We may expect shacks, and tin roofs, and all kinds of monstrosities perpetrated in some of the most beautiful parts of the country.
N o blame should be attached to these omissions; if they had aimed at completeness, the editors would have had to produce a fifty-volume monstrosity.
The overtones of paranoia in his description grow stronger as he focuses on the people surrounding him, described here as "strange monstrosities" whose laughter inspires dread.
Similarly, monstrus can mean 'strange', 'wonderful', 'a monstrosity', or 'horrible'.
A male dancer performing anything other than pas de caractere or pantomime has always seemed to me something of a monstrosity.
They would be unworkable monstrosities with very few useful instincts, fewer recognizable sentiments, and no intellect: mental basket cases.
This titanic project of constructing such a language and translating science into it, of course, sank from its own monstrosity without need for an iceberg.
This paradox of monstrosity, then, is also the paradox of femininity.
