Sentences with phrase «grotesque human»

The people in your paintings are disfigured, even abnormal; some hold grotesque human - shaped blobs.

The New Order begins with series» protagonist and renowned badass, BJ Blazkowicz, leading an all - out allied assault on a fortress protecting General Wilhelm «Deathshead» Strasse, who is conducting grotesque human experiments that words can not describe.

Explore the cells and eventually you'll run into the wretches, grotesque human - dragon hybrids, botched experiments of the Lothric family.

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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.

With the ferocity of an Old Testament prophet, Powers indicts our blindness and selfishness, a grotesque narrowing of vision; one of his principal characters learns early on that «human wisdom counts less than the shimmer of birches in a breeze.»

Chance human reptile descent is a grotesque lie.

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.

• 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.»

Although grotesque and torturous methods of execution seem most likely to deter, they are incompatible with human dignity.

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:

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

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».

It is grotesque that Adriano Espaillat, who has made a great deal of noise as a defender of the rights of undocumented immigrants to the United States, was happy to take time out of his run for Congress in order to heap praise on an egregious, racist law with untold human cost.

The coalition's plans to legalise gay marriage are «madness», «grotesque» and an undermining of human rights, the UK's senior Catholic has said.

«This waste of talent, this squandering of human potential, this grotesque failure to give all our fellow citizens an equal chance is a reproach to our conscience,» he added

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.

A terrifying place where savage beasts, carnivorous creatures and grotesque abominations are the new normal, and the human race is now at the bottom of the food chain.

Great pains were no doubt exerted to make these entities as grotesque and nightmare - inducing as possible, yet, there is still some humor in their interaction with humans as well as their own foibles and relationships with each other.

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.

From an aesthetic standpoint, Maleficent may as well be protecting Pandora from the grubby hands of the human scum who threaten its unobtainable beauty — and beauty really is unobtainable in a movie from first time director Robert Stromberg, who carries over his grotesque production design aesthetic from Oz The Great and Powerful and the Tim Burton incarnation of Alice in Wonderland.

Guillermo del Toro infuses the grotesque with innocence and wonder, as if he has slipped into our dreams and fascinations, not to judge, but to find truth and grace in the dark furrows and creaky hallways of human nature.

From R. Lee Ermey's degenerate small - town sheriff to Andrew Bryniarski's hulking Leatherface (the chainsaw - wielding killer, now with a mask fashioned out of human flesh), the villains are either too grotesque or too remote to invite easy assimilation.

The humans are a mix of the garish, grotesque powdered aristocracy, with their tall hats, exaggerated facial hair and blushed cheeks, and the grimy downtrodden working class schlubs.

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.

Grotesque creatures, like goblins, orcs and their various minions, are slaughtered en masse, and even the more human - like species of Middle Earth take some heavy losses.

Even the Martians, who look quite cartoonish, especially when compared to the real - life actors that surround them, are supposed to garner a few chuckles from the element of surprise in their killings and experimentation with humans, but it all comes across as rather brutal or grotesque.

French filmmaker Bruno Dumont mixes grotesque class comedy with far - out human behaviour in this bizarre coastal farce

«Man is an endangered species,» as an insanely large text card states, with most of the remaining humans being held prisoner and / or enslaved by giant, grotesque Psychlo.

While a horrible and shocking topic, humans seem to have an underlying fascination with the grotesque — making shows like Law and Order and CSI hits.

A century ago, the grotesque giants known as Titans appeared and consumed all but a few thousand humans.

Pusher, a tabletop game created as a political art protest against the human rights abuses in the Philippines, uses a childlike aesthetic and fun gameplay to highlight the grotesque horror of the murders of anybody branded as a «pusher» or drug dealer by a repressive government.

Upon its release in 2003, the first Manhunt became a poster child for video game excess for its overtly grotesque story line and its depiction of some of the worst imaginable ways to stealthily slay human characters.

Flesh and blood Videogames — even the most grotesque, violent ones — have a tendency to overstate the resilience of the human body.

Videogames — even the most grotesque, violent ones — have a tendency to overstate the resilience of the human body.

Antiseptic human environments clash with grotesque alien hives in a flawless recreation of the franchise's look.

Players take the role of either sharpshooter Chris Redfield or demolitions expert Jill Valentine to track down the source of the town's problems — specifically, something in a decaying mansion that's mutating animals into grotesque killers and turning humans into bloodthirsty zombies.

Kenyon's massive work brings together the poetic and grotesque, highlighting a shift from human - sized objects to work of monumental scale.

Westcombe believes that this capacity to construct the grotesque and the phantasmagorical in moments of sensory deprivation is a complex part of human desire.

If the paintings conjured a massive presence, I thought at the time, the language of modeling would operate as an authority figure attempting to bind the more wildly associative or grotesque imagery, usually referring to the human body.

Often tending towards the grotesque, Bhabha's sculptural works and photo - based drawings feature bodies that appear dissected and dismembered, but one can likewise view them as monuments to human life reclaimed from the detritus of a post-apocalyptic landscape.

Comparatively, Mandy El - Sayegh (b. 1985) explores the dichotomy of the human body, using biology as a base for her often grotesque artworks, which become fake, living documents.

His graphic works of self - portraits, portraits of old lovers, and depictions of the human figure produce the same grotesque and expressive natures as those seen in his paintings.

These often grotesque images and styles harbor an undercurrent of disgust and ridicule, an attempt to humiliate the grandiosity of the portrait with a «thinking» stupidity which takes the place of good intentions, visual mimesis and human empathy.

ARTIST STATEMENT «The piece is a play on simple vaudeville style adverts that toys with the idea of human interest in viewing the grotesque; in this case, a bloody boxer, black man with a west African rhino head, broken horn in mouth, bloody / bruised face + body, in a classic boxing pose.

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.

Dealing with themes of power, gender, identity, sexuality and identity, Frank's grotesque figurations of the human form have been favorably compared to Francis Bacon and the artists cites painters like Velasquez, Goya, Gober and others as inspirations.

Cars and human figures merge to form his Carnivores species, with characters engaged in a variety of scenarios ranging from whimsical to grotesque.

SAVANNAH, Georgia — Contrary to his gentle voice and friendly manner, Lavar Munroe's first U.S. museum exhibition, Journey Elsewhere: Musings from a Boundless Zoo, is filled with grotesque half - animal, half - human figures wielding hostile gloves and knives like predators.

The overweight blue man featured throughout several works, functions as a grotesque sexual tourist in Bickerton's seedy world which explores human's conflicting feelings of repulsion and attraction.

His large format multi-panel works feature skeletal figures with nuts and bolts which unforgivingly reveal the grotesque and dispassionate aspects of human being.