Sentences with phrase «grotesque while»

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.

Chantal Joffe's portraits seem to dip their toes into the grotesque while remaining resolutely and sympathetically human.

The two exhibitions were developed separately — De Jong's sculptural figures dwell on the grotesque while Redwood's paintings take on portraiture, landscape and still life — but work in tandem.

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.

Not exact matches

While perhaps admired by the segment of our society that worships the dollar above all else, this is nothing more than the grotesque reminder how just how fraudulent the United States system has become.

He stands for a God who creates things knowing they will fail while also allowing a horrific and grotesque peril to loom over them.

For such a view leads to the most grotesque bifurcation of reality which is much worse than that criticized so convincingly by Whitehead: on one side, the realm of timelessly valid propositions, including those referring to future events, while on the other side the temporal realm of nature and mind in which the timeless propositions are being gradually embodied.

He insists in his sunny prattle that he is «a mere child,» while he is fact a grotesque parasite: a colossal tick, a leech, a tapeworm with a taste for Mozart, who, it turns out, is childlike in his pursuit of pleasure, but shrewd and willful in his studied neglect of responsibility.

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?

Forever he will straddle the grotesque torture device while sickly brown frogs stand guard against his escape.

Forever he will straddle the grotesque torture device while sickly wet brown frogs stand guard against his escape.

Khan is every parent's snotty - nosed delinquent nightmare, while Puri's simultaneously comic, sympathetic and grotesque performance deserves special acclaim.

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».

Instead, we have the grotesque image of a Labour politician - a LABOUR politician - cavorting in Corfu with a croesus rich Russian tycoon while his country is sliding into a recession.

Goodwin claims the councilwoman put a grotesque mural of an impaled rooster on her building while they ran for district leader last year.

Diaz, for some reason, is repeatedly drawn to self - consciously grotesque little projects that usually don't accomplish much of anything at all, but make a huge mess while not accomplishing it.

While most superheroes are rather po - faced do - gooders, Deadpool offers something more irreverent, more grotesque in its humour and — with his withering asides direct to the audience — more knowing.

But the actors are infectious in their approach to the material: McAdams brings a zesty exuberance even to the film's most grotesque gags (including a back - alley surgery scene), while Billy Magnusson plays the group's resident dimwit, Ryan, with shit - eating glee.

Though Videodrome finally grows grotesque and a little confused, it begins very well and sustains its cleverness for a long while.

See Also: There's not a lot comparable to «The Lobster» in Farrell's (or anyone's) filmography, but to see him ugly up to more grotesque effect, you could always check out «Horrible Bosses» which is fun enough until it loses steam, while the black comic vein of Lanthimos» film is maybe closest to a more surreal take on Farrell's collaborations with Martin McDonagh («In Bruges» and «Seven Psychopaths») inasmuch as it's close to anything at all.

The good news is, the original «Kick - Ass» comic was similarly grotesque, and director Matthew Vaughn was able to wrangle that into something absurdly entertaining, while still retaining some of the lawlessness of the source material.

Even more than the first film, «Deadpool 2» mocks itself and its genre while flaunting a taste for the grotesque.

But while it's humming along with the freshly - orphaned Baudelaires — Violet (Emily Browning), Klaus (Liam Aiken), and little Sunny (Kara and Shelby Hoffman)-- doing what they do best (Violet the engineer, Klaus the reader, Sunny the biter), Lemony Snicket, with its gothic sets and grotesque gallery of rogues, offers up a brilliant antidote to the saccharine blather of traditional holiday fare.

It apes the James Bond series with its gadgets, «The Prisoner» television show with its remote island locale and gallery of grotesques, and «The Avengers» with its tits - and - ass while demonstrating all the sleek cool of, say, The Love Bug.

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.

You have all sorts of weird, grotesque creatures to escape, while trying to get to the bottom of your strange, unending hunger.

by Walter Chaw Self - referential and self - satisfied, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is a continual stream of grotesque sexual references, leering at scantily clad, foul - mouthed women, and enough broad swipes at mainstream cinema (while featuring a parade of celebrity cameos) that it ends up being a cross between «Beavis and Butthead», Cecil B. Demented, and a Bob Hope Christmas special, not to mention an endurance test.

The jokes are without any humor value, the script is a shamefully lazy patchwork of derivative ideas, and the character model of Garfield continues to look grotesque, while voiced in a terrible, grating fashion from one of my favorite comedic actors, Bill «Not interested in Ghostbusters 3, but Garfield 2 is OK» Murray.

It's much darker than its big - screen predecessor from 1989, Batman, and this blend of horror and action will probably thrill fans of Raimi's campy filmmaking of the grotesque, while turning off those looking for regular superhero fare.

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.

And while the line might be a tad on the nose, it's a perfect prompt for the gorgeous and grotesque romance that del Toro (and co-writer Vanessa Taylor, «Hope Springs») unspools.

This tendency is not altogether new: fans of Life Is Sweet may remember that the sister who was a plumber was treated with respect, while the entrepreneur played by Timothy Spall was a complete grotesque.

But while an arms race for spectacle has engorged Hollywood action pictures to often grotesque proportions, «little» movies like this one become almost their own kind of unintentional criticism.

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.

While gathered on the Missouri river, the group is attacked by the Arikara tribe in a dizzying, dazzling bombardment of grotesque tomahawk and arrow kills punctuated by blood - curdling screams of agony all around.

While striking a tone somewhere between the two, The Royal Tenenbaums is as irreverently structured as the best of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and as meticulously peopled with a gallery of grotesques as a John Irving novel.

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.

The children were tested and stressed at their desks; While visions of bubble sheets made them feel quite grotesque;

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.

The Cornell University Library provides a good summation on the topic and a gallery of gargoyles and grotesques, while this website provides a leisurely video tour around the grotesques of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris.

While its enemy design is top - notch with a unique touch of the grotesque, the world inside the painting isn't exactly teeming with things to discover — lasting about as long as an average Souls region.

Little Nightmares, though, offers the saddest child of 2017, as grotesque people regularly attempt to eat your character on a horror show of a boat while your character slowly starves to death.

What follows is an often grotesque and always entertaining adventure that, while much smaller in scale than Deadly Premonition «s sprawling Pacific Northwest setting of Greenvale, is equally engrossing with its varied cast of eccentric characters, exciting motion - controlled action, and bizarre but ultimately compelling story.

His dementia is slowly killing him inside while grotesque creatures try to rip him apart on the outside.

While rare moments of unfair circumstances hold it back, Sundered remains a compelling and rewarding experience that you'll be eager to play again, if only to seek out its other endings or to simply to wipe out another swarm of grotesque creatures.

If you want a good chuckle while still getting some good play time in, Grotesque might be your next game.

The Rotten Vale is home to all manner of putrid and grotesque things, filled to the brim with the skeletons of long dead monsters and teeming with poisonous gas, your hunter will have to be on their guard while navigating this particularly dangerous area.

It had all the gore, weapons, and grotesque creatures we've all grown to love over the years playing the Doom franchise, while also having a pretty intriguing story to go along with it.

Dhalsim, older and greyer than before, extends his limbs with grotesque grace, while F.A.N.G. a lithe, rangy combatant throws purple clouds of poison that chip away at his opponent's health bar.

The grotesque and mischievous characters evoke a sense of voyeurism from the viewer while maintaining an unapologetic detachment.