Examples of monstrous

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Images with a didactic purpose such as scriptural narratives, providential warnings through monstrous births, or abstract, emblematic pictures were widely accepted.
In him, too, our fear of modernity's monstrous aspect is projected onto an elemental hatred of the" other".
The modern chorus had swollen out of control: it was monstrous, indefinable and stubborn.
From this perspective, ritual specialists who found judicial evidence in the suspect's body through ordeal or autopsy illustrated the monstrous, regressive state of local politics.
Not having public relations, goes forward with monstrous women.
My autobiography is always the autobiography of a monstrous revenant.
They pile themselves in a monstrous shapeless clot, men and women clinging indiscriminately together, like a bunch of toads at spawning time.
To so violate the terms of the nurturing, self-sacrificing womanly ideal would make her monstrous.
Ten times more monstrous than he is in troth.
Again alternative genealogies and histories loom as something far more monstrous than demons that could be cast within a 'bad phase' of history or life.
Women who enter the world of men, follow male rules, and win male rewards in power and money are somehow monstrous.
Monstrous heads and forms are also occasionally included (59r).
Working together allows us to fabricate monstrous versions of normal situations and to elaborate patterns of thinking which make sense of an invented scenario.
He has thought up the most monstrous of schemes, a totalitarian control of female nature, a complete physical, intellectual and moral enslavement.
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