The old magic of the reservoir was also lost upon The New York Times, which joined the call to pull the plug, calling it "useless," and "a hideous object to the sight, and a blight upon the neighborhood," its frequent leaks making the area damp and malarial.
Every detail of the hideous object was starkly visible because it was resting on a bed of black granules under a spotlight in a glass box at the Museum of London, at the opening of its new exhibition, "Fatberg!" I stared at it for a while, and while I did so a tiny dark speck on the fatberg became animate and started to move.
"I am like a pelican of the wilderness, a mournful and even hideous object, the very image of desolation".
One thing that people constantly ask me is how I could stand being near such a hideous object, to have kept it for a period of time in my home where my wife and I raised out three children.
I thought about how lovely the words milk fish sound, and that it took a creative, artistic sensibility to come up with such a name for such hideous, intrusive objects.
I refrained from asking him if he had any idea how hideous this object was.
Elizabeth goes home, the marriage unconsummated, and is found after the war in a lesbian relationship with Jolanth Szatmary, short-haired and hostile, who makes hideous arts and crafts objects in yellow and orange.
Our ancestors seem to have had a passion for glass, china and ceramic objects of incredible ugliness, hideous lamps, unsittable chairs and nauseating oil paintings.
"One of the Ugliest Objects in America" is indeed a hideous papier-mâché sculpture on a pedestal.
She has always said she was a hideous child with Coke-bottle glasses, and an object of ridicule until contact lenses arrived in her teens.
Worse was the scorn they endured, as objects of ridicule, seen as unmarriageable, contemptible, hideous, un-women.
