Sentences with phrase «such as corpses»

Many of his works feature macabre subjects such as corpses and autopsy scenes based on his visits to a morgue as well as influences including Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (1632) and Chaim Soutine's Carcass of Beef (1925), and have modern - day comparisons to Damien Hirst's dissected animal sculptures.

Just in case you haven't heard there is a new update for Darkest Dungeon that introduces some new mechanics such as corpses on the battlefield as well as the new hero: the Houndmaster and his best friend!

Not exact matches

Oden also has a curious habit of including excerpts whose only distinction is that they contain somewhat involved metaphors — a journey from Peking to Canton, one thief accusing another to the police, a merchant momentarily given false hope as he watches his ship founder at sea, an emperor choosing a day - laborer as his son - in - law, the difference in value between a pound of gold and a pound of feathers, a corpse still able to perform some of the functions of a living body — as if such metaphors were intrinsically humorous.

When dissection of corpses began to be publicly practiced in medical theaters, medical illustrations — such as those in Vesalius's 1543 De humani corporis fabrica — drew public interest to mapping the interior of human bodies.

He was strongly opposed to the teaching of some of his Christian contemporaries who wished to interpret the idiom of resurrection as an allegorical description of that Christian experience by which «a man, having come to the truth, has been reanimated and revivified to God, and, the death of ignorance being dispelled, has as it were burst forth from the tomb of the old man».35 Tertullian was adamant that the resurrection was in the future and to be understood in physical, fleshly terms («I pronounce that the flesh will certainly rise again»).36 In order to forestall those who could contend the impossibility of such a hope on the grounds that the decayed corpse would have long since wasted away to nothing, he pointed out that quite recently, in his city, skeletons some five hundred years old had been unearthed in a remarkable state of preservation.

There are certain poses you shouldn't do while pregnant, such as lying on your back in corpse pose when you have passed your first trimester, and most poses have appropriate modifications for your growing belly.

Elusive gravitational waves, meanwhile, can reveal unseen collisions between stellar corpses, such as black holes and neutron stars.

No other horror creatures invite quite the same breadth of paranoid speculation as zombies, perhaps because they embody such a pure, reflective sense of terror: animated corpses dependent on living flesh for survival.

And well - established methods that determine time of death for corpses on land, such as insect infestation, aren't likely to be useful with submerged bodies.

Perhaps the ur - example of Tarantino's ability to balance his characters as though on the blade of one of his mythologized Hanzo swords is the titular corpse himself, embodied with such vicious restraint by David Carradine.

That ritual has left Ludleth as little more than a charred corpse, though presumably the other Lords of Cinder are not in such a sorry state.

Though her superior scoffs at the notion, Hazel and her colleagues, Detective Ray Green (Gil Bellows) and Ben Wingate (Topher Grace), a young new transfer from Toronto, treat the investigation as such and look for common clues among the area's rising corpse count.

Other insane events include riding Santa's corpse like a sled, bouncing on a pair of Atari boobs, and fighting crazy bosses such as Jason, The Giant Claw, Satan, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the ghosts of Christmases past, present, and future.

Supernatural events are depicted, such as a ritual with the god of death that involves bloodletting (briefly shown), an attempted human sacrifice, corpses being raised from the dead, and characters having the life sucked from their bodies.

- Siege Warfare: Players can attack each other's settlements with powerful war machines, such as siege towers or trebuchets, and fling rotting corpses over the walls of their enemies to spread pestilence in their streets.

I love Del Toro talking about Hitch's rarely - discussed masterpiece I Confess and the utter lack of decency in Frenzy — and I love the focus that these luminaries attach to the fetishistic aspects of Hitchcock's work, such as the eyeless corpse of The Birds, or the legs and feet of Strangers on a Train and Shadow of a Doubt.

Zombi 3 features a plethora of insane moments such a machete - wielding corpse who moves so fast as to almost lop off the lead actress's head IRL... right there on camera.

Scenes such as an encounter with a bearskin - wearing dentist deep in the territory who seeks to trade Rooster and Mattie a man's corpse are invented for the film, though the cadence of the language and unusual diction feels lifted straight from the book.

As Aristotle wrote in Poetics, «We enjoy contemplating the most precise images of things whose actual sight is painful to us, such as the forms of the vilest animals and of corpses.&raquAs Aristotle wrote in Poetics, «We enjoy contemplating the most precise images of things whose actual sight is painful to us, such as the forms of the vilest animals and of corpses.&raquas the forms of the vilest animals and of corpses.»

The field of education is strewn with the corpses of well - intentioned programs that failed to lead to action because developers failed to give teachers motivating feedback; connect new learning to relevant past teaching; establish long - term supports (such as peer coaching or action research); or consider how the program's approach might interact with teachers» emotions.

And yet he uses such effusive, vivid vocabulary that he somehow renders these shocking scenes artful, as when writing of a corpse: «All that is left is a grotesque and bloody gallimaufry of bones, sinew, and innards.»

To further help keep things interesting there's several different types of enemies to fought, such as incredibly fast ninja robots whose sole purpose it to slice up your face with their deadly blades or massive minigun toting behemoths intent on turning you into a lovely bullet - ridden corpse.

The missions have real charm, as Rockstar have managed to keep the game full of colourful (and questionable) characters that all have their own distinct personalities and humour — such as Nigel West Dickens, a «doctor» conning people with dodgy miracle cures, and Seth who seems to enjoy the company of corpses a little too much.

They're distinguished by features not generally found in MMOs, such as click - to - move, an isometric viewpoint, time - to - kill that is often lightning fast, simple controls, heavily instanced worlds, and loot exploding out of corpses like squishy piñatas.

The Harbinger tree offers such skills as the stupidly overpowered and easily spammable Teleport Slash and a nice spinning attack useful for dealing with crowds while the Necromancer tree allows you to play around with summoning spirits and even a flock of crows that can reanimate corpses and distract your enemies.

You will also want to keep your eye out for effects, such as exploding spider corpses.

Mugen is the brute of the group: his special skills enable him to do such things as taking a number of enemies out with a swing of his sword, he also carries a bottle of Sake, which can be put down on the ground to entice enemies, he can effortlessly carry two enemy corpses around, and even run with them in his arms, he is also able to carry heavier objects, and finally he is the only member of the team that is able to kill samurai outright.

Zombi is a port of the Wii U launch game, Zombi U, it's a first person survival horror that adds gameplay elements from dark souls, making it a game about pure survival with dire consequences if you die, such as losing all your items until you can find the corpse of the last survivor you were playing and get those items back.

As such, you had to unpick the story of the place like an archaeologist digging at ruins, or by reading the abstruse descriptions on items plundered from crisp - dry corpses, or rust - stuck chests.

In the mid-19th century, a sudden cultural mix of early photography, science à la Darwin and fantasy by way of Lewis Carroll fueled an ironic response from certain educated Victorian ladies, whose pastimes included scrapbook diaries, parlor games (such as exquisite corpse) and — as on vivid display at the Met — photocollaged family albums.

In Beauty Examined (1993) a woman's corpse lies on an examination table, outlined by terse descriptions of such vital statistics as age, weight and colour.

Intriguing pairings will encourage visitors to consider commonalities between seemingly disparate works, such as Giovanni de Vecchi's 16th - century drawing of a corpse alongside contemporary artist Olafur Eliasson's conceptual sculpture of negative space formed by glacial ice melted within a concrete block, The Presence of Absence (Nuuo Kangerlua, 24 September 2015 # 3).

Her recent work has focused on representations of death, such as The Deceased, a canvas from 2002 which depicts the head of a resting corpse, evocative of both forensic photography and art historical memento mori.

Dexter Dalwood is the artist whose work titled The Death of David Kelly might draw comparisons with hefty history paintings such as David's magisterial The Death of Marat, which depicted the revolutionary journalist's corpse in his bath after he was killed by Charlotte Corday.