Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.
We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings with his fingers over our throats, one weeping and the other laughing hideously. As I took Selma's hand and put it to my lips, she came close to me and placed a kiss on my forehead, then dropped on the wooden bench. She shut her eyes and whispered softly, "Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings!
The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.
When women are excited about a date, they go immediately on a diet, because all women know they are hideously obese.
It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.
One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
That's one of the many things I hate about life, that it's a hideously cliched business.
When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl out of the rubble, hideously scarred, and swear vengeance on the world. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.
PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.
I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine and dandy.
