Sentence examples for hideous place from inspiring English sources

"It's a hideous place," he said.

Finally, Alice and Eric moved away from the hideous place with the smoky skies, that hopeless place whose own inhabitants could find no good word to say for it.

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.

It's harder to deny the existence of the straight world -- a hideous place full of politicians and bachelor parties and fun, fit professionals who live in terror of being insufficiently clean -- which claims you as a citizen if you're a woman with a boyfriend, regardless of your views on the gender binary.

These blissful, halcyon times would end, and I'd be unceremoniously dumped into that hideous, dark place known as the real world.

Sickening scenes of violence took place almost every hour of the day, as the doctors went from cell to cell performing their hideous office".

What kind of clueless homeowners could fail to notice such a hideous process taking place on their own front lawn?

"The energy around the place was hideous," Holloway said.

But how does a film-maker with a love of exploitation flicks handle scenes in which genuinely hideous exploitation is taking place?

The hospital that Orwell described in How the Poor Die was a place of hideous cruelty because the staff cared nothing for the patients.

And in Ahn Byeong-ki's Phone, slightly silly though it may be, phones are like the fridge in Ghostbusters, a hideous portal to a place no human should ever tread.