Sentences with phrase «like grotesque»

French artists Benjamin L. Aman and Marion Auburtin present ceramic music boxes that turn like grotesque curiosities.

Scorching social commentary, cartoon - like grotesque figures and acidic colors characterize the paintings of Peter Saul.

I know some might say, «That car looks like a grotesque metallic baleen whale.»

I did like a grotesque moment where it's revealed that Von Talon has a shelf crammed with stuffed pigeons he's dispatched (a splash of danger in what's otherwise thin, pre-chewed gruel), but an island of discomfort in an ocean of passive consent is cold comfort.

When technology arbitrarily destroys inner worlds, its logically compelling aspect begins to look like a grotesque, mechanical sneer.

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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.

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.

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.

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

Truth be told I'm rather grotesque, face like a gargoyle.

These grotesque libels have been propounded as well by tenured radicals as though they were facts, and disseminated in «news» stories without editorial comment by left - wing journalists like Earl Caldwell of the New York Daily News.

That, as he rises higher in the consolations of society, he gets visibly more grotesque is proof definitive he is like me.»

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.

On the cindery plains, like the ruins of grotesque statuary done by some surrealistic madman, odd configurations of basalt cast shadows both beckoning and threatening.

Perhaps if he acted like a man with them, instead of a kindly granny pampering them and picking them, making constant absurd excuses for them, metaphorically buying them «sweeties and chocolate», out of love for his dictatorship and his grotesque salary, they might find that faced with a PROFESSIONAL MANAGER they were suddenly not so tired after all, with their jobs, salaries and positions on the line.

Self indulgent grotesque and offensive rather like the author himself.

Grotesque piles of dozens of bodies were being burnt in the open without dignity or religious rites like so many carcasses.

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!

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.

So don't be concerned that you will end up looking like one of those grotesque «freaky» women that you often see in the bodybuilding magazines or in the wrestling TV shows.

Adam Sandler is an idiot for presenting this film to us like we're idiots that love such grotesque concepts.

Maybe some players would not like the character design (gothic and grotesque), but it is perfect to revitalize the brand (following the post-modern artistic wave).

Imagine, if you will, the most ghostly mansion ever — complete with grotesque statues, vast cavern - like halls, creepy portraits, and a huge menacing fireplace.

In Lee's Bamboozled, he's invoked (alongside many other silent and early - sound - era performers) as a grotesque specter of racist Hollywood representation — the ghost of minstrelsy past — but writers like Mel Watkins and Champ Clark have complicated the issue by suggesting that there was an element of subversion in Perry's subservience — that the shiftless, feckless caricature he inhabited in so many movies was not a capitulation to the viewership (or the filmmakers) but a bold form of ethnic masquerade.

A director like this (all the money in the world, answering only to himself as executive producer) can't help but imprint his material with a highly eccentric, often grotesque sensibility — one that I sometimes find pretty appealing.

On one hand grotesque but at the same time highly imaginative, the whole vibe feels very much like a continental animation to me.

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.

Jon Voight turns in another grotesque performance beneath a ton of prosthetic make - up (following his cyborg - turn as FDR in Pearl Harbor), his Howard Cosell sounding right but looking like Alfred E. Neuman come to shambling life.

But reviving the film is not a bad idea from a sociohistorical perspective: Humbled by the previous decade's grotesque materialism, Nineties filmmakers generally felt like they were living down the Eighties and made a concerted effort to protect their product from dating itself *, but Reality Bites, with its Hughesian affectations, at least strives to be seminal — only Cameron Crowe's Singles, the Brady Bunch movies (which star Stiller's future wife, Christine Taylor), and the excrescent Empire Records so unabashedly embrace their pre-Internet moment.

Instead he throws everything at the viewer, channeling existential directors like David Lynch, artful - grotesque filmmaker David Cronenberg or even the mindless cinematic pandering of Terrence Malick.

Apart from the trademark hand - drawn style and grotesque creatures, its mishmash of familiar story beats feel more like a Hollywood production than the more eccentric Japanese visions we've come to love.

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.

Argento may be lazily and hurriedly devoted to conveying how Jenifer — of a gene - splice between Laura Dern and Larry Cohen's It's Alive baby — will be passed like a baton to the next schmuck who comes to her rescue, but his latest experiment in terror is as grotesque as it is jaw - on - the - floor funny.

Granted the grotesque, cartoony feel it revels in can allow for unnatural hammy performances, but few of the cast pull this off as effectively as I'd have liked.

The Advertising Gallery also includes quite a mix of campaign art, and amid the formal colour and black & white posters is a tongue - in - cheek poster with a dagger - pointing Welles smirking like a scoundrel; and a caricature poster of the entire cast & crew, led by a completely grotesque, pointy - eared image of longtime Mercury Theatre alumnus Everett Sloan.

Players roam a vibrant fantasy world, constantly powering up their right hands with god - like power in order to clobber the living hell out of grotesque monsters.

We love it for its globe - spanning cast of should - know - better Shakespearian talent; for its mixed bag of ideas (most originating in Herbert's book, others, like the gratuitous heart plugs, from Lynch's own warped mind); for its twisted wedding of ornate Euro - pudding epic, grotesque experimental horror flick and action blockbuster; for the stunning cinematography, immersive sets and beautiful costumes — and yes, even Sting's black nappy.

The surreal, dream - like world of Little Nightmares, with its grotesque inhabitants and disturbing set pieces painted in deep shadows and distorted lightning, is too similar to those fantastic movies to be a mere coincidence.

Each character feels like their own complete, unadulterated package, and all 14 of them fall under the same surprisingly delightful visual design of what I like to call «cutesy - grotesque».

This makes the film feel less like a superhero movie than like the fantastical cinema of Guillermo Del Toro or Bong Joon - Ho, romantic horror extremists who fill their films with grotesque comedy beats and heartfelt sociopolitics.

Grotesque creatures, like goblins, orcs and their various minions, are slaughtered en masse, and even the more human - like species of Middle Earth take some heavy losses.

I will say that a moment in which Carla Gugino acts, in Fickman's words, like a «Southern belle» in order to fool a park ranger is more painful than all her grotesque vamping in Watchmen.

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.

Peopled by flapper - era caricatures partaking in white - collar social orgies fuelled by selfish hedonism, Luhrmann's interpretation of Fitzgerald's oft - debated novel emerges as grotesque melodrama that plays more like a Mexican telenovela than a respectful reinterpretation of 1920's New York high society.

Amirpour can choreograph and shoot scenes of grotesque brutality like nobody's business, but her command of pacing and composition really sets her apart.

Similarly, the framing, dialogue and casting are also off - kilter, bizarre (and hilarious) Marlene Dietrich playing a Mexican prostitute / fortune teller with a German accent, the aforementioned Charlton Heston as a Mexican symbol of the impotence, squareness and just plain lameness of the law, Dennis Weaver as the world's weirdest hotel clerk, and Orson Welles at his most grotesque as the fat drunk sheriff who likes to beat confessions out of the suspects he's framed.

It's not like Wolf of Wall Street, the sort of flick where we see guys break the law and subvert democracy and come to despise them for their grotesque, boorish excess even as we admit to pining for their lavish lifestyles.

They were the most grotesque looking things because they sculpted the actor's faces so perfectly it really looks like the half eaten body of Eric Christian Olsen laying in some warehouse, it's kind of disturbing.»

The shifts in tone, going from a romantic drama into something that is almost horror from the likes of Eli Roth and Pier Paolo Pasolini, in terms of torture and the grotesque.

Judging by the aesthetic standard of the general public (that includes you Peter Cavellini - nothing personal intended), the Japanese will keep on designing and producing hideous monstrocities like these two as well as that grotesque looking Lexus.