Sentences with phrase «grotesques in»

Night comes down, the strong land - breeze rushes seaward from the Peaks singing a mournful dirge among the treetops; the fitful glare of the fire throws weird shadows among the tall trees, eclipsing the twinkle of the firefly that flits among the leaves; and all is silence and slumber, save when a gaunt figure steals out of the hut, its lean proportions doubly grotesque in the uncertain firelight, to watch the progress of the grilling of the prized meat.

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.

The film has the odd interesting loose - end, uses music unpredictably and it is properly grotesque in places, such as the first scene in which we see the Brufort family chewing on the various limbs and body parts of their victims.

In a Shockya interview he discussed his «appreciation and love for the grotesque in the genre» citing the Universal horror films of the 30s and Karl Fruend pictures as an influence.

At 6» 5» and three - hundred - plus pounds (Ferrigno played Canadian League football back in the day before quitting when he broke someone's legs), the man is a genuine modern grotesque in the best sense of the word.

It would be much easier to completely dismiss Nash Edgerton's comedy Gringo if it was outright offensive and grotesque in its depiction of Mexico, but it's not.

Cancer is a disease that is a perfectly structured killer; it is beautiful in its architecture but grotesque in its eventuality.

Grotesque in their consumptive gestures, poking and prodding each other like Harpies, they are connected to each other by various limbs, appearing to morph from one personality to the next.

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

Her approach has resulted in a diverse body of work that can be both humorous and grotesque in its assessment of humankind's history of coexistence.

«Human Concern / Personal Torment: The Grotesque in American Art,» Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY; Chicago, IL: 1989.

, Human Concern / Personal Torment: The Grotesque in American Art, with a text by Robert Doty, New York: Whitney Museum of Art / Berkeley: University of California, 1969, fig. 160 - 162.

The Grotesque in American Art» Revisited *: After the exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 14 October 30 November 1969, curated by Robert Doty, ed.

There is the grotesque in artworks such as Intestine, a long segment that obviously represents excrements, made by Kiki Smith, who also shows two wax figures depicted in self - satisfactory, masturbatory practices (Mother / Child), or in Paul McCarthy's sculpture of pigs with human faces, copulating in an orgy.

Focusing on the grotesque in contemporary art, the artists featured in this exhibit reveal essential aspects of human nature that are at once comical and profound, playful and monstrous.

The superabundance of his pictorial energies - the expression of a power almost grotesque in relation to its situation - link Pollock to the tribal art tradition of romantic exaggeration and hyperbole.

Her series of holographic plates, however, interrupts this new artistic exploration in order to revisit past themes of childhood trauma and psychosexual obsessions, while also building upon them with the medium's unique ability to incite horror and reveal the grotesque in the perfunctory.

«The Grotesque in Ensor's Oeuvre.»

While the Porsche Design P» 9982 isn't quite a grotesque in price, look or spec as the luxury Vertu brand, it's still set up to target those with more money than sense.

Not exact matches

He repeatedly described Bannon's comments in the book as «grotesque,» saying his role in the White House was «greatly exaggerated.»

I've traveled around the world and I got ta say there is nothing more grotesque than walking down market st in San Francisco.

Now, he realized, the grotesque result of those choices was parked in front of him.

The foreign minister, Bruno Rodríguez, who had earlier called Trump's Miami speech in June «a grotesque spectacle,» emphasized one point above others: The United States had presented no evidence whatsoever that the Cubans had done anything but try to help investigate the problem.

«The example of Oklahoma should be very troubling for Arkansas officials,» said Dale Baich, a defense attorney who represented Joseph Wood, who died in similarly grotesque circumstances in a botched execution involving midazolam in Arizona that same year.

The unrelenting mass shooting of our nation's children is the most tragic and emotionally devastating example of a perverted and grotesque campaign financing system where only corporate interests or those of the billionaires have a voice in our government.

Despite his grotesque appearance and erratic behavior, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford could be starring in his very own celebrity sex tape with adult superstar Brandy Aniston.

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

My point is that those opposed to terminating a small group of cells, or even a larger fetus that is not even yet self - aware will base their opposition on the supposed views of some mythological creature that, according to their Iron Age Palestinian mythology, caused a grown adult to be tortured and killed in a grotesque, barbaric fashion.

All I have to do is have a reasonable, honest and rational disbelief in the christian god andhet will inflict a grotesque penalty upon me an infinite times worse than the death penalty.

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.

It is possible that the grotesque and farcical forms of Russian capitalism ultimately prevented this phenomenon from becoming an ideologically dominant conception in my society.

A black mass is a grotesque, sacrilegious ceremony in which the most sacred rite of the Catholic Church is deliberately mocked.

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.

We have seen the same kind of ridicule by grotesque exaggeration in other sayings.

Articles and teaching sessions are devoted to social scandals like the increase in hunger, poverty, homelessness and illiteracy in the U.S. Likewise, issues surrounding U.S. foreign policy, aid and grotesque military appropriations are frequently critiqued on behalf of a foreseen new social order that will be founded on liberationist principles.

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.»

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.

I remember when it first showed up — a dark grotesque with a terrifying smile that took up so much space, catching every payer in its gravitational pull.

In my opinion it is grotesque and offensive to suggest to children and teenagers that chastity is unfeasible.

Otherwise sensible people adorned themselves in the most grotesque... More

In the 1800s, Norman Macleod, in the midst of his exuberance for the vistas of Banaras, referred to «that ugly looking monster called God», and Sherring wrote of «the worship of uncouth images, of monsters, of the linga and other indecent figures, and of a multitude of grotesque, ill - shapen, and hideous objects.»&raquIn the 1800s, Norman Macleod, in the midst of his exuberance for the vistas of Banaras, referred to «that ugly looking monster called God», and Sherring wrote of «the worship of uncouth images, of monsters, of the linga and other indecent figures, and of a multitude of grotesque, ill - shapen, and hideous objects.»&raquin the midst of his exuberance for the vistas of Banaras, referred to «that ugly looking monster called God», and Sherring wrote of «the worship of uncouth images, of monsters, of the linga and other indecent figures, and of a multitude of grotesque, ill - shapen, and hideous objects.»»

It's truly grotesque when you see murderers proclaim themselves in the name of a major salvation religion like Islam.

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.

Inequality before the law takes many forms, some of them grotesque, as in the Republic of South Africa or the Soviet Union, some more subtle.

All I have to do is have a reasonable, honest and rational disbelief in the Christian god and he will inflict a grotesque penalty upon me an infinite times worse than the death penalty.

I'll bet the numbers are right up there with the amount of kids whose faces have frozen forever in that mean / sulky / grotesque pose.

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

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.

Instead of your grotesque monster god smacking them on the bottom and sending them to bed without supper, he chose to punish all humanity in perpetuity by placing the Curse of Original Sin on them.

• 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.»