Sentences with phrase «outrageousness in»

We got the classic horror cult in Call of Cthulhu, as well as the campy outrageousness in Dead Rising.

Not only are they inherently hypocritical but they are arrogant to the point of outrageousness in their attempt to shove a belief down the throats of other people in the absence of credible evidence.

Worse, the «sellers» of these wares are now so many that buyers can dictate the terms of sale, «demanding ever more outrageousness in return for their limited attention,» as Bowman deftly puts it.

Not exact matches

on Captiva Island in Florida is known for it's outrageousness and it looks like it's on steroids, rainbow colored steroids.

For the almost eight years that the party held sway in Osun, the «nest of killers» was so obsessed with frivolities and flagrant outrageousness that dear state became a cataclysmic turf for incompetence, uncharitableness and backwardness.

Yet because none of them was a specialist in neuroimmunology, they didn't quite grasp the outrageousness of their finding.

They're what fuels the outrageousness of the scenarios (a «bottomless party» in Miami, Harris branding a prostitute, sky - diving to safety over Crawford, Texas), and otherwise allows Schlossberg and Hurwitz to tackle sacred cows and semi-topical socio - political humor.

Killer Joe throws down a dare by expecting its audience to be the cool connoisseurs of the story's «comic» outrageousness, then rubbing viewers» faces in close - up scenes of brutality that reasonable people ought not to be able to watch.

Often reviled in his native United States but worshipped as a genius throughout much of Europe and especially France, Lewis took slapstick comedy to new realms of absurdity and outrageousness, his anarchic vision dividing audiences who found him infantile and witless from those who applauded the ambitions of his sight gags, his subversions of standard comedic patterns, and his films» acute criticisms of American values.

Outrageousness proves hard to sustain, and after a stomach - lurchingly quick start, The Hangover slows down and, by the third act, fizzes out like Alka - Seltzer in a highball glass.

Fast and Furious 6 (or just «Furious 6» as shown in the film) continues in the vein of the previous film, but cranks up the outrageousness.

But Elaine's outrageousness was in the context of a circle of equally callous, self - involved, slightly amoral friends.

The sheer outrageousness of its attitude is enough to make Heathers a very welcome relief in a field dominated by sanctimonious and second - hand virtue.

Stoller certainly has his hooky yet straightforward concept and loads it with jokes that are fairly unique in the scheme of R - rated outrageousness, even in the age of filmmakers just like him.

There isn't much in ways of middle ground with him — either both his lewdness and outrageousness is funny or it's not.

The plot by the writer (who also wrote the similarly scattershot The Judge) makes no sense, particularly in its final third, where it drops not one, not two, but three insanely illogical twists — one of which had the audience I saw the film with guffawing at the outrageousness of it all.

There's affection in its bland, bad taste - obscured tale of homogeneity overcoming difference, laughs to be found in its trying - too - hard outrageousness, and affability apparent in the immensely likeable cast.

Even Hamburg's non-scatological humor is uninspired, faux - Farrelly attempts at would - be outrageousness: broad sight (pun intended) gags with Polly's blind ferret; Reuben's ex-child star friend's (Philip Seymour Hoffman, whose pratfall of an entrance ominously foretells of the depths to which he's required to sink) desperate «comeback» bid in a community theater production of Jesus Christ Superstar.

Inspired by the true story of New York siblings Stewart and Cyril Marcus, who were found dead in the bachelor pad they shared on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, it's serious like a cancer diagnosis, but it's also quite funny, rich in wry detail, and brimming with the outrageousness of its premise.

Outrageousness isn't always funny in and of itself; it can feel a bit desperate, which is exactly what happens in this instance.

That's much less of a problem with its superior sequel, which is comfortable enough in its own outrageousness, and underlying substance, that it doesn't need to exert quite so much furious effort to be cool, and clever and subversive.

Through the first two we knew he wasn't exactly a law abiding citizen but at least in his coke - fueled outrageousness he was funny and likable.

Written and directed by Patrick Brice (whose previous film, Creep, starring himself and Mark Duplass, makes its VOD debut June 23), it's an unusual but surprisingly effective mix of outrageousness and sincerity, in which the four anxious revelers somehow function both as broad caricatures and as real, complex human beings.

Hannie Caulder, that bizarre European - based western of last year, included a wealth of outrageousness that seemed to presage a return to grace and a renewal of promise for Kennedy the director: Raquel Welch strutting around the desert naked under a poncho, Robert Culp prancing auspiciously out of the wilderness in El Topo hat and granny glasses to teach her how to shoot; brothers Ernest Borgnine, Strother Martin, and Jack Elam forming a manically inept criminal trio who nevertheless managed to be lethal for two of Hannie's menfolk; Christopher Lee as a gaunt and happy gunsmith and family man living on the seashore; and a never - identified stranger in elegant black who materialized wordlessly now and again to collaborate in Hannie's adventures.

Director Stephen Frears (Florence Foster Jenkins, The Program) mines a lot of good - natured humor out of the outrageousness of royal existence, such as the absolute frenzy Windsor Castle is thrown into in preparation for the Queen's arrival for the banquet at which Abdul's coin will be presented.

Honda, for instance — a company not known for outrageousness — will begin selling the odd - looking Element in December; it's referred to by the company as a «dorm room on wheels.»

Die Wergelder is a lushly drawn erotic nightmare that dances right along the edge of self - parody, reveling in its outrageousness.

Kerley's playful use of language and Fotheringham's rollicking illustrations converge in energy and outrageousness as they detail Alice's life.

SN: Your book basically mocks the outrageousness of the financial world which, in other words, is laying bare the truth of how the system works.

And those some fans might revel in a new entry that also celebrates the outrageousness that is DOOM.

In practice, courts have tended to focus on the outrageousness element, the one most susceptible to determination as a matter of law (see, Restatement [Second] of Torts § 46, comment h; Givelber, The Right to Minimum Social Decency and the Limits of Evenhandedness: Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress by Outrageous Conduct [«Social Decency»], 82 Colum L Rev 42, 42 - 43 [1982]-RRB-.