Slavery is. . . an atrocious debasement of human nature.
The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.
I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like that.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious! If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
The reason most folksongs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people.
We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. We discovered that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys which make it worth living, and also worth giving. And we also discovered that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear.
Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue itself, and good fortune is not far from occupying the place of the whole cycle of virtues. It must be an atrocious act, a base and hateful deed, which success would not be able to justify.
The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.
Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.
The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.
When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!
Donald Trump's language has been atrocious, his behavior toward women.
I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
From our perspective now, there is a not a huge understanding about the totalitarian Communism that Soviet Russia practiced during the 1950s - it was an atrocious system.
You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.
So what's the most atrocious thing you've seen?" He waved his hand: "Man, of course!
God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.
What has been imposed on religion is not religion itself but the custom of those who have been converted to it. I think that the most atrocious of all of this is Islam. They were in the slave trade before Islam. The Arabs were natural slave traders. They were the people who were called on to conquer us, unfortunately.
Federal spending is atrocious.
Since the events of September 11, weve rightfully changed our military strategy so were now taking the fight to those individuals who aim to do us harm, rather than waiting for another atrocious attack to happen.
