Marina Abramovic

You know, everyone is always talking about plastic surgery, or the technology, what to do. I really think it's important to help yourself with the technology if you want to feel better, but I am absolutely against any kind of monstrous cuts of the body, lifting that is beyond recognition, this kind of stuff.

Serbian Artist

William Godwin

Sympathy is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see ourselves reflected in another; and, perversely enough, we sometimes have a secret pleasure in seeing the sin which dwells in ourselves existing under a deformed and monstrous aspect in another.

English Writer

John le Carre

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.

David Harbour

Myself, I suffer from loneliness. And I think we all feel alone. I'm looking for stories that help people deal with loneliness and help them if they are monsters: they don't have to undertake monstrous actions. And maybe they're not monsters.

American Actor

Graham Greene

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

British Novelist

Michael Leunig

Try as I do to comprehend the human project and my part in it, I am further than ever from understanding the monstrous everyday things that seem like self-evident truths and existential necessities to so many.

Australian Cartoonist

George Santayana

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

Spanish Philosopher

Jean Rostand

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

French Scientist

Omar N. Bradley

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

American General

Werner Herzog

The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.

German Director

Use 'monstrous' to emphasize size, often more figurative than literal, suggesting something is excessive or overwhelming.

Exaggeration Usage

'Monstrous' often implies a negative quality, something undesirable or frightening, rather than just large.

Negative Connotation

Use it to stress the impact or effect of something large, especially in a negative context.

Impact Highlight

'Monstrous' intensifies the description of immoral acts, suggesting they are extreme or shockingly bad.

Emotional Intensity

It's often involved in moral judgments, branding actions as cruel or vicious to a great degree.

Moral Judgment

'Monstrous' describes something that dramatically deviates from the norm, often eliciting shock or revulsion.

Shocking Oddity

Indicates that something looks terrible or disturbing, evoking images of monsters or horror.

Visual Horror

Reflects the extreme nature of an unfair situation, often to express personal indignation.

Intensity of Injustice

Used to hyperbolically describe something as very unreasonable, not necessarily literally monstrous.

Hyperbolic Language

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Invasion of the...

 within that depression. The sky cleared, the rain stopped, and our heartbeat, the monstrous seas around us were transformed into the most beautiful moonlit mountains. It's hard to explain, but you enter a different mode when you head out there. Your boat is your entire world,

The surprising thing I...

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 They become one with the trees. And we think that their movements are so slow, they slip under the radar of the monstrous harpy as it's flying about the canopy, scanning for action. Sloths are stealth ninjas, and they rarely leave the safety of the canopy --

Sloths! The strange life...

 and keen reflexes that quickly swim out of the way of those stingers other fish are attracted to its seemingly protected position only to get zapped by the Man O'War now here's the gushy part the digestive organs enter the monstrous

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 Now, it's Ani's moment of truth, the weighing of the heart. If his heart is heavier than the feather, weighed down by Ani's wrongdoings, it'll be devoured by the monstrous Ammit, part crocodile, part leopard, part hippopotamus,

The Egyptian Book of the...

 and earned a place in the divine pantheon. But his victory held an even deeper importance. In overcoming the chaotic and monstrous forces of the world, the hero swept away what remained of the Titans’ primordial order,

The myth of Hercules: 12...

 and unchecked climate change could kill millions more. How did we get here? There are many reasons, of course, but one of the most important is that we let capitalism morph into something monstrous.

To save the climate, we...

 suffered bone muscle and tooth damage today we say that this is torture dressed up as therapy it was performed by a monstrous regime but allowed by an

Fighting injustice with...

 a monstrous wells catfish introduced here just 40 years ago they have proliferated virtually exterminated the local fish stocks

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