Sentences with phrase «as nightmarish»

With these images of the subjugated distributed through communication networks, Schneemann also suggests possible forms of future alliance between the oppressed, who appear here as a nightmarish digital subconscious.

Tate Modern, London In the 1930s, his dildos and violent bronzes marked him as a nightmarish surrealist.

In the 1930s, his dildos and violent bronzes marked him as a nightmarish surrealist.

I've now moved apartments nearly every year since graduating high school in 2008, so I've seen my share of smooth - going moves as well as the nightmarish sort I prefer not to exhume from the bowels of my memory.

The imagery is as haunting as the nightmarish situation she's found herself in.

It's easy to imagine audiences won't groove to something as nightmarish, determinedly weird and despairingly funny as The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

As nightmarish as it is, however, there's a remarkable core of wounded (possibly dying) humanity that runs throughout the doom - laden, phantasmagorically photographed cris de coeur et mort.

Heather Graham gets to do little more than smile sweetly and expose a breast in her brief scenes, but she could still argue that she gets better treatment than Rachael Harris, who plays Stu's girlfriend as a nightmarish, one - dimensional bitch, screeching at him relentlessly and turning away whenever he tries to kiss her.

Through Travis» perspective, he depicts it as a nightmarish, hell on earth; the steam rising from the street vents and crime and prostitution at every corner.

Either it is the effects of the happy hormone released during breastfeeding or I have finally reached the loopy phase of sleep deprivation, but the broken nights do not feel nearly as nightmarish as I had imagined they would be.

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In fact, what should be a celebratory coming - of - age moment for the Southeast Asian local champion is threatening to become nightmarish thanks to persistent regulators, panicky Uber staff and reluctant drivers who are supposed to switch to Grab as part of the arrangement.

Why indeed, as the geniuses at the fledgling network have obviously understood the point of The Hunger Games perfectly and are making a reality show based off of it, apparently unaware of the nightmarish irony into which they are pitting themselves.

As a result, they ended up in America's nightmarish legal system.

It is a fact that cultures such as the Amalekites, Canaanites, and Assyrians (and other cultures that are not mentioned in the Bible such as the Mayan, Inca, and Aztec civilizations) engaged in horrific and nightmarish practices against both enemies and their own people.

This nightmarish prospect might be the best hope to propel some vote - shifting as the owners prepare to meet in Cleveland.

Arsenal's nightmarish start to their league campaign continued, as they lost to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge and had Hull City to take care off in their subsequent league fixture.

Jonny Justice, a 45 - pound, Staffordshire bull terrier, one of 66 canines rescued from Jets quarterback Michael Vick's notorious Bad Newz Kennels in Smithville, Va., in 2007 (SI, Dec. 29, 2008), has come a long way from the nightmarish conditions he endured as a puppy.

It's been another nightmarish campaign at the Emirates Stadium, with the Gunners feeble in defeat to Manchester City at the weekend as another trophy slipped away from them as they went down 3 - 0 in the Carabao Cup final.

People don't picture him as a cog in our defensively organised team, it's more the nightmarish flashbacks of accomplished, counter-attacking teams breaking on us with numbers and space, and opposition by - passing him with ease.

Debuchy has had a nightmarish time as an Arsenal player.

Tottenham have a nightmarish looking draw as they have to compete with both Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund for a top two spot, while Celtic have it just as tough as they were paired up with giants Bayern Munich and PSG in their group.

As such, the theocratic, Sharia - imposing - supporting, deeply - and - widely - homophobic, extremely - feminism - nightmarish Islamic societies are not what threatens and frightens the Left the most.

As expected, the EU budget proved a nightmarish challenge for poor old Herman Van Rompuyshambles.

The two - term Democrat is weathering nightmarish transit problems in New York City as some Democrats are showing signs of unrest.

As a medical geneticist, I have had the unenviable task of helplessly watching more than a dozen patients live out the nightmarish symptoms of SMA.

Midweek front row attendees witnessed Natacha Ramsay - Levi's triumphant first Chloe collection as well as Olivier Lapidus» nightmarish Lanvin debut, followed by Clare Waight Keller's highly - anticipated first Givenchy outing.

For a star like Pitt, there could be no prospect more nightmarish than having his family not being treated as if they're special.

We are presented with the nightmarish image of Hogwarts as a black and brutal expanse presided over by hovering Death Eaters and a cruelly imperious Severus Snape (Alan Rickman, in a brief performance of genuine depth).

Donkey, Shrek, and Puss in Boots set out to find the «would be» king, but just as the ship sets sail Fiona yells from the dock that she is pregnant; which only sparks nightmarish thoughts in Shrek's head.

The film's nightmarish, appropriately trippy visuals (particularly in Renton's «cold turkey» montage), a memorable rock and dance - tinged soundtrack and Boyle's undeniable ability to maintaining the story's momentum and manic energy seals Trainspotting's position as a striking, emotional and affecting viewing experience.

Unfortunately, that's at the expense of humans, and there are some seriously gnarly encounters as team members are picked off by animal hybrids, like a nightmarish bear whose roar is imbued with the screams of its previous victims.

An ordinary private eye finds himself on a twisting, turning roller - coaster ride to hell when he enters the nightmarish world of a powerful, evil sorcerer masquerading as a sleight - of - hand magician and the murderous cultists that surround him.

The film chronicles the manner in which Hope and her family handle the nightmarish situation, often with what Saget described as «irreverence and dark humor» (At one point, Hope's brother Alan — a comedy writer — quips that scleroderma sounds like «a deli entrée»).

Critic Consensus: While neither as deep nor as skillfully constructed as its subject might deserve, Web Junkie remains a chillingly serious look at a nightmarish problem.

Critics Consensus: While neither as deep nor as skillfully constructed as its subject might deserve, Web Junkie remains a chillingly serious look at a nightmarish problem.

Now, as an infinitely multiplying horde of frenzied psychotics flood the Texas plains, a dangerous outlaw named Wray (Freddy Rodriguez), a sexy stripper named Cherry (Rose McGowan), an unscrupulous smuggler named Abby (Naveen Andrews), and the curiously incapacitated Dr. Dakota Block (Marley Shelton) must try and make their way to the helicopter that could provide their only means of escaping to a place untouched by this nightmarish scourge that threatens to wipe out all of humankind.

But it's all laying the groundwork for a gripping, almost nightmarish second half of the season in which the life of every member of the Gregson family seems in danger of splintering as badly as Tara's psyche.

Nightmarish, gut - wrenching, and frustrating, but still a tempting prospect as long as you're not looking for the next «Resident Evil 4.»

It creates and maintains a mood of paranoia, its special visual effects are original and nightmarish, and it has at least three sequences as haunting as anything I've seen in some time.

The game is as hard as any Metroidvania game and it only gets worse the deeper down the rabbit hole you fall, and you'll know things are really bad, when you notice the change of music and how nightmarish your surroundings appear and nightmarish in this context means like something you would see in a nightmare and not that the game's graphics themselves look nightmarish, as they look more like a complete work of art.

As with many of Joel Schumacher's (The Lost Boys, Batman Forever) films, the lighting is dark, with emphasis on steam and neon colors, giving the «real life» scenes a kind of haunting, nightmarish, even melancholy texture that works well when life and afterlife collide.

Relatability is certainly a key component of Knocked Up «s inherent appeal, as it plunders for humor that most nightmarish of singles» fears, unwanted pregnancy, via the story of Alison (Katherine Heigl) and Ben (Seth Rogen), a mismatched twosome whose polar - opposite lives are accidentally entwined by a drunken one - night stand that, due to miscommunication over use of a condom (the momentous phrase in question being «Just do it already!»)

You'll need to keep your skills sharp and your thumbs twitchy as you launch, flip and tumble your fragile and OFTEN LETHAL cargo through nightmarish terrain and deadly pitfalls.

It Follows stars Maika Monroe (The Guest) as Jay, a young teenager who, after a strange sexual encounter, finds herself plagued by nightmarish visions and a sense that something is... following her.

Critics Consensus: Plunging viewers into the nightmarish hellscape of an apartment complex under siege, [Rec] proves that found footage can still be used as an effective delivery mechanism for sparse, economic horror.

As a senior officer in the SS, Eichmann played a pivotal role in making the Holocaust a nightmarish reality.

But while her method produces the intended gasps when things go from miserable to outright nightmarish, viewers without a firm grasp of Cambodian history may reach the same half - formed understanding of events as young Loung.

Suffice it to say that the state (nicely embodied here by Donald Sutherland), as a means of controlling the masses, annually sets a gaggle of young people against one another in a fight to the death while broadcasting the whole nightmarish ordeal live.

Opacity at this point takes over, and not for the worst, as Fear X's ambiguities lend the action a nightmarish mood.

Critic Consensus: Plunging viewers into the nightmarish hellscape of an apartment complex under siege, [Rec] proves that found footage can still be used as an effective delivery mechanism for sparse, economic horror.