Sentences with phrase «as monstrous»

The latest casualty is the Galaxy C9 Pro, which brings its sleek design, huge 6 - inch Full HD Super AMOLED display screen as well as the monstrous 6 GB RAM to India.

Although its size may be borderline for some people's palms, it's nowhere near as monstrous as the Galaxy Note.

It is time we got over the weird and morbid fascination with sharks as a danger to our lives, and start looking at ourselves as a monstrous threat to the survival of marine ecosystems.

They present the body as both monstrous and clinical, combining scientific description with the cathartic fantasy of musicals and horror genres.

In his hyperrealist style, he examines the myth surrounding kudzu, a non-native species that lives large in the Southern imagination as a monstrous weed that enshrouds millions of acres in land under its dark tangled mass.

Also prominent, is Jason's slow descent into madness, as he becomes just as ruthless and as monstrous as the Vaas and Hoyt — the two main antagonists.

Most players» first brush with a series as monstrous as this is undoubtedly some core Halo spectacle viewed from behind the muzzle of an assault rifle, not highlighting a convoy of units in eagle eye as a stand - in, custodial god of war.

Like with Bloodborne you can't progress and level up until you've beaten the first boss, but he's close to a bonfire so you don't have to spend too long between facing him should he kill you, and as monstrous as his second form is, you learn fast that you have to get in close and attack.

Like the comic and television series, it will focus on a group of strangers fighting to survive in a world where the few remaining humans can prove equally as monstrous as the flesh - craving corpses now roaming the earth.

There are also great books, such as Monstrous Maud and Thomas the Tank Engine.

It's not as imposing as the monstrous Toshiba Excite 13 or as dazzling as the AMOLED screen on the Excite 7.7, but the Excite 10 looks to compete with the third - generation iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with some pretty beefy specs.

The automaker certainly has a popular product on its hands and sales will only continue to grow as the monstrous Z06 coupe and convertible hit the streets for 2015.

So a couple of weeks later I watched, utterly fascinated, as the monstrous Lamborghini V12 was gently winched out of the carbonfibre body.

Clearly inspired by similar locales in the comics, it still looks like nothing so much as a woven mass of neurons, axons, and dendrites — the human mind reimagined as some monstrous maze.

And when Bronson appears on stage with face covered in white makeup (and, in a magnificently deranged, schizo sequence, with half his face au natural and the other half done up like a mad Nurse Ratchet), Refn strikingly nails his subject as a monstrous clown, a lunatic who took great, sadistically comical pleasure from putting fists to flesh.

The scenes between these men, staring at each other across a table in a barred room in the prison, work, not so much as intellectual debates (because anyone with a shred of decency will know that Blomfeld is wrong), but as a study of patience and the willingness to find some understanding with another human being — even a man as monstrous as Blomfeld.

Purcell makes for one of the least convincing Draculas in cinematic history, playing him as a monstrous, animalistic being and nothing like the suave taskmaster we've seen in previous incarnations.

Hugh Keas - Byrne reprises his villainy from the original film, this time in an entirely different role as a monstrous, pale - white tube - breathing, fully - armored war - lord who terrifies as much as he thrills.

Then there's Pariah, a gritty, dysfunctional family drama ostensibly inspired by Precious (2009), as it is set in the «hood in New York City and features a comedienne (Kim Wayans) cast against type as a monstrous, child - abusing mother.

Maya Rudolph could have played the part of bride as a monstrous control freak (every other comedy has one), but instead emerges with a very rounded, real character.

Charlize Theron proved her acting chops, and won an Oscar in the process, playing a serial killer in the movie Monster, but surely her brilliantly realised Mavis Gary in Young Adult is very nearly as monstrous, albeit in a different way.

A video camera records the horrific events that unfold as a monstrous creature attacks New York, leaving death and destruction in its wake.

Although we tend to think of black holes as monstrous devourers of matter, astrophysicist Caleb Scharf uses recent astronomical observations to show that they are the universe's most efficient generators of energy and actually sculpt the shape of every galaxy.

It doesn't appear as monstrous till I actually start doing it and then I am not the mom I want to be.

To say that the entire life of the person is determined by heredity is a theory of unfreedom that my religious conviction can only regard as monstrous.

It would be as monstrous to require those whose lives are twisted by suffering to praise God as it would be to ask them to still their cries into the silence of heaven.

Just as the monstrous people you mention, Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, whoever, are not indicative of any leaning, religious or otherwise — they're just misguided individuals.

If we meet, will he be as monstrous and unforgiving as his Twitter self?

Not exact matches

As the good ship Titanically Overleveraged headed full - steam ahead to a monstrous wall of ice, emotions on deck were mixed.

That monstrous uptick in volume was a key signal because it clearly pointed to institutional accumulation, which acts as a gas pedal that powers the best stock breakouts.

As I write this, I am unsettled by thoughts of a boy named Kenneth, a mom named Tina, and a monstrous bureaucracy called HUD.

satan is likely the freedom fighter trying to save humanity from enslavement to a monstrous being masquerading as god.

Community of the kind Christ desires can only occur with another when He is shared as more necessary than breath amidst all persons present, whether they be the person «giving» or the one receiving — Christ must not be fore - fitted to some other monstrous conceit that is paraded as «communion» and «fellowship» — the common bane of our religious activity.

When a video of Stephen Fry angrily denouncing God as an «evil, capricious, monstrous maniac» went viral online, it was proof that the subject of religion still stirs strong emotion, even in a largely secular society.

Palestinians in particular and Arabs in general see themselves as victims of a monstrous Zionism with which they have not come to terms and do not want to come to terms.

All that genocide and murder which would be monstrous from any person and any other god, we are going to name as «righteous» and «holy» because it's from You.»

A similar revulsion was recorded even earlier by the imperial Roman poet Virgil, who depicted an episode of the Roman civil wars as a victory of human law and ordinary human beings over «every kind of monstrous god and barking Anubis too.»

Is it less «monstrous and repulsive» [as Dilthey had stigmatized the doctrine of original sin] that sickness and misery are inherited from generation to generation?

No more does it help to suggest that God's value is wholly independent of his relations to the world, whether of knowledge or of will, for this only means that the particular characters of the objects of his knowledge, or the results of his willing, are to him totally insignificant, which is psychologically monstrous and is religiously appalling as well..

They argue as DuBois did: «If they accuse Negro women of lewdness and Negro men of monstrous crime, what are they doing but advertising to the world the shameless lewdness of those Southern men who brought millions of mulattos into the world?

@ Theo — it amazing me that intelligent people, such as you, fail or refuse to see just how monstrous that concept is.

As a high - tech version of the ancient vice of avarice, consumerism is indeed a monstrous evil.

Do the Zombies see such intertwining of love's highs and low - downs as the tragically monstrous character of humanity's sexuality — a perennial trait, albeit one only recently reactivated on a wide scale after a long and unnatural cultural hibernation — that we simply have to learn to live with?

Renewing American Compassion: How Compassion for the Needy Can Turn Ordinary Citizens into Heroes By Marvin Olasky Free Press, 201 pages, $ 21 As I write this, I am unsettled by thoughts of a boy named Kenneth, a mom named Tina, and a monstrous bureaucracy called HUD.

If we now consider the number of the stars (15,000 x 106 visible to the optical telescope alone) you will understand how it is possible to say, cosmically speaking, that we are enveloped in a sort of monstrous gas formed of molecules as heavy as the Sun moving at distances from each other so great that they have to be reckoned in light - years (bearing in mind that light travels at a speed of 186,000 miles per second, and that we are only 8 light - minutes distant from the sun)-- a gas made of stars!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who ought to have known better, will serve as an example: «it would be something monstrous to conceive this beautiful Venetian girl falling in love with a veritable negro.»

The polis as he described it was a kind of golden mean between the desolation of barbarism and the monstrous magnificence of empire.

Two critically acclaimed television shows have embraced this trope of «conceived in rape» as a shorthand for «monstrous.»

God could not eliminate slavery — only human beings could — but the idea that it was monstrous to own persons arose, if Whitehead is correct in his general metaphysical position, as a possibility presented by God.

To say as I do that human freedom is at once divine creativity can be taken to be a contradiction; worse, a monstrous view, both sadistic and masochistic, as Hartshorne acutely calls it.