With succeeding Lord Horror works, each one aims to out-do the preceding one in grossness. From Wordnik.com. [Ballardian » “Driven by Anger”: An Interview with Michael Butterworth (the Savoy interviews, part 1)] Reference
Yet even here the grossness is but little more pronounced than what we find in our old drama (e. g. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
It would be too simple to call grossness the last (or the next) frontier, although some critics out there will, but. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
It wasn't scary or traumatic; it was gross, but it was the kind of grossness that pre-teen boys revel in. From Wordnik.com. [Raiders of the Lost Ark] Reference
It will be found free from that grossness which is unavoidable in. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete] Reference
Why is a diamond any more chargeable with "grossness" than a cubic centimetre of hydrogen?. From Wordnik.com. [The Unseen World and Other Essays] Reference
Thus the subject comes to be regarded from a purely physiological standpoint, and is liberated from that association with grossness which is the active cause of sensuality. From Wordnik.com. [Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.] Reference
I have seen no suspicion of 'grossness' about you. ". From Wordnik.com. [Laddie; a true blue story] Reference
'grossness' of 'matter and motion,' the principles of his philosophy, when what really dismays us is the disconsolateness of its ulterior practical results?. From Wordnik.com. [Pragmatism] Reference
There was no grossness about him, no brutality, no abominable vice. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843] Reference
O'Kiku had grown used to this grossness in the determined pursuit of. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
Weltering in grossness, she could still be touched by the sight of purity. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
Mr. Green, the grossness of the early Elizabethan stage -- because he is a boy?. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis] Reference
The phenomenon conforms to the purity of feeling, not to the grossness of sense. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
The curves of her sloping neck were perfect and carried not a wave-line of grossness. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
However much the licentious grossness of Lady Booby, the shameless self-seeking of her waiting-woman. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Fielding: a Memoir] Reference
It was a relief to turn from such grossness to its antithesis in the shape of two American ladies who sat near us. From Wordnik.com. [A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes] Reference
As a rule, however, decadent and spiritual poets alike shrink from the thought of grossness, in spite of the fact that Joyce. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
Was her soul, its purity and beauty symbolized by her very dress, to be united to that other soul in its grossness and deformity?. From Wordnik.com. [At the Time Appointed] Reference
Where more than the head is represented, license is given to a certain grossness of idea; but this is not a general characteristic. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
Could it be that any politician of unreasonable tenure falls into habits of political slough and grossness if not outright corruption?. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Wolff: Charlie Rangel Never Had a Chance] Reference
The practice of external vice, just in proportion to its grossness, incapacitates us for perceiving what is true or loving what is good. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Character] Reference
Again and again has religious enthusiasm pictured a life to be eliminated from the grossness and imperfections of our material existence. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
The flame of Burns had already eaten all grossness out of the rudest rusticities, and in the space of twenty years at most the Auld Braid. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
Let us not make any mistake concerning these; they are exceptions to the rule; the appearance of health in them is but the grossness of sensuality. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
It's a certain post-grunge je ne sais quoi that has to do with sexiness in such clanking, chugging overdrive that it teeters on the edge of grossness. From Wordnik.com. [Skanks, But No Skanks] Reference
They who unitedly move themselves away from grossness and from earth, toward the throne of crystaline and the pavement golden, are, indeed, true lovers. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
And yet he is already so much more acceptable in his grossness and loucheness, and fascinating for it, than he was even just a little more than a week ago. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Wolff: Could Carl Paladino Really Win?] Reference
Veil'd in a simple robe: and all the characters are simple; yet free from any alloy of grossness, while the grouping and drawing are excellent in a very high degree. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference
It was, no doubt, his full intent to make her his in all the grossness of the fact, but not until he had got rid of Amilcare, or induced Amilcare to get rid of himself. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
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