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When the MP Stella Creasy received a hideous image of a masked man clutching a knife with the words "I'm gonna be the first thing u see when u wake up", I experienced a lurching realisation that Linah's final experience may have been horribly similar, yet her threats were not splashed across the national news.
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And here is Golic -- arguably the program's biggest enthusiast -- calling this hideous image of a child under 10 getting completely wrecked, a "nice hit".
The men's recollections of the shooting are a reel of hideous images: a dead teen-age boy splayed out in the back seat of a car; the mother with a mangled arm holding up a baby who was red with blood.
There were already debates in Europe and the US about refugees and what to do about the Islamic State, and the hideous image of armed men and suicide bombers killing civilians in a Western capital has only made those arguments more urgent.
The central movement has the hideous image of two women lifted, each upright, but with legs straddling the shoulders of two men apiece.
As a narrative, it's beautifully structured, weaving its way from the family's childhood holidays in rural Sweden to their lives in London, returning always to the hideous image of Hans and Eva's bedroom as the dark centre of the story.
Taking a leaf out of the Stewart Lee playbook (and with a typically divisive quote from Lee included, comparing this German standup to Werner Herzog), this rather hideous image achieves what many fringe posters set out to do but surprisingly few manage: clearly defining the nature of the comedian and his show while also providing us with a genuinely funny visual at the same time.
Prosecutors had confessions from all five black and Hispanic defendants, who were ultimately convicted of joining in a vicious attack on the white investment banker, a crime whose hideous images still haunt New Yorkers.
They rarely talked about the hideous images that occasionally flooded their minds.
Imagine, he says, that the sculptor presented the full range of agony described in the poem: "The figure which formerly awakened our sympathy, from the admirable union which it presented of the expression of beauty and pain, is instantly converted into a hideous and unseemly image , from which the spectator will turn away his eyes in disgust".
One has the image of a hideous female ghost on its side; another resembles a stoneware tea caddy; some look as if they were made of bronze, gold or silver; and others mimic antique, cracked and worn ink cakes.
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The phrase "a hideous image" functions as a noun phrase, where "hideous" is an adjective modifying the noun "image". It serves to describe a visual representation that is extremely unpleasant or shocking, as indicated by Ludwig.
Expression frequency: Uncommon
