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Ken Maginnis of the pro-British Ulster Unionist Party declared the bomb "a dreadful crime against humanity."
What keeps his work from becoming campily oppressive (like the last, dreadful Batman picture) is his respect for the untranscendent flatness of ordinary life.
Let's face it: The world is a mess, life is basically futile, and other people are pretty dreadful and don't like you much anyhow.
Many of the panels relate tales from Balinese mythology, but visitors’ eyes tend to be drawn to the series depicting the dreadful punishments awaiting evildoers in the kingdom of the dead.
Some of Coppola's "personal" movies are magnificent ( The Conversation and, arguably, Apocalypse Now ). But others are dreadful ( One From the Heart , Tucker ). Some of Coppola's sellout movies are dreadful ( The Cotton Club , Jack ...)