Sentences with phrase «for grotesque»

The Los Angeles - based artist is known for his grotesque performance and video works, and particularly for the 2014 public sculpture Tree.

Mordechay describes her paintings as if the ideas arrive from outside and yet anyone with an eye for the grotesque and sardonic can spot the humor that could only be her own.

Long recognized for her grotesque representations of colonialism, her ability to evoke a constancy between past and present, and her anthropologically inspired explorations of race, Adriana Varejão's latest exhibition, Polvo, feels contemplative, even hopeful — especially for an artist who has spent much of her career lamenting historical atrocities, tragedies, and disparities.

Although this show focuses on Bhabha's two - dimensional work, the artist is best known for her grotesque yet monumental sculptures born out of ancient tribal artifacts, German Expressionism, and popular science - fiction influences such as those in her recent exhibition at MoMA PS1 of otherworldly figures appearing in a state of decay.

Jenny Saville, «Ancestors» Opening: 6 — 8 p.m., Gagosian, 522 West 21st Street What you should know: YBA painter Jenny Saville hasn't had a New York solo in some seven years, so your appetite should by now be whetted for her grotesque depictions of bodies under duress, pressed against the canvas as a pane of glass, or grotesquely overweight, all recalling her countryman Lucian Freud's hungry paintings of abject flesh.

The angry provocateur who helped to forge a new identity for German painting after the Second World War is still taking risks; the painter who saw works from his first solo exhibition in 1963 confiscated by the authorities for their grotesque sexual imagery is still challenging the viewer.

In her portrait of the Gruen family, Alice Neel tempers her penchant for the grotesque with a touch of the sublime.

Designing meaningful gameplay for a grotesque setting with a restrictive camera perspective.

Their business takes a turn for the grotesque when a brutal killer leaves his mess for the Sorry team to clean up.

It's not like Wolf of Wall Street, the sort of flick where we see guys break the law and subvert democracy and come to despise them for their grotesque, boorish excess even as we admit to pining for their lavish lifestyles.

Who would have thought that the team behind (Team Meat, Edward McMillen) 2d platformer Super MeatB0y could be responsible for the grotesque mess that is The Binding of Isaac.

In a Shockya interview he discussed his «appreciation and love for the grotesque in the genre» citing the Universal horror films of the 30s and Karl Fruend pictures as an influence.

Even more than the first film, «Deadpool 2» mocks itself and its genre while flaunting a taste for the grotesque.

However, nothing that Stone has directed - or misdirected — prepared me for the grotesque mess that is Natural Born Killers.

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.

Not exact matches

for Transport, the public must question every major transport project as spending 2.2 billion dollars on the Forrestfield - Airport rail link is a grotesque waste of money which can not be justified with our very low population density and simply needs an efficient bus system at a fraction of the cost similar to that servicing Melbourne's Tullarmarine Airport.

«The example of Oklahoma should be very troubling for Arkansas officials,» said Dale Baich, a defense attorney who represented Joseph Wood, who died in similarly grotesque circumstances in a botched execution involving midazolam in Arizona that same year.

«It's a grotesque betrayal of everything the European project was supposed to stand for,» he wrote several hours before the final deal emerged.

The Trudeau government has been looking for solutions to the challenge of northbound asylum seekers, but condoning this particular idea would be a grotesque way of accomplishing that for any country that respects international law and the principle of refugee protection.

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

Instead they built a grotesque graven image for themselves to worship.

He stands for a God who creates things knowing they will fail while also allowing a horrific and grotesque peril to loom over them.

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.

List's conclusion that for his loved ones death was preferable to suffering or to the possibility of falling away from the faith provides a perverse, grotesque, yet not entirely unrecognizable extension of the piety that I knew as a child.

In the 1800s, Norman Macleod, in the midst of his exuberance for the vistas of Banaras, referred to «that ugly looking monster called God», and Sherring wrote of «the worship of uncouth images, of monsters, of the linga and other indecent figures, and of a multitude of grotesque, ill - shapen, and hideous objects.»»

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.

He went on to praise those who've suffered for standing up to adversity: «I greatly admire the courage and faith of your flock who are an example to us all of faith quite literally under such grotesque and barbarous assault.»

For each and every one of these hypotheses (when they are not downright preposterous) the scientific evidence is exactly zero, the logic fallacious, and the theo logical implications grotesque.

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

• A grotesque misunderstanding of «tolerance» and «fairness,» rooted in an even more comprehensive delusion about what makes for human happiness, which isn't «I did it my way.»

He insists in his sunny prattle that he is «a mere child,» while he is fact a grotesque parasite: a colossal tick, a leech, a tapeworm with a taste for Mozart, who, it turns out, is childlike in his pursuit of pleasure, but shrewd and willful in his studied neglect of responsibility.

London (CNN)- Rupert Murdoch has apologized for a «grotesque, offensive» cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published in Britain's Sunday Times.

But it might not be idle or grotesque to suggest that there is a Buddhist ground for Whitehead's language about God, which is to say a religious ground which is far more meaningful in terms of the symbolic language of Buddhism than it is in that of any other religious tradition, including Christianity.

As a species of folly, Toomer uses the grotesque to communicate the price of redemption for the souls of black folk in the Christ - haunted south.

It would be idle to suggest that Whitehead's is a Buddhist's understanding of God, and not only idle but grotesque, for surely Buddhist language about God is impossible.

... The barbarism in Washington doesn't dress itself in the costumes of the Taliban; it wears instead the smooth - shaven smile of Senate resolution sold to the highest bidder — for the drilling of the Arctic oil fields or the lifting from the rich the burden of the capital - gains tax, for bigger defense budgets, reduced medical insurance, enhanced surveillance, grotesque monopoly.

With all of the grotesque things that can be seen and heard on television today you would think there would be room for two twin brothers who are faithful to our families, committed to biblical principles, and dedicated professionals.

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.

It would be grotesque for me to suggest that Wiman shares this goal.

It is all too obvious that the author's only real interest lay in gathering together a vast assortment of grotesque historical curios and oddments and then exhibiting them in a single display case» whether for our amusement and edification or as a tribute to his own cleverness I can not say.

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.

Your full of perspective post, which many «one eyed» fans have chosen to dislike for reasons of not wishing to accept the truth, perfectly illustrates the fact — which I have also been saying on social media for years past — that these days, players are very rarely actual FANS of the club they play for and who pay their grotesque wages.

Perhaps if he acted like a man with them, instead of a kindly granny pampering them and picking them, making constant absurd excuses for them, metaphorically buying them «sweeties and chocolate», out of love for his dictatorship and his grotesque salary, they might find that faced with a PROFESSIONAL MANAGER they were suddenly not so tired after all, with their jobs, salaries and positions on the line.

It is the most astonishing believe that this club and these fans owe Wenger anything after having supported him for the last 13 barren years during which he must have earned a grotesque amount of money (70 — 100 million?).

When you have a combination of self regarding players, who play only for themselves and patently care nothing at all about the club that pays their grotesque wages, along with a totally weak and «avoid conflict with powerful characters at all cost» manager, the lack of will to do what needs doing is frightening.

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.

Downing Street is braced for allegations of grotesque and serious criminal behaviour which would see more ministers following Michael Fallon on the walk of shame out of high office and into oblivion.

Of course, the reported DSS attempt to arrest Suleiman added even a more grotesque twist to the ridiculous drama, of a man of God baying for blood.

Still, while the criminal elements went on an over-drive to arrogantly subvert the courts to escape justice, this lobby went on an overdrive to push a most grotesque crusade for «human rights».