What is "beastliness"

Usage examples of "beastliness".

I redid the faces on the lower portions of the walls, accentuating their beastliness, contrasting them with more human faces above, and I had several small technical breakthroughs that helped me create the luminous intensity I wanted for the upper walls.

Of a sudden, he needed air, and light, an end to beastliness and screaming.

After the rendezvous, said Mary, such sort of action, such beastliness, would spread along the coast like cancer.

But if I find them giving themselves airs, or monopolizing my father, or at all ill-treating him, or worrying him with their artistic beastliness, I intend to put my foot down, yes, firmly.

He had looked them straight in the eyes, and had seen the beastliness there.

Clinging to the mast of this magic cherry tree was an abundance of equally inadmissible mistletoe, sacred since the dawn of time, when the Druids used to harvest it with silver sickles before going on to perform solstitial rites of memorable beastliness at megalithic sites all over Europe.

Without pausing to except or qualify, or to be thoroughly informed and just, they included the ancient stern generations and their own degraded contemporaries, the vile rites of the Corinthian Aphrodite and the solemn service of Demeter, the furious revels of the Bacchanalians and the harmonious mental worship of Apollo, all in one indiscriminate charge of insane beastliness and idolatry.

You have perfected the most horrible invention with which science has yet hoped to torture a world already sickened with the beastliness of scientific warfare.

After the rendezvous, said Mary, such sort of action, such beastliness, would spread along the coast like cancer.

Fielding and Smollett could portray the beastliness of their day in the beastliest language.

Fielding and Smollet could portray the beastliness of their day in the beastliest language.

It's the breeding place for every sort of beastliness - hurricanes bound for the States, big depressions that move across the North Atlantic at tremendous speed to give Iceland, and sometimes the Hebrides and the north of Scotland, wind speed almost as bad as the much-publicised Coras and Ethels and Janets and what-have-yous that cause such havoc in America.