At first it looked ugly, their rushing and stamping.
The trend Ms. Blackman tapped into inspired a kind of ugly-sweater gold rush.
It says something about the state of political discourse that only "subhuman mongrel" really got remarked on, in a rush of ugly invective.
They set the stage for an ugly mess, with states rushing to erect their own rogue laws, which then have to be dismantled by the courts piece by piece.
The incident complicates, though it doesn't erase, the picture of that night: the clusters of people, the way they moved and met, the points that stood alone, the ones that clustered in scribbled spots — both bright and ugly — and the lines that rush across, like rescue flares, and perhaps form unexpected connections.
First Children are often treated unkindly: Rush Limbaugh said that Chelsea Clinton was ugly; a Washington Post music critic said that Margaret Truman sang badly; it can't have been easy to be a Bush twin.
That, anyway, is what he told CNN's Don Lemon, after he got guff within the party for attacking Rush Limbaugh's rhetoric as "incendiary" and "ugly".
But LCD displays aren't quite commodities yet, so take a moment to ponder your options before you rush out and lose 25 pounds of ugly desktop fat.
When Senator Rick Santorum, a Pennsylvania Republican, delivered an ugly attack on gay Americans last month, President Bush rushed to defend him.
Because if Flacco has to spend all day dropping back against a pass rush featuring Von Miller, Elvis Dumervil et al, this is going to get ugly.
