And Zemlinsky, who was born in Vienna in 1871, described himself as "short and skinny... face and nose: impossible... summa summarum: hideous!" The pain of physical rejection is the theme of Zemlinsky's opera "Der Zwerg" ("The Dwarf"), of 1921, which will be presented in concert today at Avery Fisher Hall by the American Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leon Botstein.
The election night results brought back the tortuous pain, the hideous distress, and the cavernous lack of reality.
In their fantasy of retribution and lust, Claire "plays" at being Madame, a creature made up of hideous, shallow needs, paranoia, and pain.
She "feels the pain of the hideous murders of many in her extended family by the Nazis, and with friends in Israel brutally affected by Islamic terrorism as a constant of daily life".
The older you are, the filthier they get, until finally you wake up in a cloud of pain and nausea so hideous, you'd rather plunge your head into boiling Guinness than ever go through it again.
"Frankenstein" is four stories in one: an allegory, a fable, an epistolary novel, and an autobiography, a chaos of literary fertility that left its very young author at pains to explain her "hideous progeny".
She designed all the moldings for the small, carefully proportioned rooms, had all the walls re-plastered — "they all had that hideous orange-peel texture" — and took great pains over Farrow & Ball paint colors.
So while the animals are still alive, the HSI report says, the poachers "use machetes and chainsaws to hack off their horns, leaving the animals to regain consciousness with hideous deep face wounds, massive blood loss and unimaginable pain".
Bone-splitting surgery does yield excruciating pain; so-called common side effects prove uncommonly hideous.
