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64) As one commentator has observed, Hyde's monstrousness played upon popular antimiscegenationist sentiment and fear of the "black rapist"; his malevolence ultimately seems defined by his "determination to appropriate the sexuality of white womanhood.
Criminal madness: cultural iconography and insanity by Covey, Russell D. / Stanford Law Review
If proportionality is irrelevant and morality has no numerical measure, then presumably it would be morally justifiable from the Israeli government perspective if a hundred Israelis were killed for every Palestinian the IDF shoots, but if such a thing were to happen we could be sure to hear from the Israelis all about Palestinian monstrousness, no doubt.
The Israeli Terror: My Friend Tristan by The Palestine Chronicle (Mountlake Terrace, WA)
Having outfitted itself with the supererogatory appendage of its own reading, Maine's novel excludes its audience--supplying a text and its response, creating a sense of alienating monstrousness with its tautological self-sufficiency.
The book that devoured its reader: David Maine's Monster 1959 by Ziegler, Robert / Notes on Contemporary Literature
 
 
 
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