disfigurement

• “Theodore Bernstein 's 1965 tome "The Careful Writer," dedicates two pages to omitting articles, which he called a "disfigurement of the language.”

  The Wall Street Journal: An Article of Faith for Marketers: Place No Faith in Articles

• “His disfigurement is hidden by his father, the king, and he is tossed into Elantris.”

  2010 February 16 « The BookBanter Blog

• “In finding that a disfigurement is severe, plaintiff's injury must greatly alter the appearance of the face from its appearance before the accident.”

  NY Court of Appeals

• “A disfigurement is severe if a reasonable person viewing the plaintiff's face in its altered state would regard the condition as abhorrently distressing, highly objectionable, shocking or extremely unsightly.”

  NY Court of Appeals

• “Certain disfigurement and probable death followed for many individuals who in the normal course of events might not have caught the disease at all.”

  Letters to the Editor

• “Anakin dons the big, black suit to hide his disfigurement from the lightsaber duels with Obi Wan.”

  SW Episode III "Spoilers"

• “There was nothing that a grown-up would call disfigurement - except for that total disfigurement which is death itself.”

  Surprised by Joy

• “Down in the Phantom’s lair, Christine confronts the Phantom with the fact that his true disfigurement is that of his soul, not his face.”

  I Phantom | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles

• “At the time, police said the disfigurement was an attempt by the killer to conceal his victim's identity.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Multiple L.I. Killers Suspected

• “The arch has been called a disfigurement, and as it was not originally intended such an opinion may be justifiable, and yet the beauty of the reticulated stonework and the consummate skill which conceived the bold simplicity of design is so satisfying that it is scarcely possible to wish that it were absent.”

  Beautiful Britain: Canterbury

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