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Germans were characterised as rapacious Huns during the First World War.This followed the Kaiser's Hun speech during the Boxer rebellion. [1]Stereotypes of Germans include real or imagined characteristics of the German people used by people who see the German people as a single and homogeneous group.
Ugly may refer to: Ugliness, a property of a person or thing that is unpleasant to look at, listen to or contemplate; Music. Albums. Ugly (Life of Agony album), 1995;
A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterisation of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilisation and humanitarian values having ...
MILF: [27] An acronym slang term meaning "mother I'd like to fuck"; considered sexist and ageist by some and positive or neutral by others. Mrs. Robinson: [28] Originating from the song "Mrs. Robinson" by Simon & Garfunkel; slang term referring to an older woman pursuing someone younger than herself, typically an adolescent male. (see "cougar ...
Schadenfreude (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː d ən f r ɔɪ d ə /; German: [ˈʃaːdn̩ˌfʁɔʏ̯də] ⓘ; lit. Tooltip literal translation "harm-joy") is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 November 2024. Aesthetically unfavorable characteristic The Ugly Duchess (painting by Quentin Matsys, c. 1513) Unattractiveness or ugliness is the degree to which a person's physical features are considered aesthetically unfavorable. Terminology Ugliness is a property of a person or thing that is ...
Aesthetic of Ugliness (Aesthetik des Hässlichen) is a book by German philosopher Karl Rosenkranz, written in 1853.It is among the earliest writings on the philosophy of ugliness and "draws an analogy between ugliness and moral evil".
Grotesque studies, Michelangelo Since at least the 18th century (in French and German, as well as English), grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious, magnificent, fantastic, hideous, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus is often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks.