There's no online platform – Twitter, Livejournal, Medium, Facebook – that hasn't been turned, at some point, into a soapbox for ugliness and hate.
With the notable exception of Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine, a moderate who announced last week that she'd had enough of the ugliness and would not seek re-election, the Republican party has regressed to a pre-modern state, making war on any woman who, to borrow Rebecca West's words, "expresses any sentiment that might differentiate her from a doormat or a prostitute".
I'm also an Asian woman and as much I try to fight it, this identity plagues my darkest thoughts – my insecurities about beauty and success are rooted in a society where white means beauty and opportunity and non-white means ugliness, fetishism or under-representation.
Ugliness does not befit Bournemouth.
Next door Libya is in meltdown; elsewhere Iraq and Syria are in the grip of civil wars, with the new ugliness of the so-called Islamic State (IS) holding territory in both.
Wherever that approach was tried in Birmingham, or Glasgow, or around the elevated Westway in north-west London it caused exactly the sort of ugliness and alienation he had hoped to banish.
(Could it‽)The interrobang was invented in 1962 by Martin K. Speckter, a journalist turned advertising executive, who disliked the ugliness of using multiple punctuation marks at the end of a sentence.
As she reflects upon King David's letter inviting her to betray her husband, you look at her eyes, her hand clutching the letter and her feet being washed by an old crone, whose ugliness points to the transitory nature of physical beauty.
AS THE economic tide recedes, it exposes all manner of ugliness, from the gargantuan fraud of Bernard Madoff to books-fiddling at Satyam.
"The air is thick with ugliness," she writes, "and there's the unmistakable stench of fascism on the breeze".
"FASHION is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months".
