Sentences with phrase «grotesque way»

The Bride of Frankenstein, a misshapen tribute to Tammy Wynette's Stand by your Man, is definitely uplifting in its own, grotesque way.

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

Until now, we had had considerable success in stopping at least one particularly grotesque way of waging war: chemical weapons.

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.

He's a super villain who uses mind control to torture his victims in grotesque ways.

The four victims are all brutally murdered in different grotesque ways..

When Caden's health begins to deteriorate in strange and grotesque ways (the possibilities of these sicknesses being all in his head or being meant as a literalization of his fear of death seem quite likely), Adele takes his daughter to Berlin for a week - long trip.

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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.

This leads Gopnik to some quite grotesque accusations: in one way, this is useful, since it demonstrates clearly how profoundly ignorant he is of Chesterton's real beliefs.

The OT quote is an example of the grotesque Corinthian exposition of this instruction and even adds to it all the way out to the thresher and harvesters — far past the ox.

But that «clarification» in no way justified Lombardi's grotesque announcement only a few hours previously that «The Pope has said he never, never was a member of the Hitler Youth», since the Pope never, never said anything remotely resembling what Lombardi said he did.

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

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.

Politics, business, sports, entertainment and other fields all welcome women, he said, but some «people still behave in this grotesque and unlawful way.»

GLAAD takes action against Ticked Off Trannies with Knives: «The film, its title and its marketing misrepresent the lives of transgender women and use grotesque, exploitative depictions of violence against transgender women in ways that make light of the horrific brutality they all too often face.»

If forced further it becomes a grotesque dance performed with the head jutting forward, feet slack, hips rocked way back, and curled shoulders accompanied with driver's license worthy facial expression.

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.

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.

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?»

Throughout their journey, Caddoc and E'lara will hack and skewer their way through wave after wave of these grotesque beasties, with often quite some time between rousing boss battles and encounters with new enemy types.

Some may credit Sandler's grotesque but loveable central turn as the main magnet for laughter — especially the strange way that he constantly suggests his idiocy is a put - on — but there's no doubt that Tamra Davis» intuitive and snappy direction help to bring out the best in her divisive star.

Not exactly a shrinking violet, Smarzowski has established himself as a brutal realist with a taste for the ugly and the grotesque, with such movies as The Wedding and House of Evil presenting Polish experience in an unforgiving, and yet liberating way.

Along the way we experience Jack's descriptions of his personal condition, problems and thoughts through a recurring conversation with the unknown Verge - a grotesque mixture of sophistry mixed with an almost childlike self - pity and psychopathic explanations.

Tempting and not entirely inaccurate, but in truth The Tuxedo is more than just cheerfully misogynistic (and most of Chan's films are, in one way or another, woman - hating), cartoonish, and even racist in a Green Hornet / Kato sort of way — The Tuxedo is a symptom of a far deeper concern involving the inability of the West to ever make proper use of hijacked foreign commodities or construct an action film anymore that doesn't resort to slapstick childishness and / or grotesque violence.

Taken out of context, Wrath of the Titans is merely fine, offering some colourful sequences and tremendously hideous beasties (that Chimera is a thing of grotesque beauty) but offering nothing in the way of arresting drama, tense romance or distracting belly laughs.

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.

A gag might be attempted at some point after the fact but is lost in the carnage (The remaining finger is a prime example), although the movie's other best scene results in the grotesque death of a character who immediately beforehand announces his role as fodder by way of a dry line reading.

While the Ryan Reynolds - lead sequel leads the way with a similar formula to its predecessor, it builds on the successes in almost every way for 119 minutes of raunchy laughs and grotesque violence impressively being juxtaposed with an unexpectedly heavy amount of heart.

It is a grotesque, shrill, never - ending effort that always finds a way to sink a little lower just when you're positive there's no way it can.

Inspired by blogger / travel - writer - turned - novelist Ransom Riggs's collection of fantastical and grotesque vintage photographs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is already on the way to making it big.

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.

Automatron showcases some neat design ideas from the Bethesda team, particularly with regards to the new raider gang, whose abuse of the mechanized inhabitants of the Commonwealth has made way for some surprisingly grotesque robotic creations; I'm a big fan of the way that they mount the remains of defeated robots on spikes, in particular.

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.

In a genre that is dominated by realistic military combat or grotesque arena shooters, Garden Warfare allows for both children and adults alike to battle it out in fun cartoonish ways and is a perfect game for families to enjoy together.

Later works on view illustrate ways Still repurposed his Yaddo images, as his career progressed, into grotesque social commentary and symbolic forms alluding to sexual drive and mythical dualisms.

Keeping the classy feel of vintage photography, Gokita rarely shows the faces of his subjects, and often exaggerates their features all the way to absurdity or grotesque.

This application of multiple immediate reads is what keeps it open and interesting, and the artist's color choices (mainly yellow and black, which always turn a little green when they're placed and mixed together) and paint application are intentionally excessive and grotesque, maybe in the same ways as consumption and consumerism within the art world.

In a new show, the artist Alex Da Corte reimagines Jorgen Leth's 1967 short film «The Perfect Human» in a grotesque new way.

Paul McCarthy, Sweet Roll Body Smear, Piccadilly Circus, London, 2003 Body Politic: The Anatomy of the Grotesque surveys the ways in which contemporary artists have used the grotesque to call attention to the perversity inherent in the dominant discourse on beauty, sexuality, Grotesque surveys the ways in which contemporary artists have used the grotesque to call attention to the perversity inherent in the dominant discourse on beauty, sexuality, grotesque to call attention to the perversity inherent in the dominant discourse on beauty, sexuality, and race.

These artists revel in the grotesque and the gauche, mixing high and low in a way that was transgressive in the late - 1960s and «70s but which today is second - nature to Curry, Mike Kelley, and Richard Hawkins, who later taught Curry at the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, also impressed on him the importance of digging through popular culture's darkest and most insanitary corners for subjects ripe for art.

Michał explains: «In this way, I created different grotesque or even absurd daily situations.

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

As artists we all share interests, each dealing with the body in erotic, grotesque and humorous ways.

Their Arcimboldo - like sculptures made of grotesque stuff magically resolve into shadow profiles of the artists in a way that is technically spectacular, hugely entertaining — and perhaps a tiny bit superficial.

The grotesque and almost monstrous ways in which Goodman investigates beauty and femininity are utterly compelling.

In the Making pairs an example from Warhol's Myths series, a suite of ten portraits of cartoon figures and other cultural emblems, with a silkscreen by Condo that conveys his own hybrid style of the grotesque while reflecting the influence of his past mentor in surprising ways.

Willhelm and Kraus's unconventional fashion is characterized by an outspoken visual language in which they give expression to the grotesque, the childish and the fantastic, which they transform and combine in an unparalleled way with elements from pop culture and haute couture.

The paintings of Otto Dix and photographs of August Sander portray Germany in the 1920s in contrasting ways; the objective sobriety of Sander faces the grotesque painterly imagination of Dix.

And through conversations with others in the growing climate justice movement, I began to see all kinds of ways that climate change could become a catalyzing force for positive change — how it could be the best argument progressives have ever had to demand the rebuilding and reviving of local economies; to reclaim our democracies from corrosive corporate influence; to block harmful new free trade deals and rewrite old ones; to invest in starving public infrastructure like mass transit and affordable housing; to take back ownership of essential services like energy and water; to remake our sick agricultural system into something much healthier; to open borders to migrants whose displacement is linked to climate impacts; to finally respect Indigenous land rights — all of which would help to end grotesque levels of inequality within our nations and between them.