Sentences with phrase «as grotesque»

Liberals and environmentalists mostly exist as grotesque caricatures on the conservative media that dominate the airwaves.

It's humanity as grotesque smorgasbord — eczema, rosacea, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, flat feet and bad teeth.

During the Protestant Reformation, artists made satirical prints criticizing the Catholic Church and in particular the Pope, who was represented as a grotesque, avaricious figure.

Studies from the early 1990s make pointed caricatures of characters depicted through art history, with Sherman appearing as a grotesque creature in period costume.

The figurative painting of George Condo is often described as grotesque, bizarre, yet captivating and original.

The overweight blue man featured throughout several works, functions as a grotesque sexual tourist in Bickerton's seedy world which explores human's conflicting feelings of repulsion and attraction.

The monstrous creatures that have become a staple of the franchise are here in force — perhaps not necessarily as grotesque as those seen in Bloodborne, but certainly much more imposing and hideous than many enemies in the series» black sheep, Dark Souls II.

Once again, there are no restrictions, so you can be as grotesque as you want.

General Marmalade conducts narcotic and Aleph experiments on himself and his units, creating mutants that are as grotesque as they are deadly.

Little Nightmares, though, offers the saddest child of 2017, as grotesque people regularly attempt to eat your character on a horror show of a boat while your character slowly starves to death.

It has a fabulous contemporary turn, with a plot that involves same - sex love as well as grotesque sexual perversion and graphic violence, which could never have been published in Victorian England.

Judging by the aesthetic standard of the general public (that includes you Peter Cavellini - nothing personal intended), the Japanese will keep on designing and producing hideous monstrocities like these two as well as that grotesque looking Lexus.

The message, which has all the subtlety of a slap to the face, is that girls can be just as grotesque, offensive and self - centered as guys.

It's a dark and sticky descent, but effectively so, as the grotesque imagery only makes the situations all the more horrific, and the danger to the precious little girl Ripley all but adopts all the more immediate.

Peopled by flapper - era caricatures partaking in white - collar social orgies fuelled by selfish hedonism, Luhrmann's interpretation of Fitzgerald's oft - debated novel emerges as grotesque melodrama that plays more like a Mexican telenovela than a respectful reinterpretation of 1920's New York high society.

But the throughlines are kept clean and comprehensible because as grotesque as the crimes are, «Spotlight» is ultimately not about them, but about the heroism of speaking truth to power.

MASH is illustrative of the fact that a great comedy can be about any subject matter, even one as grotesque as an Army field hospital where soldiers are dying.

Released 30 years ago, Sam Raimi's blood - drenched horror - comedy is as grotesque and hilarious as ever.

Though I'm reluctant to take the comparison too far, the film is as grotesque as a Flannery O'Connor and as base as a William Faulkner.

Argento may be lazily and hurriedly devoted to conveying how Jenifer — of a gene - splice between Laura Dern and Larry Cohen's It's Alive baby — will be passed like a baton to the next schmuck who comes to her rescue, but his latest experiment in terror is as grotesque as it is jaw - on - the - floor funny.

Great pains were no doubt exerted to make these entities as grotesque and nightmare - inducing as possible, yet, there is still some humor in their interaction with humans as well as their own foibles and relationships with each other.

Jim Hosking's 2016 debut «The Greasy Strangler» was as grotesque as it sounded, a gross - out comedy in the vein of John Waters that folded slasher tropes into an unexpectedly resonant father - son bonding tale.

It's more of a problem that the homely street - corner carol singers and rosy - cheeked moppets are every bit as disturbing to behold as the grotesque hallucinations.

In Lee's Bamboozled, he's invoked (alongside many other silent and early - sound - era performers) as a grotesque specter of racist Hollywood representation — the ghost of minstrelsy past — but writers like Mel Watkins and Champ Clark have complicated the issue by suggesting that there was an element of subversion in Perry's subservience — that the shiftless, feckless caricature he inhabited in so many movies was not a capitulation to the viewership (or the filmmakers) but a bold form of ethnic masquerade.

So the result is a less dangerous world, and one in which the Soviet Union was not nearly as grotesque as it came to be.

He had no memory of me, and early on I made it hard for him (I regret this) by speaking of the papacy as a grotesque institution, but over the years friendship blossomed and my admiration for him grew with it.

One hopes that common sense, which judges such a desire as grotesque, will prevail over those who would regard it as just another lifestyle choice.

[4] In the early 1920s there was a surge of houses built with Plateresque elements; such as grotesques, pinnacles and mixtilinear arches.

Not exact matches

He repeatedly described Bannon's comments in the book as «grotesque,» saying his role in the White House was «greatly exaggerated.»

for Transport, the public must question every major transport project as spending 2.2 billion dollars on the Forrestfield - Airport rail link is a grotesque waste of money which can not be justified with our very low population density and simply needs an efficient bus system at a fraction of the cost similar to that servicing Melbourne's Tullarmarine Airport.

Although there's a growing realization that this is grotesque, many politicians accept it as irreversible.

When people think about crashes, they tend to think about an event — as if some massive, grotesque, red, scaly, fire - breathing, razor - toothed catalyst should be obvious beforehand.

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

We may read it, in the light of a long - established allegorical tradition, as a parable of deeper truths; but to the Jews of the fifth century BC, who took it at its face value, the Hebrew story, though not grotesque like the Babylonian, was too ingenuous and childlike to command the «reverence and godly fear» which belongs to all high religion.

List's conclusion that for his loved ones death was preferable to suffering or to the possibility of falling away from the faith provides a perverse, grotesque, yet not entirely unrecognizable extension of the piety that I knew as a child.

The hard sciences of physics and chemistry and biology are twisted into grotesque propaganda machines fueled by corrupted versions of sociology and psychology, where science itself dies alongside genuine inquiry and clarity of thought, as man is assimilated into a faceless colony of manageable data points.

Inequality before the law takes many forms, some of them grotesque, as in the Republic of South Africa or the Soviet Union, some more subtle.

It is the sheer excess — the disproportion of our human bondages and the absurdity resulting from this excess, the grotesque pointlessness of so much of it — that undermines my sense of ultimate meaning as transcendent willing purpose.

What could be more comically grotesque than an individual trying to escape his own identity as God's child and in his rush out the temple door smacking straight into the incarnation?

So she turned her attention to the grotesque, the perverse, the unacceptable — as a way of talking about religious questions.

(CNN)- U.S. officials Thursday denounced what one called a «grotesque» leaflet ordering Jews in one eastern Ukrainian city to register with a government office, but the Jewish community there dismissed it as a «provocation.»

As a species of folly, Toomer uses the grotesque to communicate the price of redemption for the souls of black folk in the Christ - haunted south.

He says that the number of nuclear weapons has now reached «levels of redundancy of such grotesque dimensions as to defy rational understanding.»

These grotesque libels have been propounded as well by tenured radicals as though they were facts, and disseminated in «news» stories without editorial comment by left - wing journalists like Earl Caldwell of the New York Daily News.

That, as he rises higher in the consolations of society, he gets visibly more grotesque is proof definitive he is like me.»

Each of these grotesque or even repulsive aliens is animated by an inner joy of living as hot or hotter than that which you feel beating in your private breast.

There had been a shift in focus to romance, valor and happy endings as opposed to the often grotesque scenarios and flawed characters that populated the original stories.

However, he makes one grotesque blooper when he identifies Fuller Theological Seminary as a «longtime dispensationalist stronghold.»

It is all too obvious that the author's only real interest lay in gathering together a vast assortment of grotesque historical curios and oddments and then exhibiting them in a single display case» whether for our amusement and edification or as a tribute to his own cleverness I can not say.

Using imagery that the Anti-Defamation League has appropriately referred to as «grotesque» and «anti-Semitic,» the comic featured a disturbingly bloodthirsty and violent villain named «Monster Mohel.»