Sentences with word «grotesque»

Centered on a doughty single mother, Mildred Hayes, and her one - woman crusade against the unidentified man who raped and murdered her daughter and the male cops who have failed to solve the crime, it's a carnival of grotesques in which characters largely speak the hard, heightened, expletive - riddled McDonagh dialect heard in all the Irish - British playwright's work — and has a subjectively twisted worldview to match.

In 1950, his paintings became more thickly painted and with swirling forms, with grotesque imagery of animals, monsters and the human figure.

«Only once fans of the series had been ground down by seven unrelenting years of this, then — and only then — would I have been prepared to even think about releasing something as grotesque as a co-op survival Resident Evil game with the Metal Gear brand on top.»

These disturbing faces are created out of old children's toys which are made into grotesque caricatures of adults.

as a gloomier, more Gothic place, filled with grotesque creatures.

Not at all what I had expected — much more grotesque in a way.

Ahmed's love for grotesque makes his latest charcoal drawings dramatic as always but amazingly playful.

Taking on grotesque creatures isn't the only danger presented to you and your party; the dangers of mental status ailments can bring your warriors down to nothingness real fast.

Bertran de Born, the twelfth - century Provençal poet, carrying his severed head by the hair as it sways back and forth like a lantern — surely one of the most grotesque images in that book - length catalogue of hallucinations and torments.

Stalking Egypt in 4K in Assassin's Creed Origins or battling waves of grotesque monsters in Gears of War 4 proves the sheer genius of the Xbox engineering team, allowing console gamers to experience truly high - end gaming for the first time without an expensive gaming PC rig.

Filippino Lippi, The Wounded Centaur, c1500 The art of Filippino Lippi is poetic, melancholy, often tortured by grotesque images.

I admit there is some humor, but it's followed by grotesque violence, like scenes of Joe continuously smashing Chris in the face with a can of pumpkin.

This platformer from Tarsier Studios sees you trying to escape from grotesque monstrosities on a creepy ship.

And without it, all the other human rights for which we have worked so hard will end up as grotesque caricatures of some of our deepest aspirations.

The long history of religious stained glass is juxtaposed with Schaecter's contemporary, distorted depictions of often grotesque characters experiencing pain or suffering.

It is a novel idea executed brilliantly as the men turn into grotesque figures, staring out at us as much as we look at them.

The stop - motion animation features an array of grotesque faces, each revealing comical yet sad - sack personalities.

The Room may be a non-native's laughable, even grotesque caricature of modern American life, but it's an incredibly sincere one.

With grotesque horrors abound, this launch trailer promises a game filled with the spawn of nightmares.

This crude low - budget exploiter is one of the most grotesque character assassinations ever put on film.

In the late 1980s and into the»90s, she expanded her focus to more grotesque imagery, like the mutilated mannequins of her «Sex Pictures» (1992).

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.

By situating the audience perspective at the borders of grotesque violence, both at a remove in the case of the CCTV cameras and in decontextualizing, arresting close - ups with the help of cinematographer Tom Townend, Ramsay conveys a more ruminative position on the effects of violence.

There are only so many ways you can kill someone in the most grotesque way imaginable before it all starts to

We may read it, in the light of a long - established allegorical tradition, as a parable of deeper truths; but to the Jews of the fifth century BC, who took it at its face value, the Hebrew story, though not grotesque like the Babylonian, was too ingenuous and childlike to command the «reverence and godly fear» which belongs to all high religion.

Grotesque body parts are sitting on bird swings, biomorphic growths are clinging to the metal cage, a mold - covered hand is clutching one corner, and menacing looking plants are co-habitating with electric circuit boards.

This exploration reveals the beautiful and grotesque while simultaneously recontextualizing the cuckoo clock as a contemporary object.

Flowing over and out of their gilded frames» physical limits, these three - dimensional paintings capture grotesque scenes with animals, half - human figures and invented beasts that represent Gutheil's continued exploration of excess, exaggeration, chaos, and figurative painting.

The continuous development of his art began in 1944 with Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, in which human forms become grotesque, screaming mutations.

One where the plants are vibrantly multi-coloured garlands, where animals mutate into grotesque versions of themselves and where time passes almost imperceptibly.

Scorching social commentary, cartoon - like grotesque figures and acidic colors characterize the paintings of Peter Saul.

The surreal, almost grotesque distortion in Untitled (2008) evokes the startlingly fragile nature of flesh and bone.

One of the vastly powerful Eternals of Titan, Thanos was shunned as a child for his gigantic form and grotesque appearance.

Still yet, there are times when the work must delve into grotesque distortions and excesses.

Far from being charming, there's something grotesque about a desperate older man playing matchmaker to a pair of young would - be lovers, then peering at them from behind bushes and pumping each for the intimate details of their trysts.

The mottled, morphing, sometimes vaguely grotesque forms at Michael Werner demonstrate one of his primary influences: the Chicago Imagists of the 1970s and»80s, whose work he experienced when studying in that city.

The long - term transgenerational consequences to humanity itself must be examined: methotrexate is a drug known to be capable of damage to the human DNA, and as such may induce mutations so grotesque as to be virtually unimaginable.

Audiences reacted strongly to the combination of such grotesque subject matter with minstrel - era, storybook - innocent nostalgia.

Although it's a horror series, with a group of misfits dealing with zombies and investigating sometimes grotesque murders, I quite enjoy Kurosagi for its exploration of the dark side of human nature and its gruesomely lovely, detailed art, so I'm glad to hear we'll get more.

It has a fabulous contemporary turn, with a plot that involves same - sex love as well as grotesque sexual perversion and graphic violence, which could never have been published in Victorian England.

Of course the dog feels ill at ease with the incessant mindless, physical manhandling, bullying, and other grotesque human body language.

This tale serves as inspiration for a new Frankfurt exhibition, which unpacks humanity's «grotesque self - optimisation and the ubiquitous pressure to achieve», and the lengths people and artists will go to to engage with this notion.

Rather than putting style over substance, its style was the substance, director Matthew Vaughn pulling out every trick in the book to poke fun at the stuffy clichés of Bond - era spy films while leaning hard into its R rating to sometimes grotesque results.

From his start as the enfant terrible of the early -»90s independent scene, Korine has been obsessed with grotesque beauty.

One of the more grotesque things they can do is spit acid on your limbs and tear them apart.

Whether you're chasing down a killer who turns his murders into grotesque art exhibits or evading the gaze of a gigantic eye in the night sky, The Evil Within 2 never lets up on throwing something new and weird your way that is guaranteed to give you the heebie - jeebies.

Towards the end (no spoilers) I found my mouth drop open at the savagery and grotesque nature of one of the end bosses.

His many grotesque lies are cleverly veiled in spin type language to fool some folk.