Monstrous Intimacies

Introduction: Making monstrous intimacies: surviving slavery, bearing freedom -- Gayl Jones's Corregidora and reading the "Days that were pages of hysteria" -- Bessie Head, Saartje Baartman, and Maru ...

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monstrous, prodigious, tremendous, stupendous mean extremely impressive. monstrous implies a departure from the normal (as in size, form, or character) and often carries suggestions of deformity, ugliness, or fabulousness.

Monstrous is a 2022 American supernatural thriller film directed by Chris Sivertson, written by Carol Chrest, and starring Christina Ricci. The film premiered at the Glasgow Film Festival on .

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Definition of monstrous adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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The more monstrous the depiction of desire, and the more intense the struggle required to control it, the greater the harvest of pleasure promised by its eventual fulfillment.

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If you describe a situation or event as monstrous, you mean that it is extremely shocking or unfair. She endured the monstrous behavior for years.

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Define monstrous. monstrous synonyms, monstrous pronunciation, monstrous translation, English dictionary definition of monstrous. adj. 1. a. Shockingly hideous or frightful in appearance. b. Of or resembling a fabulous monster. 2. Exceptionally large; enormous: a monstrous tidal wave....

There are 15 meanings listed in OED's entry for the word monstrous, five of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

monstrous, adj., adv., int., n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford ...

of or relating to a monster: Beowulf fought the monstrous creature and managed to pull off its arm. gigantic: The huge ship cast a monstrous shadow. horribly wicked or cruel: monstrous acts of murder. See -mon-. extremely ugly. outrageous: monstrous cruelty. immense: a monstrous building.