Sentences with phrase «from grotesque»

For example, acknowledging that animals have the right to be free from the grotesque exploitation of the industrial food apparatus does not require that we also grant them the right to vote.

De Jong creates monumental effigies to cultural distortions ranging from the grotesque to the macabre.

The show features lumpy figurative cement sculptures and oil paintings depicting everything from grotesque Madonna - like icons to a huge painting titled «Lesbian Twins».

In both the sculptures from the mid-1990s, and the new drawings created for the exhibition Players, Huma Bhabha reinvents the human head, deconstructing and reconstructing an archetype in which she gathers and transforms various art - historical typologies: from the African, Oceanic and carnival masks to those worn by the actors / dancers in the Indian theatre, from the grotesque faces of Expressionist painting to the demonic, hybrid features we may find in the characters of science - fiction movies or the Marvel comic books.

Metamorphosis and hybridism emerge as recurring motifs in the exhibition, from the grotesque actors in the drawings of Schröder - Sonnenstern to Enrico David's amorphous bodies.

More recently Cindy Sherman has constructed scenes and photographs showing herself as characters from the grotesque and horror imagination, surrounded by discarded food, human body parts and rubbish.

Just stay away from the grotesque SG - 1000 version and the unnecessary Game Gear port.

With spare prose that sets a tone as chilly and bleak as the Oregon coastal setting, Zumas doesn't shy away from the grotesque while presenting a tale that's haunting, thought provoking and painfully timely.

Most of all, it is a novel that exploits expectation, flipping archetypes on their head with an obese heroine who falls in love with a dainty boy who, try as he might, can not separate her enchanting mind from her grotesque body in order to love her back.

But many other attempts, including the 1949 Lincoln, GM's late -»70s downsized four - doors, and Porsche's first sedan, have ranged from grotesque to ghastly.

Genre films range from the grotesque to the absurd to the downright awful.

The road to hell has rarely been paved with such good intentions; director Sean Penn cast Charlize Theron and Javier Bardem as super-photogenic doctors falling in love and saving lives in African war zones, but the dialogue was so vapid and over-ripe that audiences giggled uncomfortably when they weren't averting their eyes from grotesque battle footage.

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.

This honour goes to Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron), a demon war tank driver, on a quest to free the captive breeders from the grotesque Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays - Byrne).

Though looking up close, the textures can look bland and unattractive, the world itself is can either make u sit in awe or make you cringe from its grotesque look.

To understand the dramatic decrease in bloody acts since then, Pinker explores the social and neurological roots of aggressive behavior, from the grotesque murders described in the Bible to the brain's «rage circuit.»

The women's nationals, with smooth footwork, purposeful jabs and more - Etonian - than - you'd - expect sportsmanship on display, was far removed from the grotesque blood - a-thons marking the sport's professional version and associated with current pro champ Christy Martin.

It's far past time we said we aren't going to give any harder — we aren't going to look the other way and give up our basic dignity to enable a rise to power from a grotesque misogynist like Trump.

Not exact matches

«I have been amazed at how resistant people are to actually fixing an obvious problem that is an obvious source of a grotesque unfairness and basically a transfer of wealth from the middle class to the rich,» he said.

They are grotesque, distorted figures from the American south» snake - oil salesmen, cripples, prophets, murderers... They are characters we can not avoid looking at.

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.

From her reaction, you would think I had uttered some grotesque indecency.

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.

The first beast from the sea was grotesque, with seven heads and ten horns.

It is the sheer excess — the disproportion of our human bondages and the absurdity resulting from this excess, the grotesque pointlessness of so much of it — that undermines my sense of ultimate meaning as transcendent willing purpose.

... 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.

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.

Cardinal O'Brien made exactly the same point, and it's worth considering why he argued that gay marriage would be «a grotesque subversion of a universal human right»; note exactly where the language of human rights comes from here:

Night comes down, the strong land - breeze rushes seaward from the Peaks singing a mournful dirge among the treetops; the fitful glare of the fire throws weird shadows among the tall trees, eclipsing the twinkle of the firefly that flits among the leaves; and all is silence and slumber, save when a gaunt figure steals out of the hut, its lean proportions doubly grotesque in the uncertain firelight, to watch the progress of the grilling of the prized meat.

Pieces range from the delicately beautiful to the grotesque and odd.

What Paladino wrote was grotesque, and for whatever conclusion you prefer — justifiably or through shaky and unrelated procedural gymnastics — he has been removed from his position, at least temporarily.

On a slightly more grotesque level, policymakers have to consider that the relatives of a rich aunt might decide to hasten her exit from this life in order to collect their inheritance.

When Tony Blair said that Labour party members who were thinking of voting for Corbyn needed a heart transplant he was — from the heights of the grotesque wealth he has amassed only because Labour party members once upon a time put their trust in him — spitting on those outside the caste.

Calling for New Yorkers to reclaim their state from a «grotesque» two - party system that serves politicians and their «corporate paymasters,» Ralph Nader endorsed Green Party gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins at a Sunday evening event in Albany.

«It is, indeed, grotesque that unelected European judges - some of whom do not even come from countries adhering to the rule of law - should lay down what we can or can not do.»

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.

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

Friedkin was going way off message from the marketing materials, diminishing Killer Joe's grotesque regionalism and arguing instead for its universality: «The people in this story are victims of their own dreams.

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.

Spike Lee's sharp, riotous satire, from 2000, zeroes in on the grotesque misrepresentation of blacks in American media - and their underrepresentation in the corporate offices that control it.

The jokes are occasionally gruesome (One henchman meets a particularly grisly end) or grotesque (Annie tries to remove the bullet she accidentally put in her husband's arm, using impromptu surgical tools from a corner drug store), but they fit into the film's twisted logic.

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 this feature debut from Zambian - born film - maker Rungano Nyoni, ancient superstitions and crass commercialism go into partnership to grotesque effect.

You feel for the first time that Scorsese is trying to distance himself from his characters — that he finds them grotesque.

Adapted from Elfriede Jelinek's novel, Der Klavierspielerin, Haneke's rendering is a kind of anti-melodrama, taking the conventions of the doomed romance familiar from Bovary and showing them up for their contradictory nature: histrionic and subdued, grotesque and utterly banal.

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?»

A Freddy Krueger figure, in other words, is transmogrified into a Jaws one, adding a rich layer of suspense to a film that lacked the thrill of, to borrow from another famous Curry grotesque, «anticipation.»

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?

Hearing that Aronofsky wrote this script in five days makes sense because when it isn't just following people ceaselessly clomping up and down stairs, it's a wild, grotesque take on the Cat in the Hat with Jennifer Lawrence as the beleaguered children trying to stop Thing 1 and Thing 2 from ruining her kitchen.