It's just hideously backward government IT at its near worst.
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Some have made hideously impressive "polish mountains" from nail varnish.
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I didn't know how many innocent people were already suffering hideously.
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As a message bill, it doesn't work because it's hideously unpopular.
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Hideously embarrassed by their hands, they stare into each other's mouths.
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Oh, and hideously bespectacled Harry Kane did something along these lines.
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The big problem with this agenda is that it's hideously unpopular.
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Hideously crushed and disfigured under the jackboot of the EU's evil Filternet!
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Yes they're hideously out of date, but they're worth archiving and remembering.
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Clearly, somewhere along the line, Dan's parenting strategy has gone hideously awry.
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Now she pays hideously low rent and is able to create constantly.
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One news outlet called California's 1100 Wilshire in Los Angeles "hideously mismatched."
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The past is hideously violent, and these institutions won't be regenerated overnight.
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"What is wrong is the valuation basis … It's expensive, hideously expensive," he added.
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The result is hideously charming, in a Flintstones-meets-IKEA kind of way.
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It's something I've been writing for the last 18 months and it's hideously hard.
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The FCC's reversal on net neutrality is somewhere between mildly unpopular and hideously unpopular.
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That's especially true because all signs point to him being hideously unpopular in Florida.
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Allowing the Sackler family to whitewash Purdue's mess is hideously cruel and insurmountably cynical.
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But weekly GDP figures do not exist and would be hideously volatile if they did.
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Well, now you can get your kicks by pranking your mates with this hideously irritating card.
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Marx had seen in capitalism a hideously corrosive source of personal defilement and communal self-destruction.
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After all, Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg famously harbored hideously disorganized workplaces.
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Even though Cohen is the apparent focus of their interest, Trump, too, must feel hideously exposed.
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Unless it goes up, any comprehensive pension system that China might eventually introduce will be hideously expensive.
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How about just a hideously ugly Houston Astros logo plastered from your shoulder blade to your abdomen?
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Public opinion polling suggests that the merged Trump-establishment party is hideously unpopular and headed for electoral defeat.
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It's a hideously homely stuffed animal, like the icky issue from a marriage between Chucky and an Ewok.
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Worse, the timetable would be hideously short: a transition period that can be extended only until December 2022.
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The hideously complicated patchwork of alliances, both national and local, meant villages were attacked repeatedly by different militias.
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The tension here is between the necessary wariness of Vega's acting and Marina's being so hideously acted upon.
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The Marine Corps may have yet another reason to question its famously complicated and hideously expensive V-22 Osprey.
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That's because they're enraged rather than merely sardonic, and also because 14 of these low-lifes die, often hideously.
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The Magisterium wants her, and so does a disgraced and possibly deranged physicist with a hideously deformed hyena dæmon.
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It's a hideously, perfectly heavy-handed metaphor for our love of shiny objects sending the country down the tubes.
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Soon a hideously lifelike digital rendering of Dio's face appeared on a large-screen monitor hanging on the wall.
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It's quite the punishing task, as anxious consumers film themselves trying to stomach the hideously spicy Carolina Reaper Chip.
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But the very fact of a Democratic House will prevent him from a repeat of 2017's hideously unpopular bills.
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But you can also do those things with a $30 Echo Dot that's not hideously crammed into a pricier soundbar.
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They are almost impossible to unwrap, they are hideously sticky, and so hard that you can scarcely bite into them.
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In an interview with Matthew Herper at Forbes, Allen called the brain "hideously complex" — much more so than a computer.
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This is the final holdout, perhaps, of Syria's Sunni rebellion, and it is facing a ghastly yet hideously unnoticed onslaught.
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The problem with the Republican health care vision is that it's hideously unpopular; that's why the GOP's Obamacare replacement efforts collapsed.
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I immediately envisioned modules that can neatly hold all my gadgets which are currently hideously scattered all around my cramped desk.
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Even a hideously unpopular O'Malley initiative like the so-called "rain tax" on impermeable surfaces was actually a perfectly reasonable idea.
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Family members are having children with each other, resulting in three hideously mutated brothers who will kill to protect their secret.
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Turns out, people love a man in red – even if he's a hideously scarred mercenary with a dark sense of humor.
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Even a hideously unpopular O'Malley initiative like the so-called "rain tax" on impermeable surfaces was actually a perfectly reasonable idea.
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Perfectly shaped apples and potatoes will share shelf space with double-pronged carrots, misshapen pears, crooked cucumbers and hideously disfigured eggplants.
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It's a hideously undesigned, totally warped wonderland of diverse opinions, where breaking news emerges and pop culture fans create alternate realities.
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"You could see the sky through the cracks in the wall, and it was hideously cold in the winter," she says.
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But the product cost more than $300, and these hideously flashy cases turned just about everyone off and never reached mainstream success.
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His face was hideously burned during childhood by his abusive older brother Gregor ("the Mountain"), leading to a lifelong fear of fire.
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"Millions of people use contraptions daily that are hideously inefficient, waste their time and are causing them long-term damage," he said.
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Grabbitz and King both identify with the post-EDM movement, albeit with an eye-roll for how hideously cheesy the terminology sounds.
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If we're talking economics, avocado toast can be hideously expensive, with a price point large enough to rival that of a house.
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"Politics has gone so hideously wrong," John C. Danforth, the state's former three-term United States senator, said as he eulogized Mr. Schweich.
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The ugliest part is the 8K TV's stand: It's hideously tacky in my opinion and I prefer the stands from LG and Samsung.
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Well, good news: That man is hideously depressed, and so are we all, because binge-watching TV shows is trouncing our mental health.
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Getting into space remained a risky and hideously expensive proposition, taken up only by governments and communications companies, each for their own reasons.
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The only element that is now wholly predictable in deciphering such hideously complicated U.S.-North Korean calculations is the situation's utterly boundless unpredictability.
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This was all extremely kind, if also hideously embarrassing, but once I got home I realized it all accomplished the goal I had.
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They strain to keep faith when racial discrimination is always hideously wrong — except when it's the not-so-secret admissions policy of Harvard.
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They're often hideously flashy, baggy, long, or all of the above, and many are designed for little more than lounging around the pool deck.
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"Trump and the Republicans got a well-deserved smack in the nose for arrogantly standing by a hideously flawed and damaged candidate," he continued.
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But then I voted to switch allegiances and help the target take refuge with the Nosferatu, a clan of hideously transformed but highly resourceful vampires.
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And when it reported, it was clear to Cramer that the stock was actually very cheap last summer when everyone thought it was hideously expensive.
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These two hideously unwise policy moves are the present catastrophe, but the resignation of Mattis is what carries the chaos forward into the years ahead.
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After all, the Premier League is controlled by a small cabal of hideously wealthy super-clubs, with nobody able to break their cycle of dominance.
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When it's finished, we turn back to the place where horror is still alive, mutating, unstyled and hideously, sadistically inventive in its cruelties: the news.
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Lila and Elena grew up in the slums of Naples, in a clinch so ardent and dangerous that to call it friendship feels hideously inadequate.
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At the restaurant, Ally's solo culinary tour of a new tasting menu goes hideously wrong when she looks at Donald Trump's Twitter feed just before eating.
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The good news for liberals about Democrats winning the House this week is that it means the Republican Party's hideously unpopular economic policy agenda is dead.
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It's like one of those old Punch cartoons of this Victorian bloke leering round the corner at two women in petticoats and it's just hideously rendered.
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That's already come to fruition over in the Lexus camp, where the company's robo-carnivores are extremely attractive to me but hideously repulsive to my mom.
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This tells us relatively little about the ultimate judgment of history; looking back, the hideously unpopular Harry Truman is now generally regarded as a great leader.
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Yet in the shadow of the epidemic, and in conversation with Guibert's novels and essays, these photographs have become documents of lives and loves hideously abbreviated.
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It reminds me of the stories my boyfriend has told me about his own hideously abusive father — whom I've thankfully never met, and never plan to.
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It reminds me of the stories my fiancé has told me about his own hideously abusive father — whom I've thankfully never met, and never plan to.
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Meanwhile, a waitress bustles in and out of the kitchen door, which swings back and forth, giving the audience teasing glimpses of Elvis' corpse being hideously dismembered.
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One expert I spoke to called aspects of Hong Kong's government "hideously complicated," but to understand some of the protesters' demands, it's worth going over the basics.
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The first 29 stories were built, but the Great Depression hit, and now it's still there, unfinished, hideously wide at the base for a building of its size.
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Showing us the sedimentary layers of toys in a bedroom hints at Miyubi's fleeting popularity, and the family's hideously gelatin-heavy Thanksgiving spread drives home its generational disconnects.
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Somewhere, some hideously underpaid blogger is typing my name, and they're either saying I'm great or I suck, but I don't hear it and I don't see it.
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But this article has outright accused my wife of all kinds of hideously vile things to the point where Ive never seen such a crucifixion in a magazine.
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One disadvantage they have is that these priorities are hideously unpopular with the public, which strongly believes that corporate taxes and taxes on the rich should be higher.
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Even Bloomberg's campaign seemed to admit he underwhelmed in the hideously tough assignment of walking into a debate cold after his rivals had been waging war for months.
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While 9/11 had indeed been a beautiful, clear day, the twisted wire was a poetic reminder of the hideously mangled metal and loss of lives that ensued.
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I feel the need to clarify that I'm not hideously deformed or anything, it was more of an accounting mistake, then a communication one, and then a judgement one.
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Trump reads things or hears things, who knows where, and is it his fault that when he repeats these things they turn out to be untrue or hideously racist?
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My ripped-up tote bag replaced a Longchamps Le Pliage, which is now hideously discolored from all the times I've dropped it on a floor so I could dance.
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Oscar Wilde's classic, "The Picture of Dorian Gray," traced the life of one such bargain-making soul who stays immune to time's ravages while his hidden portrait ages hideously.
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We have already ranked the worst teams to grace the competition – as well as the also-rans – and been hideously critical of Russia, Austria and England in the process.
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Then the hideously beautiful bridge in "Limousine," the brief calm before the storm, and the lyric that may as well be inscribed on my forehead kicked in at once.
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I wonder what Scott would have done with the hideously cheap sentiment that makes "Falsettos" (at the Walter Kerr) one of the most dishonest musicals I have ever seen.
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In a post on Facebook — which has been shared over 8,000 times — she describes how a heavy bout of flatulence turned her yoga class into a hideously embarrassing moment.
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One of the best things about the game is its hideously inventive creature designs, which offer new and disturbing takes on familiar monsters like fiery hellbats and scythe-wielding skeletons.
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He ends up working a nightclub act where he's hideously dismembered each evening, then miraculously reappears in a flash of light, to the crowd's delight and his own blank disappointment.
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It was not Bannon who misled Trump into believing Republicans were required to pass a hideously unpopular health care plan before writing a tax cut bill or doing anything else.
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Who can possibly afford to regularly pay $10 for some hideously overpriced gummy slugs, or dish out wads of hard-earned income for some obscenely small bags of stale popcorn?
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Democrats on offense Democrats, who understand well the hideously complex task of reforming health insurance markets after the Obamacare debate, quickly launched counter-attacks following the release of the CBO report.
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My nose has always been my loudest insecurity, screaming in my head randomly throughout the day that I'm hideously ugly and should go live in some sort of hidden underwater cave.
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But calorie labeling is expected to do two other things: push food producers to reformulate products so that they aren't so hideously high in calories, and change consumer attitudes about nutrition.
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" In fact, cats were often used for demonic rituals, like burning effigies of the Pope with a belly full of cats "which squalled most hideously as soon as they felt the fire.
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And his comments are indicative of a wider theme across the new games I see at AdventureX: There's a place for the most hideously esoteric puzzles, and that place is the past.
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I'm including it in this series of columns about neglected American books because I so rarely hear it mentioned, and because I continue to think it is hideously undervalued and under-read.
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"The White Chip" is a tale of a life spinning hideously out of control — of wake-up calls ignored, of seemingly hitting bottom only to discover that there's lower yet to go.
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But Trump's behavior, though it may well be hideously irresponsible and misguided, should be understood not as a deliberate stampede toward war but as an attempt to assert his dominance over Iran.
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And, Cramer added, Apple managed to achieve a $1 trillion market cap — the first U.S. company to do so — without being "hideously expensive," trading at only 15 times next year's earnings estimates.
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Until Apple, Google, and the like find a way to hide front-facing cameras and sensors beneath their smartphones' displays, notches are a hideously unfortunate design solution to maxing out screen real estate.
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If that margin holds, it will be the largest since the Democrats' 2008 victory, which came amid a collapsing economy, a hideously unpopular war, and the rise of Barack Obama's massive grassroots army.
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In terms of specs, it's got exactly the same display as the Versa (and the same hideously large bezels), runs on the same Fitbit OS, and has most of the same sensors too.
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Firstly, I worry that by pressing the doorbell, I might be pinging the wrong property, alerting a complete stranger to my presence, resulting in a hideously awkward interaction that could have been avoided.
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Set in Victorian England, the play, by Bernard Pomerance, an American living in London, was based on the true story of the hideously deformed Joseph Merrick and his struggle to adapt to society.
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In the next months, four more severed heads are discovered, hideously marooned near grounded pirogues, on paths through the sugarcane, and even on the rocks that are used by villagers as public toilets.
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Then, just when it seemed he couldn't be stopped, just when people were talking seriously about an easy swerve around Nadal and Federer in the all-time major standings, something went hideously wrong.
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" The Girls star and creator also lashed out at those who have accused her of supporting Clinton only because she was a woman, calling that assumption "condescending at best and hideously misogynistic at worst.
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Given that Saucy_AF™ is also a hideously ugly font, it's probably for the best Arby's isn't actually using it for real marketing materials — a lesson that, sadly, other companies haven't quite learned yet.
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Because that's how I felt: like the world wanted me to be invisible, or go away, so the art was a way of existing in the world whilst simultaneously being hideously submissive and polite.
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All characters are either murderers, hideously disfigured, set on fire, shot, stabbed, have their heads replaced by those of giant, smiling dogs—but it's how they execute these terrible things that make it so funny.
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The flyers were in response to hideously racist drawings found around campus, a homophobic article published by the school's conservative publication the Binghamton Review, along with a campus culture that many say excludes students of color.
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Chocolate syrup is relegated to the bowels of the fridge, among old takeout boxes and shriveled onions, before it stumbles across a hideously deformed cupcake, much of its brain gnawed away by its cruel human owners.
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Say you are Stephen Curry, rich and famous guard of the Golden State Warriors, and one of the things you are known for, beyond being brilliant at basketball, is chewing hideously on your mouthguard during games.
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These days, Iowa and its journalist hot spots — namely the glaringly lighted, hideously carpeted lobby bar of the Des Moines Marriott Downtown — can feel like a summer camp, trade convention and I.R.L. Twitter rolled into one.
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She also called an unnecessary election in June 2017, again without consulting colleagues, in which she lost her party's majority, forcing her to rely on support from the DUP, hideously complicating the Brexit negotiations regarding Northern Ireland.
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Instead, every Republican senator except three is now on record voting for a bill many in the party outright admit is terrible policy, and supporting a health care legislative effort that most polling indicates is hideously unpopular.
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The last thing Senate GOP leaders want is for House Republicans to glue their hideously unpopular health care bill back together with the blood of the chronically ill and leave the fate of Obamacare in McConnell's hands.
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Richard Lawler, Vanity Fair: It's simply a dull chore steeped in flaccid machismo, a shapeless, poorly edited trudge that adds some mildly appalling sexism and even a soupçon of racism to its abundant, hideously timed gun worship.
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"Queen & Slim" is about a black man and a black woman — we don't learn their real names until the very end — who, following a desultory first date, get caught in a traffic stop that goes hideously wrong.
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Western-sounding names are commonly used to lend the apartment complexes, towers and gated compounds that have gone up over the past two decades—almost all architecturally adrift and hideously ugly—an air of the international and exotic.
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Likewise, Kendrick's role is clearly supposed to be a comic turn—she hangs a hideously Pinterest-ish painting of a lemon tree in Emily's home once she starts dating her husband—but her backstory is truly, ickily dark.
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When we look in the mirror of society, its movies and other depictions, all we see is this hideously distorted, totally broke reflection of some woman with spit-up all over her pajamas and food in her hair.
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Boisterous crowds turned out, but its time as a site for car races was brief, only the 1938 and 1939 seasons, because it proved to be hideously dangerous and was shut down after the deaths of several drivers.
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That's an important advance because the system doesn't require an army of programmers to code in every single possible physical contingency which, given how complicated and varied the world is, would be a hideously onerous (and even intractable) task.
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Few of Jack Chick's stories ended without some unfortunate being hideously bumped off by a freak accident, before finding themselves faced by a gargantuan, faceless Christ, the suffering man of Nazareth reconfigured as a monstrous god of the underworld.
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Not because Prop 187 became hideously unpopular per se, but because it became emblematic of the California Republican Party's transformation into a vehicle for white identity politics, a transformation that rendered the GOP unacceptable to a majority of the state's voters.
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You didn't hear much about Trump's hideously unpopular tax cut, about his ongoing efforts to unwind the Affordable Care Act's regulations, about his new cuts to nutrition assistance, or about how American air quality is getting worse after decades of improvement.
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It's not the kind of case Jack would normally take, but the way these men were killed — duct-taped to a wheelchair, their mouths sealed with superglue, then tossed into a river — probably appealed to his sense of the hideously absurd.
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"Everything turned out to stink so hideously that what the United States calls 'democracy' prompts nothing but disgust," Dmitry Kiselyov, the anchor on the main weekly news show said during election coverage on Sunday night that lasted more than 30 minutes.
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No, she is not named CEO of Waystar-Royco — Logan has confirmed the position is going to his mistress Rhea (at least stepmom Marcia thinks so) — but she's also not about to be hideously roasted in the cruise scandal fallout. (Whistleblowers!
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Recuperating alongside soldiers hideously wounded in combat, he reassessed the antiwar movement, growing in stridency as the government curtailed student deferments, which had relegated much of the fighting to poor boys, and he began drafting the novel finally published this fall.
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The reasoning goes that people don't want politics to infect their relaxing TV series, and even if they did, the mere mention of the name "Barack Obama" might cause the show to seem hideously dated to potential viewers in 2036.
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In the past, your phone has likely emitted a hideously blaring, horn-like sound to indicate you were receiving a flash-flood warning from the national emergency alert system or an Amber Alert for an abducted child — emergencies everyone should be alerted to.
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It proved to be politically toxic, but Republicans almost did it anyway — passing a hideously unpopular bill through the House and securing 49 votes for a Senate bill so terrible that many Senate Republicans denounced it even as they voted for it.
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At the "private, nonsectarian, coeducational, college preparatory" (according to its own description) school I attended from fifth to twelfth grade, cool meant Abercrombie, Ralph Lauren, Ugg, Lacoste, and whatever store in the Short Hills mall sold those hideously fleecy North Face jackets.
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To experience the entire spectrum in one bite, order a side of the house-made chili paste, served in a heaping scoop that is hideously ugly but psychedelic on the tongue, a thrilling roller coaster of salt, sugar, fish, funk, and heat.
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The cost of running for office has been climbing for years, and that price tag pressures presidential candidates to declare themselves early so they can start fundraising—one reason that the 2020 campaign has hideously stretched back into the first months of 2019.
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John Hurt, an unprepossessing British character actor who vanished inside dozens of roles, from Shakespeare to science fiction, including John Merrick, the hideously deformed title character in the 1980 film "The Elephant Man," died on Wednesday at his home in Norfolk, England.
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What muddies Cruel Intentions' moral waters is that most of the people who get screwed over kind of deserve it; everyone is so hideously flawed that whoever we're supposed to be rooting for at any given time is never in our favor for long.
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Instead, Trump chose to make the American Health Care Act — a hideously unpopular bill that violated many of his own campaign promises and would cause a whole lot of pain to a whole lot of voters should it ever be enacted — his top priority.
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"The idea [behind FARA] seems to be that with the need for disclosure, lobbyists would find it too embarrassing to take on clients that were hideously immoral or corrupt, no matter how much money they were offered," investigative journalist Ken Silverstein wrote in Turkmeniscam.
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Similar prioritization of aesthetic over functional considerations is motivating the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's effort to replace its existing hideously ugly bus terminal with a much nicer new one that's a block further west and will make most people's commutes longer.
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" Dismissing the claim that the articles suggested Mosslmani was "hideously ugly" she said "the closest any such picture gets to suggesting there is anything unattractive (as opposed to ridiculous) in the plaintiff's appearance is the photograph where a skunk has been added to the plaintiff's head.
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Hideously wordy T&Cs have of course been a tech staple for years so it's good to see Twitter paying greater attention to the acceptable conduct signals it gives users — and at least trying to boil down a clearer essence of what isn't acceptable behavior, albeit tardily.
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When P.J. Avitto, 6, was stabbed to death and Mikayla Capers, 7, was gravely wounded on a Sunday afternoon four years ago, the crimes sent shock waves through the city — not only because they were hideously violent, but also because they seemed so random and unthinkable.
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I do feel that it's important to highlight it as a seriously-do-not-buy-this sack of crap, though, because due to its timing, the "classic" name attached, and the general demand for an old-school soccer game on modern systems, it feels hideously exploitative.
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But the bad news for liberals is that with the Republican Party's hideously unpopular economic policy agenda dead, the odds rise that Trump will be able to successfully secure reelection in key Midwestern swing states by waging a campaign based exclusively on racial fearmongering and culture war noise.
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Later, in the Geneva Gas Protocol of 1925, the world tried to address its WMD problem through a collective promise of "no first chemical or bacteriological use," backed by uncontrolled arsenals, which it was hoped would deter treaty breach by the hideously plausible and familiar threat of retaliation.
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Much of the system is so outdated that the MTA has to keep up custom manufacturing and repair facilities to make and fix parts that haven't been mass-produced for 50 years or more … A third problem is that of the larger American problem of hideously overpriced infrastructure.
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Even so, calorie labeling's biggest impacts are expected to have little to do with the one-off choices we make at the ordering counter: they could push food companies and restaurants to reformulate products so that they aren't so hideously high in calories, and shift consumer attitudes about nutrition.
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And yet reading about her upbringing in Rhinebeck, N.Y., I started to think of some of Mastromonaco's dilemmas as Problems I Wish I Had: Her dad gifted her multiple cars well into adulthood, including a "hideously ugly teal Corolla" that she drove to work for Senator John Kerry.
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One of the best examples of that is Otto Dix's "The Skat Players" from 1920 — similar in theme to "War Cripples," a work by Dix that was in the 1937 Munich exhibition — which offers a disturbing peek into a simple card game between three hideously disfigured World War I veterans.
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Yet in some ways, it might also come as a relief to him — because the Republican health bill, crafted mainly by Speaker Paul Ryan, was hideously unpopular, violated many of Trump's campaign promises, and would have caused a whole lot of pain to a whole lot of voters if it were ever enacted.
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A downside to the experience is the hideously juddering frame rate, something of a Telltale trademark by now; but get over that and it's clear that all the pieces are in risky positions on the board right now, with some already knocked to the side, out of the game far earlier than anticipated.
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Also not normal is the prospect that the embarrassing, highly public airing of internal dirty laundry could be construed as beneficial to the Trump administration since it detracts attention from a piece of health care legislation that is so hideously unpopular that any story about any other subject arguably serves their interests.
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There are four pieces in the show from the 21973s, three prescient works on paper and the willfully egregious "Union Jack-Off" (5413), a painted sculptural relief in which men's trousers — stuffed and painted the color of blood sausages — are transformed into hideously mangled, ejaculating penises against a backdrop of red-and-white horizontal stripes.
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And yet a West well beyond the dark original author's darkest imaginings, a West that Hieronymus Bosch might have painted: an Eden falling fast to onrushing gold-maddened men who are glutting it with spilled whiskey and the blood of hideously murdered fellow men, and covered with the alkaline of treachery and moral anarchy.
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Add in Mary Lou Barebone's badly abused orphan horde (including We Need to Talk About Kevin's Ezra Miller, in a hideously embarrassing haircut that constitutes child abuse on its own) and another fumbling, impotent bureaucracy (led with stately gravity by Selma's Carmen Ejogo), and Fantastic Beasts starts feeling exactly like its source material: more an encyclopedia of story elements than an actual story.
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I would be happy to lose my real estate tax deduction if it meant that more people were able to own homes, but the increase in federal tax revenue resulting from the elimination of both deductions would more likely pay off things like the "mother of all bombs" dropped on ISIS or the hideously expensive missiles rained down on an airfield in Syria.
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Since earning an Oscar nomination last year for Midnight Express, he has played the tortured Raskolnikov in PBS' four-part adaptation of Crime and Punishment, completed director Michael Cimino's much anticipated Heaven's Gate with Kris Kristofferson and Christopher Walken and finished a cameo as Christ in Mel Brooks' upcoming History of the World, Part I. But perhaps Hurt's most impressive current achievement is his movie portrayal of the hideously misshapen 19th-century Englishman John Merrick in The Elephant Man.
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Confronted with the fact that the most admired moralists in French literature were actually hideously selfish and competitive men, Diderot replies by appealing to the long horizontal frame of history, and by offering the classic incrementalist antidote to cynicism—their shabby original motives are less important than their shining long-term effect: Let's view the matter from the only truly interesting perspective, and disregard for a moment our position in time and space, and look beyond to the centuries to come, to the furthest lands and the peoples yet to be born.
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They worked by offsetting visual splendor with the thematic chill of, for example, Native Americans encamped beside a freeway bridge, or a white man on a street making a racist gesture to an Asian, or a panorama of actors posing as hideously wounded soldiers, or a steeply angled view of a suburban neighborhood where an eviction is in progress, or, less dire, the meticulous enactment of a famous Hokusai print of people by a pond in a high wind, which sends papers flying from the grasp of one character—a work whose staginess seems not its method but its very point.
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