We proceeded to discuss how we felt: about the fact that the negotiations turned ugly; about the fact that we could not settle on one group to represent all of our concerns; about the fact that it was the most trivial differences that were the fuel for the world's end; about the fact that we were all dead courtesy of a blue-caped monster.
"This makes for a bit of an ugly landscape, sorry about that," Granada's mayor told the chief rabbi.
Kessler wrote to Hofmannsthal, "What is ugly about life is that it so often only provides uneasy half solutions that are so seldom pure and tragic ones".
There is nothing good, but there is much bad and ugly, about the fact that Samuel DuBose's killing at the hands of University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing was caught on video by a body camera.
Things are about to get ugly, and that ugliness actually has a name: Anthropocene.
The arsonist returns in Black's 10th novel, MURDER IN THE PALAIS ROYAL (Soho, $25), with an even uglier story to tell about that night -- if someone doesn't kill him first.
As someone who has both taught in a private school and paid "full" tuition to send her children through middle and upper school at that school, I should be silent about the ugly truth that this essay reveals about America in 2012.
PAUL GOLDBERGER Architecture critic of The New Yorker "It really is unspeakably ugly, there's no doubt about that.
First we meet Treasure, a tom-boy with asthma and a big, ugly scar (you will learn about that if you read it).
Instead of screaming about the evils inherent in Adam Lambert's performance, perhaps we should use this as an opportunity to talk about that old ugly double standard which still exists, but has turned slightly on its head with respect to sexual orientation.
