Sentences with phrase «become grotesque»

An unreliable narrator alone gives no perspective on the universe and Satrapi provides illumination in certain shocking moments — Jerry starts taking his meds, kitsch surroundings become grotesque.

If forced further it becomes a grotesque dance performed with the head jutting forward, feet slack, hips rocked way back, and curled shoulders accompanied with driver's license worthy facial expression.

It's an ugly indictment on us, that even those willing to make the effort to engage with one of living history's worst moments can't do so without becoming grotesque.

Marilyn Minter's Crystal Swallow would seem to capture a private moment of visceral response, yet in such detail and exaggerated scale that it becomes a grotesque advertisement for arousal.

Love Life: Act 1 opens at PEER, where the gallery environment becomes a grotesque domestic space strewn with crudely made props, possessions, commodities, chattels, knick - knacks, gewgaws, bling, tools, trappings, and fixtures and fittings — with the visitor both participant and spectator.

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While perhaps admired by the segment of our society that worships the dollar above all else, this is nothing more than the grotesque reminder how just how fraudulent the United States system has become.

It is possible that the grotesque and farcical forms of Russian capitalism ultimately prevented this phenomenon from becoming an ideologically dominant conception in my society.

The situation could become even more dramatic because the one - child policy has led to a grotesque distortion of the male - female ratio among young Chinese adults.

Francis's signature phrases and the emphases of his pontificate prepare the way for the grotesque possibility, realized in this document, that bishops of the Church and servants of Christ will become cheerful, «pastoral» chaplains of the culture of death.

The wind screamsbeyond the pass, pushing the snow into grotesque drifts that rise head higharound us; as the hillside gets steeper our route becomes an obstacle course.Drifts meet us head on like moving walls — we breast them like surf.

Indeed, much of what is miserable about the top of the game is that these asymmetries stretch and become almost grotesque.

Morris» four lions - Omar (Ahmed), Waj (Novak) Barry (Lindsay) and Fessal (Akhtar) are all so idiotic, that they become slapstick grotesques.

By tolerating the regimes that have bought Premier League clubs, football fans have become complicit in grotesque abuses of human rights.

In their always engrossing, often grotesque account, journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy trace the illness's history, detailing the many futile methods of combating the disease (including the original «hair of the dog:» binding into a patient's wound a hair from the animal that infected him) before Louis Pasteur's rabies vaccine became the first effective treatment in 1885.

Facing off challenges not just from the ferocious undead but also from the living, will Edward find an exit to the grotesque caricature of what humanity has become?

As the pair, and by default the audience, start to examine the nature of their unconventional relationship, the black humour that stemmed from the grotesque materialism of Liberace's world transforms into something more serious, which is when the film becomes most compelling.

The tone becomes darker and the situations more grotesque as the film moves to Europe.

Hideously burned and left for dead by gangsters, Peyton uses his incipient liquid skin technology and severed nerve endings as the «super-powers» that allow him to become Darkman, a grotesque avenging angel who feels no physical pain but whose emotions have become dangerous intensified.

But while an arms race for spectacle has engorged Hollywood action pictures to often grotesque proportions, «little» movies like this one become almost their own kind of unintentional criticism.

By the twentieth time its simpleminded mantra (bringing a life into the world instead of taking one can change a hardened heart) is summoned literally and imagistically, culminating in a grotesque effigy of a fallen friend posed in the middle of an indistinct tableau, Greenfingers has lost all power to instruct and become something at once odious and unintentionally funny.

The deeper she goes into this grotesque rabbit hole, the more dangerous her every turn becomes.

You will become dependent on the medicine to the point where you become «sickly and grotesque, but still more notorious,» says creative director Clint Hocking.

Horror fans have had to endure a lot in the past few years: «Resident Evil,» «Dead Space» and «Alone in the Dark,» once bastions of the genre, have become little more than action games with grotesque enemies.

Upon its release in 2003, the first Manhunt became a poster child for video game excess for its overtly grotesque story line and its depiction of some of the worst imaginable ways to stealthily slay human characters.

It starts out as necessity, «I can't afford to live if I don't» but it eventually evolves into a grotesque distortion of itself as your «stockpile of resources», games in our case became about the thrill of the hunt, and not the ability to experience MORE games.

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.

Boss battles deserve a special mention here as well: bosses in Sundered are huge (seriously, sometimes your character becomes a tiny white blur on the screen when a boss reveals their true size) and grotesque, all with a variety of punishing attacks.

Comparatively, Mandy El - Sayegh (b. 1985) explores the dichotomy of the human body, using biology as a base for her often grotesque artworks, which become fake, living documents.

In the mid-1970s, as Ramberg's figures became less sexualized and more grotesque, she achieved levels of formal coherence that demonstrate an increasing artistic maturity.

Marilyn Minter's work examines glamour and its seedy underbelly through a juxtaposition of photorealistic paintings and painterly photographs which hone in on the moment where «clarity becomes abstraction and beauty commingles with the grotesque.»

Atkins picks up on this and comments how these things — due to their overt symbolism — also become «hyperreal or sort of excessive in their appearance and therefore a bit grotesque, but also somehow truthful in either their erotic aspect or their tangibility... their viscosity.»

Legs, cartoonish and grotesque, become another late Guston motif, as surreally disturbing as the huge bandaged heads.

In the studio, her organic forms become anthropomorphic, resulting in sculptures and paintings that are both humorous and grotesque, existing in a space between the artifice of lo - fi movie props and the reality of our fragile bodies.

The empty space becomes animated as you select an artist's name, like a point - and - click adventure game of grotesque hidden artefacts, from Hornig's nylon - limbs stretched out across a leather couch to Barsch's disembodied hairpiece, dreadlocked and dangling from the sunroof.

In her work, the body — as a whole or in parts — becomes a dynamic point of sensation and convergence as materials collide, swell, and mutate into powerful, often grotesque, associations.

The oily shine, the wet cream of Hume's surfaces, rippled with road - lines and ridges, the violence of greys, greens and pinks, the ugly in the lovely - Beautiful has a shocking black skull's nose hole - and the slightly grotesque quotation of modern painting prevent these works from ever becoming pretty.

Bernhardt became known for her «model» paintings — vigorous and slightly grotesque portraits of supermodels — in the mid-2000s.

He distorts and renews this material so that it stands out and becomes his own: a kind of strange hybrid that blurs boundaries between the comic and the tragic, the grotesque and the beautiful, the classic and the innovative.

[6] On the occasion Schutz's museum retrospective at the Neuberger Museum, New York Times critic Karen Rosenberg wrote «Ms. Schutz has become a reliable conjurer of wickedly grotesque creatures and absurd situations, willed into existence by her vigorous and wildly colorful brush strokes.»

Marilyn Minter is an artist who juxtaposes photorealistic paintings with painterly photographs and videos, honing in on the moment where clarity becomes abstraction and beauty meets the grotesque.

This becomes apparent in the vulnerable and at times grotesque visualization of the body by Alix Marie.

★ Neuberger Museum of Art: «Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels» (closes on Sunday) The painter Dana Schutz has become a reliable conjurer of wickedly grotesque creatures and absurd situations, willed into existence by her vigorous and wildly colorful brush strokes.

And through conversations with others in the growing climate justice movement, I began to see all kinds of ways that climate change could become a catalyzing force for positive change — how it could be the best argument progressives have ever had to demand the rebuilding and reviving of local economies; to reclaim our democracies from corrosive corporate influence; to block harmful new free trade deals and rewrite old ones; to invest in starving public infrastructure like mass transit and affordable housing; to take back ownership of essential services like energy and water; to remake our sick agricultural system into something much healthier; to open borders to migrants whose displacement is linked to climate impacts; to finally respect Indigenous land rights — all of which would help to end grotesque levels of inequality within our nations and between them.

Honda got it right with the Civic but since it wasn't grotesque looking in order to proclaim its greenness, it didn't get the press or the following among Hollywood's intellectual elite who would ride in refrigerator crates if it became trendy.