| Her description of the family as monstruous garden gnomes and her friends as social misfits defies understanding. |
| It was a drab, cheapjack little area, unambiguously removed from the public, and yet I had come to love it in a way I never could the rest of the monstruous edifice. |
| Here, by a dramatic contrast which one may call monstruous, the supernatural is far more forcibly put before us than by all the glories and the visions of the other painters. |
| In the summer of 1558, Knox published his best known pamphlet, The first blast of the trumpet against the monstruous regiment of women. |
