The philosophy is plain in the text: "When new beautiful thoughts began to push out the old hideous ones, life began to come back to [Colin], his blood ran healthily through his veins and strength poured into him like a flood".
Documentaries about animals have a tendency to turn the dial to glorious triumph, biblical confrontations between BEASTS THAT ROAM THE EARTH, but Dynasties is instead mostly about exhaustion, the hideous struggle, life in 36-hour increments.
These are the sort of people who buttonhole busy politicians about the plight of British biscuits, and make life hideous for late-night chatshow hosts.
Read more here In the last outing for the daft Manchester houseshare comedy, students Vod, JP, Howard, Josie, Kingsley and Oregon are heading for their finals and learning some hideous truths about life after the salad days of uni.
Or the festering stews of Ankh-Morpork, capital of the empire and a compendium of all that was hideous about city life before we discovered hygiene and street lighting?
And we would see a man who, more than anything else, hated Jews, a hatred that would seem to defy explanation — all of a sudden, it was there in his life, hideous and repugnant.
Your determination to beat it and your ability to embrace life, despite hideous treatment, astounded me.
Rushdie spent years braving a life of hideous threats, and hiding out under armed guard in Great Britain.
It was less a face than the idea of one, preliminary, a sketch — but careless, with terrible proportions, and slightly skewed; primitive — a face that might be touching in art, but in life was hideous.
