His head was displayed on a pike near Westminster Hall, the scene of either his greatest triumph or his most monstrous regicidal crime. |
Mai put the candle down on the desk, setting monstrous shadows to jittering on the walls and ceiling as she turned back to me. |
Having befriended the monstrous Lelio, she agrees to rescue him from the marital clutches of a middle-aged countess by wooing the lady herself. |
That is, part of what's monstrous about monsters is somehow this very agglutination of significance, these uncontrolled outgrowths of meaning. |
The dome is not the only monstrous carbuncle currently swallowing obscene amounts of public money. |
The surreal, anarchic and monstrous extremes of yesterday are not so sensational anymore. |