Word: monstrous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sentiments for war are running high on both sides. We must resist these tendencies because the costs to everyone are too high. We appeal to your integrity and intelligence to raise your voices against the presence of a criminal of monstrous proportions in this country, if not for sympathy for the Iranian people for the values you aspire to yourselves...
Grafting Atlantis's mythic structure onto the suburban experience of lonely bedrooms and psychiatrist couches, Updike grows monstrous trees of mixed metaphors...
More often than not, however, these nuggets of well-proportioned wit are isolated, self-contained, and have no need for the monstrous superstructure around them. Barth could have--and has--written wonderful short stories or brief novels with such material...
...European takeovers depended on local opposition to the nuclear plants. We too rely critically on the support of Seabrook residents. For a decade now, Seabrook citizens and people all over New England have been opposing the monstrous 1,200 megawatt twin reactors planned for the small New Hampshire coastal hamlet. Seabrook is just north of the Massachusetts border, less than an hour's drive from Boston. The Seabrook nukes are a very real threat to all of us. A meltdown there would destroy most of New Hampshire, parts of Maine, and the Boston metropolitan area. The Seabrook nukes are also...
Most of Fabian's sex occurs inside his VanHome, a monstrous mobile house of a half-dozen rooms, among them a tack room, skylit bedroom, and stable for his horses. The VanHome and the strange sex that goes on inside it leap out as symbols of the way of life Kosinski's characters have always sought. The impregnable quality of the VanHome, its mobility and completeness, match the character of its driver. Like the sex in his bedroom, Fabian burns wildly passionate on the inside. But like the cool metal walls of the VanHome, his shell is unforgiving...