Sentences with phrase «sometimes grotesque»

It is usually complimentary, sometimes grotesque and there is always some snag, but it's great fun for architectural voyeurs.

Works by a group of artists loosely known as the Chicago Imagists — Roger Brown, Jim Nutt, H. C. Westermann, and Karl Wirsumand — use funky, sometimes grotesque or surreal imagery leavened with humor.

In his art, we see haunting, incomplete, and sometimes grotesque characters fighting against and merging into backgrounds comprising a personal lexicon of forms.

Within most major gaming universes there are unique creatures and monster, sometimes charming and sometimes grotesque.

The one is just the amplification and sometimes grotesque holy sanctification of the other.

Rather than putting style over substance, its style was the substance, director Matthew Vaughn pulling out every trick in the book to poke fun at the stuffy clichés of Bond - era spy films while leaning hard into its R rating to sometimes grotesque results.

Not exact matches

A director like this (all the money in the world, answering only to himself as executive producer) can't help but imprint his material with a highly eccentric, often grotesque sensibility — one that I sometimes find pretty appealing.

That said, it is still terrifying — a monster this grotesque will always be unsettling — but director David F. Sandberg sometimes fumbles the slow build.

Harry Crews» novels might sometimes be hard to read because they're filled with violence, blood sport and grotesque characters, but they shout out, «Pick me up and read me,» for they drive us to confront our often grotesque sense of self, the lies we tell ourselves to protect ourselves from harsh truths and the destruction of our society and the world around us under the banner of illusory values.

Boss battles deserve a special mention here as well: bosses in Sundered are huge (seriously, sometimes your character becomes a tiny white blur on the screen when a boss reveals their true size) and grotesque, all with a variety of punishing attacks.

A cast of characters, sometimes cartoon - like and often grotesque, enact a variety of nonsensical actions and poses.

Atkins creates a tension by juxtaposing his grotesque, sometimes even repulsive, text to the estranging capacity of HD technology.

Confronted by an art scene dominated by the Abstract Expressionists, and having no truck with abstract painting, he just kept doing what he'd always done: painting narrative and acerbically observant scenes of life keyed to the human figure, often his own, sometimes as an element of remarkably assured and phlegmatically grotesque allegory.

Filling the rear part of CHARLIE SMITH is Joshua Raffell — a graduate of Chelsea College of Art and Design — with another his mixed media figurative sculptures; provocative and a little disturbing — a patchwork grotesque, the artist's puppet - like figures — sometimes kinetic in nature — are like a Frankenstein's monster with an overt sexuality stitched into the intricate detail of colourful fabrics alluding to taboos that would normally illicit the opposite response in society.