unloveliness

• “Gorgona was but too real and that her unloveliness was a sore trial to the fine attunement of the poet's nerves.”

  The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr.

• “And the story focuses on a Jewish family of startling unloveliness, all spikes and prickles and subterfuge with a helping of despotism and madness on the side.”

  Don’t Go Down To The Woods « Tales from the Reading Room

• “Daniel Clowes has created a monster, but a monster who refreshes our empathy for humans in all their unloveliness.”

  The Huffington Post: Book Review Roundup

• “How is it that from beautyI have derived a type of unloveliness?”

  Fictionaut: The Snow Child and the Fiendish Lover

• “People like Dennis the Menace, who naturally grate on us, who assault our sensibilities, really help to point out the loci of unloveliness in our own hearts.”

  Ruminations on Mr. Wilson

• “How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?”

  Fictionaut: The Snow Child and the Fiendish Lover

• “The point is, to have a good larf with your lovely Liberal friends when they're indulging their inner unloveliness.”

  "How do I manage this, a weekend -- during the GOP convention -- with a Euro social democrat and Karl Popper's son? Avoidance? Giant underpants?"

• “Listening to the general secretary annunciate his list, emphasizing its clarity and unloveliness, I thought of Wis awa Szymborska, in particular the opening of "The End and The Beginning":”

  Two Paths for the Novel

• “Everything about him had that meagre fixity, that bare unloveliness.”

  To the Lighthouse

• “Sin holds out all of unloveliness and undesirableness that can be in a creature.”

  Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost

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