Sentence examples similar to hideous good from inspiring English sources

"That's hideous... good grief.

Lying on my gurney, I decided that I'd moved on from Christian docudrama to the plague portion of the Passover Seder, when we dip our pinkies into wine to represent the hideous disasters the good Lord inflicted on the Egyptians: locusts, frogs, pestilence, infertility, preëclampsia, brain damage.

"If it's big enough and not completely hideous, that's good enough for me".

He can also permit himself the belief that "perhaps in the hideous present some larger good was being born".

You get to see the abject failures, the simple mistakes, the chronic inability of frozen food to look like the image on its package and our favorite phenomenon -- the purposeful documentation of the moment when you, too drunk, too hungry or too out-of-f***s-to-give, microwave something hideous that definitely tastes good.

Morris was enormously good-natured despite hideous scars on his right arm (the result of boiling water scalding it when he was a youngster) and having to wear a wooden leg (the result of a carriage accident).

For decades it had been assumed – implicitly – that new classical music had to sound hideous, or it couldn't possibly be any good.

Both Tapley and Chuzzlewit get sick and nearly die, which changes Chuzzlewit for good: In the hideous solitude of that most hideous place, with Hope so far removed, Ambition quenched, and Death beside him rattling at the very door, reflection came, as in a plague-beleaguered town; and so he felt and knew the failing of his life, and saw distinctly what an ugly spot it was.

Some varieties look so hideous, you know they're good — for example, an English blue cheese called Blue Vinny, which is actually brown.

In the absence of Kalinda – RIP the patent knee-high boots and hideous red biker jacket – The Good Wife is in great need of a character whose alphaness is manifested through her wardrobe.

Depending on which report you read, it was either reproached for seeking £100m for such an "elitist" plan or urged to go ahead and destroy the "hideous carbuncle" for its own good.