene and the increasing use of the mind-altering drugs that Anger himself had been using for many years. In particular, the hallucinogen LSD, which at the time was still legal in the United States, was very popular, and in 1966 Anger released a version of his earlier film, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome titled the "Sacred Mushroom Edition" which was screened to people while taking LSD, thereby heightening their sensory experience. By this time, Anger had become well known throughout the underground scene in the United States, and several cinemas across the country screened his better known films all in one event. With this growing fame, Anger began to react to publicity in much the same way as his idol Aleister Crowley had done, for instance describing himself as "the most monstrous moviemaker in the underground", a pun on the fact that Crowley had been labelled "the wickedest man in the world" by the British tabloids in the 1920s.
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In 1999, Worsthorne said that only a federal Europe can stop the abolition of Britain, arguing that "the European Right (and Left for that matter) has no fear of the strong state, no hang-ups about individual liberty, which is why it is as willing to use the power of the state to curb the excesses of free speech and a free media, as of free enterprise or free trade".Peregrine Worsthorne "As I Was Saying: Only a federal Europe can stop the abolition of Britain", The Spectator, 3 September 1999 In the early 2000s, in reference to nuclear weapons and the possibility of nuclear war during the Cold War, he said "would some historian emerging centuries later from the post-thermonuclear war Dark Ages have judged (pressing the button) morally justified, or so evil as to dwarf even the most monstrous inequities of Hitler, Stalin and Mao? ... How could we have believed anything so preposterous?".cited by Jakob von Uexkull "Our World Needs A Different Human Story", International Peace Foundation (Bangkok), 14–25 March 2004 In 2004 he released a book called In Defence of Aristocracy.
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