Sentences with phrase «obsessed with death»

These Baudrillard quoting artists (here I think that Fabo means Peter Halley, and perhaps fellow simulation artists such as Sherrie Levine, Philip Taaffe, and Ross Bleckner) seem to me to be obsessed with death.

When Nina (Anna Kendrick), a woman in her support group, commits suicide, she becomes obsessed with her death and Nina's husband (Sam Worthington).

Young Broadway actress Milly Shapiro gives a chilling turn as Annie's daughter, Charlie, a thirteen year old obsessed with death.

For Dario Argento's Poe adaptation «The Black Cat», Harvey Keitel (Reservoir Dogs / Taxi Driver) essays an eccentric photographer obsessed with death and dismay... although eventually his livelihood encourages him to embark on the ultimate crime.

«A Quiet Passion» is a full - on comedy of manners that delights in the power of language before, like its inspiration, it grows fully obsessed with death and more interior and reclusive.

«At a way station on a lonely highway, a man obsessed with the death of his wife and daughter meets Julie (Potente), a spiritually gifted woman who enlists him in a desperate attempt to recover the lost soul of her comatose daughter, Billie (Mitchell).

Fiona hopes her moral compass isn't leading her astray when she reconnects with her married high school crush, but when she finds an abandoned purse with over five hundred dollars inside, she assumes her luck is finally changing; Frank is willing to do just about anything to stay in Dottie's good graces, even marry her; after Harry's passing, Debbie becomes obsessed with death; Kevin thinks about buying the Alibi; Lip meets with a colonel to glean information for Ian about West Point; Jody asks Frank for Karen's hand in marriage.

Riddled with guilt over the loss of his rock star older brother, 16 - year - old David Forrester becomes obsessed with death, leading his misguided parents to send him to Driftwood, an «Attitude Adjustment Camp for Troubled Youths» run by the sadistic Captain Doug Kennedy and his brutal young henchman, Yates.

It is only the religious who are obsessed with death.

Updike's fiction has been obsessed with death ever since his first novel, The Poorhouse Fair, described a group of elderly people facing their slow doom in a nursing home.

I wonder if someone has created christian death metal since they are so obsessed with death instead of the real world we live in.

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As my long - ago encounter with the Hemlock member illustrates, we are actually — and to an increasing degree — becoming a death - obsessed culture.

I thought it was only the Catholics who were obsessed with gory death.

The closer Harry approaches death, the more he is obsessed with his own carnality.

So obsessed, so primitive, so provincial, so evil, so insensitive, so petty, so cruel, so crude, so paranoid, so deluded, so out of touch with reality, so reckless, so hateful and so obsessed with President Jonathan and the PDP is the Buhari Presidency that they went as far as to say that the great lady and former Minister of Information Mrs. Dora Akunyili was sent to her premature death and early grave because she was given a job by the former President.

The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead, Heather Pringle (Hyperion) Behind the scenes with the obsessed scientists who study death incarnate.

No one knows why some people — mostly young women — become obsessed with weight loss, sometimes starving themselves to death.

For a man obsessed with entities long - since expired, it seems cruelly fitting that Still, whom I sat with on that flight two years ago, may soon see the death of his own NASA program: managing the Kepler space telescope, which orbits the sun with a mission to find exoplanets near other stars.

The most comprehensive Aztec exhibition ever mounted provides a riveting portrait of a society obsessed with the natural cycle of life and death — a fiercely refined culture in which nobility and war, scholarship and human sacrifice went hand in severed hand.

Their entire brand is built on an anti-bodybuilding sentiment, a philosophy of anti-competitiveness and «no gymtimidation» and the chain is aggressively marketed as a friendlier alternative to traditional gyms, the antithesis of both the old - school hardcore gym and the boutique fitness model: a judgement - free zone away from those sweaty, steroid - addicted meatheads obsessed with lifting heavy stuff off the floor or gorgeous women with perfect bodies who'll fat shame you to death.

An evil genius obsessed with besting his goody - two - shoes, caped - crusader nemesis, Megamind is a misfit, a braggart, and a guy who doesn't think twice about upending skyscrapers, firing off death rays, and generally terrorizing the populace.

James Stewart plays Will Lockhart, who is obsessed with finding the man who sold automatic rifles to the Apaches, resulting in the death of his brother.

Why is Hollywood so obsessed with predicting the death of superhero movies?

But since we've already been introduced to the Goddess of Death herself, it would make sense that Hela is the one Thanos is obsessed with.

Obsessed with courting the physical embodiment of Death, Thanos has carved a path of devastation that led him to the Infinity Gauntlet and beyond.

In the comics, Thanos was obsessed with the literal form of death, he was completely in love with her.

So Billy becomes obsessed with proving the outcast is actually the killer behind a mysterious local death.

Desperately vying to survive, he becomes obsessed with returning back to Asgard to save his people, since the ruthless Goddess of Death Hela (Cate Blanchett) is now occupying the throne.

The British actor would star as Rupert, a low - level New York office drone obsessed with Imperial City, a comic book series his father created before his death.

Jennifer is 17, a black - clad, metal - pierced, acid - tongued, death - obsessed, tattoo - inked, self - mutilating yet poetically inclined cactus of an outsider, at odds with her schoolmates, her self - delusively sunny mother (Carol Kane), her cipher of a stepfather (Michael McKean), and her aging hippie of a father (John Goodman).

It's a death - obsessed movie vibrating with life.

They also hire three actors to confront him as Love (Keira Knightley), Time (Jacob Latimore) and Death (Helen Mirren), abstract concepts he's obsessed with.

With Jerry's death, Danny is obsessed over whether he has «bad blood,» whether he is beyond redemption, and whether he is unworthy of love.

Kaya Scodelario plays a melodramatic teenager obsessed with her mother's death in The Truth About Emanuel, the second film from director Francesca Gregorini.

The universe faced with doom when archvillain Thanos the Mad Titan, in love with / obsessed with the (female) physical incarnation of Death, assembles all six «Infinity Gems,» granting him godlike power over the universe.

Writing and marketing (with that brief three months where I obsessed about Michael Jackson's death.

May 2009: Woman with Birthmark by Hakan Nesser This Swedish import has a standout premise: A young woman, obsessed with a «holy mission» of righting heinous wrongs, becomes the «angel of death,» preceding murders with unsettling, happy music via phone call.

The core story of Two Brothers goes something like this: You take on the role of Roy Guarder, a young inventor who begins to obsess with the idea of finding a new color on earth after a near death experience shows him an after life filled with color.

Unable to ever exist in any capacity outside of warfare and bloodshed, the cyborg ninja eventually becomes obsessed with the very death that eluded him.

After a year of obsessing about death, Mount Eerie returns with Now Only, and an absurd outlook on life (and also still death).

Obsessed with themes of eroticism, death, and decay, he is famous for employing ready - interpreted symbolism encompassing fetishes, animal imagery, and religious symbols.

I was doing a whole series based on the Victorian era and death in general, so I was obsessed with collecting these Victorian hairworks, which are these pictures made from around the turn of the century where people take the deceased person's hair and chop it up and make a little painting of the person's tombstone and willow trees.

«Every color, every form should speak with its own voice,» Albers explained in relation to the work he was more or less obsessed with from 1949 until his death in 1976.

I have referred to Yosemite's temperature trend (in my IEEE presentation that Miesler has become obsessed with slandering) because it represented similar trends recorded in USHCN data throughout montane California, from the north at Mt Shasta in the Cascades, to Lake Tahoe (where my research was focused) and south to Death Valley.

So here's the conundrum in drought - stricken areas: we're obsessed with green lawns, but we can't actually water them enough to prop up their unnatural lives («Lawns are nature purged of sex and death.»