Word: ghoulish
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...that “knowledge alone that a particular result is certain to occur” doesn’t suffice. Pain itself—not, say, eliciting information—has to be the animating motive.Bybee’s sophistries are threaded together with a kind of ghoulish moral imperviousness. He speculates that it is “likely” that a court would find that “electric shocks to genitalia” constitute torture. Describing someone being forced to his knees and kicked in the stomach with military boots, however, Bybee decides that...
...prefers to think of face and hand transplants as "composite tissue transplants" because several kinds of tissue-fat, skin, muscle and possibly even bone-may be involved. (He didn't say this but maybe it's also a way to tone down some of the more ghoulish reporting on the topic.) "Composite tissue transplants have the potential to revolutionize reconstructive surgery," says Dr. Lee, who is chief of the school's division of plastic surgery. "I think it is premature to do this [operation...
...intend to give in, and will portray Democrats as politicking if they do not accept a bipartisan panel proposed by Republican congressional leaders. Ken Mehlman, the party's chairman and Bush's campaign manager last year, told TIME that viewers at home will think it's "kind of ghoulish, the extent to which you've got political leaders saying not 'Let's help the people in need' but making snide comments about vacations...
...seem ghoulish to go fishing for real-life connections between the sad characters in Saraband and Bergman's own turbulent domestic life. But his films are so personal, and he has been so outspoken about writing his emotional autobiography on the screen, that such expeditions are inevitable. So know that Saraband is dedicated to Ingrid, Bergman?s fifth wife, who died in 1995; she likely inspired the film's much-mourned Anna. Bergman's relationships with his children, especially his sons, were often stormy. One child he did feel close to, as Johan does to Karin in the film...
...meet briefly with his wife Sally Jean, who traveled to Nicaragua from Wisconsin. At week's end two coffins containing the bodies of Cooper and Sawyer were unceremoniously dumped outside the U.S. embassy by Nicaraguans just after an anti-American demonstration. Embassy staffers denounced the Sandinista action as "ghoulish." The bodies were later flown back...