monstrosities

To try to open one of these monstrosities is an exercise in masochism — hurriedly I discard them with the dispatch with which one would thrust away a venomous snake.

I Am Sorry to Inform You 2010

Check out the menu of mix-in monstrosities, after the jump.

Newly Open Vic’s Bagel Bar Is Like The Cold Stone Creamery Of Bagel Shops | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2010

To try to open one of these monstrosities is an exercise in masochism — hurriedly I discard them with the dispatch with which one would thrust away a venomous snake.

I Am Sorry to Inform You 2010

The great serialist monstrosities from the 50's and 60's have kind of been sorted through and the ones that will likely endure are still programmed once in a while.

My Prerogative Matthew Guerrieri 2008

My wife calls those jacked-up monstrosities aka “mosnter trucks” on the public roads that are obviously never going to even come within sight of a mud puddle “penis substitutes.”

EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - “Save the clock tower!” 2008

Certain of the malformations known as monstrosities hardly represent the human type.

Disease and Its Causes William Thomas Councilman

At long intervals of time, out of millions of individuals reared in the same country and fed on nearly the same food, deviations of structure so strongly pronounced as to deserve to be called monstrosities arise; but monstrosities cannot be separated by any distinct line from slighter variations.

I. Variation under Domestication. Causes of Variability 1909

A still greater number must be called monstrosities, such as six-fingered men, porcupine men, Ancon sheep, Niata cattle, &c.; and as they are widely different in character from natural species, they throw very little light on our subject.

VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection 1909

We have also what are called monstrosities; but they graduate into varieties.

II. Variation under Nature. Variability 1909

But he doesn't forget to call his monstrosities fanciful names.

Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques James Huneker 1890