"Otherworldly" refers to something that is strange, mysterious, or beyond what is typical or known in the natural world or everyday life.
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And, like Ed Ruscha's musings about the nature of texts in his paintings — that words, or at least the use of them as a subject, don't inherently have any real scale — the grid perspective allows an expansion and contraction
of otherworldly senses of scale and pacing.
The couple responsible for the ethereal photos, Victoria Yore and Terrence Drysdale, travels the world in search of
otherworldly landscapes to capture surreal images of Yore exploring these remote locations in a beautiful dress.
These richly embellished pieces primarily depict female figures set
in otherworldly landscapes.
The Coral Highlands — a pastel - colored marvel of an environment
with otherworldly tendrils of pink and purple plant life enveloping mountains of coral — opens up about halfway through the story, and it is jaw - droppingly beautiful.
This extreme close - up, with only those incredible emerald eyes in focus, has a distinct
otherworldly feel.
While an admonition such as «Remember, O man, that thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return» sounds like the solemn - admonitory, the point of the memento mori is to contemplate worldly death in order to fit oneself
for otherworldly life in communion with other eternal souls, not somehow to find comfort in the commonality of our mortal lot.
Hunted by
otherworldly creatures in a wild chase, he hurtles through an abruptly unfamiliar Los Angeles as the boundaries of reality bend and blur.
Installation view September 16 — December 5, 2010 Walking up to Sewall Hall after dark, Sarah Oppenheimer's D - 17 feels
as otherworldly as the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Surreal, glowing and visceral, the digital illustrations and works of Louisa Gagliardi transform canvas space
into otherworldly landscapes of neon colored flesh.
In the early 20th century, that
otherworldly experience became commonplace as people flocked to museum planetariums and discovered they could explore the cosmos without leaving their chairs.
In 2011, in collaboration with the director and artist Harmony Korine, she exhibited Shadow Fux at the Swiss Institute in New York where she collaged, painted, and drew over large - scale faces of film stills from Korine's Trash Humpers, to
create otherworldly beings that the viewer can feel in their presence.
Because of the mold's almost
otherworldly qualities, the film understandably adopts the aura of an atmospheric sci - fi flick, specifically through intricate sonic textures and cinematic lighting and compositions.
Learn Office Protocol: Learn when to chat, when to work, and when to cower in terror from
otherworldly beings.
Exhibiting both grit and steely,
almost otherworldly beauty, Canadian actress Carrie - Anne Moss rapidly ascended from obscurity to international stardom as the latex - clad cyber warrior Trinity in the Wachowski brothers» The Matrix.
Directed by Steven S. DeKnight, «Uprising» — which takes place in a world where humans pilot giant fighting machines to save the world
from otherworldly monsters — earned a B rating on CinemaScore and a 46 % «rotten» rating on review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes.
There's something about the transport to a completely different land populated
by otherworldly characters that gives fantasy its allure, and YA fans (of all ages) increasingly relate to the alternative worlds represented by the crop of engaging fiction published in recent years.
In the NYTimes, Ken Johnson writes that Abts's paintings
look otherworldly at the New Museum.
These unsettling portals into
otherworldly atmospheres lack any physical human presence, but suggest the residual effects mankind has had on the natural world.
For example, there is the common emphasis
on otherworldly salvation for individual souls, with no corresponding emphasis on the social conditions that oppress and distort those souls and with no concern for justice in this world.
The 2,000 - plus limestone outcrops soaring from the emerald waters of Halong Bay form a seascape of
otherworldly beauty: 600 square miles of secret coves and echoing grottoes with names like Pelican Cave and Cave of Awe.
Atmospheric, diffused visuals are merged with
otherworldly sound effects and a hypnotic electric guitar soundtrack.
The first trailer for Steven S. DeKnight's upcoming sci - fi action sequel Pacific Rim Uprising has been unveiled at the New York Comic Con, and we have it for you here; take a look... The globe - spanning conflict between
otherworldly monsters of mass destruction and the human - piloted super-machines built to vanquish them was only a prelude to the all - out assault on -LSB-...]
The phenomenon takes place in the seemingly
otherworldly realm of quantum physics and opens a new experimental path to potentially powerful quantum computing.
While there's no clear narrative, the teetering arrangement of ghostly glasses suggests
otherworldly forces at play.
Men in Black utilizes the world's capital even more extensively than Ghostbusters did, realizing the value in putting
otherworldly threats face to face with modern - day metropolitan cynicism.
Synopsis: A test pilot is granted a mystical green ring that bestows him with
otherworldly powers, as well as membership into an intergalactic squadron tasked with keeping peace within the universe.
X-ray science is playing a key role, too, in ensuring future spacecraft survive in extreme environments as they descend
through otherworldly atmospheres and touch down safely on the surface.
Called «Arrival», the amazingly realistic video shows an epic, but very «normal» battle that is interrupted by
something otherworldly known as a Dark Anchor opening a rift into Molag Bal's realm.
The globe - spanning conflict
between otherworldly monsters of mass destruction and the human - piloted super-machines built to vanquish them was only a prelude to the all - out assault on humanity.
It never ceases to amaze me how many
otherworldly places, phenomenon and organisms exist on this one planet.
The result has been a body of work that creates
otherworldly environments, invented topographies and seemingly organic structures from inorganic materials.
There are still a multitude of elements
like otherworldly horrors, mad scientists, superhero shenanigans, and dimension hopping.
Things get
otherworldly at the rear of the lab, where the researchers create temporary caves of dirty blue and black ice by blasting through an exposed ice wall with hot water for at least 24 hours.
Although the pieces are based on real life runway models and other subjects, the young women
seem otherworldly with their flower crowns and pale, dewy skin.
In Tokyo Mirage Sessions, platers take on the role of Itsuki Aoi, a young man who upon visiting a music idol audition, is forced to fend off
against otherworldly creatures who are kidnapping humans.
Mercey and paranormal investigator Michelle McKay of Cold Spot Paranormal Research independently check each house for
otherworldly characters, while certified home inspector Brian Daley aims to debunk any unusual goings on with reasonable explanations.
Creating
otherworldly settings, she employed a highly personal symbolism that she preferred not to explain.
This visually striking comic book adaptation stars Keanu Reeves as a man with
otherworldly abilities who exorcises demons in an effort to win admission into Heaven.
Meanwhile, those who avoid strange titles and
otherworldly designs may appreciate for once getting some thoughtfulness attached to creative worlds and genre thrills.
In real life, even more so than in pictures, the Lexus LC500 looks
so otherworldly, yet elegant.
You take on the role of best friends Yui and Haru, who encounter some strange
otherworldly presence after watching a firework show atop of a mountain.
The lucky participants are transformed and transported to
otherworldly dimensions like FLUFFY, HEAVY, ANTI-GRAVITY and SLOW MOTION — real - life incarnations of the gameplay modes in the videogame, Quantum Conundrum.
An actor is not only going to have to sell the
more otherworldly aspects of the hero, but the vulnerable, failed and broken surgeon side of the character as well, something we believe Mortensen could pull off.
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