The people who fought to remove Richard Serra's "Tilted Arc" from Foley Square — it came down in 1989, after eight years of public protest — said that the arc was "ugly," "brutal," "intrusive," "hostile," "offensive," and "dangerous," and even that it cast a "sinister shadow," but none of them said that it was a bad role model, or was racist, or insulted minorities.
I played in the very first day-night ODI in Melbourne in 1985 and can tell you it was a hostile, ugly environment.
Everything around me became hostile, ugly, disgusting and scary.
Think of the first Mrs Rochester in Wide Sargasso Sea, recalling the sanctuary of her Jamaican bedroom ("I am safe. There is the corner of the bedroom door and the friendly furniture"), or of Georges Perec's description of the staircases in apartment blocks ("Nothing is uglier, colder, more hostile, meaner").
All those involved in project were wary that viewer response might be hostile, even ugly.
People with less rarefied taste often will insist that they "like modern architecture" yet find a particular building that they use daily to be hostile and ugly in its avant-garde design.
(Referring to an image of Japanese children grinning in a nineteen-forties internment camp that Paglen had included in the cannister, Herzog added, in the conversation's Herzoggiest moment, "The universe knows no smiles — it is hostile and ugly").
That tone has been hostile, provocative and ugly.
The fact that hostile, provocative and ugly political speech falls short of the legal definition of incitement doesn't make it right.
By the time I told him I'd swapped his Mac for an ugly Compaq 8088, Jobs was speaking only in hostile monosyllables.
