Sentences with phrase «like macabre»

Unlike New Orleans, which we spotlighted last week, and whose tourist industry treats them like macabre props, in Colma, the dead know their place.

This publication is conceived as a platform to present the wider scope of her work and at its core is a compendium of her writings, which oscillate between lyrical poems and fable - like macabre short stories, including three new texts: The Half - Smile, Problems With The Moon, and An Inquisition To Divine The Necessary Things.

Usually, they go in the deep woods cabin, all jocular and blissfully unaware of the string of human heads strung under the eves like macabre Christmas ornaments.

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Being there all day — submerged in dimly lit talks in which a single speaker performed a macabre one - man show describing experiences with Russia's president — was like a dark meditation.

Novels like The Castle of Otranto and, more famously, Dracula are characterised not just by their sensational plots and their use of the macabre but also by their deep - rooted and, sometimes explicit, opposition to the Catholic Church.

There is a sort of macabre solidarity to sifting through the remnants of someone else's clutter, like making a Pinterest board for messy people.

Brain tissue is spread out over the table in neat 10 millimetre slices, like some kind of macabre deli counter.

The Whimsy of Anna K For this month's Spotlight, sprite - like model - turned - designer Anna Karenina talks to BoF about the quirky, macabre inspirations behind her whimsical womenswear brand.

So, despite the macabre setting, Dead Meet seems like a nice place to meet a partner or make friends to share concerns and experiences without unnecessary explanations.

The macabre comedic undertones are reminiscent of a Coen brothers film like «Blood Simple.»

It's freakishly funny, suddenly tender, gleefully macabre, genuinely scary, and full of a moral — fear turns weak people into bullies — which is dosed out so gently that it never tastes like medicine.

Later, a pursuit and scramble over a vast repository of books and furniture looks like one of Nigel Molesworth's more macabre imaginings.

The grim view accentuates the macabre story, and while Ritchie can not help from giving into the intermittent stylistic flashes, they work and are occasionally exhilarating, like a slow - motion run through a series of explosions that leaves a main character's outcome in question, if only briefly.

Moreover, this pleasantly - unpredictable picture adds a few surprising wrinkles of its own to the macabre mix which make it feel like a totally fresh concept.

The movie's combination of the macabre and the heartfelt is what made Burton seem like an original when his career began.

Kirsty Capes with everything we know so far about Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events... If you're like me, and grew up devouring volumes of Lemony Snicket's macabre and witty series, you'll be a little more than a bit excited about the announcement late last year that Netflix will be turning the thirteen - volumes - strong A Series of -LSB-...]

And the humor as well feels kind of like that film [The Trouble With Harry], one of his more humorous, if still macabre, movies.

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No one writes the macabre quite like Edgar Allan Poe.

Finally, it has manga, anime, and things like Hellboy, Sin City, The Goon, Criminal Macabre, and Empowered.

As Sergeant Debbie drags him along to investigate the suspects linked to four bodies displayed in macabre fashion (maybe like an art installation?)

The new campaigns are for Budding Reader Book Set 1: Cat And Rat (Ten Books) by Melinda Thompson with Melissa Ferrell; National Book Award winning coming - of - age story Love Like Gumbo by Nancy Rawles; Obama Search Words by Stephen Black; So You Want to be a Librarian by Lauren Pressley; and «a macabre, eco-friendly, erotic sci - fi fantasy satire» The Third Awakening by Dennis Weiser.

Finally they have manga, anime and things like Hellboy, Sin City, The Goon, Criminal Macabre and Empowered.

The catacombs (Christian) are nearby, but we don't feel like waiting for a guide (only guided tours are available) and we take the bus back to Roma Intra Muros to another, maybe just as macabre and sinister: Sancta Maria della Concezione.

His quirky posts and conversational writing style highlight unconventional travel topics, like deconstructing fake travel quotes, why Kuching, Malaysia is known as the cat city, and a macabre guide to Paris.

It's like watching a table surrounded by corpses staring into space, the voices being provided by people standing just outside of the camera's field of vision in some sort of macabre joke.

Inspired by the tropes of horror cinema and classic gaming experiences like Dungeon Keeper, MachiaVillain lets you build the macabre mansion of your dreadful dreams from harmless house up to nightmarish palace of panic.

Explore a Devastated, Darkly Beautiful Planet: Revion Prime is an alien world, with environments inspired by the work of macabre artists like H.R. Giger and H.P. Lovecraft, that challenges you to unearth its dark history by connecting fragments of the past.

It's brilliant combination of macabre themes from things like Clue and 13 Dead End Drive (kudos to anyone who remembers that game) cleverly combined with Groundhog Day style time travel come together to form an example of the proper, modern evolution of the adventure game genre.

Other bosses like the spider / scorpion is given a classy makeover, with macabre jewelry around her neck, high - heels on her eight legs and a prickly, folded umbrella to match.

Each level is perfectly paced to its delirious soundtrack, while the game's macabre aesthetic only helps it stand out further from the cutesy likes of Mario Kart and Splatoon.

Much of the action consists of raising a horde of undead and managing different types of utilitarian zombies (like strong or stealthy ghouls) to help solve a series of macabre conundrums.

They've also given you an unbreakable knife as a weapon of last resort; no more kicking the undead to death like you're in some macabre chorus line.

Somewhat macabre in appearance, Paulina Olowska's sculpture at the Metro Pictures booth is a layer cake of historical reference points — it's based on a collaboration that Isamu Noguchi and the choreographer Martha Graham did in 1946, where the sculptor created a starkly pared - down tree - like sculpture that the dancers would encircle, letting their clothes get tangled in the branches.

Like the preceding work Carousel (1988)-- where dismembered taxidermy forms hang and drag from a steel axis that turns in an agonizing danse macabre — Animal Pyramid disturbs with its vision of carnage submitted to an artificial and bloodless geometric order.

The Complete Spot Paintings instead feels more like a scientific experiment, one of Hirst's macabre vitrine works spun out into real - life testing grounds, intended to divide the camps into those who follow and those who resist.

The Rabbinical paintings presented in this exhibition, permeated by historical influences ranging from Grünewald and Rembrandt, to Redon and Soutine, to Indian tantric art and Chinese painting, reflect the mystical and macabre with vivid intensity: sordid subjects depicted in sensual, jewel - like colors.

Like reading tea leaves or making a journey to the Oracle of Delphi, academia's belief that they can represent physical processes in the atmosphere, ocean, land and poles some 50 to 100 years into the future — and, the Delphic pronouncements of Western global warming alarmists like Gore, Hansen, Mann, Alley, etc. — all have taken on an air of the macaLike reading tea leaves or making a journey to the Oracle of Delphi, academia's belief that they can represent physical processes in the atmosphere, ocean, land and poles some 50 to 100 years into the future — and, the Delphic pronouncements of Western global warming alarmists like Gore, Hansen, Mann, Alley, etc. — all have taken on an air of the macalike Gore, Hansen, Mann, Alley, etc. — all have taken on an air of the macabre.