The monsters he encounters on his quest are not actual, but oversized creations of an imagination that threatens to slip from manly control.
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Because monsters are always the constitutive outside of normativity, the scapegoats constructed of society's devouring anxieties, they can never safely be tucked away.
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The dream of reason and its "transcendental ego" appeared to have joined with alltoo-human empirical egos to engender monsters on all sides.
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In the process of instructing the world, they developed a political culture that nourishes both liberal dreams and illiberal monsters.
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With monsters like these lurking, the need for a modesty board to shield miniskirted legs from the predatory gaze becomes self-evident.
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The music is reputed to be very good, the miniatures are fanciful, with monsters and ludicrous bodies in many borders of the book.
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Cowardly guile is the main trait of that monster's character.
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He also reported that many supposed these monsters to be spirits or devils, a point of view he did not quite endorse.
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The threatening agents were wild animals, monsters, burglars, or nature forces such as storms, fires, or floods.
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Few people regularly worry about being chased by animals, monsters, aliens, or strangers, but they may nevertheless frequently dream about such events.
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The compound naeligshleo"um, used for a place where water monsters lie, could be envisaged as a headland with hollowed-out shelves.
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Because ghosts are inextricable from what we already know, they are usually excluded from surveys of popular monsters.
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In the external world, how can colour pacify these internalized monsters?
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Of course, monsters can be upbeat too, as other countless cases of supermen testify.
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Transgressive terms for monsters and occult demiurges are another area in which the register is frankly an effort to come to grips with radical alterity.
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Collocationswithmonster
monster
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giant monster
Suddenly, an enormous flying object arrives on the scene and removes the giant monster.
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little monster
What alittlemonsterof a local authority we have created when viewed in the light of any independent constitutional position!
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monster truck
He has been trying to find a racing series that meets his vision of professionalmonstertruckracing.
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