As such, they would not have the same aversive reaction that they normally would if they were to witness an atrociously violent act in real life.
Gites may have been inexpensive but they were atrociously uncomfortable and their farmer owners were impossibly irascible.
Few men, it is probable, have been more atrociously calumniated; but, when every specific statement to h s prejudice has been rejected, he still appears on a general review of his actions worldly, crafty and unscrupulous.