Sentences with phrase «not grotesque»

When not abdicating their responsibility to render judgment on the most vexing games, they cling to rudimentary notions of value, questioning a game's length but not its grotesque sexual violence.

That's why this whole thing is not the grotesque moral argument it's been turned into.

I've always loved Halloween, but not the grotesque side of it — I'm in the keep it cute camp.

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.

The chopping the legs off of Hermes isn't grotesque enough.

Honda got it right with the Civic but since it wasn't grotesque looking in order to proclaim its greenness, it didn't get the press or the following among Hollywood's intellectual elite who would ride in refrigerator crates if it became trendy.

Not exact matches

for Transport, the public must question every major transport project as spending 2.2 billion dollars on the Forrestfield - Airport rail link is a grotesque waste of money which can not be justified with our very low population density and simply needs an efficient bus system at a fraction of the cost similar to that servicing Melbourne's Tullarmarine Airport.

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.

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

They are grotesque, distorted figures from the American south» snake - oil salesmen, cripples, prophets, murderers... They are characters we can not avoid looking at.

That same principle would apply to anyone else that claims the Bible is not the Divine word of God and simply a fictional grotesque story.

My point is that those opposed to terminating a small group of cells, or even a larger fetus that is not even yet self - aware will base their opposition on the supposed views of some mythological creature that, according to their Iron Age Palestinian mythology, caused a grown adult to be tortured and killed in a grotesque, barbaric fashion.

The Uighurs were not the only victims of this grotesque «procedure.»

Funny that the article doesn't mention «Children of the Corn,» which is displays a grotesque, cruel religion with many parallels to radical Christian faiths.

Moreover, there is enough age difference between me and them so that I don't have to worry about being «cool» - the very adjective applied to me borders on the grotesque.

When we think of the awful need of humanity at this hour, it seems almost grotesque to turn to the church for help, if by the church we mean not some idealization, but the actual human organizations we know.

Those four steps help us get rid of those alcoholic lenses that were before our eyes — the ones that caused us to see not the decent, kindly folk about us but grotesque and distorted figures — demons in a land of nightmare.

List's conclusion that for his loved ones death was preferable to suffering or to the possibility of falling away from the faith provides a perverse, grotesque, yet not entirely unrecognizable extension of the piety that I knew as a child.

Hating, or even killing, others because their religion does not comport with your own is a grotesque product of the system.

For each and every one of these hypotheses (when they are not downright preposterous) the scientific evidence is exactly zero, the logic fallacious, and the theo logical implications grotesque.

• A grotesque misunderstanding of «tolerance» and «fairness,» rooted in an even more comprehensive delusion about what makes for human happiness, which isn't «I did it my way.»

This grotesque twisting of what is meant by civil rights has not been lost on some blacks.

But it might not be idle or grotesque to suggest that there is a Buddhist ground for Whitehead's language about God, which is to say a religious ground which is far more meaningful in terms of the symbolic language of Buddhism than it is in that of any other religious tradition, including Christianity.

It would be idle to suggest that Whitehead's is a Buddhist's understanding of God, and not only idle but grotesque, for surely Buddhist language about God is impossible.

Satan isn't a red skinned grotesque with horns and pitchfork.

Vibrant paranoia does not need to be fed by evidence, but confirmations of grotesque fears are gratefully received.

... The barbarism in Washington doesn't dress itself in the costumes of the Taliban; it wears instead the smooth - shaven smile of Senate resolution sold to the highest bidder — for the drilling of the Arctic oil fields or the lifting from the rich the burden of the capital - gains tax, for bigger defense budgets, reduced medical insurance, enhanced surveillance, grotesque monopoly.

It is all too obvious that the author's only real interest lay in gathering together a vast assortment of grotesque historical curios and oddments and then exhibiting them in a single display case» whether for our amusement and edification or as a tribute to his own cleverness I can not say.

Nymphidia may show us the grotesque within us, but we do not see ourselves in it.

Not only is this a grotesque lie, but it is also an utterly boring one.

Your full of perspective post, which many «one eyed» fans have chosen to dislike for reasons of not wishing to accept the truth, perfectly illustrates the fact — which I have also been saying on social media for years past — that these days, players are very rarely actual FANS of the club they play for and who pay their grotesque wages.

I have been, until VERY recently, in two minds about keeping Jack, which would mean not insulting him with a pay cut, esp when the brilliant but workshy Ozil has his own grotesque pay rise.

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.

Our party should not simply abhor the grotesque failure to fairly distribute the fruits of capitalism; it should challenge the very philosophy of individual consumption.

If you wanted caricatures, why isn't your 2 - d paragraph purposal an equally grotesque caricature and instead a realistic position?

The Senate Republicans, who control the process along with Assembly Democrats, have long been pushing for redistricting reform in 2022 instead of 2012, and their initially proposed lines were grotesque and cynical enough that it'd be hard to change the lines and not make them «less hyper political.»

I am not a Muslim; and to have a religious leader call for a violent caliphate (whatever caliphate means) is grotesque.

Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman said: «It does not matter how fancy the design of ID cards is, they remain a grotesque intrusion on the liberty of the British people.

«It is, indeed, grotesque that unelected European judges - some of whom do not even come from countries adhering to the rule of law - should lay down what we can or can not do.»

Congressman Chris Collins has thrown his support behind a bill that bans a practice he calls «grotesque» and «unnecessary,» and is one many may not know continues in the U.S. military.

So the result is a less dangerous world, and one in which the Soviet Union was not nearly as grotesque as it came to be.

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.

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.

Now we poke fun at it, not because of what little they had to work with, but because it seems now we want our creatures to so grotesque.

Diaz, for some reason, is repeatedly drawn to self - consciously grotesque little projects that usually don't accomplish much of anything at all, but make a huge mess while not accomplishing it.

If it was not so grotesque this should be shown in all classes in high school or college and teach people about religious, ethnic,

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 RecoloriNot 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 Recolorinot forget Flash Scene Cuts and Grotesque Overuse of CG Recoloring.

In one grotesque scene, she won't even allow her young daughter a bathroom break.

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).

Graves enjoyed a long - term contract with Mack Sennett studios in the early»20s, where he was one of the few stars that wasn't a «grotesque.»