Sentences with phrase «as macabre»

In 2009, for example, he debuted Kessler's Circus, a video sculpture that the Deitch Projects press release noted at the time «depicts the American military - industrial complex as macabre circus.»

The catacombs (Christian) are nearby, but we don't feel like waiting for a guide (only guided tours are available) and we take the bus back to Roma Intra Muros to another, maybe just as macabre and sinister: Sancta Maria della Concezione.

Yet High - Rise also stands on its own as a macabre mythologisation of the libertine excesses to be found in both the human heart and the free market — of any era.

Unfortunately the Phoenix family didn't give their blessing, possibly looking at the project as a macabre cash - in on the upcoming 20th Anniversary of his death.

By the same token, his shambolic attitude is begetting other further shambolic acts from the Zambezi Street, Abuja headquarters of INEC, as the macabre dance steps in Kogi, Bayelsa, Gombe and the unfolding drama in Anambra Central senatorial district could have been avoided had Mr. President paid more attention to the need for an improved electoral process by obeying the Constitution regarding the composition of INEC.

Although Americans view the dancing skeletons and the celebration of death as macabre or related to Halloween, they are not.

The reason this grim little tale so amuses me (quite apart from the magnificent pun, which one hopes was purely extemporaneous), is that the lives of philosophers are so often oppressively, obtundently dreary that any diverting story — even one as macabre as the ordeal of Schopenhauer's poor old Putzfrau — comes to the scholar as a cherished respite.

Over the course of two painstaking years in the late 1990s, Saddam Hussein had sat regularly with a nurse and an Islamic calligrapher; the former drawing 27 litres of his blood and the latter using it as a macabre ink to transcribe a Qur» an.

Not exact matches

The episode has always held a certain macabre fascination, but there are other more substantial reasons for drawing attention to it as we reach the 80th anniversary.

Without committing spoilers, I'll say only that the repose Ustin - turned - Laurus eventually enjoys is unlikely to soothe readers with any sugary piety; the novel ends on a lurid note, as beautiful as it is macabre.

The Daily Telegraph's Tim Stanley has described the use of the remains of the unborn to heat hospitals as being «more akin to cannibalism» than the efficient recycling that these macabre practices were presumably being justified under.

its too painful to watch this macabre dance year in year out so i genuinely hope that we finish outside the top 4 this season as it is the only way the man will go taking his favoured flock of medicore players with him... and that is the only way we can improve now

The macabre implication is that the Republicans have become the party of the patrician class, in support of a feeble social contract that provides as little as possible to the masses, and a model for government whose raison d'être is to enable its wealthiest citizens to achieve a quality of life unattainable to the rest.

Spontaneous human combustion is a macabre phenomenon people either dismiss as a myth or blame on alcoholism.

But, had they lived very, very long lives, they could not have expected nor would they have wished to see as much of the mad and macabre as they were to see that day.

And it's worth a lot, as is the emotional investment of billions of fans worldwide in the boy wizard Harry Potter and the marvelous, sometimes macabre inventions of author J.K. Rowling, brought to such vivid life onscreen by a small army of professional dreamers.

Filmmaker Dan T. Hall explores macabre shadows of the past as he documents the haunting of the infamous Fox Hollow Farm estate, former home of alleged serial killer Herb Baumeister.

A thoughtful, emotive, occasionally macabre comedy - drama about such issues as life, death, knowing when to hold on and knowing when to let go.

As charming as all that is amid the macabre, Pushing Daisies is a show that only a grown - up can fully enjoAs charming as all that is amid the macabre, Pushing Daisies is a show that only a grown - up can fully enjoas all that is amid the macabre, Pushing Daisies is a show that only a grown - up can fully enjoy.

In a perfect demonstration that horror and trauma are the stuff of real, everyday life and not the macabre vision of fantasists, Cries and Whispers marked Bergman's recovery as one of Europe's greatest film directors.

It's an ideal life for any amoral young man who thinks he'll live forever (which is to say, most young, somewhat moneyed American men), but there's one macabre catch: These killers are called loopers because they're eventually, so as to ensure this practice's secrecy, required to «close their own loop,» which is to say that the final hit of their career is the future version of themselves.

Dexter has become a husband and father, and finds a potential mentor in a macabre serial killer known as Trinity (Emmy winning guest star John Lithgow) who lives a familiar double life as a suburban family man.

To solve a mysterious and macabre murder, Homicide brings in Brother Sam, a minister with a criminal past whom Dexter recognizes as a fellow killer that might have found a cover even better than his own; now a local hero, Debra is surprised by two life - changing proposals.

Last but not least we get Dressed to Kill's original theatrical trailer (2:10), which bills Brian De Palma as «the master of the macabre» based upon his cited résumé.

As Jean Genet's classic play is revived in London, the macabre story of the Papin sisters, who killed their employer's wife and daughter, still has the power to perplex

Bloody Disgusting distributed Macabre as part of our BD Selects line.

Though it terrified me as an eight - year - old when I first went on it, as an adult it's a wonderful mix of silliness and the macabre.

Why does stop - motion animation work so well as a medium for the macabre, from The Nightmare Before Christmas to Tim Burton's Corpse Bride to Coraline?

Coco is deftly written by Adrian Molina and Matthew Aldrich, with plenty of gently macabre humor, as well as sweetly tender moments.

THE WEEKEND GUIDE: On NBC's too good to miss (and deliciously creepy to boot) Hannibal (Friday, 10 / 9c), forensic whiz Beverly Katz (Hettienne Park) continues to defy orders, surreptitiously consulting with Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) on the «mural killer» case, as Will keeps pleading for someone to believe his theory of Hannibal's culpability in all the macabre mayhem that surrounds them.

Claude Chabrol's «This Man Must Die» is advertised as a thriller, but I found it more of a macabre study of human behavior.

If that sounds macabre, Deadpool slash alter - ego Wade Wilson is, but he has several other qualities to make up for this such as cockiness, cheekiness and explicit crudeness.

Here's a Halloween pick for you: a macabre musical about a sociopathic barber (Johnny Depp) with flashing razors and a demented cook (Helena Bonham Carter) who hides the evidence of his murders into meat pies, directed by Tim Burton, the dark fantastist of American cinema, as both threepenny opera and Grand Guignol.

«The first 10 minutes of the season, this season, takes place in a very eerie macabre way on election night and there's something terrible that happens in the lives of our characters on election night as they're watching it all go down.

Just as concurrent with the brothers Coen is Saulnier's slick sense of jet - black humour, exploiting Macon Blair's endearing everyman performance to the magnificently macabre end of sanguine slapstick and aggressive absurdism.

There are moments of macabre horror here, and interesting nods to Capote's In Cold Blood, as well as America's satanic abuse scare and the Robin Hood Hills case.

ust as concurrent with the brothers Coen is Saulnier's slick sense of jet - black humour, exploiting Macon Blair's endearing everyman performance to the magnificently macabre end of sanguine slapstick and aggressive absurdism.

I Melt with You (R for profanity, violence, sexuality and pervasive drug use) Midlife crisis drama about the annual retreat taken by four, former college buddies (Rob Lowe, Jeremy Piven, Christian McKay and Thomas Jane) who agree to follow through with a macabre pact they entered into as classmates a quarter - century earlier.

The macabre and lurid tales of Edgar Allan Poe are vividly brought to life - and death — in this stylish, gothic thriller starring John Cusack as the infamous author.

BD: Universal Pictures has optioned «Criminal Macabre as a feature film What can you tell us about that process so far and what stage it's at?

The film is worth watching alone for Tracy Letts» performance as an awful LA dad, and for Ellen Burstyn, who brings levity and dark humour to a climactic sequence that borders on the macabre.

Perusing Mill Creek Entertainment's upcoming release for Vincent Price: 5 Frightening Features brought on two personal revelations: the first being that, without a shadow of a doubt, the distributor's collection represents two of the very best Mr. Price's brilliant catalog of macabre treats as well as a handful of other fun cinematic treats for the Halloween season.

(2015) dir Matteo Garrone w / Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, John C. Reilly, Shirley Henderson [133 min; DCP] Based on three spellbinding stories of magic and the macabre by 17th - century folklorist Giambattista Basile, TALE OF TALES unleashes a barrage of mind - bogglingly gorgeous and fantastical imagery as it brings to life the (mis) adventures of three kings: in the kingdom of Darkwood, the King (Reilly) and his Queen (Hayek) attempt to conceive a child through very unusual means; meanwhile, in Highhills, the none - too - bright monarch (Jones) marries off his daughter to a brutal ogre while developing a strange obsession with breeding a giant flea; and, the sex - obsessed crown of Strongcliff (Cassel) is in for a shock when the woman he falls in love with is not quite what she seems.

More importantly, The Business of Strangers doesn't betray the same kind of misanthropy as LaBute's danse macabres.

Self - reflexive and dosed with macabre humor, this offbeat exercise in just - around - the - corner horror grounds the largely exhausted found - footage approach in classical storytelling and visual values, resulting in a refreshing (and memorably strange) genre piece, premised almost entirely on a child's willingness to accept grown - up weirdness as long as it ensures stability.

Shin Megami Tensei is a polarizing franchise that attracts as many new fans as it repels, with bizarre tales and often macabre setpieces that go all - in on anime aesthetics.

I've rarely seen a movie so gleefully enjoy what should, by all rights, be a terrifying and macabre situation, to the point where I might not mind joining this crew for a little end of the world road trip as well.

This picture walks a fine line between macabre drama and dark comedy, given how the vindictive protagonist takes to butchery as the attrition rate.escalates.

Some viewers will get a kick out of seeing Christopher «McLovin» Mintz - Plasse as Charlie's macabre pal «Evil» Ed, as well as a special cameo appearance that serves as a fun callback to the 1985 «Fright Night.»

This aesthetic macabre is imprinted in the minds of viewers, demonstrating Argento's mastery to invert our fear and exploit it as a means of seduction.