Their accusations are as horrendous as they are hackneyed: the Roma are pickpockets, baby thieves, spongers, beggars, tax-shirkers, doorstep-defecators.
This complex tissue of normality makes one wonder what aspects of our own everyday business-as-usual people will, a century or two from now, be considered as horrendous as we think the slave trade was.
I quizzed him about the chemo and from what I can gather, it won't be as horrendous as the last lot I had.
"When something is as horrendous as his offence was, understandably people will struggle to understand how and why somebody like that will truly recover," he said.
There are some truly awful commercials out there, but none of them are quite as horrendous as the newest commercial for the 2015 Toyota Sienna minivan -- not even the sum of that smug, know-it-all Flo.
How much money qualifies as horrendous?
He has described the figures as "horrendous".
Steele remembers that first six months as "horrendous".
He describes Republican candidate Donald Trump as "horrendous and shameful".
Roddick graded his play in the first three as "horrendous, like, really, really badly".
As horrendous as it was, I'm glad I went through the experience.
