Sentence examples for human monstrosity from inspiring English sources

Michigan and Pennsylvania penal codes, for instance, prohibit the exhibition of any "deformed human being or human monstrosity" except for scientific purposes.

So when a coquettish former prisoner named Sarah Dyer is delivered of a weasel-sized "human monstrosity" that she and the midwife swear is her son, only Mr. Bent, the editor of the local newspaper, is inclined, as he ungraciously puts it, "to smell a rat".

Born into a hellish 19th-century penal colony in Tasmania, Arthur Dyer looks, barks and plays like a seal -- in fact, the weasel-sized "human monstrosity" is an oddly appealing protagonist whose fortunes are shaped by those who care for him (his mother, mainly) and those out to exploit his entertainment value.

"Had God raised either Herod or Pilate, it would have been ratification of human monstrosity.

When Europeans heard tell of the New World they were disappointed to be told by Columbus that "in these islands I have so far found no human monstrosities, as many expected".

The central figure is part human and part monstrosity, a cyborg of sorts who is mercilessly attacked by more conventionally bodied human men.

And despite the wealth of all-too-human examples of monstrosity, adult audiences too demand villains from other worlds, different species and indeed beyond the grave.

There's neither a symbolic nor an ironic dimension to deflect attention from his view of the towering monstrosity of human nature and the hard-won tenderness and furious outbursts of joy that arise from the same furious currents.

Indeed, the story of Blaustein's two-headed salamander, like Cable's early description of a "tiny monstrosity", captures human discomfort at polycephaly.

Speaking as someone who has not lost a dear loved one to this monstrosity of human diseases, I can only begin to imagine, just begin to feel, the sentiments of both pain and hope that Swift had engendered that night.

Each of these discussions will focus upon the presentation of monstrosity, in a human or non-human form, within the context of the perceived genre within which that presentation operates.