Some of Fellini's situations seem impossibly grotesque, yet they have echoes in recent world events. |
|
In Don Quixote, the grotesque Gamach is fantastically played by a young French actor. |
|
A grotesque formation vase catches the attention of guests at first glance. |
|
For all his morbidness and grotesque humor, he rarely lost touch with an emotional core in his songwriting. |
|
Pletnev's new version does much to tame the score's incipient vulgarity without compromising its more grotesque elements. |
|
The old lady's habit, formed of stiff brocade, gives her the appearance of a squat pyramid, with a grotesque head at the top of it. |
|
The gap is made more grotesque by the fact that if you want an unpretentious, unpatronising way into classical music, Cadenza provides it. |
|
I can truthfully say that this whole proposition appears to my mind as one of the most grotesque and unpractical that I have yet encountered. |
|
They were twisted, grotesque things, as if conceived by the maddest of artist, or most unremorseful of psychopaths. |
|
It's a grotesque and hacky travesty of application compatibility, but there you go. |
|
But this post-World War II system was only a grotesque parody of a gold standard. |
|
Additionally, her characters have exotic and sometimes grotesque attributes that bring to mind the Surrealist tradition. |
|
Even grimmer and more grotesque scenarios are amply available in the world of globalization. |
|
Fabliaux were comical and often grotesque stories in which the characters most often succeed by means of their sharp wits. |
|
The latter piece, rather grotesque and humorous, will probably never become popular. |
|
Turning on the Admiral, her face twisted into a grotesque mask of furor and grief. |
|
Another boy did a grotesque parody of a monster drawling incoherent, preposterous demands. |
|
Their spirits will not find peace hanging there like grotesque decorations from an evil celebration. |
|
Beneath my feet huge cracks scarred the landscape like grotesque crazy paving while all around almost everything was slowly dying. |
|
We should close down this grotesque spectacle, and grant these performing primates their freedom and their privacy. |
|
|
It is perhaps the most disgusting, grotesque and repulsive thing ever shown on television. |
|
Her auburn hair was matted with dried blood and her wings looked like grotesque twigs. |
|
This is a countrified area, the jewel of Salford, and it is grotesque that it should be changed in this way just to make money. |
|
If we are not restrained by conventions, traditions or rules we are all capable of grotesque cruelties. |
|
And then, he slowly discerned the shape of a grotesque beast, clamping to the trunk as if its skin and the brown bark were one. |
|
By the Middle Ages, no cathedral, guildhall or town hall was complete without a virtual battalion of these charmingly grotesque little guys. |
|
Even in his later work, when a human presence enters it is either grotesque, so schematic as to be without mood, or troubled. |
|
The result is an unhappy divorce between student and school which is a grotesque travesty of all that the IBO stands for. |
|
He was thoroughly entertained by a grotesque comedy that satirized a group of celebrities. |
|
The grotesque flesh-marionettes of the studio audience erupted with a shrill and uneven staccato of laughter. |
|
The adaptation of this decorative style came to be known as grotesque, based on the word grotto. |
|
What about his grotesque decision to psychoanalyse his own daughter, the hapless Anna? |
|
For the other 90 per cent, it is viewed at best as quaint, but more often as a monstrous and grotesque accident of birth. |
|
Garden gnomes represent all that is both great and grotesque about this fair country of ours. |
|
Like jackals around a tiger kill, small flies hovered around the feasting mantis, even daring to settle on its grotesque pea-like eyes. |
|
Both films are about the grotesque misadventures of a 'typical' Aussie in Pommyland. |
|
This seven-minute gem features a wholesome woman dancing across a Daliesque landscape of grotesque figures, broken bridges, and eerie shadows. |
|
His face is increasingly frozen in a grotesque rictus of appalled indignation, which seems to be his default response to the world. |
|
I think I scraped it all outta my hair, and I got the grotesque green glop off my chin. |
|
Similarly, the emphasis on waiting times for day surgery leads to a grotesque distortion of priorities. |
|
|
It is more or less reduced to Janus-faced etiquettes of the moral and grotesque body, placed by the author, as it seems, where most suitable. |
|
This commingling is seen by many reformers as a grotesque reduction to the base material level of human corporeality. |
|
Dead pines washed away by the spring floods were piled up and wedged into grotesque shapes like a petrified forest. |
|
I'm going to try and do an odd, gory and even grotesque modern horror film that's done in a real classical style. |
|
From a distance, the village looked like a holiday trailer park surrounded by grotesque, wind-sculptured trees. |
|
In the middle of this smoky, beery evening, a tall, lanky figure walks onstage wearing a grotesque hare-lipped mask. |
|
American Steel do not play pure, walloping punk as much as they create a grotesque amalgam of past punk-related styles. |
|
It stared at them with eyes they could not find in the convolutions of its grotesque skin. |
|
As well as animal forms, demons can have other grotesque and hideous forms. |
|
The pristine beach was now a sheet of razor-sharp glass, twisted into hideous and grotesque spires and craters. |
|
It's jutting out from the corner of the roof, so it could conceivably be a gargoyle proper or a grotesque. |
|
She said this while pressing both sides of his cheeks in a grotesque pucker. |
|
Much like the late-lamented, cantankerous Mr Dahl, most children revel in the gleefully grotesque and delightfully disgusting. |
|
Of course, Shostakovich's biting and grotesque satire rears its head as well, particularly in the 3rd Movement Allegro non troppo. |
|
Before the modern period, the art of the grotesque was often placed in a religious context. |
|
For a play involving such grotesque and bizarre subject matter, it sure got a lot of laughs! |
|
Once it's all been limewashed it will look most remarkable, especially if I put a low-relief grotesque mask where he's got a simple keystone. |
|
Americans would indignantly object if anyone said that armadillos and gophers were deformed and grotesque. |
|
Many grotesque gargoyles with mysterious ochre stains around their mouths littered the castle's turrets and corners leering down at her. |
|
She lay sprawled on the ground below, one leg cocked beneath her at a grotesque angle. |
|
|
Some American journalists are still wearisomely offering his hard childhood as an explanation for his grotesque behaviour. |
|
He has created a soft-spoken and gentle Barrie who is the boy who never grew up, yet never seems grotesque. |
|
Above the rusticated north arches is another grotesque mask, carrying a pearl swag, also done in shells with a background of pebbles. |
|
He meshes the grotesque with the strange, interweaves the mundane and normal, and then skews the whole mixture a scoosh to the left of center. |
|
The rubato and portamento emphasize the Symphonie's Fantastique, grotesque side. |
|
The masks are often grotesque, humorous or satirical and the dances can be noisy and boisterous. |
|
Sure, by loose definition it can be called a game, but it has mutated into something much more grotesque than that. |
|
Even the tots wore their costumes and enjoyed the fun, peering through their grotesque masks, and frightening their elders. |
|
This dark, rather grotesque image shows the artist's masked face surrounded by blades thrown by a circus knife-thrower. |
|
Now these grotesque, giant cybernauts shall come face to face with the steadfast resolve of this residual band. |
|
Every part is richly decorated with flowers, hearts, twisting vines and grotesque heads. |
|
He is pursued by the Furies, grotesque female divinities charged with the punishment of those who have shed the blood of kinfolk. |
|
The characters' grotesque infantilism and puerile sense of humour is an important part of what is being satirised. |
|
The muzzle of the beast was pulled back into a grotesque smile revealing jowls full of razor teeth, dripping with thick, stringy saliva. |
|
Her lampooning of a fashion shoot, especially her shot of a grotesque model with dirty socks, is memorably funny. |
|
He was a grotesque and corpulent man, almost completely bald, and the fat around his chin gaggled loosely as he talked and shook his head. |
|
The mix is astonishing, from the kitsch to the majestic, from the grotesque to the sublime. |
|
All of them, including people, are carved in the same beautiful but grotesque style, with beaks, staring eyes, outspread wings and gaping jaws. |
|
Another characteristic of the reportage is the delight in grotesque and vulgar pornographic images. |
|
And I was transfixed, almost hypnotised by the grotesque scene in front of me. |
|
|
Name your disaster, horror or tragedy, no matter how grotesque, and there will be someone making a joke of it somewhere. |
|
For most modern readers, the idea that Isabel is intending an eventual extra-marital liaison is grotesque. |
|
Roof bosses, like sedilia and gargoyles, were often given humorous or grotesque decoration although foliate carving was also common. |
|
The show should be popular not just because people are always curious about the grotesque, but because our own situation today cries out for a master of grotesquerie. |
|
Lay brother Julian is seduced by Miss Alice in grotesque fashion. |
|
That makes the playing of a football game not purgative but grotesque in the current context. |
|
Today we are faced with a particularly grotesque form of appeasement. |
|
The military stands out as a particularly grotesque example of the latter. |
|
These are ahistorical and frankly grotesque comparisons, and the damage they cause cuts deep, in many directions. |
|
Now, most of the kampongs have grotesque concrete eyesores fingering the sea, and there are all manner of boats arriving or departing every other hour. |
|
Field Recordings From The Sun is simultaneously a deformation and unabashed celebration of all that is purely grotesque and whorishly beautiful about Rock and Roll music. |
|
Except in cases with the highest body count, or the most grotesque cruelty, white victims were the only ones that mattered. |
|
The runoff has turned into a macabre political sideshow filled with grotesque attacks and ugly accusations. |
|
It is a language which invites the mind to rebel against itself causing inflamed ideas grotesque postures and a theoretical approach to common body functions. |
|
Their families are left reeling, forever yoked to this grotesque event. |
|
His face was grotesque, but only to the extent that the embossed lines in several shades of ice depicted some terribly misshapen and woeful beast. |
|
Solid timbers and struts took on the grotesque softness of a shelled oyster, as glass shattered, cloth rippled, and counters spewed their contents. |
|
The idea is that America has become a madhouse, but the film's idiotic storyline and grotesque stereotypes of mental illness undercut its intended social impact. |
|
Perhaps the deep-pocketed corporation was the real victim, some grotesque combination of sitting duck and cash cow? |
|
The aura of a mad childhood is created mainly by McCarthy's constant use of cartoon figures and grotesque rubbery masks, often with protuberant noses. |
|
|
In the vision of this chapter, Daniel sees the successive empires of this world as nothing more than grotesque beasts of prey that devour each other. |
|
In the nineteenth century, Pietists in Norway burned some of the celebrated ancient stave churches as their grotesque timber carvings were, again, considered idolatrous. |
|
There is an inkwell that my Uncle Seymour made, a brass grotesque he mounted on a marble base. |
|
Be prepared to laugh, cringe and cry as the play slips from the anarchical to the downright grotesque and be prepared for an unexpected twist at the end. |
|
In the second part of Henry IV Barrit's Falstaff, his face pocked with sores and his body decaying, became a more grotesque, more disturbing but also more exuberant figure. |
|
The gruff, strangulated tones seemed to reflect the woman's petulant desires and suffocated potential, making her initially quite grotesque but ultimately deeply sympathetic. |
|
Yet another use of a grotesque image can be seen in the carvings of two mythical beasts that perch on top of the great medieval cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, France. |
|
Certainly grotesque characters populate the world, as in all of the Coens' films, but a lot of the film ultimately centers on Ed's obsession with cleanliness. |
|
The broken hollow path bending upwards round the base, is always occupied by a grotesque group of cripples and beldames, in rags and tatters, laughing and whining and praying. |
|
She was pointing to a grotesque china clock and a horrid vase. |
|
It has split the ranks of feminists and inspired a grotesque but much-commented manifesto by unrepentant chauvinists. |
|
Yet even here there's a kind of grotesque, if unintentional, humour. |
|
His audacities of phrase struck him as grotesque, his felicities of expression were monstrosities, and everything was absurd, unreal, and impossible. |
|
The bull's carcass dragged and hung in a grotesque parody of crucifixion. |
|
A demonic light flashed behind the grotesque mask of amiability. |
|
He continuously draws pictures of the creature's grotesque porcelain mask. |
|
They each wore a disgusting mask, grotesque caricatures of the human face. |
|
At the bottom of each slope of this gablet is a carved grotesque. |
|
With no visible direction from above, the cast decide to amp up the volume and the broadness, but the results are more overbearing than energetic, more grotesque than funny. |
|
The altar has a profusion of Mannerist ornament, pierced scrollwork, vigorous strapwork, combined with many tiny figures, and floral and grotesque motifs. |
|
|
Then there was the equally intriguing suggestion that what happened was simply a grotesque outgrowth of things which happen all the time in some small businesses. |
|
A Taoist Holyland for 1,600 years, Sanqing Nountain is known for its many grotesque rocks, waterfalls and lush primeval forest set in a sea of clouds and mist. |
|
Galactica makes multiple references to the day in the form of apocalyptic destruction, burnt fire-fighters and the grotesque immediacy of bodies tumbling into space. |
|
In my view, and speaking as someone who worked in this industry for over eleven years, payment protection insurance is one of the most grotesque financial rip-offs ever. |
|
Leopold's depravations were so grotesque and occurred on such a scale that even the other colonial powers had to take pause in their scramble for African loot. |
|
Some of these authors wrote attention-grabbing, grotesque, and overly loquacious pieces, and others settled for merely highly reflective, more conventional literature. |
|
Somebody slips me a mickey in the pub and I become a demon who thinks he's talking totally normally to people, but in fact it is all a grotesque noise. |
|
The novel is a grotesque exploration of fetishism which antedates Freud. |
|
The very word conjures a mental menagerie of grotesque caricatures. |
|
A mixture of the everyday and the grotesque, they read at times like plaintive notes from a boarding school, from a child who fears she has been forgotten. |
|
It is a grotesque confrontation with the reality of life and death. |
|
Immediately opposite was a grotesque figure of Satan, no doubt in canonicals also, with cloven foot and horns, belching out fire and brimstone on the terrified audience. |
|
The comparison is not grotesque, since Samuragochi is, like Beethoven, deaf. |
|
His grotesque and absurd characters committed gross, outrageous acts. |
|
They're rather grotesque in that their body is very, very watery and slimy and when you get very large bags of them they tend to sort of slime up the net. |
|
There is some overlap between the two categories of songs and the fantastic, with several of Petrushevskaia's pieces categorisable as grotesque or fantastic. |
|
To one listening, drowsed with the intense sunshine, the buzzle and mutter and snarl of the gossiping Omahas seemed like the grotesque echoes from a vanished age. |
|
Watching him trick the poor dopes into turning the wrong way when he tapped their shoulder or scaring unsuspecting matrons with his grotesque face was amusing. |
|
The deaths of the powerful elicit extravagant claims, and many of the tributes to the man being buried in Rome today have been little short of grotesque. |
|
The sodomitic rape scene has troubled readers who fail to discern that it is one of O'Connor's deliberately grotesque revelations. |
|
|
Of all the Phocine family none present so terrible and grotesque an appearance as the gigantic Walrus, also known as the morse and sea-horse. |
|
By its extraordinary nature the belligerent grotesque work precalculates a certain quality and intensity of emotional response. |
|
To lock up a woman just because she allowed her class to call a cuddly toy Mohammed is a grotesque injustice. |
|
Cosmo gave her a forum to put her grotesque action and revolting rationalizations in the best possible light. |
|
Die-hard fans of reality television can now try some of those grotesque stunts at home. |
|
They are almost always small and grotesque, mischievous or outright evil, and greedy, especially for gold and jewelry. |
|
It's a fluorescence, though you may suspect this isn't about fiction, that fiction can't sustain such a grotesque and barbed peduncle. |
|
The pictures as a catalogued by Talking Points Memo are grotesque. |
|
The appearance of our caravan was curious and grotesque. Our britchka was drawn by three camels, taken in tow by a man on foot. |
|
Ken Russell's BBC film and Kenneth MacMillan's Isadora ballet portrayed her as a grotesque monstre sacre. |
|
In his paintings, he used religious themes, but combined them with grotesque fantasies, colourful imagery, and peasant folk legends. |
|
In retaliation, the Saxons distributed grotesque poems of cruelty and other propaganda, demonizing Vlad III Dracula as a drinker of blood. |
|
I did not turn to ascertain who it might be, but trusted it was no one of importance, as the poddy and I presented rather a grotesque appearance. |
|
Proving that everyone has their off days, it's an exercise in mind-numbing pretension, interspersed with grotesque violence. |
|
Not only is Afrocentrism spawning grotesque maleducation, multiculturalism is exacerbating racial hostilities, undoing earlier racial progress. |
|
The shops were, therefore, distinguished by painted signs, which gave a gay and grotesque aspect to the streets. |
|
At least Jake Gyllenhaal shaved off his grotesque face scarf this year. |
|
In Jack London's urban gothic, the city's teratological economy comes to light in grotesque animal allegories. |
|
I should not want to forget the gourd, for this seems to me the clown of vinedom, imitating as it does in grotesque manner other fruits. |
|
North Korea has been, after all, the land and source of grotesque and murkiest news in recent days. |
|
|
With the exaggerated boobies and bawdiness of a drag queen and immunity to even remedial glamorization, Bette Midler exemplified the Jewess as sublime grotesque body. |
|
These drunkalogues are our art of the grotesque. These alcoholic stories break open the experience of the absurd in vivid, painful, and humorous ways. |
|
The villain is a grotesque exterminator voiced by Paul Giamatti, and the climactic battle against him, though it drags on a bit too long, does have its moments. |
|
Since the early 1980s, the world has witnessed many instances of the grotesque instrument of suicide bombings, spreading death, destruction, and fear. |
|
Nothing could surpass the nonsensity of trying to run so complex and so concentrated a machine by southern and western farmers in grotesque alliance with city day laborers. |
|
However, while boots of many colours have been worn for a few years now, the Euros have seen almost universal wearing of garish and grotesque illuminous boots. |
|
Under-handed, over-handed, back-handed, left-handed, right-handed, standing at grotesque angles and almost standing on their heads, the Wonders fired the ball into the basket. |
|
She sighed exhaustively, and, holding the grotesque infant close to her breast, disappeared indignantly to administer the very greatly needed motherment. |
|
This monstrous parody of divine compassion... performs, in the presence of moving picture cameras, a grotesque parody upon the laying on of hands and the healing of the sick. |
|
The trial became what many saw as a grotesque form of entertainment, with the media stalking witnesses, the glut of pop books, and the glamourization of commentators. |
|
Grotesque profiteering aside, life release ceremonies can devastate the eco-system. |
|