Sentence examples for monstrous nature from inspiring English sources

Her confession to Margaery about Joffrey's monstrous nature was shocking.

His doubtless guilt and the monstrous nature of the killings seemed to rebut even the most thoughtful arguments against capital punishment.

Racinian poetic language represents preciosity at its best: the intense and monstrous nature of frustrated passion is thrown into relief by the cool, elegant, and understated formulations that carry it.

Fairytales imagine possibilities of transformation: the beast loses his monstrous shape and with it his monstrous nature, or, as in Angela Carter's scintillating piece of erotica, "The Tiger's Bride", beauty becomes a beast herself and luxuriates in it.

As the bodies inexorably pile up around his misshapen one, what is most disturbingly underlined is not his monstrous nature, but the banality of evil surrounding him: advisers thumb smartphones as they plot death, and chow down on breakfast pastries in bloodstained conference rooms.

It makes clear what I have always suspected: that we in the west are utterly undeveloped and uncivilised, governed by untrammelled Anglo-Saxon aggression and a brutish self-interest: a view that can only have been reinforced in the rest of the world by the monstrous nature of the war in Iraq.

This theory counters more common forms of historical explanation federal subsidies in the form of highways and suburban housing, for example—but captures something of the monstrous, devouring nature of the American garage.

Wasn't there the danger, in seeing Hitler as a human being, of losing sight of his intrinsic evil and monstrous, demonic nature, even of arousing sympathy for him?

Outside, Alice "no longer seemed a grotesque pet, a monstrous mistake of nature...but rather a companion of sorts -- Albert's pal".

The large sizes of some groups, as well as their seemingly monstrous and fantastic nature, have ensured dinosaurs' regular appearance in best-selling books and films, such as Jurassic Park.

But more than anything else, Tarantino has duped a lot of movie-goers into seeing a film about the monstrous, cancerous true nature of American slavery, and I'd wager that a considerable number of people who saw Django Unchained probably didn't see Spielberg's Amistad or The Color Purple or any other historical drama about slavery, many of which were sanitized for mass appeal.