The contrasts between the tall, thin, fancy-struck, and idealistic Quixote and the fat, squat, world-weary Panza is a motif echoed ever since the book ’ s publication, and Don Quixote's imaginings are the butt of outrageous and cruel practical jokes in the novel.

De Vita Caesarum is also the source of several outrageous stories regarding Domitian's marriage life.

In the original Richard Donner films, Luthor is a vain, wisecracking money-hungry gangster, with a particular fixation on real estate, who plots outrageous disasters for Superman to try to avert.

In alternative pleading, legal fiction is employed to permit a party to argue two mutually exclusive possibilities, for example, submitting an injury complaint alleging that the harm to the plaintiff caused by the defendant was so outrageous that it must have either been intended as a malicious attack or, if not, must have been due to gross negligence.

He did write a series of brief nonsense plays which poked fun at the conventions of the theatre using zany, offbeat humor and outrageous, impossible stage directions, such as " The curtain is lowered for seven days to denote the lapse of a week.

He plays golf, for instance, charges outrageous fees, and is indifferent to the health and welfare of his patients.

Glam rock ( also known as glitter rock ) is a style of rock and pop music that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s, which was performed by singers and musicians who wore outrageous clothes, makeup and hairstyles, particularly platform-soled boots and glitter.

She is last seen arguing with Clark saying that this is outrageous.

Encouraging the unitary concept-that the later novels feature ' Harry Palmer ' - is the 1974 dust jacket to the Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich American edition of Spy Story, in which the cover blurb states, " He is back, after five long-years ' absence, the insubordinate, decent, bespectacled English spy who fought, fumbled, and survived his outrageous way through the best-selling Horse Under Water, Funeral in Berlin, and the rest of those marvellous, celebrated Len Deighton spy thrillers.

It is outrageous that Austria has an emperor who did no evil to anyone, but is still treated like a leper.

Legend has it that Charles III of Spain, while reviewing in Madrid the Spanish defense expenditures for Havana and Cartagena de Indias, looked through his spyglass and remarked, " This is outrageous!

The character " Geordie Georgie ", as portrayed by Catherine Tate in her eponymous TV show, is a Geordie, complete with a thick affected accent, and is portrayed regularly taking part in ( mostly ridiculously ambitious ) sponsored events for a North East based charity – the charity in question usually has a website with an outrageous domain name, for instance, the site for the charity she supports for battered husbands is " www. chinnedbythemissus. co. uk ".

His outrageous productivity is presented as a factor in the quality of his inventions ; because he always comes up with new ideas, the fact that his inventions often lack an important feature, will often cause trouble for Scrooge or Donald who have bought the invention.

In the French version, Pollux is a British character who speaks somewhat broken French with an outrageous English accent as a result of Ivor Wood's role as co-creator.

He is notorious for his outrageous behavior, swearing continuously and making filthy jokes to the other spirits.

Vincent Canby, in his November 1976 review of the film for The New York Times, called the film " outrageous ... brilliantly, cruelly funny, a topical American comedy that confirms Paddy Chayefsky's position as a major new American satirist " and a film whose " wickedly distorted views of the way television looks, sounds, and, indeed, is, are the satirist's cardiogram of the hidden heart, not just of television but also of the society that supports it and is, in turn, supported.

The city is known for being a speed trap with outrageous speeding fines.

In one famously outrageous scene, the " China scene ", sexual intercourse is assumed to take place repeatedly just off stage, where Horner and his mistresses carry on a sustained double entendre dialogue purportedly about Horner's china collection.

He says that the effort to associate the Shoah and sin is morally outrageous.

* Thomas Pynchon's three novels Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon and Against the Day are historical, and they variously contrast outrageous personal, subjective, hallucinogenic or even supernatural events with very real, well-researched accuracies from the past.

Dan Millman ' coined the term Acquired Situational Narcissism to describe the destructive and outrageous behaviour of those who are constantly in the public eye.

The term womanish was commonly used in Black daily language by mothers to describe adolescent daughters who act outrageous and grown-up, in contrast to " girlish ".

As such Murray Bookchin describes a lot of individualist anarchism as people who " expressed their opposition in uniquely personal forms, especially in fiery tracts, outrageous behavior, and aberrant lifestyles in the cultural ghettos of fin de siecle New York, Paris, and London.

Anarchist writer Murray Bookchin describes a lot of individualist anarchism as people who " expressed their opposition in uniquely personal forms, especially in fiery tracts, outrageous behavior, and aberrant lifestyles in the cultural ghettos of fin de sicle New York, Paris, and London.

" A seemingly outrageous enigma of a statement — and perhaps one attributable to an old man beyond his time — in context, Rickover's personal integrity and honesty were such that he was lamenting the need for such war machines in the modern world, and specifically acknowledged as well that the employment of nuclear energy ran counter to the course of nature over time.

Sweet, flamboyant and funny, Dion has an outrageous personal style, and he always speaks his mind.

Georgie Soloway ( Dustin Hoffman ) is a rock music composer who experiences personal conflicts when trying to track down a man named Harry Kellerman, who had been spreading outrageous lies about him.

The master of the order, Burchard von Dreileben, pronounced the answer outrageous, but declared that the four kings and their retinue were to remain unpunished and could keep their personal liberty ; however, until the master has returned from the campaign against the Estonian army the kings were not to be allowed to leave the castle of Weissenstein.

Truart oppresses the people, collects bribes, implements outrageous taxes, brutally suppresses the criminal element, and seems to have a particular personal grudge against Garrett.

His personal style involved continuous re-invention of his public persona, and outrageous statements and boasts.

Smith denied her charges, calling them " outrageous " and saying that " family and personal history have made me unusually vulnerable to these kinds of charges " and resigned from the CIR.

She has a taste for fast living and outrageous mischief.

In his instructions to the jury, U. S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett stated that the First Amendment protection of free speech has limits, including vulgar, offensive and shocking statements, and that the jury must decide " whether the defendant's actions would be highly offensive to a reasonable person, whether they were extreme and outrageous and whether these actions were so offensive and shocking as to not be entitled to First Amendment protection ".

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion stating: " What Westboro said, in the whole context of how and where it chose to say it, is entitled to ' special protection ' under the First Amendment and that protection cannot be overcome by a jury finding that the picketing was outrageous.

* United States v. Gartmon, a case in the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ( 1998 ), says that avoiding prejudicial evidence doesn't " provide a shield for defendants who engage in outrageous acts, permitting only the crimes of Caspar Milquetoasts to be described fully to a jury .”

A South Carolina appeals court upheld a $ 24, 000 jury verdict against Peck for slander ( the jury had stricken the outrageous conduct count, which is substantially the same as a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress ), on the theory that when Peck cast an aspersion upon Wardlaw's chastity, his public remarks were slanderous per se.

A defendant is eligible for the death penalty once the jury has concluded that he is a member of that narrow class of criminal defendants who have committed the most morally outrageous of crimes.

Even if Nast's cartoons were not particularly offensive, Falwell argued that the Hustler parody advertisement in this case was so " outrageous " as to take it outside the scope of First Amendment protection.

“ This is a case where Cardiff Bus ’ conduct has been outrageous and where, absent of an award of exemplary damages, a compensatory award would be insufficient.

The following Austro-Russian talks were sabotaged by Austria ’ s refusal to abandon any of the demands on Serbia As a preparatory move in case a war did break out, and Britain were to become involved, Winston Churchill, First Lord of the British Admiralty, ordered the British fleet not to disperse as planned, arguing that news of the British move might serve as a deterrent to war, and thus help persuade Germany to put pressure on Austria to abandon some of the more outrageous demands in their ultimatum.

Not through fear of disobeying orders, as Eichmann kept trying to explain, but through a peculiar giddiness that began in a half-acceptance of the vicious absurdities contained in the Nazi interpretation of history and grew with each of Hitler's victories into a permanent light-mindedness and sense of magical rightness that was able to respond to any proposal, and the more outrageous the better, `` Well, let's try it ''.

The category of acts constituting hubris for the ancient Greeks apparently broadened from the original specific reference to mutilation of a corpse, or a humiliation of a defeated foe, or irreverent, " outrageous treatment ", in general.

The meaning was eventually further generalized in its modern English usage to apply to any outrageous act or exhibition of pride or disregard for basic moral laws.

Socrates happened to be the citizen presiding over the assembly that day and refused to cooperate ( though to little effect ) and stood against the idea that it was outrageous for the people to be unable to do whatever they wanted.

The style of the Fosdick sequences closely mimicks Tracy, including the urban setting, the outrageous villains, the galloping mortality rate, the crosshatched shadows, and even the lettering style.

The Winterbottom court recognized that there would be " absurd and outrageous consequences " if an injured person could sue any person peripherally involved, and knew it had to draw a line somewhere, a limit on the causal connection between the negligent conduct and the injury.

Cardozo continues to adhere to the original principle of Winterbottom, that " absurd and outrageous consequences " must be avoided, and he does so by drawing a new line in the last sentence quoted above: " There must be knowledge of a danger, not merely possible, but probable.

Once labelled by Rolling Stone as " the most controversial woman in the history of rock ", Love's sometimes outrageous behavior has given her a lasting place in pop culture, as well as a polarizing reputation in the media.

Each time, Groucho's hat changes, usually to something more outrageous than before ( a Napoleonic hat, a Prussian hat, etc.

This action was outrageous enough to unite some previously disparate elements.

Sakmann points out that he complained that too much historical writing combined boring detail, outrageous lies, and narrow-minded presentation.

The category of acts constituting hubris for the ancient Greeks apparently broadened from the original specific reference to mutilation of a corpse, or a humiliation of a defeated foe, or irreverent " outrageous treatment " in general.

Author Jim Bishop wrote that Booth " developed into an outrageous scene stealer, but he played his parts with such heightened enthusiasm that the audiences idolized him.

Aside from his romantic relationships, although his behaviour was outrageous, it was in the humorous vein as his friend Vivian Stanshall, of the Bonzo Dog Band claimed.

Animal, one of puppeteer Jim Henson's characters from the Muppets TV show and movies, was rumored to have been based on Keith Moon, due to the fact that both share similar hair, eyebrows, outrageous personality and wild drumming style.

Rival newspaper Daily Planet had always stood free, condemning Luthor's actions in an outrageous editorial signed by Perry White.

The band members were as well known for their backstage groupie antics, outrageous clothing, extreme high-heeled boots, heavily applied make-up, and seemingly endless abuse of alcohol and drugs as for their recordings.

President Barack Obama strongly condemned both the Quran burning, calling it an act of " extreme intolerance and bigotry ", and the " outrageous " attacks by protesters, referring to them as " an affront to human decency and dignity.

After this show, he continued to make other, bigger, more outrageous spectacles.

Even more outrageous was a solo piece Duetto Amoroso, in which the sighs and groans of lovers were intimately depicted on the violin.