And not until its hideousness is made apparent to the world at large by women's dictum, will men cease to drink both in public and private. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding] Reference
And as for Beyonce, I just thought it was plain hideousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Best and Worst of the 2009 Academy Awards] Reference
Longrider's words in order to paint a picture of the kind of hideousness that Lovelock is contemplating. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil's Kitchen] Reference
Give the Free Churches time, and let us see whether they have not something better to give us in return than "hideousness" and "immense ennui.". From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
It lacks the hideousness of exposure, so far as you see. From Wordnik.com. [For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store] Reference
But with the perfection of hideousness -- one might safely write. From Wordnik.com. [The Mark of the Beast] Reference
I find one comfort, however, in the very hideousness of our statues. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860] Reference
What mask could exceed in hideousness the countenance of the Dead Man?. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
Their minds have not been sensitized to outdoor beauty and hideousness. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
He wrote as readily and fully of the hideousness of slavery to Meusnier and. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference
There was one exception, however, to the general hideousness of their faces. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
Is this the life you long to change into the dull red hideousness of Georgia?. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
Some of the other pictures are wonderful, too -- wonderful in their hideousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference
Girl of sixteen, a "wildwood Cleopatra," an exception to the general hideousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
She had fled from one hideousness to another which would be ten times more horrible. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheik] Reference
She strikes a certain horror to the spectator by the very hideousness of her terror displayed. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
But do not imagine that he relies on his own powers of scream and hideousness alone, -- not he!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
At last she could bear it no longer; she put her hands to her ears to shut out the hideousness of it. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
He would also note that if this hideousness is a reflection of his affection for you, he's in trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Ask Amy] Reference
The mountains, in that softening light, lost their hideousness and were really beautiful to look upon. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers] Reference
Mr. Douglass's forte was in oratory; in exposing the hideousness of slavery and the wrongs of his race. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
'The hideousness of the man was great; nevertheless he attacked him and took his head and his pig with him. From Wordnik.com. [Táin Bó Cúalnge. English] Reference
The room despite its hideousness was full of pleasant recollections to them both, for when Hulworth was not let. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
Your giant is a butterfly; to-day he roams on gilded wings, to-morrow he will show his hideousness and be forgotten. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 327, August 16, 1828] Reference
A shining spirit, gentle and brave in affliction might have transformed even these, robbing them of their hideousness. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
Mention his name, and the huge blot by which his memory is besmirched starts up before the mind in all its hideousness. From Wordnik.com. [Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters] Reference
He could find no words to lessen the hideousness of this discovery for the man through whose fault the tragedy had come. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
They are all heads and tails, and then, not the toss of a copper to choose between the two ends, as regards hideousness. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870] Reference
Life was showing itself to her in this experience, as seen through the lens of a quickened imagination, in all its hideousness. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
Born of Freud and the hideousness of the first world war, surrealism was a vital cultural part of the resistance against the Nazis. From Wordnik.com. [Ways Of Looking] Reference
I accepted the large orange and green monstrosity whose hideousness was multiplied exponentially when opened. From Wordnik.com. [Sanctuary] Reference
And between the green woollen bell-ropes on each side of the fireplace and above the cold hideousness of the marble mantelpiece hung. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
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