In this great anniversary year of the Ballets Russes, what we find when we look at Diaghilev is a great and sometimes monstrous example of the self-inventor as international guru of art.
One monstrous example is his account of a short war with India at Kargil in 1999, when he was merely army chief.
Here, for example, my father makes us see what Lok sees: one of the New People as a monstrous, alien apparition.
That style has been condemned as a monstrous expression of Modernism.
This week, as work began on California's "bullet train" project, taxpayer groups condemned it as a monstrous waste of money.
She and her brother, "knee high," looked forward to the storm as "a monstrous specialty, a leviathan.
On the other hand, the behemoth could also be configured as a monstrous can of sardines.
Speaking hours afterwards, he denied involvement and described her murder as a "monstrous crime".
George Monbiot, writing in this paper, referred to the treaty as a "monstrous assault on democracy".
His remarks come after the London mayor Boris Johnson described the charter as a "monstrous folly".
