Sentences with phrase «grotesque about»

However justified and «right», there is something grotesque about that reality.

His Pennywise is more theatrical, more of an exploitation of all that's inherently macabre and grotesque about clowns.

Not exact matches

When people think about crashes, they tend to think about an event — as if some massive, grotesque, red, scaly, fire - breathing, razor - toothed catalyst should be obvious beforehand.

Moreover, there is enough age difference between me and them so that I don't have to worry about being «cool» - the very adjective applied to me borders on the grotesque.

Those four steps help us get rid of those alcoholic lenses that were before our eyes — the ones that caused us to see not the decent, kindly folk about us but grotesque and distorted figures — demons in a land of nightmare.

When Mel Gibson released The Passion of the Christ in 2004, many Christians were incredulous about Jewish concerns over grotesque depiction of Jews.

It is that he is a grotesque image of everything people already hate about politics.

• 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.»

So the villagers came up with stories about how the Jews poisoned the river and engaged in various grotesque and illicit practices.

So she turned her attention to the grotesque, the perverse, the unacceptable — as a way of talking about religious questions.

When one party has elevated lifestyle libertinism to the first of constitutional principles (and is prepared to kill unborn children, jettison free speech, and traduce religious freedom in service to hedonism), while the other is prepared to nominate a fantasist who spun grotesque fairy tales about an alleged connection between an opponent's family and Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before he closed the deal?

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.

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.

Indeed, no one has done more than Wisse, with her translation of and writing about Yiddish literature, to overcome that grotesque caricature of prewar European Jewry.

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

I have been, until VERY recently, in two minds about keeping Jack, which would mean not insulting him with a pay cut, esp when the brilliant but workshy Ozil has his own grotesque pay rise.

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.

But like anything Nigerian, where even routine things pass through grotesque ethnic lens, a quest for accurate information about presidential health soon peters down into savage nastiness, with even the cream of the media swooning in its orgy!

It seems a grotesque, distasteful thing to think about, and probably it is.

But now, with the frenzy of reports saying former Olympian and reality TV star Bruce Jenner is «transitioning to life as a woman» after months of (at times grotesque) tabloid buzz about his changing appearance, it seems like a good time to talk about... well, the best way to talk about this topic.

If it was not so grotesque this should be shown in all classes in high school or college and teach people about religious, ethnic,

In his recently published The New Jew in Film, Nathan Abrams ascribes specifically Jewish content to the Farrellys» 1998 classic There's Something About Mary in the grotesque schlemielishness of Ben Stiller zippering a bit of his scrotum.

Of all the perverse gags — of which there are plenty, including but not limited to demon penises, vomit, bodily fluids (There's a long argument about one that only a group of men stuck together for a period of time could have), all manners of grotesque death, cannibalism, etc. — in the film, this sudden departure of so many characters is perhaps the most shocking.

And the film ultimately manages to pose questions about Germany in the present as much as it makes us wonder about the very circumstances that enabled this strange, indeed grotesque story to take place in 1945.

It's been a decade since Christopher Guest's last mockumentary, For Your Consideration, and his latest, Mascots, suggests that not much about his alternately affectionate and condescending view of human grotesques has changed.

Left with little to work with in the historical record, they instead turn their villains» bodies into grotesques: Spall's pathetic moustache tells us all we'll ever know about Shakespeare's fraudulence, while Thewlis is dumped under a pound of old - man makeup and parked in a rickety wheelchair, so you know he's bad news.

Everything about Warren Beatty's weird noir throwback was grotesque and OTT, so Al was probably just going with the flow.

As satires about capitalism go I'll stick with the sublimely grotesque American Psycho but The Wolf of Wall Street is not without its pleasures, most of them actor - based.

But this LFF screening means you have no excuse to miss this grotesque picaresque about parental responsibility which features perhaps the funniest assisted death sequence ever laid down on film.

Basically, he turned himself into a fat, bald, chain - smoking, nervous - wreck version of the Nutty Professor entirely for fun — a sweaty, fidgety, grotesque figure in a movie in which we were supposed to take this guy seriously, that was all about a man and his dream.

Lynne Ramsay follows We Need to Talk About Kevin with another masterwork on the cyclical traumas of violence, sporting a poetically grotesque performance from a -LSB-...]

A bold, Rouchian documentary about Indonesian «gangsters» blends reenactment and fly - on - the - wall observation to reveal some grotesque truths

For all its posturing about keeping an open mind and remaining non-judgmental, «I, Tonya» strikes me as condescending to its characters; they're treated flippantly as a string of grotesques who remain unexamined in any particular detail other than a fairly rote and fairly standard dark - comic lens.

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.

Cargo has novel interpretations of the popular zombie myth, from the infected literally burying their heads in the sand to grotesque pus smearing over their eyes, making them flail about wildly.

The Telegraph's critic Robbie Collin wrote at length in a thread on Twitter about how the character functioned within the grotesque mode, arguing that «the fact the empathy and disgust come hand in hand [in that mode] is * the most important part *.

MASH is illustrative of the fact that a great comedy can be about any subject matter, even one as grotesque as an Army field hospital where soldiers are dying.

This story about a resurrected ancient Chinese warrior is nearly non-stop confrontation and violence, yet it falls short of including explicit and grotesque images.

But the throughlines are kept clean and comprehensible because as grotesque as the crimes are, «Spotlight» is ultimately not about them, but about the heroism of speaking truth to power.

It's all played for laughs but in reality it's plum revolting, and while Vaughn and frequent collaborator Jane Goldman's (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children) try to soften things by making Eggsy ambivalent about the task at hand, if anything this only acerbates that grotesque nastiness of the situation a substantial degree.

But since Monday night was a grotesque revelation, I'm going to talk about it anyway.

If people are looking for something to complain about, a better target would be the preposterously thriving Oscar whiteout, which last year led to the favoring of grotesque turns from Christian Bale and Melissa Leo over every incredible performance in For Colored Girls.

The interplay between the characters hadn't really occurred to me, and there's something funny about the Deadpool movies paving the way for much better and serious, but equally grotesque, superhero movies.

Their first collaboration, Recount, about the contested 2000 presidential election, featured Laura Dern as Katherine Harris, whose gauche gaudiness dropped into the middle of the film's strategic maneuvering came across as the antics of some kind of grotesque buffoon played for dissonant laughs.

The two best things about Jack Gantos's grotesque, tragicomic, and nostalgic Dead End in Norvelt are its lively young narrator, Jack Gantos, and Norvelt, his town - a New Deal homestead community on the skids in Pennsylvania (see sidebar).

There was something grotesque now about the frozen grins, and Falk saw he wasn't the only one averting his gaze.

This is the Uncensored 1818 Edition FRANKENSTEIN; OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS, a novel written by the English author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley about the young science student Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque but sentient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

Frankenstein is a novel written by British author Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

We've been asked about the degree of horror within the horror: «Is splatterpunk allowed or is that too grotesque?»