Sentences with phrase «of sadomasochistic»

What has always saved McCarthy's work from being a slight, if gruelling, sort of sadomasochistic exhibitionism, has been his humour, and the violent acts he perpetrates are often as close to Disney or Warner Brothers cartoons as to S&M scenarios or the torture room.

In 1922, when he takes up watercolour because he can't afford oil paints, he makes this sedate medium snarl and spit in a set of sadomasochistic brothel interiors that see sex as a form of hatred.

He has filled Luxembourg & Dayan's tony townhouse with installations based loosely on his just - published book, A New Novel (H. Aschehoug, $ 35), a trippy narrative that follows an unflagging artist («B») through gay clubs, prostitution and the art world (which he especially detests), along the way documenting his insatiable appetite for drugs, steroid - enhanced muscles and sex, often of the sadomasochistic variety.

The images in question showed explicit acts of sadomasochistic gay sex — including shots of men with erect penises and a picture of Mapplethorpe himself with a bullwhip inserted into his anus.

PC fans, obviously of a sadomasochistic slant, have been clamoring for a Windows port for months now, and it appears an online petition with over 65, 000 signatures might have gotten their attention...

There are a number of sadomasochistic touches, courtesy of an Asian - mob - affliated dominatrix (Lucy Liu, a long way from Ally McBeal).

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's characters play an endlessly layered game of dress - up in this tale of sadomasochistic love.

They lacked the American ingenuity to combine the two impulses that we can see in New York's Eulenspiegel Society and in similar modishly appointed temples of the sadomasochistic erotic underground.

Not exact matches

The NEA failed to reach its goal, however, not just because it was dumb enough to finance the infamous Piss Christ, the anti-Catholic propaganda of homosexual activism, along with Robert Mapplethorpe's sadomasochistic sex photographs, but because it became somehow seized by the wrong - headed notion that art is good only when it sets itself against the political and social status quo.

Today is the best day of the holiday season so far — my order from richarddawkins.net just arrived, so I'll be able to distribute a Crocoduck shirt and one with the God Delusion quote: «The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control - freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, ho - mo - phobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.»

On a related note: Even if my understanding of the cartoon is wrong, there is indeed nothing wrong at all for hating a being which is:»...» is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control - freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.»

Writing in 1948, Barth very possibly had in mind the effects that followed in Germany from a confusion of real relationship with what Erich Fromm would call authoritarian or sadomasochistic relationship.

This is his summary of theportrayal of God in the Hebrew scriptures: «The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control - freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully» (ch.

That's the implication of two studies of hormonal changes associated with sadomasochistic (S&M) activities including spanking, bondage and flogging.

A deputy sheriff (Casey Affleck) in a small West Texas town of the 1950's tries with increasing desperation to hide his tortured, sadomasochistic affair with a prostitute (Jessica Alba), as well as the fact that he is a serial killer.

This final entry marks the end of the embarrassingly bad «Fifty Shades» trilogy, thus freeing audiences from a sadomasochistic exercise in endurance viewing.

This instalment is firmer about naming the correct consensual limits to sadomasochistic play, but as S&M gives way to «Mrs.» some kindly soul might have warned Ana and Christian that it's true what they say about marriage: it kind of kills the thrills.

As they recite their vows, Ana's smiling pledge to honour and respect her husband stirs up memories of the famous contract scene in the first Fifty Shades film, in which Ana formally signs up to Christian's sadomasochistic hobby, agreeing in writing to «always conduct herself in a respectful manner to the dominant», and so on.

Less a movie than a sadomasochistic plot party where every conceivable contrivance of teenage woe is asphyxiated to the brink of orgasm and then abandoned to gasp for air and soothe its throbbing vitals.

Jolie's last film, In the Land of Blood and Honey, had more evident passion (it centered on a sadomasochistic relationship between a Serbian officer and Bosnian woman); this one often feels like rewarmed Spielberg.

As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right - wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation.

Although the film presents key interviews with all the major players throughout the team's history, and is peppered with an abundance of never before seen footage, the array of vile exploits and sadomasochistic pranks on display could very well be seen as a The Best Worst Off Dirty Sanchez DVD.

The sadomasochistic scenes in Downloading Nancy are fucking brutal, cringe - worthy, and unrelenting, and Bello and Patric are nakedly committed to «going there,» living the realities of their characters.

The famous prize - winning film version of playwright August Strindberg's dark, terror - filled theatrical classic about a sadomasochistic romance between a susceptible aristocrat (Anita Bork) and a brutal groom (Ulf Palme).

But Alma — and Anderson — have a surprise in store for us, as she gradually begins to assert herself in ways that aren't immediately perceptible, steering their relationship into obliquely sadomasochistic territory; hunger is sated in ways that could as well be pulled from Mrs Beeton's Fifty Shades of Grey.

It's not just a prestige sadomasochistic exploitation film, like Von Trier's «Antichrist» or parts of «Nymphomaniac: Vol.

The winning sadomasochistic duo of Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan are back with another heady concoction of horror and thriller mixed in with all the hot romance from the previous film (which we kinda loved).

It puts me in mind of something critic Peter Matthews once wrote about Julianne Moore's career - best (to my mind) turn in Todd Haynes» «Safe,» an indisputably great performance, but one in which her character is so unnervingly muted as to be disorienting: «It's as if the actress and the filmmaker have entered into a sadomasochistic contract whereby he binds her head and foot while she derives a perverse pleasure from being so bound.»

The remarkable Isabelle Huppert was the unanimous winner of the Cannes Film Festival's Best Actress award for her role as a sadomasochistic piano teacher who becomes fixated on her talented young student.

Thirteen years after the end of the war, the couple resumes their sadomasochistic relationship.

The film lives and thrives on these whiplash moments; it seems as if Wong hadn't yet perfected the languor that I love so much about his films, and so there is no small thrill in the chases, or the extended scenes of almost sadomasochistic violence inflicted on and by Wah (often shot in extremely long slow motion shots), or of course the unspoken flirtations.

It may also seem a strange title for a film by Michael Haneke, the great Austrian director best known in America for his Oscar - nominated study of the origins of German fascism, The White Ribbon; the surveillance thriller Caché; and The Piano Teacher, which was itself a kind of love story — the sadomasochistic kind.

Annie herself transforms between sickeningly sweet motherly devotion, dangerous sadomasochistic insanity, and, just occasionally, some very sad moments of clarity where she seems to wrestle with the awful extent of everything she has done and knows she will do.

It's one of Joe Eszterhas's (Basic Instinct, Showgirls) early works, sort of a precursor to the increasingly steamier crime thrillers he would make throughout the 1990s, complete with sadomasochistic stabbings while tied up in bed, as well as one of his main themes surrounding a normally good and law - abiding person being seduced by the allure of someone accused of heinous and unsavory acts.

Fifty Shades Of Grey sees the young and virginal Steele (Johnson) fall headlong for the charms of billionaire twentysomething Christian Grey (Hunnam), who is really quite into bondage and sadomasochistic seOf Grey sees the young and virginal Steele (Johnson) fall headlong for the charms of billionaire twentysomething Christian Grey (Hunnam), who is really quite into bondage and sadomasochistic seof billionaire twentysomething Christian Grey (Hunnam), who is really quite into bondage and sadomasochistic sex.

For a film that starts out with a brutal rape and eventually works its way toward the rape victim temporarily entering a strange sadomasochistic relationship with her rapist, Elle has strangely not inspired the kind of firestorm of controversy that greeted many of Paul Verhoeven's 1980s and»90s Hollywood films.

He even mentions a «tremendous amount of research into the S&M scene» regarding the design for the game's demonic oppressors, The Tainted Coil, proving once and for all that there are situations in which looking at sadomasochistic pornography on the internet can be work - related.

It's the spiritual successor of the aforementioned PS3 - only release, which means Xbox gamers can finally have a taste of the most sadomasochistic game in recent memory!

Exquisite as they are, the heads threaten to overshadow the rest of Grossman's art, largely due to sensationalistic interpretations that see the sculptures exclusively in a sadomasochistic frame.

The X, Y, and Z Portfolios (published in 1978, 1978, and 1981, respectively) by American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946 — 1989) summarize Mapplethorpe's ambitions as a fine - art photographer and contemporary artist, reflecting the tripartite division of his mature work: homosexual sadomasochistic imagery (X); floral still lifes (Y); and nude portraits of African - American men (Z).

After videotaping the evidence --- Mapplethorpe's X Portfolio, a 1978 series that includes pictures of gay sadomasochistic scenarios --- police charged the museum and its director, Dennis Barrie, with pandering obscenity.

In 1988, Mapplethorpe's major retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which included sexually explicit images depicting homoerotic and sadomasochistic subjects, sparked a fierce on - going public debate in America about censorship, the public funding for the arts and the definition of art itself.

A dark, bunkerlike construction with a walk - in, cavernous interior, it's accompanied by a 24 - minute video showing the sadomasochistic activities of some zany, fancifully costumed people within and around the «Exploded Fortress.»

There's another gallery of recent work by neo-conceptual artists, including Nayland Blake's sadomasochistic fantasia with meat cleavers and Gay Outlaw's tower of skillets made from wax.

The High Court ruling that the News of the World (NoW) breached the privacy of F1 boss, Max Mosley, when it ran a story claiming that a sadomasochistic orgy he took part in had a Nazi theme, has «clapped legitimate investigative journalism in irons», says media lawyer Mark Stephens.

The organization of character pathology assumes the following three levels: 1) higher level of organization of character pathology, including hysterical character and depressive - masochistic character; 2) intermediate level of organization of character pathology, including sadomasochistic character and narcissistic personality; and 3) lower level of organization of character pathology, including paranoid personality and borderline character.