Sentences with phrase «in sadism»

But with «Reasons to Be Pretty,» which premiered off - Broadway last spring to positive reviews, LaBute seemed to trade in his sadism for a healthy dose of sympathy.

David Cronenberg's latest is a gripping and exquisitely horrible movie about Hollywood — positively vivisectional in its sadism and scorn — written by industry satirist Bruce Wagner.

But this wounded mindset also begat 2008's «Rambo,» a sloppy, nihilistic and near - pointless exercise in sadism and explosions - go - boom!

It's nothing but a painful, tedious, cruel, and mean spirited exercise in sadism that actually tries to transform child molestation in to a comedic bit...

Mankind must rediscover the crucifixion as a universal symbol, not just an experiment in sadism or masochism or arrogance.

Singer / songwriter / poet Leonard Cohen said, «Mankind must rediscover the crucifixion as a universal symbol, not just an experiment in sadism or masochism or arrogance.

You middle schoolers sure get caught up in the sadism thing though.

Not exact matches

According to Time, «Sadism means delighting in the harm of others, psychopathy is an antisocial personality disorder, and Machiavellianism means a person's tendency to be unemotional and deceitful.»

Mulligan, in this symbolic action, expresses Joyce's critique of Christianity: a combination of sadism, the razor, and narcissism, the mirror... Continue Reading»

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Twain's Satan, in fact, sees the sadism of the Old Testament God as an escape from a universe that would otherwise have bored Him with its unrelieved sweetness and light.

He helps us put in its proper context the conduct that society has conditioned us to disapprove of — acts that range from the sexual libertinism of the Marquis de Sade to the minor sadisms of the Rolling Stones: urinating in public against a service station wall, trashing the hotel rooms in which they stayed, distributing their semen with indiscriminate generosity to avid groupies.

Sölle was scathing in her attacks on theological masochism / sadism.

She unflinchingly blasted «the omnipotence of a heavenly being who decrees suffering» 40 as a manifestation of either «Christian masochism» (the calamities we accept as somehow God's will) or «Christian sadism» (the calamities we inflict on others in God's name), or both.41 There is «no way to combine omnipotence with love.»

Sooner or later those of us feasting on this orgy of tele - sadism will have to accept our complicity in the process.

The experiment wasn't just an exercise in scientific sadism, though.

It is a bare - assed worm, twenty feet up in a barren, ligneous spire, sandwiched between the unrelenting sadism of the Arctic atmosphere and a block of nearly lifeless wood....

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Yet in Angieszka Holland's In Darkness, a chronicle of the last years of World War II in Lvov, Poland, it's the acts of petty sadism, the random indignities, that carry the strongest stinin Angieszka Holland's In Darkness, a chronicle of the last years of World War II in Lvov, Poland, it's the acts of petty sadism, the random indignities, that carry the strongest stinIn Darkness, a chronicle of the last years of World War II in Lvov, Poland, it's the acts of petty sadism, the random indignities, that carry the strongest stinin Lvov, Poland, it's the acts of petty sadism, the random indignities, that carry the strongest sting.

... Aja and his gorehound ilk are making movies that simply wallow in state - of - the - art displays of torture, sadism and sexual humiliation.

But only one major - studio film of the modern era, Richard Fleischer's notorious 1975 Mandingo, dared to meet slavery on its own terms — a grind house bacchanal of sadism, incest, and miscegenation, capped by an unforgettable finale in which the eponymous bare - knuckle fighter is boiled alive by his master in a cauldron.

Patton's personality — conveyed with pointed theatrical flair by George C. Scott — is registered in rich tones of grandeur and megalomania, genius and petty sadism.

A tiring exercise in time - biding sadism (versus wit or suspense), inflated with shock editing, noisy effects and an angry score, like a thriller with road rage.

The Proposition is a somber and pessimistic story, containing some vividly memorable moments of sadism and despair that manage to provide just the right jolt to keep audiences uneasy in their feelings toward any of these characters.

Needless to say, much of the festival crowd loved it, proving that there is a certain kind of individual in the world that will find much to enjoy in Friedkin's brand of sadism.

One of the cheapest looking $ 100 million movies ever made, this sequel to the 2013 sort - of - hit Olympus Has Fallen ditches the original's «Die Hard in the White House» premise in favor of sub-Death Wish 3 sadism and Red Dawn-esque survivalism, but without the notes of camp or jingoist pulp that could make either watchable.

unlike babyface which could be deemed as a social satire about a ghetto girl's eager angst to clander to the top in search of power, harlow's reddish circe is more like a ridicule of sex such as the scene she's trapped in the phonebooth and the absurd connotation of sadism & masochism as harlow remarks «do it again!

Combining Hitchcockian camerawork, lush, over-saturated colors, rollercoaster - like thrills, and at times surreal situations, Argento could overcome the sadism and misogyny in his gallery of sliced and diced beauties with the sheer cinematic bravura and beauty of the sequences.

Rorschach in the movie, for all his sadism and extremism and volatility... half the time I found myself wondering whether he wasn't the sanest character of them all.

Where Inside (À l'intérieur) combined sadism with tension, The Strangers is only interested in one thing — keeping you on the edge of your seat.

Paulson's one - note beeyotch character doesn't do the actress any favors, but Fassbender, in what could have been a mustache - twirling part, is utterly transfixing as the kind of guy who really does have a deeply emotional investment in manic racial sadism.

The children's rendition of Rambo is actually much easier to take and enjoy than its bloody source film, as daring stunts and goofy ideas (a scarecrow antagonist, a flying dog) stand in for post-Vietnam sadism.

Her sincere desire to be a bride of Christ is first challenged by the borderline sadism with which Blessed Rose's Reverend Mother (Melissa Leo) runs the convent — for a while, Novitiate plays like a distaff Full Metal Jacket, with nuns in training systematically humiliated and emotionally abused by what amounts to a soft - spoken drill sergeant in a habit.

Killer Joe casts McConaughey as a preening wolf let loose in the henhouse, a corrupt authority figure whose pristine appearance — in a realm where nobody seems to mind looking like death personified — and strange moral code mask a core of pure sadism that comes out in a gruesome, bleakly funny climax that will forever change the way audiences view fried chicken.

Sadism: alive and well and living in middle America.

The mother of all mean girl movies, this savage black comedy peels back the polished, manicured in - crowd hierarchy of an Ohio high school and reveals a snake pit of manipulation and sadism.

And Play is just the worst piece of sh — let me rephrase — Play is a smug exercise in sub-Haneke sadism.

Level / quality of kills: Say what you want about the rock star - turned - retro horror filmmaker: The dude does sadism well, and the murders he stages here are long and painful to watch — in, er, a good way.

Death Race is supposed to revel in meaningless sadism.

Trent's exercises in bucking up the boy reveal a streak of sadism beneath his show of responsibility.

As an entry in the Victorian - period ghost story canon, Crimson Peak strives for the time - honored and sumptuous sadism of Mario Bava — especially with all the sea green and blood red hues that occupy the picture — del Toro does visual justice to the cobwebbed candelabras and blood - flecked vaults and terraces emblazoned on the screen, but the overall effect is meager, he mostly just taps a thinning vein of gothic clichés.

It's also violent to point of sadism, explicit both visually and in terms of language.

For those not as invested, the film version does manage to be one of the better thrillers in recent years, with solid characterizations, a capable cast of actors, and, for those not averse to some of the film's harsher moments of sexual abuse and sadism, enough lurid developments in its story to make you squirm in your seat.

«Fear Factor left behind the rule book in E.L. Katz's ultra-violent parody on American economic desperation that mixes murky morality with a heavy twist of sadism.

Angel, played with snarling bravado by Perlman, provides the film with its true «monster», surpassing Jesús in brutality and sadism despite the fact that the latter has become a literal bloodsucker.

Lewis has said it's his final performance before retiring, and early word is that it's extreme in the final act, revolving around sexual sadism and obsession.

Grounded by heartbreakingly poignant performances from two of French cinema's most iconic actors, Amour contains none of the moralistic finger - wagging and gratuitous sadism that so many critics have found off - putting in the director's work.

But the direction is heavy - handed, John Travolta is very hammy as the villain and the movie is so full of envelope - pushing torture and sadism that it's likely to repel everyone but violence - addicts in need of a particularly gruesome fix.

Not that we totally identify with our deadpan sociopathic narrator and main character, but that's precisely what happens to Lou Ford, the clean - cut young deputy sheriff of Central City, Texas, (Casey Affleck, in another masterful performance to rank with his work in «Gone Baby Gone» and «The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford»), a small - town psycho with a taste for compulsive, 1950s pulp sadism (really dirty, dangerous stuff — let's say S&M without the safe word).