A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous". The reader moves through the text in short chunks, every few paragraphs given a choice of what to read next, and which questions to pose to Victor, from "Who is Elizabeth?", to the more complicated "Surely his revenge is complete?" In this way, the reader interrogates the story, helping to shape and navigate the text.
Not so funny was the "hideous" local private school he was sent to as a small boy, or the death of his mother when he was 12.
We can deal with the second world war and the Holocaust and so forth and what not, but this side of history, maybe because it was so hideous, people just do not want to see.
David wasn't surprised at the paltry reception of "Italian Food" — she thought the design of the Knopf edition was so hideous she couldn't bear to open the book.
Was I so hideous he didn't want to see me full frontal?
But the big problem for China is not so much that these new buildings are hideous, though many are, but that an extraordinary number of them are empty.
The induced birthing in a gloomy tower that concludes the original run, for example, would carry a hideous menace, were it not so preposterous.
It was so hideous that I could not live with it.
When Mr. Edrei, a commercial real estate lender, bought his vinyl-sided house on Green Street in 2005, he thought it was so hideous that, he said, he "couldn't stand the look of it".
It's so hideous – what with the dripping blood and exposed bones and what not – that you can't help but pay rapt attention, albeit through the spaces between your fingers as you shield your face from the simulated mutilation.
Around the same time, I'd had a Huge Hideous Thing happen to me (which we definitely do not need to get into). Let's just say it was so huge and so hideous that it made me want to flee L.A. and never return". Manjula gives a terse two-line response, but Bernadette hangs onto the relationship, no matter how unequal.
