Both Uses of
atrocious
in
Heart of Darkness
- And I heard—him—it—this voice—other voices—all of them were so little more than voices—and the memory of that time itself lingers around me, impalpable, like a dying vibration of one immense jabber, silly, atrocious, sordid, savage, or simply mean, without any kind of sense.†
Chpt 2
- I resented bitterly the absurd danger of our situation, as if to be at the mercy of that atrocious phantom had been a dishonoring necessity.†
Chpt 3 *
Definition:
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(atrocious) exceptionally bad, cruel, or ugly