Sentences with phrase «most grotesque»

Moreover, today's renewed interest in the most grotesque and fun strands in his work is connected to the impact of remixes and mashups from internet culture.

Videogames — even the most grotesque, violent ones — have a tendency to overstate the resilience of the human body.

Flesh and blood Videogames — even the most grotesque, violent ones — have a tendency to overstate the resilience of the human body.

It's the most grotesque and grandiose, with more processing power to fit more enemies into the world without performance drops.

Perhaps the most grotesque vision of the automobile as Internet portal is the Ford 24.7 concept car, in which the vehicle doesn't matter, but its computing and communicating performance does.

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 performances hold the film together, even at its most grotesque moments.

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.

A handful of honorable mentions include Jaume Collet - Serra's Giant Shark vs. Blake Lively creature feature The Shallows, Nicolas Pesce's demented black - and - white minimalist slasher The Eyes of My Mother, Polish murder mermaid musical The Lure from Agnieszka Smoczynska, Adam Wingard's effective if somewhat disappointing Blair Witch sequel, Nicholas Winding Refn's ethereal and equally not - as - great - as - it - should - have - been, the sanguine - soaked feminist satire The Neon Demon and Turkish import, Can Evrenol and Ogulcan Eren Akay's WTF - loaded Baskin, which features some of the most grotesque imagery of 2016.

Taking the role of Isaac Clarke, players will explore an old spaceship that is filled with the most grotesque alien creatures.

It's surely among the most grotesque factoids in the history of Hollywood that despite being nominated for 10 Oscars, American Hustle won a grand total of none.

The cast is strong enough and the aliens are some of the most grotesque I've seen in a long time.

As for A Prayer for Rain, it was a well - intentioned but mechanical mid-budget telling of the Bhopal industrial disaster, the biggest catastrophe of its sort in history and, by extension, the crux of one of the most grotesque ever instances of globalised corporate malfeasance.

There are only so many ways you can kill someone in the most grotesque way imaginable before it all starts to

But the actors are infectious in their approach to the material: McAdams brings a zesty exuberance even to the film's most grotesque gags (including a back - alley surgery scene), while Billy Magnusson plays the group's resident dimwit, Ryan, with shit - eating glee.

This crude low - budget exploiter is one of the most grotesque character assassinations ever put on film.

A senior Labour frontbencher perhaps best sums up the overall feeling: «Trump is the most grotesque manifestation of populism driven by discontent worldwide.

The most grotesque aspect of British relations with Rwanda is that he's been allowed to get away with it.

One senior Labour frontbencher said: «Trump is the most grotesque manifestation of populism driven by discontent worldwide.

Still, while the criminal elements went on an over-drive to arrogantly subvert the courts to escape justice, this lobby went on an overdrive to push a most grotesque crusade for «human rights».

This is assymetrical warfare at its most grotesque.

Yet time and time again I have read and written about homebirth loss mothers praising deadly midwives, praising the «experience» of a vaginal birth of a dead child, refusing to cooperate in disciplining the midwife responsible, advocating for more «freedom» for homebirth midwives, and, most grotesque of all, choosing to risk their next child's life by having a homebirth.

It is at these times that winning with the most grotesque of displays could come in handy.

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

At the recent synod, the most grotesque contradictions to beliefs held since apostolic times were put forward by bishops and cardinals, causing great scandal to the laity.

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.

Islam is the most grotesque religion every created by man for man

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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.

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

Emaciated, mad, with long hair that merges with skins, ravaged by a life of dissipation and then long repentence, she is one of the most powerful works of Christian art, the perfect example of the grotesque made beautiful.

Although grotesque and torturous methods of execution seem most likely to deter, they are incompatible with human dignity.

It is the most astonishing believe that this club and these fans owe Wenger anything after having supported him for the last 13 barren years during which he must have earned a grotesque amount of money (70 — 100 million?).

Sure, some people vote for the most bizarre / grotesque reasons and may well vote based on falsehoods or misrepresentations.

Most striking is the scale and lurid grotesque of anti-Semitic propaganda posters we are all too used to seeing, faded and apologetic, in history textbooks.

Speaking at a Westminster press conference, Mr Clegg said: «I think it is utterly grotesque that Nigel Farage apparently admires someone, Vladimir Putin, who has been the chief sponsor and protector of one of the most brutal dictators on the planet, President Assad.»

As explained in the most detailed account of Wakefield's grotesque misconduct, it rested on the findings (as the BMJ noted) that Wakefield concealed and manipulated the terms of the research study, secretly conducted for a lawsuit, and that not one of the children was reported upon truthfully.

Not only is this a halfhearted attempt at capitalizing on yet another cult classic, but it has received the most offensive CSI - style glazing - over that the networks seem to think is what constitutes good story and visuals these days: Glamour, Glitz, Perfect Hair, Stylish Clothes, Fake Top 40 Music, Anorexic Women and let's not forget Flash Scene Cuts and Grotesque Overuse of CG Recoloring.

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.

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

This movie definitely did justice to the original, and i must say, the creature (s) is one of the most frightening, and grotesque thing (s) I have ever seen in any movie prior.

The film's final shot, so startling in the original film, is just one more major fumble, further cementing the grotesque 2013 version of Carrie as one of the most toothless and terrible films of the year.

Of all the perverse gags — of which there are plenty, including but not limited to demon penises, vomit, bodily fluids (There's a long argument about one that only a group of men stuck together for a period of time could have), all manners of grotesque death, cannibalism, etc. — in the film, this sudden departure of so many characters is perhaps the most shocking.

As satires about capitalism go I'll stick with the sublimely grotesque American Psycho but The Wolf of Wall Street is not without its pleasures, most of them actor - based.

His hilariously grotesque Masters of Horror entry Jenifer essays the idea that what we see is not always what is there — that veil of uncertainty, discomfort, and denial that shrouds the director's best films, most memorably in Deep Red and Tenebre.

And for all the mania of The Lego Movie's incorporation of other franchises (its Batman jokes beautifully puncture the faux - mature severity that has been erected around the character), most of its funniest moments involve the grotesque concoctions of Emmet's (Chris Pratt) stunted imagination.

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.

Shot in 2006, The Living and the Dead captures family dysfunction at its most shocking and grotesque.

As the pair, and by default the audience, start to examine the nature of their unconventional relationship, the black humour that stemmed from the grotesque materialism of Liberace's world transforms into something more serious, which is when the film becomes most compelling.

The Telegraph's critic Robbie Collin wrote at length in a thread on Twitter about how the character functioned within the grotesque mode, arguing that «the fact the empathy and disgust come hand in hand [in that mode] is * the most important part *.