Today was the first officially celebrated Christmas since 1917 in this rough beast of a city slouching toward an uncertain future.

The rough beast was entirely businesslike, working efficiently and quickly.

She thought it was like the smell of some rough beast.

As this rough beast of a summer slouches to its end, there is a sense in New York that we are finally paying attention.

"What rough beast slouches toward the hunt, its prey to be undone?"

Presently, America came to understand that some new rough beast had slouched out of California.

All units in the Bethlehem area: be on the lookout for a rough beast with a slouching gait.

The world would have to look toward Bethlehem to see what "rough beast" arrived.

The genre most uniquely American, the Western, seemed to be evolving into a new rougher beast.