Word: monstering
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This undoubtedly liberated Andersen's fantasy. His own head was stuffed with elves, hobgoblins, demons and freaks; he half-jokingly (but only half) presented himself as a monster with "a nose as big as a cannon and eyes as small as green peas"; one of his favorite images, which probably grew out of his regular disappointments in love and his otherwise suppressed resentment of women who had hurt him, was the "heart thief," depicted hanging from a gallows tree and clutching a human heart. The motif so obsessed him that he even worked it into a Christmas ornament...
...What a monster of smug, smirking, fatuous arrogance! May he be stripped to his shorts and forced to run the gauntlet down Seventh Avenue, pelted with eggs and tomatoes by mobs of jeering Women's Liberationists...
...short on charm, but any man with some of his phobias-sour white wines, sweet feminine conversations, more-secular-than-thou swinging clerics-can't be all bad. His pub, like many in England, has a legendary ghost, a 17th century scholar and necromancer who conjured a leafy monster to life in the backyard for purposes of terror and mayhem. Naturally, both ghost and monster turn out to be more than a legend...
...accident did the Russians halt the development of a new Berlin crisis shortly after the first major armed clash between China and Russia on the Ussuri River in March 1969. In the postwar years, the utterly unrealistic Soviet portraiture of West Germany as a vengeful monster out for Russian blood was a caricature created-in part-to justify the tremendous sacrifices demanded of both Soviet and East European people. The genuine threat of China to the Soviet Union dispelled the need for the West German monster; more important, it made détente with Europe an essential of Soviet policy...
...also beset by internal politics and bickering. One prominent securities analyst denounces the Big Board as a "Byzantine, conspiratorial Kafkaesque monster." The owners of the exchange, the 1,366 members who hold a seat entitling them to transact business on the exchange floor, have varied and often conflicting interests. When confronted by almost any proposal for change, the 33 governors divide into several factions, and the splits slow the pace of change that Exchange President Robert Haack is trying to bring about. Says Haack: "My job is to move these people into the 21st century...