Hideous character defects traceable to childhood traumas explained just about anything the authors disapproved of.
Having bombed at the box office with his action movies, Chow ended up playing a stereotypical, hideous character in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
Nef is aware of feminist critiques tugging at the loose ends of Assassination Nation's feminism (is it really that woke to see women being pilloried, tortured and beaten up? Why is Bella Thorne's hideous character not given any of the nuance the male villains are?), but she's also aware that other critics have said "this isn't boisterous or flashy enough".
COSTA MESA — Sixth-grade student Diana Goodling portrayed the story of one of the most hideous characters in Ancient Greek history in a way that was not only cute, but made the audience laugh.
A Jefferson hand wrote that Adams was a "hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensitivity of a woman".
Two years later, Callender assailed Federalist President John Adams as a "hideous hermaphroditical character". But in 1801, after being fined and jailed by the Federalists and hailed as a "martyr" by Republicans, Callender turned his sights on newly elected President Jefferson.
Now, having destroyed the political career of one of the most brilliant of the Federalists, Callender set energetically to work defaming his rival John Adams, who would be standing for re-election, describing him, in one relatively mild phrase, as "a hideous hermaphroditical character".
Callender wrote that Adams was a rageful, lying, warmongering fellow; a "repulsive pedant" and "gross hypocrite" who "behaved neither like a man nor like a woman but instead possessed a hideous hermaphroditical character". For those who may not deal in such terminology, a hermaphrodite is one who has both male and female organs.
Jefferson in turn hired a surrogate to say of John Quincy Adams that he was a "hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman".
In this period, Adams designated Jefferson as "the son of a half-breed Indian squaw," while Jefferson responded that Adams was "a "hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman".
In the election of 1800, Thomas Jefferson supporters accused John Adams of having a "hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman," while Adams' team distributed a pamphlet calling Jefferson "a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father".
