Sentences with phrase «into grotesque»

A series of new and grandiose grisaille panel paintings, based on small oil sketches and completely devoid of color, distort their subjects into grotesque parodies of altar paintings.

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

Her gnarly compositions conjure romantically - charged narratives while delving into the grotesque aspects of her subjects, simultaneously highlighting both the beauty and the abjection of human eroticism.

It is a novel idea executed brilliantly as the men turn into grotesque figures, staring out at us as much as we look at them.

Los Angeles - based photographer Ilona Szwarc creates works that often employ a surrogate for her own likeness to stage serial moments in a clinical transition from youthful beauty into the grotesque.

Laden with mysterious narratives the domestic bourgeois scenes were transmuted into a grotesque reality.

The figures in the new series have got down from their pedestals and turned into grotesque giants cast in one of the most tradition - laden materials in art history — bronze.

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.

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.

Beneath Zomboni's stern eye you will race against the clock to combine disgusting ingredients like eyeballs, hearts, bones, guts, and (of course) brains into grotesque Zombie Pizzas like The Roadkill, The Split Dog, The Gut Buster, and the Stink Eye.

It starts out as necessity, «I can't afford to live if I don't» but it eventually evolves into a grotesque distortion of itself as your «stockpile of resources», games in our case became about the thrill of the hunt, and not the ability to experience MORE games.

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.

Smoke and Sacrifice sees Sachi, a mother forced to give up her son, adventure into a grotesque underworld on a quest that will lead her to a darker truth.

The victim of a cruel curse, Elena endures a horrific transformation into a grotesque beast.

The words of their companion Mavda offer themThe victim of a cruel curse, Elena endures a horrific transformation into a grotesque beast.

Mafia III revels in violence, and often veers off into grotesque territory — especially with regards to melee executions.

Some stories are dreams, some nightmares, most slide into grotesque and melancholy, and all are simple, down - to - earth, intellectual fun told in a wry, fast moving ahead voice.

Thunderbird / Cougar: Thirty - five years ago, Ford knocked the auto industry on its ear with the original two - seat Thunderbird, but since then the T - Bird has mutated into some grotesque shapes and sizes.

The deeper she goes into this grotesque rabbit hole, the more dangerous her every turn becomes.

For his latest challenge, the German - born leading man who has been inspiring crushes all over the globe has tucked his gorgeous face away into a grotesque paper mache mask for Lenny Abrahamson's outlandish dramedy Frank.

The murder scene is then artfully arranged into a grotesque tableau, a graphic illustration of each mortal vice.

As Jacob gets closer to figuring out who killed his sister, he gets deeper into the grotesque world of Los Angeles, starting with petty drug dealers and moving up to politicians and power players.

Characters morph into grotesque monsters.

Then they morph into grotesque and gruesome monsters.

Thor Erikson (R.G. Armstrong, pumped into grotesque parody of his God - fearing roles as proponent of retributive justice in Peckinpah films), after sniffing a horse's portion of cocaine and raping the girl (Sally Field) who works for him in his seamy health spa, tries to exterminate Craig Blake (Jeff Bridges) with weightlifting bars and metal pikes that he tears from the bodybuilding machines in his gym.

It is a story that starts off with untold promise, only to veer off ever so slightly into the grotesque, like a string arrangement that starts out gorgeous only to veer off - key.

One where the plants are vibrantly multi-coloured garlands, where animals mutate into grotesque versions of themselves and where time passes almost imperceptibly.

Of course, the idiots in Hollywood now believe he can be locked into grotesque, yet eloquent villainy — always British territory in the mind of Los Angeles.

The wind screamsbeyond the pass, pushing the snow into grotesque drifts that rise head higharound us; as the hillside gets steeper our route becomes an obstacle course.Drifts meet us head on like moving walls — we breast them like surf.

The surviving victims are put into the grotesque situation of having to explain what others did to them, and of meeting with incomprehension should they refuse, or declare themselves unable, to answer.

The hard sciences of physics and chemistry and biology are twisted into grotesque propaganda machines fueled by corrupted versions of sociology and psychology, where science itself dies alongside genuine inquiry and clarity of thought, as man is assimilated into a faceless colony of manageable data points.

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.

Not exact matches

You can still feel it when you see a medieval fresco of the Last Judgment, the naked dead seized by grotesque demons and forced into the fire.

What could be more comically grotesque than an individual trying to escape his own identity as God's child and in his rush out the temple door smacking straight into the incarnation?

Otherwise sensible people adorned themselves in the most grotesque garb, stupefied into believing that super-sized flares looked cool.

In grotesque fiction we see with special clarity how the foolish in the eyes of the world are the very ones who peer through the veil into another reality.

The immigration system is a grotesque illiberal intrusion into the private life of individuals.

Downing Street is braced for allegations of grotesque and serious criminal behaviour which would see more ministers following Michael Fallon on the walk of shame out of high office and into oblivion.

But like anything Nigerian, where even routine things pass through grotesque ethnic lens, a quest for accurate information about presidential health soon peters down into savage nastiness, with even the cream of the media swooning in its orgy!

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.

In their always engrossing, often grotesque account, journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy trace the illness's history, detailing the many futile methods of combating the disease (including the original «hair of the dog:» binding into a patient's wound a hair from the animal that infected him) before Louis Pasteur's rabies vaccine became the first effective treatment in 1885.

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.

The jokes are occasionally gruesome (One henchman meets a particularly grisly end) or grotesque (Annie tries to remove the bullet she accidentally put in her husband's arm, using impromptu surgical tools from a corner drug store), but they fit into the film's twisted logic.

In this feature debut from Zambian - born film - maker Rungano Nyoni, ancient superstitions and crass commercialism go into partnership to grotesque effect.

A little bit of Into the Night is funny, a lot of it is grotesque and all of it has the insidey manner of a movie made not for the rest of us but for moviemakers on the Bel Air circuit who watch each other's films in their own screening rooms.

No, these guys are into a more maddening, deeper - seated, grotesque fear.

There are several interludes of grotesque violence that serve as a reminder of just how inhumanly brutal the whole business was, including a dip into the world of «Mandingo fighting,» which is like cockfighting but with slaves.

Jim Hosking's 2016 debut «The Greasy Strangler» was as grotesque as it sounded, a gross - out comedy in the vein of John Waters that folded slasher tropes into an unexpectedly resonant father - son bonding tale.

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.

A Freddy Krueger figure, in other words, is transmogrified into a Jaws one, adding a rich layer of suspense to a film that lacked the thrill of, to borrow from another famous Curry grotesque, «anticipation.»