Sentences with phrase «on grotesque»

Halloween may be a favourite and long - awaited holiday for the kids, complete with ghosts, goblins and everything gory, but adding a haunted Halloween feeling to your home doesn't have to verge on the grotesque.

SebastianH, the audacity, rudeness, smugness, and sense of entitlement that characterizes many of your posts borders on the grotesque.

Semmel's images are sensuous and overtly erotic while Coplans» are often awkward and, at times, border on the grotesque.»

Focusing on the grotesque in contemporary art, the artists featured in this exhibit reveal essential aspects of human nature that are at once comical and profound, playful and monstrous.

The two exhibitions were developed separately — De Jong's sculptural figures dwell on the grotesque while Redwood's paintings take on portraiture, landscape and still life — but work in tandem.

The imagery you were making in the late «90s to the 2000s — the extreme close - ups and lurid colors — border on the grotesque.

Ena Douglas (1926), for example, one of 50 portraits by Morris exhibited at his one - man show in 1938 at Peggy Guggenheim's Jeune Gallery in London, combines aspects of Neue Sachlichkeit (primarily those verging on the grotesque) and cubism, whereby the viewer is almost able to see both sides of the subject's face at once.

This seeming simplicity arises from Nordström's signature cartoonish style, where his figures take on grotesque, outsized, and exaggerated features, sporting elongated torsos or legs or boasting bizarrely - shaped hips and noses and heads.

From GameSpot's Mini Ninjas assessment: «This motion journey is low on grotesque assassinations and excessive on lighthearted enjoyable,...

The lineup of mostly the losers that all gamers decided weren't worth remembering from the Zero / Alpha or SF3 entries, the lame newecomers, the doubling down on the grotesque, bulbous, overly - muscled, out - of - proportion, already divisive art style, the fact that Street Fighter IV was strung out over 9 years of rereleases and SF x Tekken entries... just * fart noise * to the whole thing.

The film is huge on a grotesque scale.

Apart from one incredibly over-the-top sequence, Meyers» roots don't show, and he has an average sense of suspense, which is saying something after enduring a slate of new horror directors intent on the grotesque.

Spike Lee's sharp, riotous satire, from 2000, zeroes in on the grotesque misrepresentation of blacks in American media - and their underrepresentation in the corporate offices that control it.

Doubling down today on her grotesque comments after the horrific Florida shooting.

The vision of the creatures with their wheels (1: 15 - 21) verges on the grotesque.

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.

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.

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.

Articles and teaching sessions are devoted to social scandals like the increase in hunger, poverty, homelessness and illiteracy in the U.S. Likewise, issues surrounding U.S. foreign policy, aid and grotesque military appropriations are frequently critiqued on behalf of a foreseen new social order that will be founded on liberationist principles.

With the ferocity of an Old Testament prophet, Powers indicts our blindness and selfishness, a grotesque narrowing of vision; one of his principal characters learns early on that «human wisdom counts less than the shimmer of birches in a breeze.»

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.

He went on to praise those who've suffered for standing up to adversity: «I greatly admire the courage and faith of your flock who are an example to us all of faith quite literally under such grotesque and barbarous assault.»

Instead of your grotesque monster god smacking them on the bottom and sending them to bed without supper, he chose to punish all humanity in perpetuity by placing the Curse of Original Sin on them.

The first is the grotesque contrast between the two worlds on either side of the Rio Grande.

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

With all of the grotesque things that can be seen and heard on television today you would think there would be room for two twin brothers who are faithful to our families, committed to biblical principles, and dedicated professionals.

He had no memory of me, and early on I made it hard for him (I regret this) by speaking of the papacy as a grotesque institution, but over the years friendship blossomed and my admiration for him grew with it.

All I have to do is harbor an honest, reasonable and rational disbelieve in the Christian god and he will inflict a grotesque penalty on me a billion times worse than the death penalty — and he loves me.

The wind screamsbeyond the pass, pushing the snow into grotesque drifts that rise head higharound us; as the hillside gets steeper our route becomes an obstacle course.Drifts meet us head on like moving walls — we breast them like surf.

To put it in the mildest form possible I'd call that a grotesque over-reaction though there was a certain technical issue he used to get around the BE ban and that was seen as an attack on the Vox systems.

The women's nationals, with smooth footwork, purposeful jabs and more - Etonian - than - you'd - expect sportsmanship on display, was far removed from the grotesque blood - a-thons marking the sport's professional version and associated with current pro champ Christy Martin.

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.

On the cindery plains, like the ruins of grotesque statuary done by some surrealistic madman, odd configurations of basalt cast shadows both beckoning and threatening.

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.

The ethical implications alone are staggering, but even more grotesque is the impact on the psychological health of the young adult we are so keen on «helping.»

How else to explain the grotesque nomination of Australian midwife Lisa Barrett as a «National Birth Hero» on a major homebirth advocacy website, One World Birth?

Students» photos of grotesque mystery meats and mush served up as school lunches are making waves on Twitter thanks to their shared hashtag: #ThanksMichelleObama.

Downing Street is braced for allegations of grotesque and serious criminal behaviour which would see more ministers following Michael Fallon on the walk of shame out of high office and into oblivion.

It was grotesque — probably the single worst piece on immigrants I've read in a British newspaper, which is really saying something.

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».

It is grotesque that Adriano Espaillat, who has made a great deal of noise as a defender of the rights of undocumented immigrants to the United States, was happy to take time out of his run for Congress in order to heap praise on an egregious, racist law with untold human cost.

Nevertheless, given their relative roles in this long - running scandal, it was grotesque to see the prime minister tell the Labour MP that «on this issue he's got it wrong time and time and time again».

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

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.

I would think that after the grotesque bungling of the state budget this week by the Democratic governor and legislature, there would be some disgust out there... Kean should be capitalizing on this.

Goodwin claims the councilwoman put a grotesque mural of an impaled rooster on her building while they ran for district leader last year.

On a slightly more grotesque level, policymakers have to consider that the relatives of a rich aunt might decide to hasten her exit from this life in order to collect their inheritance.

Anyway, the welcome parts of the EU's internationalism, such as the end of visa restrictions on the continent, could be maintained along with the common market long after we have jettisoned the more grotesque aspects of the European project.

When Tony Blair said that Labour party members who were thinking of voting for Corbyn needed a heart transplant he was — from the heights of the grotesque wealth he has amassed only because Labour party members once upon a time put their trust in him — spitting on those outside the caste.

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.»