She was reputed to be hideously ugly.

According to the late medieval Tale of Taliesin, included in some modern editions of the Mabinogion, Morfran ( also called Afagddu ) was hideously ugly, so Ceridwen sought to make him wise.

The title was a mix of traditional superhero storytelling and satire, including the phrase " hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength " being repeated many times, and Toxie's " Tromatons " erupting when he was in danger similar to Spider-Man's spider-sense.

With the help of the lawyer Arnold Goodman an agreement was reached to replace the offending sentences, but the firm had the " hideously expensive " job of removing and replacing seven leaves from 7, 580 copies.

In 1996, Berkoff prevailed as the plaintiff in Berkoff v. Burchill, a libel civil action which he brought against Sunday Times journalist Julie Burchill, after she published comments suggesting that he was " hideously ugly "; the judge ruled for Berkoff, finding that Burchill's actions " held him to ridicule and contempt.

Dyke controversially described the Corporation in early 2001 as " hideously white ", based on statistics that showed the organisation's management structure was 98 % white.

This actor, naming himself " The Chameleon ", was eventually hideously scarred in a fire started by Hex, and he vowed vengeance.

One Viennese critic for the Zeitung fuer die elegante Welt ( Newspaper for the Elegant World ) famously wrote of the Symphony that it was " a hideously writhing, wounded dragon that refuses to die, but writhing in its last agonies and, in the fourth movement, bleeding to death.

* The Freaks like the Disgustings only seven members were made instead of eight and lived down the drain, they were Chief Bug, Scout Blink, Blurp, Blarf, Boik, Burg and Bog and were mostly hideously deformed in comparison to their fellows Blarf was a Vampire and Bog was very similar to the Frankenstein's monster.

In other stories Tichy meets alien civilisations whose detached perspective enables Lem to poke fun at humanity ; on one of his voyages Tichy meets a priest whose colleague has been hideously martyred by a thoroughly unselfish and well-intentioned race of aliens because he had told them that a martyr's death was one of the greatest things to which a Christian could aspire.

She saw it once accidentally and it was hideously mutilated.

At the end of which it was revealed one of the main characters was a hideously scarred Lobster Random.

Willard was once the most attractive boy on the reservation, but now rumored to be hideously deformed from accidents during the war.

" Ebert noted that the movie was " also funny in its visual approach, showing us a suburban world in which everything is done in hideously jolly colors and everybody, even the TV anchorman, wears peach blazers.

Publisher Rupert Hart-Davis was a client when Goodman was a partner in Rubenstein Nash ; Goodman reached an agreement with Churchill and Beaverbrook over G. M. Young ’ s life of Stanley Baldwin in 1952, though it required the hideously expensive job of removing and replacing seven leaves with revised wording in 7, 580 copies of the book.

Beowulf ( Ray Winstone ) is a brave legendary Geatish warrior who travels to Denmark alongside his band of soldiers, which include his best friend, Wiglaf ( Brendan Gleeson ), in answer to the call of King Hrothgar ( Anthony Hopkins ), who needs a hero to slay a monster called Grendel ( Crispin Glover ), a hideously disfigured troll-like creature with superhuman strength, who attacks Hrothgar's mead hall, Heorot, whenever the Danes hold a celebration there, and he was forced to close the hall.

It was embarrassing to see strapping, blonde Brassnose comport himself like a child who talks about bogeymen.

Selig later said that this call was " embarrassing " and that he was " tremendously saddened " by the outcome of the game.

During an embarrassing home loss to Atlanta in 1987, Bright told the media that he was " horrified " at coach Tom Landry's play calling.

Brubeck personally found this accolade embarrassing since he considered Duke Ellington more deserving of it and was convinced that himself being Caucasian as opposed to Ellington being African American was a factor for why he was favored.

The panegyrist who refers to the loss suggests that its cause was a storm, but this might simply be the panegyrist's attempt to conceal an embarrassing military defeat.

There was worse to follow, with various Essendon players publicly blaming each other for the poor performance against Richmond, and then, with dissension still rife in the ranks, the side plummeted to an embarrassing 28 point loss to VFA premiers Footscray Football Club in a special charity match played a week later in front of 46, 100 people, in aid of Dame Nellie Melba's Disabled Soldiers ' Fund, purportedly ( but not officially ) for the championship of Victoria.

She was considered to have an ill-favoured appearance, and she formed a number of embarrassing, unreciprocated emotional attachments, including that to her employer, the married Chapman, and Herbert Spencer.

His empire collapsed after an embarrassing defeat for France at the hands of Prussia in which he was captured.

The tape of this conversation was leaked to the Daily Mirror and widely reported, embarrassing Major.

In November 1937, Ribbentrop was placed in a highly embarrassing situation when his forceful advocacy of the return of the former German colonies led to the British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and the French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos offering to open talks on returning the former German colonies, in return for which the Germans would make binding commitments to respect their borders in Central and Eastern Europe.

Thus Innocent VII was laid under embarrassing obligations, from which he freed himself.

To many older gays and many members of the Mattachine Society that had worked throughout the 1960s to promote homosexuals as no different from heterosexuals, the display of violence and effeminate behavior was embarrassing.

According to official Residents lore, there was internal turmoil which resulted in a large, " embarrassing " food fight ; they decided to resolve this tension in 1974 by recording what would later become Not Available – representative of N. Senada's Theory of Obscurity taken to its logical conclusion.

The deal — alleged by onetime Senators broadcaster Shelby Whitfield to have been made in order to secure the Tigers ' vote in favor of the Senators ' eventual move to Texas — turned Detroit back into contenders, while McLain was a monumental bust, losing an embarrassing league-worst of 22 games.

American frigates also inflicted a series of embarrassing defeats on the British navy, which was short on manpower due to the conflict in Europe.

At Yale, an embarrassing situation occurred: he had been hired as a postdoctoral fellow, but it was discovered that he had never received a Ph. D.

The project was largely reported by the press to have been a flop: badly thought-out, badly executed, and leaving the government with the embarrassing question of what to do with it afterwards.

On October 2, 2009, in a stunning and embarrassing setback for the mayor, Chicago was the first of four finalists to be eliminated during selection ceremonies in Copenhagen.

The publication of the letter was severely embarrassing to Prime Minister MacDonald and his Labour Party.

The situation in which he found himself was embarrassing: he could not countenance the designs of those he considered as heretical princes, and yet he mistrusted Philip II of Spain and viewed with apprehension any extension of his power.

Although the report was embarrassing to the Reagan administration, who was heavily aiding the right-wing junta at the time, skeletons unearthed a decade later confirmed the original story's veracity.

She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.

His face was stiff with anger when they let go of his arms.

She was still hugging the stained coat around her, so I said, `` Relax, let me take your things.

The husband points the steps out with his flashlight: `` Its white stare filling her pale eyes To the blind brim with appetite, Bleaching her hands that grazed my thighs And sent us from the table in surprise To let the dishes soak all night, '' ( Mary Jane asked herself if Meredith was blushing at this line, or was it the fire??

He let down the tailgate and was knocked over by the sluice of water.

She softly let herself into the bed, and took her regular side, away from the door, where she slept better because Keith was between her and the invader.

The Nazis knew this, of course, and while their chief quarry was the industrial centers, they let a few drop every time they went over, hoping for a lucky hit.

For a while he was content to let events develop in their good time.

`` If you can conveniently let me have twenty dollars '', he wrote one friend in 1791 when he was Secretary of the Treasury.

But her conscious need was to break away from constricting patterns of form, a need to let the experience shape itself.

The family was Protestant, but for me it was only irksome and I let it go.

even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.

Its refrain was: `` let us return to the individualistic democracy of our forefathers for our salvation ''.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

then he would bark to let everyone know the coast was clear.

At this, the students let out a yell, knowing full well the actual frontier was beyond the town of Kehl.

He never let me know that my visit was about to terminate until the actual morning I was to leave for Lymington.

I could never forget the gaiety with which, when he was both blind and deaf, he let me lead him around his rooms to look at some of the pictures ; ;

Nevertheless, Mrs. Lewis was still solicitous of his condition: let him do as he wished, let him sleep with chambermaids if he must, but, she begged Blackman, try to keep him from drinking a great deal and bring him back in good health.

Those famous lines of the Greek Anthology with which a fading beauty dedicates her mirror at the shrine of a goddess reveal a wise attitude: `` Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see ''.

and the sad part of it is that we had one, which was rounding into excellent shape, and we let it disintegrate and die.