Sentences with phrase «by grotesque»

This is apparent in the mysterious symbols which are strewn across the canvas — arithmetic notations, suggestions of floating eyes, and so forth — and by the grotesque, nightmarish heads of the figures: the woman looks like a frightening cat, and the man, with gaping mouth, resembles a devouring demon.

These paintings were often populated by grotesque and damaged figures in scenes that seemed so full as to almost burst from the frame.

It was on this occasion that Charles Saatchi fell irreversibly in love with Damien's work, although the astonishment was provoked by the grotesque rather than beauty.

At least four of the participants found this moment distressing, and were frightened further still when throttled by the orderly, only to have him gruesomely slaughtered by a grotesque creature.».

His creative world is populated by grotesque creatures, trimmed with a hocus pocus collection of vampires, bats and spiders, littered with bare - boned figures and dismembered body parts, threatened by an evil Oogie Boogie Man, (voice of Ken Page), and decorated with depictions of female victimization, torture and poisoning.

The plot would require large quantities of weed to comprehend fully, but in brief, Troll 2 is about a young boy whose family relocates to a sinister town overrun by grotesque «vegetarian» goblins who transform humans into plants before devouring them.

A group of disparate strangers including a blind genius and a druggie who ripped off his ecstasy dealer converges on a small, abandoned town where they are promptly slaughtered one at a time by a grotesque and extremely foul - smelling creature.

If there was a royal priesthood, it was an honor to be paid for by grotesque suffering, and God deserved to be told so.

You can still feel it when you see a medieval fresco of the Last Judgment, the naked dead seized by grotesque demons and forced into the fire.

We have seen the same kind of ridicule by grotesque exaggeration in other sayings.

The grand house is there, but it's a tumbledown wreck inhabited by grotesques.

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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.

When we think of the awful need of humanity at this hour, it seems almost grotesque to turn to the church for help, if by the church we mean not some idealization, but the actual human organizations we know.

Islam is the most grotesque religion every created by man for man

For such a view leads to the most grotesque bifurcation of reality which is much worse than that criticized so convincingly by Whitehead: on one side, the realm of timelessly valid propositions, including those referring to future events, while on the other side the temporal realm of nature and mind in which the timeless propositions are being gradually embodied.

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.

Emaciated, mad, with long hair that merges with skins, ravaged by a life of dissipation and then long repentence, she is one of the most powerful works of Christian art, the perfect example of the grotesque made beautiful.

At the recent synod, the most grotesque contradictions to beliefs held since apostolic times were put forward by bishops and cardinals, causing great scandal to the laity.

Instead of your grotesque monster god smacking them on the bottom and sending them to bed without supper, he chose to punish all humanity in perpetuity by placing the Curse of Original Sin on them.

This grotesque twisting of what is meant by civil rights has not been lost on some blacks.

Vibrant paranoia does not need to be fed by evidence, but confirmations of grotesque fears are gratefully received.

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.

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.

Given over to fearful crime and passion, plunged in the blackest ignorance, preyed upon by hideous and grotesque delusions, yet steadfastly serving the profoundest of ideals in their fixed faith that existence in any form is better than non-existence, they ever rescued trimphantly from the jaws of ever - imminent destruction the torch of life, which, thanks to them, now lights the world for us.

After the grotesque scene ended, what was left of John was claimed by his disciples and laid in a tomb.

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.

On the cindery plains, like the ruins of grotesque statuary done by some surrealistic madman, odd configurations of basalt cast shadows both beckoning and threatening.

Yet time and time again I have read and written about homebirth loss mothers praising deadly midwives, praising the «experience» of a vaginal birth of a dead child, refusing to cooperate in disciplining the midwife responsible, advocating for more «freedom» for homebirth midwives, and, most grotesque of all, choosing to risk their next child's life by having a homebirth.

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

The New York Post Editorial Board said a recent report is «yet another grotesque abuse by the legal - lending industry.»

One senior Labour frontbencher said: «Trump is the most grotesque manifestation of populism driven by discontent worldwide.

This grotesque contractual obligation precludes improvement in society or communities» abilities to save money by pursuing successful policies.

I would think that after the grotesque bungling of the state budget this week by the Democratic governor and legislature, there would be some disgust out there... Kean should be capitalizing on this.

The reforms were condemned as «grotesque» and «madness» by Cardinal Keith O'Brien in March.

A senior Labour frontbencher perhaps best sums up the overall feeling: «Trump is the most grotesque manifestation of populism driven by discontent worldwide.

Inspired by a series of exposés in The Post and The New York Times, the Senate Consumer Protection Committee on Wednesday is holding a public hearing to scrutinize the lawsuit - lending industry's more grotesque tactics.

The evolution of these grotesque fish is beautifully captured by a fossil called Heteronectes.

Tiny filaria worms carried by mosquitoes block the lymph vessels that normally drain fluid from limbs or genitals, which then swell to grotesque proportions.

Rumor: Grotesque creatures were created by Plum Island researchers.

Throughout the film, Sorrentino packs in numerous surrealistic touches, from the sight of a nun buried up to her neck in sand (accompanied by an aural assault on the soundtrack) to a grotesque glimpse of Rizzo with a potato poultice around his head to the jarring sight of Geremia's village, built by Mussolini on an Italian swampland.

The animators invoke worlds upon worlds in «Mary and the Witch's Flower:» the green woods and mist - filled forests of England rendered in swooning evocative watercolors, and the show - stopping Endor, a psychedelic space from out of a dream or drug trip, packed with strange objects, unexplainable phenomena, students floating by in soap bubbles, fountains morphing into human form, grotesque creatures loping out of the shrubbery and disappearing.

White Bird in a Blizzard is an alibi for Mr. Araki to flex his considerable muscle as a visual artist, using a palette that ranges from the blissful to the grotesque, and an atmospheric score by those eminences of the ambient, Harold Budd and Robin Guthrie.

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.

The drawings are grotesque without redeeming style or charm (characters have big beady eyes, beaklike noses and spiky hair), and the animation is crude even by TV's low - grade standards.

Pike plays Rosalie, a pioneer woman whose homestead in New Mexico is attacked by Comanches and entire family is slaughtered, including her baby in that unthinkably grotesque manner.

As for A Prayer for Rain, it was a well - intentioned but mechanical mid-budget telling of the Bhopal industrial disaster, the biggest catastrophe of its sort in history and, by extension, the crux of one of the most grotesque ever instances of globalised corporate malfeasance.

Although they are only its executive producers, the imprimatur of the Coen brothers is all over «Bad Santa», with its grotesque characters, hilarious dialogue and barely competent heists — but nothing made by the Coens has ever been as jaw - droppingly irreverent as this.

It is ineffably grimy, each shot marred by a patina of unease and an indescribable ugliness that paints every attempt at comedy as vaguely grotesque.

The genial grotesques, amplified accents, period soundtrack (terrific, by the way), and vaguely dada sensibility are all there, as are a couple of Coen veterans (Stephen Root, Wayne Duvall) and a line borrowed nearly verbatim from Miller's Crossing («You know the mayor?»

Back on Earth, a homely xenobiologist named Hector (Peter Sarsgaard), who happens to be the exquisitely improbable son of a John - Ensign - pompadoured Senator (Tim Robbins), has been infected by a piece of Parallax, and begins discovering powers of his own: telepathy, telekinesis, and a tendency toward grotesque head - bloat.