And the devastation of war, with saturation bombing of city after city _ London and Dresden, for example _ and the ghastliness of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a horrendous testimony of the depths to which we can sink in our inhumanity to one another.
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"We are free ! " said Tutu in a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the WCC . " We have won a spectacular victory over injustice and oppression and the ghastliness of apartheid, " thanks in large measure to international support.
23.
Sexual discomfort peaks in a scene of sexual ghastliness when the fiercely estranged couple played by Kline and Allen attend a social event that turns out to be a key party, in which the men drop their car keys into a fishbowl and the women pick them out, one by one.
24.
All told, a picture like the Struldbrugs of " Gulliver's Travels, " the race of people who were immortal but continued to age into what the narrator described as " the most mortifying sight I ever beheld . . . ghastliness in proportion to their number of years ."
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Some of the answers are so straightforward as to require little description and even less analysis : her youth, her glamor, the sheer ghastliness of the manner of her death, the way in which the well-publicized death of someone as famous as she can focus people's attention on death itself.
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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.
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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, " 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.
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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.
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It is little wonder that upon Poe's death a representative obituary ( in The New York Daily Tribune ) described him as " pale even to ghastliness " and reported that his heart was " gnawed with anguish " and his face " shrouded in gloom, " thereby helping to inaugurate the mythic, tortured Poe whom Christine Nelson, the curator of the exhibition, seeks to rein in with her presentation of manuscripts and memorabilia drawn entirely from the Morgan's collection.
30.
After a new rope was put on Mr P Cooper, Mr John Brown, Mr Maddison, Mr Potter, Mr Kell, Mr Platts, Mr Minto ( the under-viewer of Mount Osborne colliery ) and various other engineers and deputies from surrounding collieries along with seventy or eighty men went down to make up the rescue party . 20 live victims were sent up but 14 later died of their injuries . 50 bodies in " various conditions of ghastliness " were recovered by the end of the first day.
