The phrase "ugly events" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to negative, unpleasant, or disturbing occurrences or incidents. Example: The country was in turmoil as it was rocked by a series of ugly events, including political scandals and violent protests.
But those ugly events are peculiar to the countries in which they occurred.
The article looked at the interaction between banking and currency crises, and why contemporary theory couldn't explain why those ugly events usually happened together.
And their fear of fitna, which translates as sedition or sectarianism, look not entirely unjustified - as the ugly events in Homs have shown in recent days.
I appreciate your effort to reach out and communicate your memories and thoughts re ugly events that occurred so many years ago.
But for some reason, the emotion has gone to another level this year, and it has started a sequence of ugly events that have transpired in a short time in the first round.
Because information about trades in these markets is not widely available, only professional traders and institutional investors involved in the worldwide bond markets had a ringside seat for the ugly events unfolding there over the past six weeks.
"To bring as much beauty to this ugly event as possible, and to shut this shit down".
It's a shockingly ugly event: precisely as in the book, Ford punches her face until it collapses in on itself.
Take the ugly event that occurred during Forster's second extended trip to India, when he served as a secretary to the Maharajah of Dewas Senior, a small princely state in the colonial subcontinent, whom he called Bapu Sahib.
In fact, no single ugly event or conflict seems to inspire the story, kick it off.
Re "Through Allende's Broken Glasses, a View of Chile Today," by Tina Rosenberg (Editorial Observer, March 13): The controversial exhibit at Chile's National Museum of History of the fragment that remains of President Salvador Allende's broken glasses serves as a critical step for Chile to reclaim its history and accept the uglier events of its recent past.
