Her fantasy family simply loses all contact with increasingly ugly realities.

But on a deeper level, the culture of grossness may also be a collective response to an increasingly ugly and polluted urban environment.

The race has turned increasingly ugly, with the candidates questioning each other on ethics.

I am all for making amazing majestic and beautiful a more common phenomena in this increasingly ugly world!

Relatives said that he was subjected to increasingly ugly taunts about his religion and ethnicity from other soldiers after the September 11 attacks.

Can this increasingly ugly trend be curbed through legislation?

The recent spate of alcohol-related incidents and fresh data on student alcohol use is presenting an increasingly ugly picture.

Aid workers say the mood got increasingly ugly until late in the day, when rebel fighters effectively pushed the refugees back.

There was a lot more, growing increasingly ugly and hateful, butDouglas tuned it out.

But an increasingly ugly race to the tape suggests the intangibles might make the difference.