| 单词 | monstrous |
| 例句 | One was on fire, and flapped lamely off by itself, billowing gigantically like a monstrous blood-red star. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The outer was red sandstone, thirty feet high and decorated with animals: snakes slithering, kites flying, fish swimming, intermingled with wolves of the red waste and striped zorses and monstrous elephants. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z All of this had the effect of making a monstrous chute where the water fought and roared to get through, smashing around the rocks in huge sprays of white water. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Booker Middle School was a monstrous brick building that took up an entire block. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Behind me, the black underbelly of the bridge hovered, a monstrous vulture swooping thirty feet overhead. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z They had traveled on mere minutes when Harry saw light ahead, and Yaxley and Dolohov stepped out into a clearing that Harry knew had been the place where the monstrous Aragog had once lived. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Instead, Bob slashed through the monstrous blister, which burst in a geyser of hot golden mud. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There were acres of tobacco, the plants heavy and green like some monstrous jungle weed. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z A monstrous shape resembling a stainless-steel-and-crystal praying mantis comes into view. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z We might see the thresher with his flail lay on the monstrous blows, which was strange to behold. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Here, half buried in the black soil, are Loki and his monstrous children. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The feelings of shame, at her own people and at the white people, grew inside her, side by side like monstrous twins that would have to be left in the hills to die. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The image of the ice fortress loomed in her memory, monstrous and beautiful. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z And then, in a swift, brutal motion, like a monstrous snake swallowing its prey, the men swept Amah into the blackness of the night. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z At other times it took the form of a dark, fanged beast, and hovered constantly over my dizzy head, as if about to pounce on me and gouge my guts out with its monstrous talons. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The black leotards, the matted mane of hair, the monstrous valise were all gone; the palm-lined campus returned to its traditional lethargy and necking. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have told you, young Todd,” he says, his voice low and monstrous, his Noise glowering at me with a fury so pure it nearly knocks me back. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z When he drank, he endured monstrous hangovers and appeared to suffer from delirium tremens. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z All of them seemed to be lost in horrified shock, trying to digest the monstrous truth of what had happened. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Or a monstrous mysterious sphinx, aloof from all that lives. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Yesterday I was almost willing to accept Van Helsing’s monstrous ideas; but now they seem to start out lurid before me as outrages on common sense. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Many of them are hulking in appearance, even monstrous—bulging arms and long claws, black pools in the place of eyes. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He was being hit everywhere now and the crowd noises leaped to life as if someone had turned up the volume on a monstrous stereo. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Two monstrous women with brick-red forearms folded across their aprons were talking outside a doorway. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Frith in his element, of course, directing Robert with a lift of his eyebrows, and myself rather hot and flustered with a monstrous silver tea-pot and kettle that I never knew how to manage. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Big heads with large fangs, big eyes, monstrous paws. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing! Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “God be with you too, sir,” I managed to say, though I was in awe of such a monstrous man. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z He peered back at Thomas, hatred furrowing his brow and crinkling his monstrous nose. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z From behind the boulder, a monstrous voice yelled, “Honeypie! Are you done yet?” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He could not stand the idea that his wife, the woman he loved, the mother of their children, would hold in her hands a monstrous life form that is lethal and incurable. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw Carter snaking through the line again, like some monstrous reptile in his helmet, but suddenly Carter became all arms and legs tossing and turning in the air, hit devastatingly low by Croteau. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The monstrous creatures take on a more definite shape— they are birds, crows, with beaks as long as my forearm and wings so dark they seem to swallow all the light. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z There were figures and faces, some human, some monstrous, and they had some kind of life and lightness to them, like the person who had drawn them could give them breath if he chose. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The next moment a hideous, grinding screech, as of some monstrous machine running without oil, burst from the big telescreen at the end of the room. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z On some nights, she would tell of chiefs, witch doctors, sages, warriors, sorcerers, magicians and wild, monstrous beasts. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Why didn’t this monstrous white creature just walk in and finish what it had started? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z He stared at the dark monstrous forms hidden in the fog, and said at last, “The crags....It must be Esherhoth Crags.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Further downhill, the rest of the legion was trying to form up, but the Second, Third and Fourth Cohorts were now surrounded by a sea of ill-tempered monstrous allies. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Behind her, Stella stood perched, clearly doing her best not to destroy any buildings with those monstrous claws. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z His left eyelid drooped over his empty socket in an immutable, monstrous wink. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “He got away before the storm came. I don’t know anything about the man except he’s a stupid, crazy, monstrous fool. I don’t know what to think.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z A howl of laughter went up irrepressibly. “. . . this monstrous practical joke,” the Director shouted. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Pick it up, I said. There’s no point to this . . .” The nurse reached under the cover for Shadrack’s wrist to pull out the monstrous hand. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “That is because it is a monstrous thing, to slay a unicorn,” said Firenze. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Great flabby folds of fat bulged out from every part of his body, and his face was like a monstrous ball of dough with two small greedy curranty eyes peering out upon the world. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Alec placed the workpad on the floor so that its glow shone up and gave everyone that slightly monstrous look you get when you place a flashlight under your chin. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z It seems monstrous even to suggest the possibility. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Dyedka had told her about a bukavac he had driven away from the village before, and how the monstrous little creature had made such a ruckus, it had caused Dyedka to go nearly deaf. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z "But how does he explain his doing such a—a—such a monstrous thing?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Shay’s face looked monstrous in the glare, and sparks floated downward to be lost in the depths of the wrecked building. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Patrolman Mancuso was too startled by the monstrous flannel nightshirt to reply to Ignatius’ pleasantry. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Still..being turned into a monstrous immortal spider seemed like a pretty harsh punishment for bragging. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Behind them were another dozen or so monstrous creatures, no two alike. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z For the monstrous crime of wanting more to eat. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Thomas stared in horror at the monstrous thing making its way down the long corridor of the Maze. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Deadly dangerous; while the spirit’s in it, it won’t never stop, and when you let the spirit flee, it’s so monstrous angry it’ll kill the first thing it gets at.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Leek got by, simply because of his monstrous incompetence. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Every time he closed his eyes, the monstrous image of Ben leaping at him, the boy’s face set in lunacy, filled his mind. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z A monstrous sycamore stood in the middle, so large that it shaded the entire grounds. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z His breastplate was shaped like rows of hungry monstrous faces, their mouths open as if demanding food. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The monstrous boy from District 2 is a ruthless killing machine. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Big heads with large fangs, big eyes, monstrous paws. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Their shadows on the wet walls looked monstrous in the wandlight. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The faces leering out at her from behind the shields and spears of the Poor Fellows seemed twisted, monstrous, hideous. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Everywhere she turned she saw faces twisted into monstrous inhuman maria. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A monstrous building blocked her way, its top half scorched black. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He was a monstrous man, with a mane of greasy gray hair, his face pouched and seamed, with protuberant lips. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z "The age of heroes has long passed. This is a time of monsters and monstrous deeds." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z There are baskets full of flower petals, and a monstrous stove in the corner releases tiny clouds of steam. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The face of a monstrous rat broke into a smile. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Bat!” she shouted, pointing at the monstrous animal above her. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Such monstrous deeds always angered the gods and they served him as he had served others. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The world’s most monstrous crime, the sin and the blood on the white man’s hands, are almost impossible to believe. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A giant monstrous leg knocked over a staircase with one kick. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z But now these bodies are revealed in their true, upsetting light: alien and bizarre, hairy, squashy, monstrous. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “This is absolutely horrendous. This is completely monstrous. This is financially dreadful.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z I stopped and stared at the ground just in time to see what looked like a monstrous spider scurry into a hole. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The ship shook and there was that sound, the monstrous metallic burp. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The entire front of the store exploded, and a monstrous voice bellowed: “Ml HI INF.!” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z A monstrous hill of snow loomed right in the middle. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z It refers to something vastly wicked, monstrous, or outrageous. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A pawn in the monstrous bourgeois plot to subvert the revolution. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was they who dared ride beyond the Wall, sweeping through the haunted forest and the icy mountain heights west of the Shadow Tower, fighting wildlings and giants and monstrous snow bears. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Beyond her, the monstrous bowl of wrought-iron curls sits hollow and still. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They were beyond monstrous now, some unable to retain a single shape but melting and re-forming with every step. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He looked fore, toward her retreating form, and said, “She is monstrous fine.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z And then it rose and came at us like a monstrous cobra, swallowing everything in sight, and I ran.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z So he joked around with the children, telling them monstrous tales, making himself into an evil, scary being. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z And that’s how he felt now, as if he was only steps ahead of something monstrous reaching, grabbing for his shoulders. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z He even expected it to be monstrous, but perhaps there was no preparing for one’s first monster. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He fought the monsters and freed the earth from them just as Greece freed the earth from the monstrous idea of the unhuman supreme over the human. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever it is, it’s either really awesome or freaking monstrous, that’s how these folks are running. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z So many monstrous events were occurring that he was no longer positive which events were monstrous and which were really taking place. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He had thrust the whole thing back of him, and there it lay, monstrous and horrible. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z In the light of the moon, she saw all nine of those monstrous half-naked brutes thundering across the landscape together. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the monstrous red thing, bounded across the neck and he flung himself fiat while the tribe shrieked. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The icy water clutched again at his body like a giant hand; the chill of it squeezed him like the circling coils of a monstrous boa constrictor. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The touch of the iron hilt seemed to unstick her feet from the floor at last, and she moved through what felt like thick mud toward the monstrous child. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z A giant monstrous arm swung back and demolished the walls to the parson’s bedrooms. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z I have often wondered if my past is the reason I am the way I am, if it has made me monstrous. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z A monstrous boy who lunges forward to volunteer from District 2. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z For the first time in years, I could see the stars that Thurmond’s monstrous lights had faded into nonexistence. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Across the sea warhoms boomed, deep throaty moans like the calls of monstrous serpents, repeated ship to ship. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z How did such a monstrous thing ever get up to the sixth floor? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They were indeed coming, with Hymir at their rear, urging them on: all the giants of that part of the world, a many-headed monstrous bunch, the giants of the waste, misshapen and deadly. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The monstrous wave was made of a thick brown syrup: molasses. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z But I had been in the pulpit too long and I had seen too many monstrous things. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Morbidly interested in genetics and medical research, Mengele rose to become physician in chief at Auschwitz, where he unleashed a series of monstrous experiments on twins. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z While the mass of men went on leading thoroughly unexamined lives of monstrous consumption, Augustus Waters examined the collection of the Rijksmuseum from afar. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z The monstrous army swarmed him, but the Maeonian drakon flattened everything in its path, sweeping its tail and spraying poison while Damasen jabbed at Tartarus, forcing the god to retreat like a cornered lion. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Cutwater had begun gnawing away at a roasted pheasant, and his cheek swelled out as if he had a monstrous toothache. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Even people in the stands behind us shouted monstrous, foamy-mouthed curses at the team in from Buffalo. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z They were looking straight into the eyes of a monstrous dog, a dog that filled the whole space between ceiling and floor. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z But the dollhouse was monstrous, too, and it left me only one small corner of free desktop. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Once there had been a man who cursed the rain clouds, a man of monstrous dreams. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes I would rage at God, at his monstrous almighty injustice. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Ben writhed and kicked and bit and howled, and the monstrous jaws and teeth of Bonneville’s dæmon were closing, slowly, voluptuously, ecstatically, on his little form. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He saw its blackness growing, running, a creature waving monstrous, tentacled arms. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “And now look at you—impaling monstrous creatures right through their leaky eyeballs.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Too much and they call you weak, too little and you’re monstrous. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Along with all the horror of loss, and the weariness, and all the sick helpless rage, there was coming now a monstrous disgust. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She sprinted up the giant’s back like a gazelle, sliced her hunting knives across his monstrous blue neck, and created the worlds largest headless ice sculpture. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The Saturn V rocket seemed too monstrous to be made to heel by the control room in Houston. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Ghohg had installed his own magical early-warning system: long, monstrous nerves that snaked through the hills and would jolt when a distant guard stomped on the other end. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Then he threw himself off Devil’s Drop and almost drowned that day, almost died, and my anger toward him got wild and thrashing, monstrous and dangerous. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z It was deceptively beautiful, for being such a monstrous thing. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z It was silver and bronze, with the monstrous face of Medusa protruding from the center. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The whole surface of the cloud was literally swarming with them, and there were hundreds more up above, climbing about on that monstrous crazy arch. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, a monstrous form of racism that was rising in Europe exaggerated and demonized individual distinctions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Harry turned and saw something monstrous cutting through the water toward them: a human body in swimming trunks with the head of a shark. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Buried from root to crown in frozen snow, they huddled on the hill like giants, monstrous and misshapen creatures hunched against the icy wind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The monstrous creature picked her way down from the top of the web-covered statue. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The faces were covered in purple patterns, tattooed in swirls of indigo, turning the dead faces into strange, expressive monstrous things. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Booker Middle School was a monstrous brick building that took up an entire block. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z It could be done, because it had to be done, but the challenge was monstrous. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I saw a family of weaver birds work together for months on a nest that became such a monstrous lump of sticks and progeny and nonsense that finally it brought their whole tree thundering down. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When she saw a monstrous turtle destroy a hundred villages with each step of his foot, she flew down in a fury and slew it with her sword. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z But this monstrous roaring thing—he wondered if anyone understood how it worked. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Dirt was in every corner, angle, crevice of the monstrous stove, and lived behind it in delirious communion with the corrupted wall. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z On her head was a monstrous picture hat and on her arm a monstrous bird. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She was afraid of the Dothraki, whose ways seemed alien and monstrous, as if they were beasts in human skins and not true men at all. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The sea overflowed with water from the Starry River of the Sky and churned with monstrous beasts. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z In Ento: the black eyes of the monstrous child as she plunged the knife into its belly. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z If Hoover was intimidated by the sight of this monstrous Texan, he didn’t show it: he told White that he needed to discuss a matter of the utmost urgency with him. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z And then more screamed, and they weren’t moving forward anymore, they were turning back in confusion, terrified by the monstrous shape hurtling toward them from the dark beyond the avenue of lights. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Annabeth spun as a massive dark shape hurtled down at her—a snarling, monstrous blob with spindly barbed legs and glinting eyes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A monstrous wall of filthy water is pouring down the wide steps. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z It had never crossed his mind that a daughter of his could commit such a monstrous folly. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Every forty, fifty years or so there’s a monstrous flood. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Mounted on their strange, monstrous beasts, the Spanish rode at the forefront of an army of perhaps twenty thousand Tlaxcalans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He was still bewildered by the monstrous unfairness of it all, by the truce he had thought was between them being flung back into his face so violently. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Towering black trees soared into the gloom, perfectly round and bare of branches, like monstrous hair follicles. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “My brother and I were both sent to you, but on the way here, another monstrous beast attacked us! He took my brother and so there is only me.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z In Einstein’s theory of general relativity, a zero became a black hole, a monstrous star that swallows entire suns. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The monstrous Watchers sat there cold and still, revealed in all their hideous shape. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He started climbing back up the outer face of the monstrous Berg. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Many nations understand that the systematic murder of such intelligent creatures is monstrous, but the traffic continues, promoted chiefly by Japan, Norway and the Soviet Union. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Warrior Twins had used arrows made of lightning and sun rays to kill the monstrous Enemies that ate humans. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z We all look monstrous—the ointment seems to be causing some of the scabs to peel—but I'm glad for the medicine. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z A monstrous spider the size of a small car was trying to climb through the huge hole in the wall: One of Aragog’s descendants had joined the fight. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z And Bobo would show these monstrous teeth that looked like dentures when they don’t quite fit, and the beast would grunt and swoon and move its head from side to side. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Then some kind of huge bird—a monstrous owl—dived in to attack the giant. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z It was some monstrous mistake they had made, not I. I crept to her side and saw it was Irawaddy. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Demigods never carried cell phones, because their signals attracted too much monstrous attention, and none of her friends would be sitting around checking their e-mail. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “It is not a what. It is a who. The why is monstrous. The when is here.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Behind his head, still swirling and coiling, the great snake Nagini floated in her glittering, charmed cage, like a monstrous halo. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Werfel yelled, and he and Spurge hopped out of the cart—narrowly avoiding the huge swinging beak of the vork, which carked like a monstrous crow. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z I turned in time to see Cico hurl his spear at the monstrous black bass that had broken the surface of the waters. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, as a matter of fact, she does seem a little mopey this afternoon. No, I take that back. She’s downright monstrous.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Finally, in many cases a quantifier naturally floats leftward away from the verb, unsplitting the infinitive, as in the examples on the right: It seems monstrous to even suggest the possibility. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z They pretended to breathe in and out while all the time I knew the air had been sucked away in a monstrous inhalation from God Himself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Hugo joined the merchant marines at sixteen and on his first trip went to Dakar, where the markets were filled with monstrous fruits grown in soils of uncommon minerals. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And far away in the distance, from the heart of the great factory, came a muffled roar of energy as though some monstrous gigantic machine were spinning its wheels at breakneck speed. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Only a white electorate indoctrinated with the idea of the black threat, ignorant of African ideas and policies, could support the monstrous racist philosophy of the National Party. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z No, to a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t understand,” said Jonathan, struggling against the monstrous idea that had formed in his mind. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z A plume of bright-green gas billowed across the top of the monstrous horde like the spray from a poison riot hose. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z For a moment I found myself wondering if this was all some monstrous practical joke. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z And it reached a huge, monstrous hand past Conor and knocked Harry flying across the floor. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z He was a scrawny man, toothy, with a pipelike neck and a monstrous Adam’s apple. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The footsteps trailing her hadn’t started up again yet, so she stood still, waiting, searching the darkness for some kind of monstrous shape. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z "This Iron Throne you speak of sounds monstrous cold and hard. I cannot bear the thought of jagged barbs cutting your sweet skin." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He did not want her to see the monstrous mask of fear on the man’s face. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He had never been active in abolitionist circles up north but observing the monstrous system firsthand gave him thoughts he did not recognize. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He pulled down his own mask; the long nose and bulging eyes looked doubly monstrous in the fog. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Over—” Magdalys started to say, but a monstrous growl erupted from the front gate, cutting her off. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z What good can any of us do against the monstrous machine that shoots young girls in the back as they run in fear? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The photo-cell banks that alone stood between the full power of Mercury’s monstrous sun and themselves were shot to hell. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z His armored skirt was made from thousands of blackened, twisted bones, woven together like chain links and clasped in place by a belt of interlocking monstrous arms. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A dozen feet down the tunnel she heard the sound, like the roar of some monstrous beast, and a cloud of hot smoke and black dust came billowing up behind her, smelling of hell. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She didn’t know why, but she imagined it was some shadowy figure with red eyes and sharp teeth, a monstrous villain come out of her nightmares with metal hounds to hunt them down. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He waited until the line jerked and twitched in his hand, and then he hauled up the line: two monstrous whales hung from it, the hugest whales that Thor had ever seen. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Domestic races of the same species...often have a somewhat monstrous character....They often differ in an extreme degree in some one part.... The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He did, grabbed the sandwich, but hesitated, the writhing, monstrous image of what he’d seen in the shack popping back into his mind. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Then his monstrous ugly face broke into a wide grin. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z His weight, thanks to a glandular disorder and 50-pound tumors, swung from a comparatively petite 400 pounds to 540 pounds, packed mostly in a monstrous quaking belly that won him the nickname “Ten Ton” Irwin. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It had no caption, and represented simply the monstrous figure of a Eurasian soldier, three or four meters high, striding forward with expressionless Mongolian face and enormous boots, a submachine gun pointed from his hip. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It was monstrous, shaped like a roaring, fanged mouth, a blazing fire burning within. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “You will change your mind about joining us, my boy. And if you do not, well ... there are other uses for half-bloods. We have many monstrous mouths to feed. The Great Stirring is underway.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z These impostors in soldiers’ costumes were nothing but animals themselves; more monstrous even than the hollowgast they controlled. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z But they had taken these beautiful rocks from deep within earth and they had laid them in a monstrous design, realizing destruction on a scale only they could have dreamed. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “Professor, are you in earnest; or it is some monstrous joke? Pardon me, I see that you are in earnest.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The sun wasn’t made of fire, it was a monstrous snowball. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She thought of what the stories said—fearsome, violent, monstrous—and then what Babulya said. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z I helped her bathe and dress—if Ferula didn’t beat me to it—and I felt infinitely sorry for her, so tiny and thin with that monstrous belly, as the moment of delivery approached. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He was alone in the heat and the silence, and then it began to rain and he rode head down into monstrous lightning. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It made a sound like a monstrous metallic burp. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z It was monstrous, with two alabaster angels guarding the gate, and a dome-shaped fountain sputtering in the front yard. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The snowmen the squires had built had grown into monstrous giants, ten feet tall and hideously misshapen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z ‘Except he’s also summoned so many monstrous “allies” that the legion is completely surrounded by wild centaurs, tribes of dog-headed cynocephali, and who knows what else. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Six monstrous huge aurochs had been roasting for hours, turning slowly on wooden spits while kitchen boys basted them with butter and herbs until the meat crackled and spit. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Finally he answered, “I will make the trial, monstrous though it is, even if it is my doom to die.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Twenty seconds later, their killers were gone, their monstrous hum fading as they settled back into the fields. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Ahead of them stretched miles of wasteland, bubbling with monstrous larvae and big insect-hair trees. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z If there are gods to listen, they are monstrous gods who torment us for their sport. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Above me the lines between the ceiling tiles warp and twist into monstrous creatures. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Unseen in the pit, the monstrous thing was speaking, but this time it wasn’t addressing me. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He leaped from the box and ended up, somehow, exactly where he did not want to be: in the middle of the monstrous hair. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z Another one was coming at her from behind; she could feel the monstrous vibrations of its attack. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The whole world stood still as something dark and monstrous came through the air. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But alone with his wife and children he turned into a monstrous, suspicious bully, with a streak of vicious cunning. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z To drum up public support for the law, legal injunctions were bolstered by insidious propaganda—a formula that the Nazis would eventually bring to monstrous perfection. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z "Lord Stannis," she asked, "if you knew the queen to be guilty of such monstrous crimes, why did you keep silent?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A bomb crater yawned across the whole width of the street like a monstrous mouth with broken pavement for teeth. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z It was all too much, the monstrous woman and the monstrous fear. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “Lord Commander, wights are monstrous, unnatural creatures. Abominations before the eyes ofthe gods. You ... you cannot mean to try to talk with them?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But the phoenix does not die, and monstrous births do not resemble their parents. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And then the clouds would move just a little and the hills would suddenly become monstrous elephants marching slowly toward me! The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d fashioned sticks into fake spears and pretended the two of them alone could defend their city from the creatures of the Greater Jungle, the monstrous beasts of legend. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The rest of the dogs were close behind, the hounds sniffing and barking, a pair of monstrous mastiffs bringing up the rear. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But Lazlo had never really formed an image to go along with the idea before, or if he had, it had been vague, and the victims monstrous. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Did you know the monstrous squid is the only beast known to eat demigods whole, armor and all, without getting indigestion? It’s true!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The cavern reverberated with monstrous roars—dozens, maybe hundreds of enemies coming from every direction. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Even tourists seldom patronized the meter because the rest of the “plaza,” not to mention all the dusty side streets in town, were open to their monstrous automotive freakshows. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Harren and all his line had perished in the fires that engulfed his monstrous fortress, and every house that held Harrenhal since had come to misfortune. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It was at least twenty-five hundred times greater than St. Helens, but perhaps eight thousand times more monstrous. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z This voice had a quality to it, a monstrous quality, wild and untamed. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z The fallen torch was on the floor, guttering, making every shadow leap and twist in a monstrous mockery of the dead man’s shaking. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The gaunt outlines of huge catapults and monstrous wooden cranes stood sentry up there, like the skeletons of great birds, and among them walked men in black as small as ants. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He flashed back to an encounter in Texas two years ago—a fight with a monstrous rancher who could only be killed if each of his three bodies was cut through simultaneously. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The monstrous guns of Krupp were in place in their pavilion on the lake south of the Court of Honor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The hollow interior and tightly wound spiral stairs inside are clearly visible through a monstrous shell hole on its west side. Syria's lost heritage stands out in Aleppo's broken minarets 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z It's a story suffused with loss — whether in its monstrous forms or as the "eternal human norm" — and the question of how to live a meaningful life in the face of both. How an adopted girl's tragic death became fiction: David Guterson on "bearing witness" 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z In “Grasses of a Thousand Colors,” first staged in 2009, similar drives have larger repercussions, as monstrous appetites threaten to consume humanity — and, for a while, the story itself. From the Schlump With the Shiv, Two Plays Turned Podcasts 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z Watt, who has written about the franchise’s ties to Russian folklore, tales of knights in exile and the idea of the “monstrous hero,” agreed. John Wick Sure Has a Lot of Friends for a Lone Assassin 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z The monstrous great-aunt whose child-rearing ruined Charlie is said to be “an enormous woman — 300 pounds, even allowing for the boutonniere.” From Joshua Ferris: A Father’s Scattershot Legacy, Narrated Unreliably 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z But Ferrara, following Devereaux into the cold heart of the penal system, reveals the city behind the city, the carceral world and its monstrous indignities. Starring Depardieu as D.S.K. 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z These revenge stories move methodically from the familiar to the monstrous. ‘V/H/S/99’ Review: Death on the Way to DVD 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z “IT” A red balloon, a monstrous circus freak and a sewer drain: These are the symbols that the “It” trailer deploys to spine-chilling effect. What Do Harrison Ford and a Homicidal Clown Have in Common? 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Is she, despite her disgust with the kindly man who raised her, an accomplice in her monstrous father’s flight? Review | In ‘The Accomplice,’ a CIA analyst turns the hunt for a Nazi into a personal quest 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z I turned her beauty, her blondeness, her perfection, into something ugly and monstrous. The final blonde: My ongoing journey to decolonizing Barbie from my dress-up 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z Because the answers are obvious, the injustices seem monstrous. If Donald Trump’s America is Hell, who is Satan? 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z "King Lear" may be harder to pull off because of its monstrous scale. 'Macbeth' succeeds in avoiding its onstage curse when it's on-screen 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z During her premiership, Thatcher was generally seen as a comic fantasy figure, representing either reassuring domesticity or monstrous fanaticism. How will Meryl Streep's Margaret Thatcher compare to past portrayals of the Iron Lady? 2011-02-10T15:26:00Z Rather than contributing in any way to the deaths of "resettled" Ethiopians, as Starsuckers claims, Geldof said his campaign saved 500,000 lives and "helped halt a monstrous programme of murder". Bob Geldof condemns lame and ineffective anti-poverty campaigners 2010-04-02T18:43:00Z Think of these as more monstrous, but still beautiful, versions of François-Xavier Lalanne’s sheep—lounge and armchairs made almost unrecognizable through sleek sheepskin and carved horns. The Haas Brothers Show Daring Furniture at R & Company 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Deeper trouble lurks below the surface of the novel, where there lies, as James Baldwin put it, “a continuation, a complement of that monstrous legend it was written to destroy.” A New Adaptation of “Native Son” Reaches the Limits of What the Text Has to Offer 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z He’s unseen for the rest of the episode, but it seems that, in awakening his EVA, he unlocked a monstrous, destructive id synonymous with—or derived from—his own. How “Neon Genesis Evangelion” Reimagined Our Relationship to Machines 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Grotesque, ugly and monstrous, this man could be an early design for The Joker or a junk-addled clown. Why Picasso's Joker trumps Van Gogh and Cézanne 2012-07-31T15:29:58Z In his sermons, he railed against slavery, terming it a “monstrous injustice.” Review | Meet America’s most extraordinary family: The Lowells 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z So maybe the movie adaptation is a suitable showcase for players — or in Streep’s case, monstrous overplaying. August: Osage County: Stumbling on the Road to Oscar 2014-01-08T22:42:01Z But the monstrous difficulties that Abderrahmane Sissako and Jafar Panahi confronted to make “Timbuktu” and “Taxi” are nonetheless no proof or guarantor of their artistry—and not the reason for their greatness. The Best Movies of 2015 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Its story is well known because, administered by the Jews themselves under the control of the monstrous Jewish elder Mordecai Chaim Rumkowski, it became a major source of supply for the German war machine. The Emperor of Lies by Steve Sem-Sandberg ? review 2011-07-08T09:05:01Z With the gang assembled, the show began to reach cult status, becoming what McElhenney dreamed it could be, a monstrous inversion of Friends’ mantra: ‘I’ll be there for you.’ Rob McElhenney: 'I was fuelled by privilege, ignorance and testosterone' 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z It’s how effectively and self-consciously Mr. Askins melds comedy with a monstrous center. ‘Hand to God’ Melds Gore and Giggles, Each Often Elicited by a Puppet 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z "The Iraq war was a monstrous crime against the Iraqi people," he told reporters on Friday. Waterboarded 2010-05-21T16:56:00Z The series is about the conflict between an emerging breed of vampire that is impervious to sunlight and the more traditional, but no less monstrous, bloodsuckers of yore. Scott Snyder Writes a New Swamp Thing for DC Comics 2011-09-06T22:13:31Z Olivier used to say that he worked from the outside in, and what you get on the outside of his Richard III is the monstrous confidence of a bad man. Ian McKellen’s favourite Shakespeare roles on film 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Harry Treadaway’s Victor Frankenstein buckled under the weight of his monstrous creations, succumbing to his morphine addiction and losing his undead paramour Lily. Disillusioned with Game of Thrones and True Detective? Try Penny Dreadful 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Taccone: Nobody in our group has a monstrous ego that is ruining the group dynamic. Lonely Island goes pop: The trio weighs in on weed, Macklemore and why Andy Samberg says “we were woke baes early” 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Plagued by monstrous visions and furniture that skittered across her bedroom floor, Lucie was in dire need of an understanding bestie. Review: ‘Martyrs,’ a Slashing Remake, Centers on Two Friends 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Macondo is a place where the miraculous and the monstrous are equally part of daily life, a place where the boundaries between reality and dreams are blurred. An Appraisal: The Work of Gabriel García Márquez 2014-04-18T01:44:10Z I read them also flushed with shame, feeling implicated, monstrous, apologetic — in short, that horrid sensation: 12 again. Elena Ferrante’s New Novel Is a Suspenseful Story About the Sins of Parents 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Subsequently looking into the death of the brutish teacher reveals another blood-related concern: a harrowing plot involving, among other monstrous topics, eugenics. New in crime fiction: Cleverly, Estleman, Koryta, Penny 2012-08-08T19:47:07Z Frequent additions include large silhouettes of monstrous birds that protect, threaten or attack — either physically or spiritually. The Great Bob Thompson, in Two Parts 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Gotye had a monstrous hit with the Kimbra-assisted "Somebody that I Used to Know," and it won record of the year and best pop duo/group collaboration. Varied winners at Grammy Awards 2013-02-11T15:32:09Z Many other Americans, while not as deranged and demented as those who saw in Obama a monstrous force of evil and subversion, diminished Obama as person, dispossessed him as president, and deracinated him into symbol. Barack Obama, invisible president: To truly see him requires white Americans to see themselves 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z Was their creation of the monstrous creatures the Promethean moment of madness which unleashed the most destructive lifeform ever seen in the universe? Could Ridley Scott's Prometheus steal the prequel machine's thunder? 2011-01-27T15:38:11Z “Tom likes tunes with these monstrous grooves that kick you into playing,” Mr. Ribot, who has worked on many of Mr. Waits’s albums and toured with him, said by phone. Arts & Leisure: Tom Waits?s New Album, ?Bad as Me? 2011-10-20T11:01:09Z The monstrous must be humanized to be understood, which doesn’t mean it deserves our tears. Review: In ‘Zama,’ Trying to Say Goodbye (Cruel) New World 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the title of a thickly pasted image of a mad, monstrous face translates as I'm Invading Again. Artist of the week 197: Ellen Gronemeyer 2012-07-05T14:10:34Z The last third of the book unfolds in Munich — turned by Hitler and his architects into a monstrous shrine to Nazism. The Plot to Kill Hitler 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z The poisonous rains and packs of marauding, monstrous children make a few ominous appearances then recede into the background like stage props. Jeff Vandermeer's new dystopian novel "Borne" is lyrical and harrowing; Elizabeth Hand reviews 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z I'm not even sure I saw all of it as I careened through, going from one monstrous interior to another, one misery after the next. The Glasgow International impact zone 2010-04-19T20:30:00Z We motor quietly into Nantucket Harbor, which is one of the state’s busiest, with 2,200 moorings and 300 slips, where we ogle monstrous yachts that busied a once modest Straight Wharf. Reuniting with Nantucket, 20 years later 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z To this day, he admits that something as simple as mislaying a pen in his "monstrous London uber-pad" can trigger a whole new wave of furious self-hatred. Derren Brown: 'I'm being honest about my dishonesty' 2010-10-18T06:59:00Z Along with the scene’s monstrous substance, Losey draws out its aftermath with an agonizing attentiveness to the specificity of time. “Mr. Klein,” a Political Mystery of Mistaken Identity in Occupied Paris 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z He drew from his own experiences with an ex-girlfriend, whose previously abusive relationship inspired Elizabeth's struggle with Songbird, her monstrous winged jailor. 'BioShock' sidekick more than a damsel in distress 2013-03-19T16:01:04Z With its sallow-faced subject reclining among monstrous sunflowers and African sculptures, it’s a radically neurasthenic, underground image of an odalisque. Harvard Art Museums, Revamped and Reopened 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z This is Danaë's golden shower in perpetual motion: an allegory of power and monstrous greed. 55th Venice Biennale – review 2013-06-01T23:05:00Z Halloween has one horror that makes even rational adults recoil: the monstrous amounts of candy that their children bring home. 8 Things to Do This Halloween Weekend 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z In any good noir novel, an atmospheric locale is vital, and Steadman richly evokes Los Angeles “in all its monstrous glory.” Review | Catherine Steadman of ‘Downton Abbey’ pens another screen-worthy thriller 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z Ginny, who yearns for something better than clam houses and brutality — and who is mercilessly punished for her yearning — could easily have become a monstrous, one-note cliché. Review: ‘Wonder Wheel,’ Woody Allen’s Coney Island Memory Palace 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z "His vanity, though child-like, was monstrous," wrote his biographer, Philip Ziegler, "his ambition unbridled." Five decades of the Observer Magazine 2011-07-30T23:05:00Z I had chapters where I’d go out storm chasing with some of Tim’s best buddies and colleagues, and we saw monstrous tornadoes. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Dangerous Journey Into the Heart of Tornadoes 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z Yes, the monstrous Charles Foster Kane was surely based on Hearst. ‘Mank’ and Politics: What Really Happened in 1934 California 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z We were a monstrous regiment of women and needed to be so. Anne Valery obituary 2013-05-16T15:36:43Z A chef heaped a monstrous, translucent tote filled to the brim with butternut squash into my arms and I heaved it over to the corner of the foreign kitchen. Butternut squash: Everything you need to know about preparing fall's consummate gourd 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z Such grace notes of universal acknowledgment allow the viewer to find some way of respecting the tenacity fueling Murdoch's monstrous nature. With “The Murdochs: Empire of Influence," CNN has its "Succession" 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Here the influence of Sotatsu, who specialized in moody seascapes, seems clear, though Korin’s image of the ocean is very much his own, a monstrous, rearing, grasping force brushed in ink on a gold ground. Art Review: Rimpa Painters at Japan Society and the Met 2012-09-27T22:19:07Z They alternated the roles of Victor Frankenstein and his monstrous creature in director Danny Boyle's production. Miller, Cumberbatch vie for London theater prize 2011-11-07T17:16:08Z He shows us lots of monstrous behavior, but not a single monster — only damage. In 1980s Glasgow, a World of Pain Made Bearable by Love 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Its villain Kilgrave, played by David Tennant, has the power of mind control and is as legally blameless as he is morally monstrous. Jessica Jones: shattering exploration of rape, addiction and control 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, monstrous armoured crickets crawled up trees to eat hatchlings live in their nests. Rewind TV: Borgen; Ripper Street; Africa: Kalahari; Neil Armstrong: First Man on the Moon; Hotel – review 2013-01-06T00:08:08Z Some of the "best" worst death scenes employ an element of randomness – a prime example being Deep Blue Sea, when a monstrous shark creeps up on an unsuspecting Samuel L Jackson. What are the worst movie deaths scenes of all time? 2012-10-08T16:52:21Z Indeed, the presentation of most criminality is as something monstrous. Christopher Dorner was not a monster 2013-02-14T23:26:00Z Then he spent the rest of the summer fruitlessly trying to develop a kind of monstrous Laurel and Hardy-style double act with Boris Johnson. The Last Stand: Arnold Schwarzenegger is back – and it's business as usual 2012-12-20T10:56:00Z "Everyone who knows the facts of the case all say that it was a monstrous thing that the court martial ever took place." How Christmas Truce led to court martial 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z How can art depict and respond to the crisis, reflect the monstrous societal forces that render many black lives unlivable or simply unlived, and yet be—as art—free, personal, intimate, and beautiful? Spike Lee’s Necessary, Overwhelming “Chi-Raq” 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z That said, King's richly layered, technologically savvy story that illuminates Mr. Mercedes, his evil deeds and even more monstrous plans is uncomfortable yet riveting to read. Driven to solve murders in Stephen King's 'Mr. Mercedes' 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z None are inherently monstrous – they are all just dogs. In defense of the pitbull 2013-02-05T19:35:00Z Yes, presumably some of it was in the works before Tedros came along, but these things are monstrous undertakings and Jocelyn has been a little preoccupied. ‘The Idol’ Season Finale Recap: What Was the Point? 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z His Walter is more monstrous and less charming that Cary Grant’s was in “His Girl Friday,” but it just as irresistible. Review: ‘The Front Page’ Is Diverting, but Don’t Stop the Presses 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z “When I was 4, my father brought in this monstrous thing, a B3, and he turned it on,” he told The Boston Herald in 1994. Joey DeFrancesco, Reigning King of the Jazz Organ, Dies at 51 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z The tension in the Resident Evil franchise, about a seemingly unstoppable virus that has turned people into monstrous zombies, is amplified by its game mechanics. Scare Me Once? Great Game. Scare Me Twice? Great Remake. 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z So, you might expect a degree of monstrous entitlement, but the buzz spreading through the London film festival seems exaggerated, even by industry standards. Lupita Nyong’o: ‘Art is political in whatever way you slice it’ 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z These two humans, driven by their appetite for human flesh, have been ostracized from society for their monstrous hunger. Cannibal-themed "Bones and All" makes the ultimate case for veganism 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z Amy Pond’s journey with the Doctor is whimsical and wondrous, bordering on silly before it topples into the monstrous encounter with the Kin. Best science fiction and fantasy for February 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Perhaps there is a monstrous origin to it, after all. A Letter to My Mother That She Will Never Read 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z These right-wing Christians who support Donald Trump conceived a troubling, barbarous, monstrous child of insistent white innocence tethered to nearly unprecedented, bigoted power. Michael Eric Dyson: Donald Trump is “what black people have warned America about” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z The Cenobites are so unique as monstrous creations. Resurrecting "Hellraiser" Cenobites as part of "an interrogation of how we negotiate our desires" 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z “It is a monstrous evil this sainthood,” she writes. Review: A Widow Documents Her Loss in ‘The Iceberg’ 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z She eventually ends up at Etaples, a hospital in France close to the front lines, where the monstrous extent of the carnage she sees is almost too much to bear. 'Testament of Youth' traces WWI's grave effect on woman's life 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z He pondered for a moment, then said, “I think that’s absolutely monstrous. Next question.” What “Hamilton” in San Juan Means to Puerto Rico 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z While she quipped on social media that the monstrous photo-bomber "jacked my heart rate up to Jesus while shotting a bride and groom," McMahan told Fox News she was more concerned about getting the pictures. Bride and groom's wedding crashed by black bear during incredible photo shoot 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z I will be buying Dines' book and trying to rage against what is a monstrous machine. Letters: Pornified language 2011-01-08T00:06:53Z “Kinky & Cosy,” which introduces the world to monstrous twins, is at No. 10. ArtsBeat Blog: Graphic Books Lists Features New Titles 2011-10-07T18:57:17Z It’s no coincidence that the monstrous tropes of horror’s mainstream began to be configured during the rise of eugenics in the United States. Midsommar's ableism resurrects the dark history of eugenics-inspired horror 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z When the movie finally opens up into naval warfare, these monstrous ships are worth the wait, roaring through the water in impressive sequences that toggle between wide shots and zooms into the fracas. ‘Hansan: Rising Dragon’ Review: Naval Gazing 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z And, after Rachel is viciously attacked by a pack of genetically altered, monstrous children dispatched by a rival drug lord, Borne begins to speak, but only to her. Jeff Vandermeer's new dystopian novel "Borne" is lyrical and harrowing; Elizabeth Hand reviews 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z But watching these gatherings unfold on stage is irresistible, and the more monstrous the characters the higher the entertainment value. Lyn Gardner's theatre roundup: Monsters have a ball on stage 2012-05-28T15:02:04Z The terrible behavior of this monstrous chorus has to come from somewhere.” A British Opera, Still Gathering Fans, Arrives in Paris 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z But, he added, “I have not found any monstrous men in these islands, as many had thought.” Columbus believed he would find “blemmyes” and “sciapods” — not people — in the New W... 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z In the next breath, she assesses her own career — she has published well-received books on yoga and sex — “maybe I’m not monstrous enough.” Face to Face With Culture’s ‘Monsters’ 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z A monstrous man who presented himself with all the mundanity of a primary school deputy head, there was something eternally chilling about his presence. Thrill kill: should Netflix cancel David Fincher's Mindhunter? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z The way you apprehend your own body is already monstrous. Q&A: Julia Ducournau on bodies, cars and love in ‘Titane’ 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z She was marvellous and monstrous, sirocco and mistral, fragile and brutish, inspired and vacant. Elaine Stritch: I'll Miss Her 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z I tell them, ‘Your crime is abominable and monstrous, but I will still treat you as a human being.’ Werner Herzog Does Not Conduct Interviews. He Has Converstions 2011-11-10T17:41:32Z Even Lotso, the strawberry-scented bear in Toy Story 3, is a successor to Burl Ives in The Big Country, or one of Anthony Mann's monstrous patriarchs. Anne Billson 2011-02-03T22:29:00Z Finally, the best story of all – that last weekend Wagner threw a monstrous diva fit because he wasn't allowed to be taken onstage in a giant golden carriage. The X Factor Files: Stuart Heritage's X Factor briefing 2010-11-19T12:42:00Z A creepy clown has just chomped a monstrous chunk out of the box office – and It is not alone. Horrorwood! Will the new golden age of scary movies save cinema? 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z But when his best friend Hector is arrested, Standish decides to take action against the oppressive power of the "monstrous Motherland" - an alternate version of 1950s England - where he lives. Carnegie medal winner Sally Gardner attacks Gove 2013-06-19T11:49:00Z In the series, Miller voices the titular character, Gorburger, a monstrous puppet who stages a one-man alien invasion of the Japanese variety show Zoom Zoom Honshu. TJ Miller on his latest project: 'This is a truly apolitical talk show' 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Photograph: Epics/Getty Images Durham sanctuary knocker, 12th centuryYes, it is a door knocker, but the monstrous leonine head cast in the 1100s is one of the most striking medieval sculptures in Britain. Magritte, Monet and Tracey Emin ? the week in art 2011-08-26T08:00:01Z His Infectious Flowers started as photographs and have recently been realised as monstrous sculptures. Mat Collishaw: still sensational 2013-04-26T15:30:00Z There is no question that the acts James Eagan Holmes is accused of committing were monstrous. “He has a disease that changed his brain” — Aurora shooter’s mom pleads for mercy 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z There is also an account of French outrage over the “useless and monstrous” curiosity under construction in 1887: the Eiffel Tower. Books of The Times: The Parisian Experience of American Pioneers 2011-05-22T22:02:06Z For three days the boat was near foundering, monstrous seas breaking over the stern, the hull rolling through angles of between 30 and 40 degrees. I lost my virginity in a waterfront brothel 2013-06-03T15:32:00Z For one thing, “The World’s Angriest Boy in the World,” the monstrous children’s book character who stalks David and friends in their waking and dreaming lives, is actually frightening for the first time. ‘Legion’ Season 1, Episode 4: Mind Games 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z London lies below a vast lagoon, with only the tops of tall buildings protruding above the surface, providing homes for giant iguanas and monstrous insects. Jane Rogers's top 10 cosy catastrophes 2012-07-05T08:22:05Z Yes, there is something monstrous and intimidating and heroic in such personalities. Critic’s Notebook: Creating Barbra Streisand in ‘Buyer & Cellar’ 2013-07-29T22:28:23Z His fellow burghers, including the mayor, are not depicted as monstrous. ‘A Hidden Life’ Review: Refusing Hitler, Embracing Beauty 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Greta Gerwig’s monstrous comic creation Brooke lives the flashy life she wants others to think she leads while hiding the truth of who she really is - a failed ex-bully with no friends. The 50 best films of 2015 in the US: No 10 – Mistress America 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z “It was as difficult as they always are,” he said, “but it wasn’t monstrous.” Peter Bogdanovich Had a Vision for This Film. Now It’s Finally Being Seen. 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z In Richard, Shakespeare created a monster – but he is a monster in a world that is equally monstrous. Richard III: Shakespearean actors rake over the remains 2013-02-04T19:00:02Z The Vangers are monstrous — with a few exceptions — but far from anomalous. | 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo': ?The Girl With Dragon Tattoo? ? Movie Review 2011-12-19T18:19:04Z Beauty By Jill, the salon owned by Julia Davis' monstrous comic creation, tends to leave its customers either very unhappy, or dead in the back room. Six of the best ... TV hairdressers 2013-07-03T13:38:00Z He makes it sound like a sex scene, a monstrous test of nerve. Jake Gyllenhaal: ‘I’m fascinated by my own anger’ 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z The monstrous mothers of Hitchcock’s films are often cited as another proof of his misogyny. Vertigo is not the last word in misogyny, but a feminist deconstruction of it 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z She does this by contextualizing Shelley as a “monstrous” female artist, according to the standards of Shelley’s time and station. From ‘Frankenstein’ to Nora Roberts in 200 Years 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z And Marie Mullen, who won a Tony Award as the embittered daughter of a manipulative terror of a mother, with the aptly monstrous name Mag, now takes on that formidable role. 5 Must-See Shows if You’re in New York This Month 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z The man with broad shoulders, outstretched arms and monstrous hands. Trekking With Wolves 2010-02-20T06:14:00Z Martin’s portrayal of the guilt born of selfishness, of knowing that a past version of yourself was capable of truly monstrous behavior, is also sharp. A Story of Two Doctors, and a Secret Between Them 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Titled “Predator,” it looks like some monstrous chrysalis from the Black Lagoon — a post-apocalyptic urban tumbleweed swallowing a suburban Giacometti chariot. Claire Falkenstein's strangely contradictory sculptures 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z The key image of Are You My Mother? comes toward the end of the book, but is pulled from the beginning of Bechdel's life, all the way back in her father's monstrous mansion. Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel – review 2012-05-24T08:00:02Z However monstrous that title may be, its phrasing produces a typically mordant Albee joke. Review: Is Edward Albee ‘At Home at the Zoo’? You Bet He Is. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z “And there’s a unique tone: a mix of goofiness and melancholy,” often registered in the mix of horror, disgust and rapt fascination with which Goodweather greets the monstrous things he sees. Corey Stoll enjoys ‘The Strain’ of series stardom 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Worse, spinning turbine blades create a constant, low-frequency, loud whum-whum-whum noise and monstrous shadow flickering that extends miles, causing hypertension, headaches and even dangerous roads. 'Windfall': Shedding light on dark side of wind-energy project 2012-03-01T20:51:09Z Shiny scaled fish dive and thrash, and boats tremble on an angry swirling sea, anchored quite ominously by a pile of monstrous black skulls that pull the viewer into momentary darkness. Filling L.A.'s new Broad museum is an art in itself 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Lady Gaga's Monster Ball tour is all about being monstrous, and that angry side of being female. What happened to angry female music stars? 2010-03-25T22:30:00Z A second gallery at the Studio Museum, labeled “Land of the Outlaw,” is filled with European images of the Antilles as a nightmare of ravenous beasts, hostile natives and monstrous phantoms associated with indigenous religions. Art Review: ‘Caribbean: Crossroads of the World’ Spans 3 Museums 2012-06-14T20:33:20Z Why is a particular story that transpired during the 1967 riots being called “Detroit,” as if one specific, if admittedly monstrous, episode can fairly represent the far more complex events during which it took place? Perspective | ‘Detroit’ and the question of cultural gatekeeping 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z The Duke, on orders from the Emperor, is to take charge of the planet, which is home to monstrous sandworms, enigmatic Bedouin-like inhabitants and an addictive, highly valuable resource called spice. ‘Dune’ Review: A Hero in the Making, on Shifting Sands 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z But his performance is so dominating, so magnetic and monstrous that it doesn’t matter. Review: Christopher Plummer Dominates ‘All the Money in the World’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z No longer an eye-catching scandal about sex, drugs and murder, it was now a monstrous miscarriage of justice. Waiting to be Heard: A Memoir by Amanda Knox – review 2013-05-01T12:06:08Z Paige is monstrous, yes, but not a monster, and Ms. Nielsen makes even her more insane behavior seem bizarrely natural. Review: ‘Hir’ Sorts Through a Family in Transition 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z In “The Body Papers,” Talusan’s precise, delicately constructed memoir-in-essays, her brief turn as a “puffy pink monster,” inflamed with hives, was a sign that something monstrous was being done to her. Documenting Undocumented Lives in ‘The Body Papers’ 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z To a scattershot playlist of Schubert, the Kills, White Stripes and others, Hera is paraded as an adoring ingenue wife, in pearls and a corsage, then as a monstrous murderer of children. Mark Bruce Company 2010-06-07T21:40:00Z As the Sinaloa operation devolved into monstrous war with rivals, counting journalists among its many casualties, mere brutality became a distant memory. ‘The Border’ Is a Stunning and Timely Conclusion to Don Winslow’s Drug-War Trilogy 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z At least Mr. Singh looks as if he’s enjoying himself — he gets to grimace, gnash his teeth and rip the greasy meat off bones like a monstrous Henry VIII. Review: ‘Padmaavat’ and All That Useless Beauty 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z As sinister and crafty as this death-cult horror story is, it’s funny, too; what’s for dessert is as loony as it is monstrous. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z It also determined that the verdict was not "grossly excessive or monstrous" and that it was not based on speculation or guesswork. Court upholds Millionaire ruling 2012-12-04T15:51:02Z In times of trouble, though, he gradually came to be represented as a monstrous figure, with physical characteristics borrowed from Egyptian deity Bes. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 29 October - 2 November 2012-10-29T08:00:00Z Eric isn't honourable or monstrous, he's just surviving in a society of people trying to do the same. Guy Pearce: The Rover returns 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z In film after film he plays an outcast, exiled because of a physical deformity to live on the margins of society, whose monstrous appearance disguises a great tenderness of feeling. Lon Chaney DVDs: ‘The Blackbird,’ ‘Tell It to the Marines’ 2012-06-01T21:55:22Z Anything to do with gluten or your basic fats, your butter is monstrous. How to make a pie to die for: "Dappled" author Nicole Rucker on building brilliant desserts 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z The shelves of benign notebooks that had sat so innocently in their cupboard, had been hiding monstrous cries of agony from the mother I had thought was just cold, quiet, inaccessible and ineffectual. ‘My parents’ life was a charade. Mum hated every minute of it’ 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z It's the scale of Kevin's monstrous act, and its tangled prehistory, that are gradually revealed. Cannes: Tilda Swinton's "We Need to Talk About Kevin" is a grim shocker 2011-05-12T15:15:00Z She's a bravely monstrous creation, a long-suffering help whose resentments rise to the boil, particularly when a younger assistant is foisted on her. This week's new films 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z "My immediate thought was that a monstrous crash was imminent," the witness explained, but it never came to pass. 11 strange stories from the national UFO reporting center 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z That qualifying “still” acknowledges how mass adulation tends to inflate the egos of its beneficiaries to monstrous proportions. Music Review | Michael Bubl?: Showing Emotional Depth at Madison Square Garden 2010-03-21T21:52:00Z In October, he told The Telegraph of London, “Anna Wintour is a lot more monstrous than she is described!” Gaultier, Under New Management, and Focus of an Exhibition, Has a New Lease on Life 2012-02-29T21:29:58Z The shocked guests suddenly realize that their host is monstrous. ‘Don Giovanni’ Revival by the Paris National Opera 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z Crime films emphasise that conflicts are monstrous exceptions. Why the Iranian film industry is like Hollywood before 1969 2013-02-08T15:16:10Z “He bought an innocent-looking aquatic fern called azolla, and it spread with such monstrous vigor that he was soon dredging it out by the wheelbarrow-load, and feared it might end up damming the English Channel.” Books of The Times: ?William Golding,? the Lighter Side, by John Carey 2010-07-06T23:03:00Z We’ve elected a monstrous narcissist to lead the free world and are losing our liberties day to day. Posh taste, poor timing: Does Victoria Beckham’s Target fashion democratize luxury or glorify gratuitous wealth? 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z Harry, too, is Dickensian, but more like one of Dickens’s monstrous, red-eyed lawyers: He is cruel, peremptory and, with his dyed hair and prissy bow tie, dandyish in his self-regard. Review: ‘Hangmen,’ Offering the Last Word in Gallows Humor 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z At one point, you dance with a projected image, a monstrous version of yourself. Robert Fairchild: From God to Monster (and Choreographer) 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z By contrast, Sontag pointedly called the attack a “monstrous dose of reality,” and enjoined Americans to be wary of the violence that was probably going to be perpetrated in their name. Dread, War and Ambivalence: Literature Since the Towers Fell 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z “From Goya to Redon,” includes Francisco Goya’s unnerving depictions of monstrous animals and beasts, made famous from his prints series “The Disasters of War.” What's on This Week Around the World 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Back then he cloaked his stammering delivery in a high-pitched gravelly voice, an almost inhuman tone, but goofy as opposed to monstrous. It’s Bobcat Goldthwait’s moment: With “Misfits & Monsters,” he’s not hiding anymore 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z Gregor’s trademark, monstrous geometrical abstractions that deface nature and alienate communities, turns out to reflect not simply his aesthetic sensibility but something malevolent in his soul. And you thought your contractor was bad. Meet 'The Monster Builder' at South Coast Rep 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z The book, The Cry of the Wolf, was a revenge fantasy about a pack of wolves that has miraculously avoided extinction, only to become the target of a monstrous trophy-hunter. Melvin Burgess: a life in writing 2013-04-11T06:00:03Z Here also, he makes monstrous assemblage flowers for a ceramic pot and a watering can from wood, metal and crockery shards ingeniously stuck together with plaster and painted. Review: Picasso, Completely Himself in 3 Dimensions 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z "I don't think he was a monster; he did a monstrous thing, but it had to start somewhere," Rothhaar added. Fifty years after Dallas, 'Killing Kennedy' taps into life of Oswald 2013-11-07T13:03:08Z But while “Frankenweenie” is fun, it is not nearly strange or original enough to join the undead, monstrous ranks of the classics it adores. Movie Review: ‘Frankenweenie,’ Tim Burton’s Homage to Horror Classics 2012-10-05T00:09:14Z Having seen his monstrous physical transformation, I recognised my own symptoms. Experience: my family’s hypochondria saved my life 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z He became an enthusiastic cinemagoer, drawn especially to horror films starring Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff, whose monstrous faces he would recreate on himself as soon as he got home from the cinema. Stuart Freeborn 2013-02-08T14:14:35Z This is a jeremiad about the loss of North America’s “monstrous pine finery,” in the author’s resonant phrase, and thus its weird, old pagan soul. Review: Annie Proulx’s ‘Barkskins’ Is an Epic Tale of Logging and Doom 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z “Grappling with the issue of who I truly was, which some would perceive as monstrous, is exactly why I wrote this series,” he said. John Logan Comes to TV With Showtime’s ‘Penny Dreadful’ 2014-05-09T21:52:11Z Strains of maternal and ecological horrors underpin this story; Amanda is preoccupied by “rescue distance,” or her ability to protect her daughter, and a poisoned environment figures into a child’s monstrous transformation. Paperback Row 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Other than the Doctor himself, there's no monstrous alien threat to speak of, but Doctor Who is packed with menace from the off. Doctor Who classic episode #1: An Unearthly Child 2013-02-14T16:41:41Z Yet far from being monstrous or grotesque, it's an oddly serene and benign presence. At Davidson Galleries: Robert E. Marx's curious creatures 2012-09-27T00:00:08Z The artwork by Ariel Olivetti captures the confusion and outright shock as the soldiers' teammates are rapidly killed off in a quick, but decidedly monstrous fashion, too. DC adds 6 new titles, including modern 'GI Combat' 2012-05-02T10:01:05Z Like many villainesses, she is outwardly glamorous, rich and lives in an enormous castle, but these things are just a ruse to hide her true, monstrous face. Emerald Fennell's top 10 villainesses 2013-01-03T12:22:00Z But nothing will ever top the monstrous Levinson creation "The Idol," which even pushed far past the behind-the-scenes scandals of "Euphoria." Gen Z doesn't want explicit shows. So who are all these sexy teen dramas for then? 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z “As monstrous as it was, the Islamic State gave these girls a reason for living. I’m not sure we understand yet why secular societies often do not.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z It’s a monstrous snuff scene sent by the Baja cartel as a warning, showing what can happen to rogue dealers. Books of The Times: New-Wave Drug Dealers in Don Winslow?s ?Savages? 2010-07-07T22:18:00Z What sort of monstrous schemes will be required for them to claw their way back to where the action is? How “Billions” Became One of TV’s Sharpest Critiques of Power 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Ebert's fellow critic Alexander Walker described it as "a film whose total idiotic, monstrous badness raises it to the pitch of near-irresistible entertainment". Roger Ebert obituary 2013-04-04T21:17:32Z But then he “fuses”, horribly, with a symbiote organism imported from outer space by precisely the kind of evil business behemoth that he exposes on his programme and becomes the monstrous Venom. Tom Hardy's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z They were born part of a line of Revelators, women who communicate with the God in the Mountain, a monstrous being who lives in a cave near the family’s cabin. Read It and Scream 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z This monstrous figure alters the appearance of both for the worse. Behind the Candelabra – review 2013-06-08T23:07:01Z They wonder if the Warner Bros. remake will be a tribute or an embarrassment for Japan's monstrous legacy. Loyal to zip-up Godzilla, Japan wary of US remake 2014-05-09T13:11:56Z Her most powerful pictures turn indigeneity into a darkly magical superpower, moving past conventions of feminine beauty toward something thrillingly monstrous. Martine Gutierrez's "Indigenous Woman": A Trans Latinx Artist's High-Fashion Critique of Colonialism 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z It would be monstrous not to feel both respect for that courage and sympathy. Guardian Angel: My Story, My Britain by Melanie Phillips – review 2013-05-17T06:32:01Z As monstrous and horrific as he is and his crimes are, this is not just one isolated story; this is not just one person. "Start by Believing" author: How "money and medals" enabled serial child molester Larry Nassar 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z What to do about the art of monstrous men. Essential Arts & Culture: Special Thanksgiving edition, starring Donna Summer, William Kentridge and tattoos 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z Ms. Banks chews scenery as Rita while her monstrous minion devours the Rangers’ California hometown. Review: ‘Saban’s Power Rangers,’ With a Color-Coded Makeover 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z But inevitably, “Prototype for Re-Entry” sheds light on the history of the original wind tunnel complex as well — especially in the hands of an artist who is drawn to “where the beautiful meets the monstrous.” How Nazi scientists and their wind tunnels ended up in D.C.’s suburbs 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Enough has already gone wrong with the current mechanisms, and enough pratfalls have occurred on the monstrous set, that a shiver of real fear may accompany the illusion of Valhalla’s collapse. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z How were they able to accept Stalin – one of the most monstrous tyrants ever? Man of letters 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z Two monstrous screens behind him displayed an explosion and massive fireball consuming a house in Los Angeles, a scene from Universal Pictures' juggernaut hit "Furious 7." Comcast's Brian Roberts kicks off INTX with 'Furious 7' explosion 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z It took a monstrous villain to turn her into a heroine. Books of The Times: ‘The Shining Girls,’ a Novel by Lauren Beukes 2013-05-26T20:23:12Z If the heart's mass was deemed to be substandard, the individual's soul was condemned to destruction at the hands of the monstrous "devourer". British Museum to recreate Egyptian journey to the afterlife 2010-06-17T15:21:00Z His formidable performance, described as “so dominating, so magnetic and monstrous” by the New York Times critic Manohla Dargis, earned him an Oscar nomination. Christopher Plummer, Actor From Shakespeare to ‘The Sound of Music,’ Dies at 91 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Its basic plot is monstrous, with the nerds, the nominal good guys, committing an escalating series of sexual crimes against their female classmates in order to get back at the men of Alpha Beta. “Revenge of the Nerds” Enters the Brett Kavanaugh Culture War 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Höch’s collages often created monstrous faces and masks from snippets of magazine images. Hope and Dread Are Infused in ‘Berlin Metropolis’ 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z That is an inversion of stakes so monstrous that it makes the film actually despicable. The “Star Wars” fandom menace: The glaring emotional blind spots that power “The Force Awakens” 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z She plays the wife of a monstrous Ray Winstone, closing her mind to the damage going on around her. Tilda Swinton's performances – ranked! 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z For Dolz, the banality of murder implied in Dumas's words becomes translated as murder's monstrous immutability. The Infatuations by Javier Marías – review 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z But just as he was once protected by his sisters from the monstrous truth of their family dynamic, Mr. Colvard still stands apart, a brother forever on the outside looking in. | 'Family Affair': Reconnecting the Dots of a Scattered Family 2010-11-19T06:05:00Z The play opens with a sulfurous image of the Duke’s bed exploding with monstrous figures, seemingly unleashed from his nightmares to spread their disease throughout the city. | 'Measure for Measure': Hold Onto Your Morals: Life Is Tough 2011-07-01T02:30:38Z For him, art that takes anything but nature as its pattern is ugly, monstrous and immoral. Call of nature: when art imitates life 2011-08-24T11:21:17Z While some mutants had a monstrous appearance, many of them — including Havok — looked like supermodels. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: Humans and Mutants Working Together 2013-05-17T17:00:29Z The way he treated his mother, his betrayal of Albert Murray — monstrous. Eddie Glaude Jr., an Expert on James Baldwin, Reveals His Favorite Baldwin Book 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z What the magistrates and other observers found most confounding about the case was the diary itself, which even her own lawyer described as “monstrous.” “Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace”: Divorce, Victorian-style 2012-06-18T01:00:00Z In Jemisin’s fantasy novel, civilization faces destruction and the earth itself is a monstrous enemy. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z It's natural to seek out the salve "What We Do in the Shadows" offers after a series of punishing reminders of how monstrous and diabolical politicians can be to the people they're supposed to represent. "What We Do in the Shadows" revels in the fecklessness of vampires who fail upward 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z In Martin's teeming ocean monstrous ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs confront one another like mythic dragons. Drawing with dinosaurs: in praise of the artist's impression 2011-02-17T15:29:34Z Most of those are gone now, and most of the ships we see are monstrous barges that look like basketball sneakers. Hey, Mr. Critic: Getting Your Sea Legs to Lunch 2011-05-19T16:38:57Z That seems a stretch, though Wright’s ego was monstrous and he grew more prickly and irascible as he aged into his 90s. ‘Architecture’s Odd Couple’: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z “America is more hopeful today because of Donald Trump, in direct countering to a monstrous inhumane person.” Shake, rattle and Rolls: across America in the shadow of Elvis 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Sakti Burman mines childhood memory and medieval romance for dreamy paintings of flying elephants and Dalí, while Jogen Chowdhury conjures a disorienting nightmare in his drawing of a man and his monstrous "other". This week's new exhibitions 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z The most monstrous performance of all will be right here in Washington at the Library of Congress. Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ comes ALIVE on Halloween 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Cadmus kills a monstrous serpent and hears the prediction that one day he will be turned into a snake. Ten of the best: snakes 2011-07-08T21:55:10Z As the monstrous, tragic, annoying, delusional Rupert Pupkin, he is utterly transfixing, and his unhinged obsession with the cult of celebrity made the film hugely prescient. Robert De Niro: five best moments 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Everywhere in his work there are faces made monstrous, comical or weirdly attractive by their carving up and careful wedding with others. Brian Dillon on John Stezaker at the Whitechapel Gallery 2011-01-29T00:06:00Z Once the material hardened, she removed the armatures, leaving forms evocative of lava flows, monstrous crustaceans and petrified tsunamis cascading into the exhibition space. Art: A Life of Melting the Status Quo 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z "Well, there are people who do monstrous things, I guess," she says. The power of "Evil" compels us to celebrate the monstrous reasons it speaks to us right now 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z The Sandra Bullock-led thriller is about monstrous entities that compel any human who sees them to quickly try to kill themselves. Netflix has no plans to cut ‘Bird Box’ scene despite outcry 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z That's why they are prepared to commit the most monstrous violence, particularly against women, to force the Afghans to submit to their order. Bibi Aisha, victim of the Taliban's political strategy 2010-12-05T00:06:00Z These were understandable interventions given the desire so many people still have to portray slavery as less monstrous than it was. Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson and the Ways We Talk About Our Past 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z All that is threatened by a power cut, so Frank comes up with an ingenious solution – one which turns out to be a monstrous mistake. This week's new theatre 2013-01-05T00:06:11Z With all the very loud talking and theatrical self-pity, this could have been a superbly camp sitcom, but the characters aren't nearly outrageous or monstrous enough. TV highlights: 29/4/2013 2013-04-29T06:00:07Z He also described the late DJ Jimmy Savile as "an absolutely monstrous, depraved and repulsive piece of work". Fry: Drugs different to abuse cases 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Slavery was too monstrous for what Douglass decried as the “whines of compromise.” A Big New Biography Treats Frederick Douglass as Man, Not Myth 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z The film’s title comes from the phrase coined by writer Jack London to describe a white fighter who might step up to combat the monstrous black affront to the perceived superiority of the Caucasian race. Creed adds to short list of boxing films starring a black hero 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z That alone is call-a-therapist cognitive dissonance, but the whole package belongs in a therapist’s office, SOLO, not with him and his monstrous paranoia and control. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Demanding a paternity test without cause fails the good-husband test 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z It is monstrous, claim critics, to raise a monument to this racist. Henry Morton Stanley's statue will ensure imperial racism is not forgotten 2010-08-27T12:41:00Z “Shakespeare” didn’t “say” that; rather, it was voiced by perhaps the most monstrous of all his characters. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Without dramatic anachronism or frame-breaking, the movie—written by Lemmons and Gregory Allen Howard—addresses more than the monstrous institution of slavery, which was officially ended in 1863. The Stunning Achievement of Kasi Lemmons’s “Harriet” 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Ms. Suvari’s Catherine is so extravagantly monstrous that Mr. Huston’s David, who provides a desultory narration, comes across as an inert nonentity. | 'Hemingway?s Garden of Eden': In the South of France, a 1927 M?nage ? Trois Takes an Incendiary Turn 2010-12-09T23:38:00Z And throughout, Mr. Daniels is vibrantly ambiguous — a beleaguered and terrified mediocrity, made larger somehow by a monstrous act, whose deepest motives remain obscure, probably even to himself. Review: ‘Blackbird’: The Past Returns, Taunting 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z "Such a cruel nation is the monstrous Motherland," says Standish. Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner – review 2012-12-28T22:55:01Z What made Brad the producer so monstrous was that he was fleeing in terror from his own adulthood. The parent trap: art after children 2010-08-01T20:30:00Z Rather than making us chuckle throughout the set, Hill builds long ramps up to laughs so monstrous that they get you actually weeping. Comedy gold: Harry Hill's Hooves 2012-07-05T15:39:32Z His project seems to suggest that rehabilitation, whether of a person or of a nation, requires an empathy and inquisitiveness toward even the most monstrous chapters of the past. “Could these people be my children?” David Goldblatt’s Portraits of Ex-Convicts at the Scenes of Their Crimes 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z An arms race between two superpowers had created monstrous nuclear arsenals and, on multiple occasions, brought the planet precariously close to Armageddon. Goodbye, age of great expectations: We know how America got here, but where does it go now? 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Don inspects a uniform worn by a highly unorthodox doctor, examines an antique bell linked to a monstrous creature known as the Red Ghost and investigates a massive stone monolith. Tuesday TV picks: ABC's new docu-series 'NY Med' 2012-07-10T19:47:03Z “It turns out to be this monstrous, in the best sense, piece,” he said. On Governors Island, a Machine That Jolts History 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z As Macbeth wades deeper into blood, with murder succeeding murder, you can feel his warrior’s adrenaline taking over, making him both majestic and monstrous. | 'Macbeth': The Deed Is Done, the Doers Undone 2011-03-25T23:54:57Z Othello's doubts that she is chaste are usually made to seem absolutely monstrous in the theatre, because Desdemona's unconventionality is ignored. Lynne Truss: rereading Four Lectures on Shakespeare by Ellen Terry 2012-07-27T21:55:01Z In between, EO journeys from Poland to Italy through woods and streams, down underground passages and across city squares, encountering a range of people, some kind, others monstrous. ‘EO’ Review: Imagining the Lives of Other Creatures 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Batchelor, over-fond of his subject, plays down Tennyson's weirdness – this is a man who slept in the sheets in which his father had died, the better to evoke his spirit – and his monstrous self-regard. Tennyson: To Strive, To Seek, To Find by John Batchelor – review 2012-11-16T11:00:01Z Olmos's image of the murder site shows their photographs and some flowers next to a dry riser inlet in a sepulchral hallway – a monstrous crime discreetly mourned. London's crime scenes: murder in the city 2013-04-19T15:30:00Z The universal trademark characteristics of the genre are everywhere in evidence: the monstrous exaggerations, spaced-out fragmentations, one-liner social commentary, sci-fi flights of fantasy and spray-can gradations and drips. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-15T23:07:37Z And there is hilarity inside of terror, too—a giddiness that bubbles up in the face of the unknown, a hysterical response to some monstrous truth that requires ventilation. This Week in Fiction: Karen Russell on Balancing Humor and Horror 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z His "monstrous" father was an abusive alcoholic who would berate Mould's obese sister for her weight, and even hid a tape recorder in the living room to eavesdrop on the family when he was out. Bob Mould's See a Little Light: From Angry Young Man to Wise Elder Statesman of Rock 2011-06-29T09:30:00Z Such self-belief could make Young sound slightly monstrous, but it has always been paired with an appealing vulnerability. 'Where I'm where I've always wanted to be' 2012-06-16T23:05:17Z It is monstrous to expect preternatural calm from a teen in order that he not get shot. Facing a moment of anguish — and hope — before ‘The Talk’ 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z And so he does, capturing the monstrous, enslaving fears as well as the rare moments of freedom that keep him searching for a more lasting peace. ‘My Age of Anxiety’: living with debilitating dread 2014-01-16T21:33:36Z Tom Hiddleston, one of that film’s stars, told the crowd about shooting on a monstrous Toronto set. Tarantino Rails Against Computer-Generated Imagery 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z Even if you are insensitive to art, you cannot miss the monstrous arachnid. The Fever Bubbling in Contemporary Art Sales 2011-11-11T14:00:10Z "We think of our show as more psychological because we like to put a face to the monstrous behavior within human beings," he says. The gray mood of Portland, Ore.: Like a character on 'Grimm' 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Pearl is the active underminer of her own agency, the high priestess at her own sacrifice, an icon of maternity at once selfless and monstrous. The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z In that state, his charm is revealed to be a quickly peeling veneer; as monstrous as he is when drunk, you feel he would be even worse sober. Review: In Matthew Perry’s First Play, a Chandler Gone to Seed 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z His victory, after all, means that his monstrous nephew remains in power, his cruelty vindicated. Game of Thrones Watch: Smoke on the Water, Fire in the Sky 2012-05-28T15:20:17Z It's a monstrous and baffling replica of the dashing gentleman. Your weekend reading: hoaxes and imitations, and a 12ft tall Mr Darcy 2013-07-14T00:50:17Z The monstrous trafficking organization is known as the “Matryoshka,” a name given to the famed Russian nesting dolls. Review | A child’s murder sets off a sprawling tale of politics, war and family 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Throughout, Okonedo displays the suppleness of thought, and the wit, with which Medea surely once bewitched Jason, and the remorseless logic that has led to her monstrous deeds. On London Stages, Finding Something Fresh in Tragedy 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Smith uses raisins, which swell to monstrous dimensions during the steaming process. How to cook the perfect spotted dick 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Both stories are set in the 1940s and feature new twists: enemies become temporary allies and new monstrous variations of vampire emerge. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: 'American Vampire' Lands at the Top 2012-02-17T18:41:54Z They also packed up all of their party food — a monstrous prime rib, crispy roasted potatoes, a huge tossed salad, and plenty of Champagne — and brought it all to Cataldo's house. Those first post-birth meals are the most special — 6 parents explain why 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z Adolfo is certainly sufficiently monstrous in his cynical calculations, as we see him sizing up Pina’s business and little country house with an eye for his future comfort. DVD: Preminger?s ?Anatomy of a Murder? on DVD 2012-03-09T17:00:00Z She mentioned other influences in this “polyglot nation,” not least its landscape: “its exciting strange contrasts of barrenness and fertility — its great sweep of distances — its monstrous architecture — and the divine machinery of invention.” Review: In Megan Pugh’s ‘America Dancing,’ a Focus on Where the Moves Came From 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Perhaps Audrain’s novel is striking a nerve with a younger generation of women exhausted by the “monstrous,” pressures of contemporary motherhood — “the push” to be unflagging, hands-on nurturers. Review | Why is ‘The Push’ so popular? Perhaps because it plays into a mother’s worst fears. 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Each of these mails turns me into a more monstrous egomaniac – each to a tiny degree, maybe, but the effect, again, is cumulative. Checking my emails – 150 times a day 2012-11-30T22:48:01Z What was wrong with the patients sounds much graver than suppressed homosexual urges, which, a century after Kempf, no longer seem as monstrous as they may have in his day. The Theory That Justified Anti-Gay Crime 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z Seeing the monstrous ship for the first time in person is sort of awe-inspiring. Royal Caribbean’s ‘Smartship’ Avoids a Titanic Situation 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z “I am not sure that on some level it isn’t an absolutely monstrous thing to do,” she said. Artists Grapple With America’s Prison System 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z And at the end of Act III, when Marguerite succumbs to Faust’s entreaties and Méphistophélès laughs in triumph, another gigantic figure appears, this one a monstrous thing in a black cloak. Music Review: A Review of the Metropolitan Opera?s ?Faust? 2011-11-30T13:23:05Z There’s still an interview with a vampire, a treacherous eternal romance, an uncontrollable daughter and monstrous bloodsucking. ‘Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire’: Old Monsters, New Blood 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z No question that Brian and Mike are as noble as the local malefactors are monstrous. End of Watch: City of Angels in Blue 2012-09-21T15:31:53Z The two of them cruelly goad each other on until they become “monstrous together, merciless, twins conjoined at the teeth.” Debut Novels About Seamy Underbellies and Dark Turns 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z It’s marketed as a Cheddar-Brie hybrid, which would, I think, be a little monstrous if it were made of milk. Vegan Cheese, but Make It Delicious 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Nor did they see that Kim’s monstrous regime, which would last another 41 years until he died in 1994, was built on fiction. Tyrant and truant 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the adults around Joe offer him rival ways to respond to his mother's suffering and its perpetrator, who is as one-dimensionally monstrous as the baddie in a paperback thriller. The Round House by Louise Erdrich – review 2013-05-18T06:59:01Z Michael Foot, on the other hand, was the best-read politician of modern times but unable to overcome the monstrous political dreadnought that was Margaret Thatcher. Election 2010: What happened to the arts? 2010-05-03T12:04:00Z My parents were less, well, parenty, and I toned down my monstrous teen schtick. 'Don't play Truth or Dare with your mum': how to survive a family holiday by train 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z Or would some sort of monstrous, galvanic weather event — epic heat and drought, Katrina on steroids — be needed to shake America fully awake?” Books of The Times: ?The Weather of the Future? and ?The Climate War? 2010-08-02T18:30:00Z Yes, it draws on “The Three Billy Goats Gruff,” but adds female characters and a few sly twists: Instead of menacing, monstrous bridgekeepers, the trolls here are tenderhearted vegetarians. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z The ensuing plot device is one of the more offensive in history: Joe re-records his audition tape as Loqueesha, a monstrous pantomime of a black woman’s voice, submits anonymously, finds great success and huge fame. Is Loqueesha the worst film ever made? 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z At once thrilling and chilling, the monstrous spectacles are a wickedly funny distillation of modern media mayhem. The media age run amok in 'Federico Solmi: The Brotherhood' at Luis De Jesus Gallery 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z That scene isn’t shown, even though what transpires between Isaiah and Esther, Isaiah’s monstrous errand and Esther’s response, is utterly central to the film’s substance. The Cinematic Merits and Flaws of Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation” 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z The music is rock ’n’ roll, woven together with catchy guitar solos, confident vocals and thick, steady rhythms — like on the moody “Malibu Must” or monstrous “Ugly Evergreen.” Smokey Brights has ‘Hot Candy’ for you at Neumos 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z "I do what I'm feeling and what I'm feeling is monstrous," Walker told DuVernay. Kara Walker on the bit of sugar sphinx she saved, video she's making 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Such a character might be monstrous or ridiculous: instead Cortese and Truffaut join forces to make her simultaneously annoying and appealing. Fran?ois Truffaut ? the man who loved actors 2011-02-17T22:23:01Z Sandilands’ investigation reveals a harrowing story of, among other monstrous topics, abuse and eugenics. Adam Woog’s best mysteries of 2012 2012-12-07T00:24:05Z Rather than unleashing the monstrous sorcerer Kashchei, as Stravinsky does in “The Firebird,” Tcherepnin leaves him mostly asleep, under the Firebird’s spell. Music Review: Andrey Boreyko Conducts the New York Philharmonic 2014-01-24T22:15:22Z Her Lee is dissolute, unsociable, mildly monstrous and somehow deeply sympathetic. Review: Makeup Tips Galore, but Not How to Handle Cancer, in ‘Ultimate Beauty Bible’ 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z In "The Children", liberal parents discover something monstrous in the children they have encouraged to express their feelings and talk about anything. Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy | Book review 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z As he is dying, he levitates, at last free from the monstrous burden of flesh. "The Whale" is a horror film that taps into our fear of fatness 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z But we do have our standards — and we shrink from ensemble productions, seeing them as monstrous hybrids of book and theater. Perspective | Yes, audiobooks are books. But too many voices can muddle the experience. 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z The results are often monstrous, or at least mismatched. Art Review: ?Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration? at MoMA 2012-03-29T22:25:34Z Ms. Sampson reveals that, as a teenager, Mary sometimes suffered from a mysteriously swollen arm: “rigid, and huge with bandages,” her limb resembled “a monstrous appendage stitched from some other body onto her own.” The Mother of Frankenstein 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z One does not last weeks on this monstrous regimen without spiritual help. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Behold, the worst diet of all time 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z It is as foolish to presume that criminality is monstrous as it is to presume that the leg operates independently of the hip. Christopher Dorner was not a monster 2013-02-14T23:26:00Z The author forces his reader to confront, on every page, the monstrous nature of his protagonist. How ‘Lolita’ Escaped Obscenity Laws and Cancel Culture 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z And what’s more absurd than using this monstrous Latin word in a song? Theater: Maybe ‘Orange’ Will Work 2013-07-19T18:16:37Z And she had started to make the wild, monstrous self-portraits that are among her best-known works, and that dominate the second half of the exhibition. Art Review: ‘Maria Lassnig’ Celebrates the Artist at MoMA PS1 2014-03-27T21:52:41Z What is on the other side of the wall is a type of monstrous Other. "Game of Thrones" isn't "just fantasy": Westeros is a reflection of our terrible realities 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z One particularly weird CD front for The Cranberries' "Bury The Hatchet" featured a monstrous, disembodied eye staring at a crouching, naked figure in a desert. Pink Floyd album designer Storm Thorgerson dies 2013-04-18T21:01:30Z Even if they weren’t monstrous on this topic — “so visibly deflated . . . they immediately lost interest”?!! a mind re-blows with each reading — your job wouldn’t be to dictate their feelings, but instead your limits. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: The question is, is there room in your heart for your stepdaughter? 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z As the title implies, the human presence is something of a secondary concern next to the monstrous churn of the sea or the clanking, threatening chains of the boat’s equipment. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z The calamity also birthed the Shetani, a monstrous creature that has terrorized the city ever since. 4 New Y.A. Fantasy Novels Full of Dark, Enchanting Twists 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Spielberg is the BFG who’s menaced by bigger and more monstrous giants who aren’t interested in edifying their audiences but merely in consuming them—consuming the consumer, so to speak. Steven Spielberg’s “The BFG” Is a Forced March of Fun 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Cornish's scowling hoodies were several miles from lovable, but the film also showed them to be something more than monstrous – a detail that risks getting lost in the aftermath of this momentous week. The Interrupters and Elite Force 2 ? city violence spreads to the big screen 2011-08-12T10:18:41Z Unless you were some kind of monstrous literary omnivore, there’s no way you could possibly find something interesting in every single crate. Confessions of (Another) Book Reviewer 2012-05-09T17:37:24Z Especially frightening was a Jabba the Hut-size male, who twisted his monstrous frame with surprising agility, looked at us with bottomless black eyes and let loose a brief chortle from his fleshy snout. Journeys: 100 Miles From Los?Angeles, True Solitude on Santa Rosa Island 2012-02-03T19:45:04Z The visual effect was sensational: molten and spiky, monstrous and fragile. The Eyes Have It in Hew Locke’s Power-Challenging Show 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Whether she likes it or not, Gheorghiu has allowed herself to take on and seemingly to enjoy the stereotypical persona of the prima donna as volatile, monstrous and badly behaved. Angela Gheorghiu's serious claims might not be taken seriously 2013-07-03T17:00:00Z For some critics, Carrie may be monstrous, but that monstrosity can also be seen as a feminine agency rare in films. Carrie at 40: why the horror genre remains important for women 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Cecily Strong is wonderful as the sympathetic but psychotic loser at its center, and things get even better when Aidy Bryant shows up as her monstrous mother and pulls everything into full-blown southern Gothic territory. Saturday Night Live: the 10 best sketches from the 44th season 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z The staring lens is at once monstrous and comical — a mechanical Cyclops merged with R2-D2. 'Apparitions' at the Hammer explores low-tech art in a high-tech world 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z But of course 17-year-old Kit doesn’t listen to her mother; instead, she listens to her best friend, Diane, who whispers a monstrous secret into her ear. Review | Cliques, obsessive moms and now PhDs: Megan Abbott sets female rivalries afire 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Here's another exorcism of Del Rey's patented languid ennui, heroically burdened by the boredom that apparently is the consequence of unconditional love and monstrous wealth. This week's new tracks 2012-07-06T23:05:23Z To swim through its currents of echoes of earlier work — some “Anyone Can Whistle,” some “Passion,” some “Merrily We Roll Along” — is to understand the characters’ monstrous insatiability. ‘Here We Are’ Review: The Last Sondheim, Cool and Impossibly Chic 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z The raw construction of the film, she believes, grounds Edna’s deteriorating state – even in its eventual monstrous externalisation – in the real, lived troughs of human horrors. Relic: Australian director Natalie Erika James on dementia, horror and her Sundance hit 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z In the last scene, Siegfried finally learns fear, not from a monstrous dragon but from a woman: Brünnhilde, whom he wakes from the sleeping spell her father, Wotan, placed her under in “Die Walküre.” Music Review: Metropolitan Opera?s ?Siegfried? Is Led by Impressive Singing 2011-10-28T12:28:31Z The monstrous superhero also returns to Earth, in a sequel called World War Hulk, with a gaggle of weirdo alien companions in tow, bent on vengeance against Tony Stark and his pals. Can the Hulk save Thor from becoming Marvel's puniest hero? 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z So juggles two weighty themes: whether nurture can overcome nature in the incubation of a potentially monstrous personality; and, in the matter of the two Joes, whether homicide can be suicide. Looper: (500) Days of The Terminator 2012-09-27T12:00:49Z Certainly, colorful moments involving the monstrous, one-eyed Cyclops and creatures pulling Odysseus' men into the sea are exciting for any age. Review: 'The Odyssey' at Taproot is a Greek-bearing gift 2011-02-10T20:12:03Z Abrams’s latest idea, currently titled “Demimonde,” that is reportedly about “a world’s battle against a monstrous, oppressive force.” Perspective | TV needs a really great space saga. ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ comes close, but the longing remains. 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Never Close Our Eyes' task will be to try and maintain that success, which shouldn't be a problem given its fizzing synths, pounding beats and monstrous chorus all seem precision-tooled for playlist ubiquity. New music: Adam Lambert – Never Close Our Eyes 2012-05-30T06:00:00Z His wordplay was spectacular, but the joke – innocent youth sings monstrous songs – was a crude one. Bo Burnham: 'I'm honest ? for two minutes' 2010-08-24T21:00:00Z Through a string of out-there movies featuring killer tires, monstrous insects and cursed outerwear, he has remained committed to exposing the sadness behind much of human silliness. ‘Incredible but True’ Review: Track to the Future 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z In a repudiation of Fitzgerald’s romantic gloss, she sees “there was a monstrous want there, remorseless and relentless, and it made my stomach turn that it thought itself love.” Review | Nghi Vo’s demonic adaptation of ‘The Great Gatsby’ might be — gasp — jazzier than the original 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z The Guardian likened it to a home for very large Teletubbies; Prince Charles, a longtime critic of modernism, described it as a “monstrous blancmange.” Richard Rogers, Architect Behind Landmark Pompidou Center, Dies at 88 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z “Enemies of the People” is another disquieting testament to the fact that ordinary individuals under extreme pressure will carry out the most monstrous crimes. | 'Enemies of the People': Cambodian Journalist Revisits Khmer Rouge 2010-07-29T22:13:00Z And then they drown and become actual birds, monstrous ones, whose seductive song, like that of the sirens in Greek myth, draws people to their doom. A Song and Dance Collaboration, Straight Outta Swamplandia 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Max is so quiet and resolute that it takes a while for the monstrous dimensions of his plan to sink in. Movie Review: Claude Sautet’s ‘Max et les Ferrailleurs’ 2012-08-10T04:20:08Z As the device detonated, we were treated to the gruesome pay-off: the city uprooted in a single monstrous shockwave, its inhabitants sprayed into the air en masse. Pacific Rim: mass destruction and modern cinema 2013-07-13T05:00:00Z All of which sounds very laudable, but of course, the flip side is the comedy of Oliver’s monstrous rudeness. John Oliver: ‘I’m used to audiences not liking me’ 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z Hess’s caricature of Boaz as a monster is itself monstrous, but it’s consistent. Jared Hess’s Bitter Religious Satire, “Don Verdean” 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z All kinds of monstrous mothers rage and rail in the movies, including those who love too little or too much. Movie Review: ‘Child’s Pose,’ a Family Drama Set in Romania 2014-02-18T22:25:20Z We were thirsty for any reminder that we hadn’t gone crazy, the world had, that the policies of our leaders were in fact as monstrous and deranged as they seemed to be. This guy changed the world: We won’t see the likes of Jon Stewart again 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Nor should we ever cease our attempt to fathom two unfathomable questions regarding the 20th century: Just how did Hitler nearly fulfill his murderous vision, and why did so few resist his monstrous plans? Remembering a Woman Who Was a Leader of the French Resistance 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z A monstrous dead beetle floats down a trickle of dirty water that resembles the Amazon. ‘Feasting on fantasy’: my month of extreme immersion in Disney+ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Which leads to a further problem: when your main characters are as unsavoury as the Sons, it can be difficult to come up with sufficiently monstrous antagonists. Sons Of Anarchy: 'don't touch the Harleys' 2013-02-02T08:00:00Z It’s the stroke of a director confident in her comic convictions, which are well suited to this twisted tale of a monstrous, misunderstood vigilante. Review | Rorschach Theatre’s ‘Toxic Avenger’ musical oozes B-movie camp 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z It does make for a particularly fascinating moment to re-evaluate Jackson’s image as a fundamentally “black” but simultaneously racially transcendent figure, or a monstrous desecration, depending on your perspective. Can 48 Artists in 14 Rooms Capture Michael Jackson? 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z It’s a monstrous mound of spiced ground pork sheathed in a silk kimono. Kizuna review: There’s nothing subtle about this Tysons newcomer 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z It’s a sobering demonstration of the fact that sexism and racism are two sides of the same coin that usually bails out monstrous men. Review | Elizabeth Wetmore’s ‘Valentine’ is a thrilling debut that deserves your attention 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Is there something to Mario Vargas Llosa’s controversial claim that Marco is “a monstrous genius”? He Was a Prominent Holocaust Survivor. But His Story Was a Hoax. 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z When you break it down further into environmental cost per calorie, the environmental impact of beef, for example, is monstrous. A New Year resolution that's good for you and the planet: stop eating meat 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z A body, a monstrous living body, both male and female. Quiz: Volcanoes in literature 2010-04-16T13:22:00Z Getting free rein to walk through the vacant National Electronics Museum means a stroll through an eerie gantlet lined with monstrous generators and high-voltage signs. Net neutrality, sex, falconry: In one week, I crashed as many D.C. conferences as possible. 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z "We are Americans," the monstrous version of Adelaide responds when asked. The Reagan era and "Us": Sins of the '80s still haunt America in Jordan Peele's horror tale 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z As a form, horror is preoccupied with the unknown and ostensibly monstrous, a fixation that manifests in visions of otherness. ‘Candyman’ Review: Who Can Take a Sunrise, Sprinkle It With Blood? 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Casting a shadow over all of them is Michèle’s father, a truly monstrous patriarch guilty of a crime that is at once the movie’s Rosebud and its MacGuffin. Review: In ‘Elle,’ Isabelle Huppert Subverts the Role of Rape Victim 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z But Bailey is such a sweet presence that we never quite bring ourselves to enjoy his monstrous persona's comeuppance in the shopping-centre car park. The Saturday interview: Bill Bailey ? 'It's genius, evil genius' 2010-12-18T00:16:00Z At the same time, the show gives a compelling, visionary shape to the monstrous aspect of American discourse in 2017 — a literal manifestation of the bubbling, roiling evils of racism, homophobia, xenophobia and hate. Review | ‘American Horror Story’ tries to make the Trump era scarier than it actually is 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z It's a straightforward enough experience when our curiosity about real people who did monstrous things applies to individuals who conformed to the image of monsters. Making Ted Bundy a "rock star": Are we creeps for loving true crime? 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z Not the airbrushed insinuation retailed by Fox News, but the monstrous grievance roiling within its viewers. I love my Fox News enemies: What I learned from the most hateful emailers in the world 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z But as Romero showed over and over again with his zombie pictures, it isn’t always the infected alone who turn monstrous. ‘The Last of Us’ Series Premiere Recap: Fungus Among Us 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z As a high school student at Nevermore Academy, Wednesday investigates a local monstrous killing spree while making new friends — and foes. What's new on Netflix in November, from "The Crown" and "Blockbuster" to "Wednesday" 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Disbelieving, Satan looks upon his body to find that it, too, is being transformed by God: his face contorts, he falls onto his belly, he is doomed forever as a “monstrous Serpent.” “Breaking Bad’s” hell on earth 2012-07-15T14:30:00Z And even when he fell right back into monstrous ways, there I was in denial, because how could he be bad? Marlon James: By the Book 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z “While ‘Frankenweenie’ is fun, it is not nearly strange or original enough to join the undead, monstrous ranks of the classics it adores,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times in October. New DVDs: ‘Buster Keaton Collection,’ ‘The Jazz Singer’ 2013-01-06T04:13:01Z In the heyday of the revolution in the 1980s, Arcadio had also served in the Cuban army in Angola and he reminisced about the monstrous bugs he found in Africa. A Cuban Island That Has Played Both Paradise and Prison 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Over the past seven seasons, Pete’s behavior has ranged from petulant to monstrous. 'Mad Men' Recap: The Long and Winding Con 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z He finds his monstrous slat-child on its back in the garden, bawling into the ether. The new Cuprinol advert, because babies sell wood preservative 2013-04-13T05:00:00Z She eloquently asks both men and women what never fails to bring us to a monstrous orgasmic state. Net neutrality, sex, falconry: In one week, I crashed as many D.C. conferences as possible. 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Still wracked by the failure of her relationship with Fielder-Civil, her behaviour was erratic: her weight dropped further and the monstrous beehive got even taller. Amy Winehouse obituary 2011-07-23T19:08:11Z As such, this entertaining but scarcely monstrous effort could stand a rewrite, if not full-length expansion. 'Something Truly Monstrous' draws drolly on golden age of Hollywood lore 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Two nights before, the ship had sailed into a monstrous Atlantic storm, one that produced winds and seas on par with a Category 5 hurricane, making for a harrowing experience for passengers. With Storm Over, Some Humor on Anthem of the Seas 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z The series is equally unflinching when it comes to portraying the monstrous way women were treated at the time. ‘Alias Grace’ is the second Margaret Atwood TV series, with more on the way. Why now? 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Titled “A person loved me” and molded from gray clay, it towers floor to ceiling, like some monstrous fungus bristling with clublike growths. Art Review: ?The Ungovernables: 2012 New Museum Triennial? 2012-02-16T23:45:32Z The monstrous draws us in and gives us permission to delve into cultural truths and taboos that set off our fears and fantasies. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 7: This Place is Dangerous 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z However, later on, this monstrous ban on her composing created insurmountable problems. The Alma problem 2010-12-02T22:31:00Z As in most monster movies, the subject finally is human guilt — but here rendered richly ambivalent, because the monsters are scarcely monstrous and the guild is a function of unassailable strategic intelligence. The Times Critics' Guide to 'Planet of the Apes' 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z "It was a time when the god-like nature of rock stars were really indulged, so we are talking monstrous flights of the imagination here." Nick Cave becomes reluctant film star 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z The exact same guy serves as Atkins’ avatar in “Safe Conduct,” shown at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise shortly after Brexit, which transports him to a monstrous parody of British Airways safety video. Ed Atkins and His Mum Are Starring in a Museum Show 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Yet neither he nor the children — three sons — get nearly as much attention as the monstrous Papa. Review | What inspired sculptor Louise Bourgeois? One novelist takes a guess. 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z The divas and cavaliers of this all-male troupe are — as they present themselves to us in performance — fabulously stupid, artificial, hammy, clichéd, superficial, dated, monstrous. Review: The Trocks Delight With Fabulous Charm 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z If blackness is perceived as something monstrous by America’s police, then whiteness is perceived as a type of innocence, an identity that is inherently benign and harmless. A 10-year-old boy? An 84-year-old grandmother? Police brutality will not end in America until cops stop perceiving blacks as monsters 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Cuse said the show's freaky creations will be evolving and new flashbacks will shed light on the series' monstrous mythology. 'Strain' cast teases third season, new credits at Comic-Con 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Orson Welles' personal draft script for "Citizen Kane" is up for sale -- from the collection of an American almost as wealthy as the movie's monstrous newspaper mogul, though considerably more private. 'Citizen Kane' script up for sale at Sotheby's 2014-02-27T14:12:19Z Mr. Walsh, a Tony winner for the book of the musical “Once,” belongs to that essential school of Irish storytellers whose characters find the epic in the everyday, and the monstrous in the mundane. Review: Dancing to Destruction in Enda Walsh’s Fierce ‘Disco Pigs’ 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Your history promotes your mom’s behavior from obnoxious to monstrous. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Bride’s mom has a ‘toxic’ attitude about her daughter’s weight 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z He’s monstrous, but, his creators hope, also moving. Broadway’s Biggest Debut: King Kong 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Chief among the culprits in this regard is “Grimm,” a series about an Oregon homicide detective who suddenly starts to see monstrous imagery on the faces of ordinary people. Viewing Like It?s 1979: Science Fiction and Fantasy 2011-09-17T23:45:19Z “Jurassic World” added $7 million to its monstrous run in China, bringing the Universal Pictures film’s haul to $229 million since it debuted on the mainland on June 10. Youth films, chick flicks dominate Chinese box office 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Lately the American reality demonstrates that as a nation the majority of us are only beginning to understand the monstrous darkness lurking underneath the thin skin of purported civility and claims of greatness. How "Supernatural" reflects the American spirit and the monstrous darkness lurking underneath 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z I actually opened the pitch document for “Killing Eve” with Steinbeck’s description of his monstrous beauty. Phoebe Waller-Bridge Loves Antiheroines. Of Course. 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z The object of his affection is a monstrous swamp plant, fast-growing and 15 feet tall, living on interlocking mats of peat with long roots in water underneath. John Gaudet’s hymn to ‘Papyrus,’ the ancient plant facing an uncertain future in Africa Anybody that's for the status quo with Social Security today is involved with a monstrous lie to our kids, and it's not right. Perry, Romney clash over job creation records 2011-09-08T02:47:00Z Both were fervent Catholics, and both were monstrous parents. Niki de Saint Phalle: Nothing More Shocking Than Joy 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z It has become ubiquitous not just at clubs and festivals but on television commercials, in sports arenas and anywhere else requiring euphoric builds and monstrous crescendos. Why US pop has gone mad for Molly, aka ecstasy 2013-07-14T18:00:00Z To step into the big, theatrically lighted gallery that houses “Paul McCarthy. WS Spinoffs, Wood Statues, Brown Rothkos” is to be dwarfed by nine monstrous sculptures and 10 roughly textured tapestries. Paul McCarthy at Hauser & Wirth: A horror show on a grand, exquisite scale 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z “This relationship to desire, desire of the other, to the body that becomes monstrous, suffering, this desire to love became very disturbed,” he said. Special Report: Contemporary Art: A French Artist's Solitary Path 2011-10-13T11:00:14Z But with its thriving cartels and gangsters, the city is growing monstrous, smelly and chaotic. Between a rock and a high place 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z “Besides me already being preoccupied with it, it was a good way to tell the story. It was so scary. It was so monstrous.” How Dasha Nekrasova Is Calling the Shots 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z Daffodils and monstrous orchids grow side by side, suggesting that one species — but which? — is invasive. Review: Larissa Bates Explores Her Costa Rican Heritage 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Only occasionally would McCullough get involved in pressing contemporary political affairs — as when he called Trump “a monstrous clown with a monstrous ego.” Perspective | David McCullough helped America understand itself 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z We must vote with our feet, even if we are lying down. Anything else is monstrous. Porn is like meat. Ask how it is made before consuming it 2013-03-18T09:30:01Z In it, he portrays the singer as a monstrous disciplinarian for whom beatings and belittlement were the answers to every filial problem. How Bing Crosby Changed the Course of Pop Music 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z That could change next weekend as “Avengers: Infinity War” eyes a monstrous opening weekend. Box Office: 'A Quiet Place' Back on Top, 'Super Troopers 2' Smokes... 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z I knew without question the letter touched on something vast, even monstrous, but what it was exactly remained dim and confused. Looking for Uncle Allan: A queer odyssey 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z Regardless of the video’s precise impetus, the broader thesis is clear: the moment we stop asking questions of authority, we become cogs in a monstrous and dehumanizing machine. Radiohead Thinks the Internet Is Turning Us All Into Creeps 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z In this adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science-fiction opus, the young scion of a noble family departs for a desert planet home to monstrous sandworms, enigmatic Bedouin-like inhabitants and an addictive, highly valuable resource called spice. At the Oscar Nominees Luncheon: Glamour, Griping and Gluten-Free Meals 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Life in a Marital Institution Three stars James Braly's one-man show is an acerbic account of a monstrous marriage, says Maddy Costa. Boing! 2010-12-19T22:00:01Z Appraising the script for the director’s current project, an intellectual declares, “What monstrous presumption to think that others could benefit from the squalid catalogue of your mistakes.” Fellini’s “City of Women” 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z It sounds like some monstrous act of literary desecration like “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” doing the Charleston. Review | Nghi Vo’s demonic adaptation of ‘The Great Gatsby’ might be — gasp — jazzier than the original 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Given the monstrous effect finance has on our lives, the UK economy and our pockets – and how much financial services have changed in the past 10 years – I wanted Industry to do more. 'If cocaine's everywhere, I missed the memo': Industry as seen by a banker 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Gigantic bronze cannons are decorated with monstrous faces and royal insignia, while small handguns fitted with shields and made in Italy show a fiendish ingenuity reminiscent of the inventions of Leonardo da Vinci. Mary Rose's Tudor treasures deserve this revelatory new museum 2013-04-09T14:59:45Z That seems especially true in Headley’s imaginative realm, where identifying monsters and monstrous acts has less to do with fact than perception. ‘Beowulf’ Gets a 21st-Century Update 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z But he repeated a past assertion that the program is a "monstrous lie," because, he said, the fund will not remain solvent for future generations. Perry, Romney clash over job creation records 2011-09-08T02:47:00Z At roughly the same moment that his wife leaves, a monstrous, hairy spider appears on the spaceship. Meet an Intergalactic Spider in ‘Spaceman of Bohemia’ 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Barely two feet tall, it is the humble ancestor to every monstrous welded metal assemblage bestriding today’s urban landscapes. Master of surprises 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z A classmate described him seated at the piano when class was over “producing monstrous successions of weird, barbarous chords — that is to say, chords that were not classified in the official treatises of the Conservatoire.” John Adams on Debussy, the First Modernist 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z What really gets to David, after all, is not so much monstrous ghouls created by a virus, but being alone. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z Park officials claim that the monstrous ride’s unique elements will crown it as the “tallest, fastest and longest single rail coaster” on the planet. Six Flags' Jersey Devil ride will be 'world's tallest, fastest, longest' single rail coaster 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z To mitigate this, the Alta ski patrol fires howitzers into Superior’s flanks to intentionally trigger small slides before monstrous ones release on their own. Five lodges make Utah’s Alta Resort a winning ski destination 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z When the young men reach a distant alternate world, they inadvertently tap into an alternate form of energy, a sort of explosively biomorphic geology that opens a pit of monstrous green lava and engulfs Victor. "Fantastic Four" Should Have Been Great 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Men have been swept away by the flood of allegations, which range from the creepy to the monstrous. Who’s next? A moment of reckoning for men — and the behavior we can no longer ignore. 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z About the monstrous things men do, about the darkest deaths, the deepest depravity, a constant recounting of criminals. What '80s kids also remember: On stranger danger, Satanic panic and generations of trickle-down fear 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z Amusingly Mr. Bourne conveys a whiff of “Rosemary’s Baby” about the baby Aurora, who initially appears as an adorably monstrous puppet. Dance Review: Matthew Bourne’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’ at Sadler’s Wells 2013-01-02T22:34:59Z In reserving cowardice for terrorists and predatory criminals, we make it seem a rare and monstrous thing. Boston Marathon bombing, one year later: Were the Tsarnaevs really cowards? 2014-04-14T23:00:00Z His end would have been a knife to the heart, especially now that we know he dreams of making monstrous babies with Brienne of Tarth. “Game of Thrones” recap: “Beyond the Wall,” an adventure into thin air 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z These feature strange views of the city: a man with a monstrous mask, a dummy sitting in a car, weird apparitions. Hugo Crosthwaite on Tijuana, Mexico's missing, the power of comic books 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z The inmates also recoiled when the king spit into a courtier's face and giggled at the Elizabethan insults such as "monstrous witch" and "hedgehog." 'Richard III' goes to prisons, senior centers 2012-08-02T12:48:10Z Wong is a man who likes to test himself in death matches with monstrous fighters like Blonsky's alter ego, The Abomination. We all love Wongers, who brings the real magic to the MCU 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z Last year, through a first-offender program, the conviction was removed from public record, though that still had “monstrous immigration consequences,” Kuck said. 21 Savage’s Still-Bumpy Path to Freedom 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Nina Osegueda’s Mrs. Lovett woos Todd with a “By the Sea” that features sinister, jabbing bass lines and monstrous guitar chords. Sondheim goes ‘crunch’ in prog-metal ‘Sweeney Todd’ 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Among them, till recently, was "The House of Silk," characterized by Watson as "simply too monstrous, too shocking to appear in print." 'The House of Silk': a long-buried Sherlock Holmes mystery 2011-12-15T20:52:00Z In several of her photographs, the owners are dwarfed by their more or less monstrous charges. The Mysterious Relationship Between Pets and Their Owners 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z His murderer is not just a cartoon sweaty creep but someone who could, however briefly and unconvincingly, convey something sufficiently amiable or avuncular to get away with his monstrous murders. Beyond the negroni: Stanley Tucci's 20 best films – ranked! 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Nolan added, "Sure enough, you see there in the film, this kind of Brando-esque brow, expressing all kinds of just monstrous things. It's really quite a performance." Christopher Nolan: Tom Hardy’s Bane performance "has yet to be fully appreciated" 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z This year's winner was Levi Pinfold with Black Dog, his picture book about a little girl called Small Hope facing fear head-on in the form of a monstrous giant black dog. Sally Gardner's Maggot Moon wins the Carnegie medal 2013-06-19T12:45:17Z If the movie surmounts its genericism, it’s largely because of the actors and a love in which the monstrous has been made literal, and violent delights don’t necessarily lead to violent ends. Movie Review: ‘Warm Bodies,’ Written and Directed by Jonathan Levine 2013-01-31T22:50:15Z Darker, slicker, and more monstrous than the group’s fizzy first steps, Mezzanine relied on heavy sampling to braid together disparate threads in music’s history. Reissue of Massive Attack’s Mezzanine Highlights Band’s Influence 2013-11-15T16:52:52Z As usual the best moments were between Ms. Deschanel and Jake Johnson as her crush, Nick, the whiny bartender who gets away with monstrous behavior toward women because he's such a nice guy. ArtsBeat: 'New Girl' Watch: A Season Premiere and a Balancing Act 2012-09-26T00:35:52Z It turns out that Hunter Thompson was just about what you might expect as a father, “always brilliant, often monstrous, sometimes tender and funny,” and essentially ruthless in his self-absorption and drive. ‘Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up With Hunter S. Thompson’ review 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Other times he is like Mara, the god of death in Buddhism, who assumes monstrous forms and commands an army of frightening and misshapen creatures. "WandaVision" echoes myths of Isis, Orpheus and Kisa Gotami to explain how grief and love persevere 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z But I wouldn’t call it a vacation because they’re monstrous pieces. Geoffrey Rush Loves to Play Rogues and Fools. A Genius, Too. 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Artists used their knowledge of anatomy to extrapolate from the fragmentary bones at their disposal, but they also drew, intentionally or unintentionally, on monstrous images from the Bible and classical mythology. Creating a Lost World, From the Fossils Out 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The women’s bodies appear as soft, undulating curves, as if they are fabric backdrops hung to present their beautiful and monstrous creations. The Wild Woman Awakens 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z We know that the more BoJack succeeds in Hollywood, the more monstrous he becomes. The Only Hollywood Abuser I Want to Hear From Is a Horse 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Luckily, I Need Air is so monstrous it has to be brought in by sea. This week's new singles 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z At the center of both trials was Scientology, which several of Masterson's victims alleged had "enabled and sought to cover up Masterson's monstrous behavior." After Danny Masterson rape conviction, Scientologists claims trial inflamed "bigotry" against church 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z On the other, the adherents of the new “Protestant” Church, which claimed direct descent from the ancient apostolic church and rejected the Roman faith as a monstrous aberration. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z “That’s when you will realize that no matter how alluring that thing may be, you just got sucked into something really monstrous.” Nitrous Nation 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z It’s with patriarchal thought and behavior, those monstrous forms of privilege by which men control women. How Do I Deal with My Anger Toward Men? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Queer and transgender people of color perpetually ask whether our deviance from expected ways of loving, living and being in our bodies renders us disgusting, frightening — even monstrous. Akwaeke Emezi: ‘Imagine Being Ogbanje, Like Me’ 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z "That's one of the aspects of the film: the crimes are monstrous, but the perpetrators are not monstrous, they're just human, and I allow them to be very human," he said. Documentaries steal spotlight at Toronto Film fest 2011-09-09T20:37:26Z The story opens with a train robbery in Boston, and moves to the innocuous setting of Wimbledon – but, Holmes says, the tale was too monstrous, too appalling to reveal until now. New Sherlock Holmes novel by Anthony Horowitz out in November 2011-04-11T23:03:57Z None of them is willing to talk honestly about the implications of that monstrous project in public. David Cameron on Letterman: politics is not light entertainment 2012-09-28T19:31:01Z Suicide’s original was a sweet idea rendered with monstrous intensity; here, Ms. Cherry embodies the sweet idea, repeating the words in the title and variations on it, and the band brings the intensity. New Music: New Albums from Patti Smith, Ravi Coltrane and Neneh Cherry 2012-06-18T21:55:59Z There appears to be little payoff for having invested so much time with Henry, a monstrous, unlikable character, listening to his unfunny stage show, or watching him act like a Stage Dad for Annette. Adam Driver is impressive, but can't save Amazon's audacious & sexy rock opera "Annette" 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z The creatures in the redo — specifically hissy Medusa and the monstrous Kraken — might have been partly conjured up in a computer, but they were dreamed up for the screen by Mr. Harryhausen. Movie Review | 'Clash of the Titans': Sam Worthington and Liam Neeson in a Greek Myth 2010-04-01T21:59:00Z You can understand the mutual fascination of these two, each of whom is more than a little monstrous. | 'Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky': Jan Kounen?s Tale of Artists in Love 2010-06-10T23:28:00Z Instead, anonymous wet lips yawn wide as they slurp, the monstrous orifice and looming nose sometimes flattening into deformity against the glass. Marilyn Minter's 'Pretty/Dirty' show allures and repulses all at the same time 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z No matter how many times I tell this story, about monstrous people whose fingerprints are on a painting that my family walked past every day, chills run along my scalp. Does My Family Own a Painting Looted by Nazis? 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z I have been obsessed with monstrous women like Jennifer ever since. What Megan Fox Taught Me About the Power of Subversive Girls 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z The characters are indistinct, the story line vague, the rhythms erratic, the creatures more crabby than monstrous. DVDs: The Apocalypse Served Straight Up 2011-01-30T02:13:01Z The firm building the tunnel calls itself Spread Network, and the job is monstrous. Books of The Times: ‘Flash Boys’ by Michael Lewis, a Tale of High-Speed Trading 2014-03-31T15:42:21Z The most monstrous mother is yet to come. Mother superior: it’s been a great year for on-screen mums 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Levy, O’Hara and Elliott are all perfectly capable of taking a premise as admittedly hacky as this and elevating it to sustain a couple of seasons of monstrous caricature work. Schitt's Creek: the funniest sitcom you're (probably) not watching 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z By degrees the monstrous fantasy that underlies the core story was exorcised and it became a mere cautionary tale. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z This paper trail – of London sights and its citizen's secret affairs – adds up to a monstrous portrait of the city, in all its bombast and sleaze. Gilbert and George: Postcards from the sluice gates 2011-01-12T21:45:01Z It’s monstrous to be forced to suffer through it and have that help refused. Catholic hospitals’ grim hypocrisy: Letting women suffer in the name of “life” 2013-12-03T20:28:00Z That is only one in a series of monstrous acts visited on Patrick. Edward St. Aubyn, Author of ?At Last,? at Peace 2012-03-14T22:08:58Z “And lo and behold, ‘Sound of Music’ was that monstrous rating of 18 million people who watched it live,” Greenblatt said. ‘Annie Live!’: Coming Soon to Your Living Room 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z As the trawler's net brings up strange, monstrous beasts – sea bats, snotfish, translucent giant octopuses, hideous hagfish – traumas emerge from the depths of the fishermens' subconscious. Redmond O'Hanlon: A life in books 2011-03-28T06:59:01Z Yet, after receiving a monstrous beat-down from Piper, she received a pearly new set of gnashers and a new, softer demeanour in the show’s second season. Orange Is the New Black: season three refresher course 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z What self-respecting – I repeat, self-respecting — woman of our time, examining the “Good Book” and finding in it so many atrocities, would look to its monstrous “Holy Father” protagonist for sex advice? Oh God! The lord’s my sex guru: Pious perverts, quasi-incestuous misogyny and the twisted world of religious sexual repression 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z In the end, perhaps these indigenous Americans saw the invaders of their homelands as a ‘monstrous race’ of its own – creatures who destabilized their communities, took their possessions and threatened their lives. Columbus believed he would find “blemmyes” and “sciapods” — not people — in the New W... 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z These guys have been around long enough to recognize the monstrous cynicism of the whole enterprise. Fear and loafing on the campaign trail: Showtime’s “The Circus” cops out with cynical pundit porn 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z Is this, as she believes, monstrous in some form? Ayşegül Savaş on Imitation and Identity 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z For some critics, though, “Jaws” itself has always been monstrous, the first of two widely popular films that together ended the creatively fecund days of 1970s American cinema. ‘Jaws’ Is Still Devouring Us. SOS! 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z "You cannot rehearse something of this scale and you certainly cannot have a running order or predict monstrous weather," the insider said. Queen's diamond jubilee: BBC bosses dodge criticism of TV coverage 2012-06-06T12:04:04Z And while to say much more would be a spoiler, there is also a third, more monstrous character that Swinton plays in the final act, and Guadagnino intentionally conceived these three figures for her. How ‘Suspiria’ Transformed Tilda Swinton Into an 82-Year-Old Man 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z The argument is hard to deny at Greenwich Village Country Club, a monstrous shrine to frat culture and preppy nostalgia that opened last November above Bowlmor Lanes. Bo?te: Greenwich Village Country Club in Greenwich Village - Review 2012-01-25T21:53:58Z Recast in that way, Frankenstein’s creation was not monstrous; he was just too early. Review | In ‘Frankissstein,’ Jeanette Winterson brings something zany and intellectual ALIVE! 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z But monstrous is in the eye of the image maker. Art Review: ‘Caribbean: Crossroads of the World’ Spans 3 Museums 2012-06-14T20:33:20Z The original Evryali was one of the three Gorgons of Greek myth, monstrous sisters who turned people to stone with a glance, and the word also means open sea in Greek. Last Chance: ?Evryali Score Mysteries,? Ghosts at David Zwirner 2010-07-28T20:00:00Z Jackson, the author of six physical books and three works of hypertext, as well as the progenitor of many hard-to-categorize literary experiments, is a self-declared lover of—and advocate for—the monstrous. Shelley Jackson, Author and Advocate of the Monstrous 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z But the acting glory is stolen by the incredible Michael Shannon as their crazed svengali producer Kim Fowley – a wild, hilarious and monstrous character, his every line quotable. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2011-02-05T00:05:34Z His Devereaux at once venal and bemused, monstrous and vulnerable, not least during the extended strip search inside the US prison. Cannes 2014 review: Welcome to New York - Depardieu's grunting triumph exposes more than just himself 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z When I heard that Ms. Lavin would be playing another monstrous mother in a Silver play, I winced. Nicky Silver’s ‘Too Much Sun’ Stars Linda Lavin 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z With the sculpture back inside the church, a new character emerges in the crowd outside: the “Vaca-Tora,” a monstrous figure with enormous horns and an oversized loud cowbell that ushers away both beasts and revelers. AP PHOTOS: Beast-like ‘Carantoñas’ return to Spanish town 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Check the closet and the kitchen cabinets before watching these horror films — some recent, others time-honored — that explore what happens when the material becomes monstrous. A Horror Genre Where Dresses (and Fridges) Can Kill 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z The Bay of Fundy generates monstrous currents that reverse the outward flow of the river during high tide. A different kind of coasting: Maine to Canada via the Bay of Fundy and St. John River 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z They are monstrous and clownish, but more than just figures of fright or mockery. Review: In ‘BlacKkKlansman,’ Spike Lee Journeys Into White America’s Heart of Darkness 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z The Kino DVD, with a restoration newly mastered in high definition, is the place to begin study of this magnificent, monstrous monolith. Madea Meets the Ku Klux Klan 2011-11-17T15:13:07Z How did this “most unlikely pretender to high state office” assume complete control of a once democratic country and set it on a monstrous course through history? The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Mr. McCallum, of Brooklyn, has supplemented — you could say softened — these subtly monstrous portrait paintings with photographs in a small group show, “Post Conflict,” which he has organized at the gallery. Smack Mellon and Grey Art Display Art Sparked by Politics 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Periodically, I am changed into a monstrous verminous bug. What does the insect community make of ITV's celebrity freak show? 2012-11-25T00:05:45Z These same children seem blissfully unaware of another ancient story line, that of the monstrous stepmother, but never mind. Review: ‘Date My Dad’ Is Warm, Fuzzy and Has Raquel Welch, Too 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z This show hasn’t gotten great reviews so far, but if it can make that suffering real — if it can humanize the origins of this monstrous tragedy — it will have succeeded at something worthy. ‘Law & Order True Crime’ Episode 2: No Surprises 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z But it would be a deal struck on Russian and Iranian terms aimed at preserving a monstrous regime only too happy to drive yet more desperate Sunni Arabs into the deadly embrace of IS. The mistakes that made Islamic State 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z In “Palais de Justice,” establishing shots of the monstrous courthouse precede long takes of female judges at work, which Ms. Young filmed without permission through the portholes of courtroom doors. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z He and Agnès fall in love, with fateful and monstrous consequences. Los Angeles Philharmonic/Dudamel; Written on Skin – review 2013-03-17T00:06:26Z For human beings to make themselves different from other animals, what is normal has been rendered monstrous. Hair-erasing 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z And I'm glad, because if this material had been attempted by anyone without extreme skill and sensitivity, it would have been a monstrous disaster. Todd Solondz, patron saint of pessimism 2010-07-23T19:01:00Z These goals eventually included concentration camps, monstrous human experiments and the “Final Solution.” It turns out ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ wasn’t so far off about the Nazis 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z It’s too easy to dismiss someone as monstrous or “other,” and I feel that’s how we got in to this situation in the first place. The dark arts of Fox News’ Roger Ailes: “If Trump didn’t exist, Roger Ailes would have crea... 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z I imagine many soon-to-be Thanksgiving hosts across the country are digging out their recipe files, drafting their menus, making monstrous grocery lists, and crafting their game-day plans. The make-ahead Thanksgiving stuffing you can cook right now 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z As a result, the rationale for the character’s monstrous acts is not even close to feeling justified. Review | Is the real Washington this much of a snooze? 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z It's like some monstrous nightclub down there – or hell. Artist Cerith Wyn Evans fires up the White Cube 2010-05-13T11:51:00Z “She was not the monstrous woman that people talk about. They were both loving and damaging to one another.” In the Papers of Yiddish Novelist Chaim Grade, Clues to His Lesser Fame 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z The post-Super Bowl slot has provided monstrous ratings over the years for shows like “Friends,” “Survivor” and “Undercover Boss.” Queen Latifah ‘stoked’ to land post-Super Bowl slot for show 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z What she does is show, plainly and gracefully, how the pursuit of such perfection can be monstrous. Review: ‘The Master,’ From Paul Thomas Anderson 2012-09-13T15:23:48Z Lovecraft’s stories about monstrous beings from beyond the stars were appearing regularly in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, and Barlow was a fan. The Complicated Friendship of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert Barlow, One of His Biggest Fans 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Few actors inhabit the space between charming and monstrous as brilliantly as Dern does. ‘J.T. LeRoy’ Review: Unpeeling the Layers of an All-American Hoax 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z After accidentally creating a seemingly monstrous creature herself, Jam must go on a mission to find what secrets remain in a world that believes angels have rid society of its evils. 6 Great Y.A. Fantasy Novels 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z While the oafish men come off poorly, the treatment of women as nothing more than schemers and monstrous Martha Stewart clones seems woefully past its expiration date. Review: In ‘Home Sweet Hell,’ Married Life Isn’t Heaven 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Welcome to “Chapel of the Moon,” the latest solo exhibition by Los Angeles artist Marnie Weber, who is known for producing wild multimedia works that often dwell on the ghostly and the monstrous. L.A. artist Marnie Weber reflects on why monsters hold such power for women 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Christine Rice is outstanding as Ariadne: bitter, devious, but still nursing a kind of affection for her monstrous half-brother. The Minotaur – review 2013-01-18T15:08:55Z In the United States, the monstrous institution of chattel slavery was of course eradicated — but only with the Civil War. The Dangers of Making War Less Dangerous 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z She excels, instead, at drawing us into tender sympathy with her characters even as she coolly subjects them to the most monstrous treatment. Review | In Sadie Jones’s “The Snakes,” parents are more venomous than reptiles 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z In cruder versions of fairy tales, the monstrous mother is a regular presence. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z Meg White is a fundamentals drummer, keeping time sans flourish, adding nothing more to these songs — mostly taken from latter albums — than a monstrous pulse. 'Under Great White Northern Lights' album and DVD show White Stripes are white hot 2010-03-15T23:57:00Z And he was likable and he was funny and he had a certain charm, which belied his monstrous qualities. From Baltimore Cop to English Serial Killer 2011-12-06T17:00:15Z In this great anniversary year of the Ballets Russes, what we find when we look at Diaghilev is a great and sometimes monstrous example of the self-inventor as international guru of art. Salute Diaghilev 2010-10-08T23:06:00Z As before, its music is additive: lines and loops pile up, some dinky and some monstrous, all building a crescendo. Music Review: Lines, Loops And a Skyline Spectacle 2011-04-28T21:38:57Z That’s particularly true in American independent cinema, with its stories of suffering children, monstrous mothers and abusive fathers. Review: Kidman and Bateman Face Childhood Scars in ‘The Family Fang’ 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Which is to say that the movie is of the greatest moment, and was released at one of our nation’s most monstrous moments. “American Dharma,” Reviewed: Errol Morris Lets Steve Bannon Off the Hook 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z “She refuses to soft-pedal the monstrous views she encounters, and she clearly takes pleasure in cutting them down to size.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Among the bits of overheard language, much of it about Hegel, we heard: “So many monstrous arguments”; “the guy can’t write”; and “you have to have something weird and surprising to say.” The Art of Summer: The Words We Live By 2011-08-03T12:00:05Z Mozart’s glorious music sets the scene on a monstrosity, and his musical realization of a monstrous world and its deliverance is one of the glories of the history of art. The Revelations of “Don Giovanni” at the Met 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z A common wish transformed into monstrous deed made me shiver in fear, a feeling that persisted until the end of my store shift, and in the years thereafter. The Book That Terrified Neil Gaiman. And Carmen Maria Machado. And Dan Simmons. 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z “The most monstrous of all the man-made institutions created throughout history.” ‘The Routes of Slavery’ traces a musical journey of resilience in the face of inhumanity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z The sequence is as monstrous in its content as it is astounding in its imaginative power. Where Comedy Comes From 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z Swans, in particular, are not a happy band; they had no trouble on Sunday playing a fantastic and memorably monstrous set in what was essentially a happy place. Critic’s Notebook: Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, in All Its Multiplicity 2013-06-17T22:06:12Z Jacobs warned of the dangers of mixing big business and government, and called them “monstrous hybrids”. How one woman harnessed people power to ‘save’ old New York 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z Because hiding behind Siddharth’s quiet, amiable exterior lies a monstrous brutality fueled by grief. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Even today, it’s hard to say that the decision to make him look monstrous was racially motivated. The People v OJ Simpson: episode three – the Dream Team comes together 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z As this overlong musical — all the dialogue is sung — lumbers along, Henry becomes more monstrous and unlikable. The worst film performances of 2021 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Viewers generally prefer to identify with the innocent, the lucky and the brave, rather than with the monstrous but no less human perpetrators of crimes against humanity. Movie Review: ‘Act of Killing’ Re-enacts Indonesian Massacres 2013-07-18T16:01:22Z I could hear the cows stirring, and then their deep monstrous mooing, along with the compound’s approximately 10,000 wild cats moving in the crawl space directly above my bed. Everything About Everything: David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest’ at 20 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z In the Times, the critic Jeannette Catsoulis used the words “monstrous,” “despairing,” “eerie,” “sinister” to describe “The Humans,” concluding that the family was stuck in a haunted house. When Is a Horror Movie Not a Horror Movie? 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z I spent the summer of 2014 at an elementary school in rural Taiwan, a school called “Six Legs” Elementary, named fondly in honor of the monstrous local insects. American privilege in Taiwan: I lied to my Taiwanese students and told them I didn’t speak Chinese. Here’s how it backfired 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Her second memoir explores her teenage years, her love affairs with boys, music and latin, while growing up in a claustrophobic all-female household dominated by her monstrous older sister, Cora. Janice Galloway 'anti-memoir' is named Scottish book of the year 2012-08-18T08:39:25Z But as any horror fan can tell you, a comeuppance awaits in horror movies from “Frankenstein” to “Frankenhooker” when god-wannabes futz with what it means to be human by creating life that becomes monstrous. A Doll That Wears Sunglasses With Attitude? Oh, ‘M3gan’ Is a Gay Movie. 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z I do want people to be angry after watching this, because slavery was monstrous, and it should be as monstrous . "I want people to be angry": William Jackson Harper on viewers' takeaway from "Underground Railroad" 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z And yet it’s wondrous, not monstrous, to meet them. Watching “Arrival” After the Election 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z The plan, included a modern-looking curved glass courtyard, was, according to Charles, “a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend.” The Town That Charles Built 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z I had no clue what she alleged that I did or what I was, but based on some of the reactions I received, it had to be monstrous. "Zola" is a cautionary tale about Black women befriending white women 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z She listened to him over the radio, his voice a simultaneously magnetic and monstrous force as he defended himself. Katie Kitamura and the Cognitive Dissonance of Being Alive Right Now 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z He takes it home, where the little guy breaks free of its cage, eventually growing to monstrous size. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z If it takes a kind of diva egocentrism to commit murder, “Barry” suggests, it also requires a monstrous streak to fully commit to Hollywood. In the ‘Barry’ Finale, Hollywood Gets Away with Murder 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z A group of early humans is separated from their tribe and must fight their way through monstrous ancient creatures and Neanderthals to get home. ArtsBeat: You Had Me at ‘Bigger Alligators’ 2013-07-01T18:44:59Z With spare prose and evocative illustrations, a traditional Spanish folk tale about the marriage of a mouse to a kitten who becomes a monstrous cat is transformed into a powerful parable of domestic abuse. The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2021 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Here, with the barest minimum effort, I will expose some of your favourite Christmas movies for the monstrous nightmares they actually are. The ho-ho-horror : why your favourite Christmas movies are creepy 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z On “Diary,” Ozzy wears blood-streaked stretchy pants and stares out, with a menacing glare, from this monstrous, Medieval library that could be a laboratory. Perspective | A dozen albums for a penny? I’ve still got mine, and plenty of time to listen. 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z In the movie “Brazil,” the main character’s mother purchases repeated plastic surgery until she becomes something grotesque, a symbol of our vanity gone monstrous and absurd. Not Quite “Brazil”: Meg Ryan, plastic surgery and my mother’s augmentation 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, it was H.E.R.’s star that shined brightest, as the Grammy-winning singer/guitarist traded soaring solos and even higher flying vocals, before a monstrous walk-off shot covering the instrumental crescendo to “Purple Rain” on Saturday. Review: Bumbershoot’s youth movement takes center stage during pivotal, rollercoaster year 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z The concern now is whether Don’s monstrous ego will also return, but at some point during his professional exile, when he was busy writing coupons for Peggy, Don rediscovered the simple pleasures of his work. 'Mad Men' recap: 'The moon belongs to everyone' 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Elizabeth may be searching for a character, but Gracie has already found the role of a lifetime as a martyr to her own desires, a part she perfects with waves of self-pity and monstrous narcissism. At a Particularly Strong Cannes Film Festival, Women’s Desires Pull Focus 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z That night, I dreamed that my tattoo grew to a monstrous size, covering my whole body like Ray Bradbury’s "Illustrated Man." My Story: Forever, the Girl With the Unicorn Tattoo 2013-05-03T05:00:02Z Except that, eventually, the murderer will no longer think of his crime "as a monstrous exception or a tragic mistake, but, rather, as another resource that life offers to the boldest and toughest." The Infatuations by Javier Marías – review 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z The Strokes drew a monstrous crowd, while PJ Harvey attracted considerably fewer fans to a drab, if well-intentioned set that found her playing everything from auto-harp to acoustic guitar. Kanye West saves day, reputation at Coachella 2011-04-19T03:04:52Z I’m not guilty of killing Joffrey, he growls, “I’m guilty of a far more monstrous crime: I’m guilty of being a dwarf!” ArtsBeat: ‘Game of Thrones’ Watch: Arguments in Family Court 2014-05-12T03:53:49Z His most daring gambit, however, was to persuade Henry Fonda to play his monstrous killer – railroad enforcer Frank. Once Upon a Time in the West: No 3 2010-10-19T10:52:00Z Jarry almost certainly had the Macbeths in mind, but his creations are even more monstrous. This week's new theatre 2013-01-26T06:00:15Z To understand the monstrous we must draw a monster so unmistakable as to represent the opposite of an equally unmistakable innocence or virtue. Stories That Double as a Field Guide to Women’s Desires and Miseries 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z In “Three Armies on the Somme,” military historian William Philpott speaks of an airman’s view of the Verdun battlefield, describing it akin to “the humid skin of a monstrous toad.” How poppies, strong and fragile, became a symbol of WWI devastation 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z She puts little wonderful drawings in when there's a town where supposedly is not good for Black folks, she puts some sort of monstrous drawing there. "Lovecraft Country" star: "It's a shame that men and women are being accosted and lynched" today 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z He’s the monstrous male, as large as an oak and presumably just as thick, the man whose hulking body and fierce actions define both him and his relationships, inspiring fear and contempt. ‘The Shadow of Violence’ Review: Behold, the Bad Man (Again) 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Then, relieving them of their delusions, he condemns them: "You shall know, from this moment on, exactly how craven, and selfish, and monstrous you are." "The Sandman" and the American Dream: Donald Trump is the Corinthian 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z As such, the work becomes a reference to Europe’s dark history, and the machines, lit in such a way to create monstrous shadows on the surrounding walls, clatter and screech discordantly. Jean Tinguely’s Clamor Still Echoes Today 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z While keeping their own clear perspective on the characters’ behavior—its self-destructiveness and mutual destructiveness, its monstrous devouring power—they put the viewer into an electrifying immediacy of first-person emotion. Heroin, Too Close 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z That face proves to be multiple and monstrous. Review: ‘The Underground Railroad’ Weaves an Epic Vision 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Then, on “Accident Murderers”, a piece of Big Apple classicism is turned emphatic through a monstrous organ sample and a choir. Nas Returns to Form with Life Is Good 2012-07-20T16:07:52Z In a series about monsters, he is the most monstrous of all. So long, Dennis Reynolds – you might just be TV's greatest monster 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z She’s especially fascinated by the example of writers like Simone de Beauvoir and Mary McCarthy — women who projected indomitable personas on the page even as they were in thrall to men who could be monstrous. Katie Roiphe Feels Ambivalent About Feeling Ambivalent 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Travelling across a ruined America, Joel and Ellie encounter many other survivors, some of whom present a greater threat than the monstrous infected. The Last of Us – review 2013-06-08T23:05:07Z The scary crib/mobile certainly alludes to some kind of monstrous spawn. First Teasers of 'American Horror Story' Released on Snapchat 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z If many Maya gods look grotesque, even monstrous, at least one, the Maize God, does not. Can Art Ever Be Innocent? 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z “Monsters University” is so likable that it feels somewhat monstrous to criticize — but nonetheless it isn’t quite as funny as its predecessor, and some of the sequences toward the end feel a little flat. Dream scream team returns for ‘Monsters University’ 2013-06-20T03:43:05Z “Sure, life brings some disappointments, haters, misunderstandings, monstrous epidemics,” he added. Their Wedding Day Was ‘Divinely Appointed’ 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z With obvious exceptions, the English were a shallow, drab, narrow-hearted people, in Johnny’s opinion, and guilty of monstrous crimes against the Irish. I never thought I would marry. But my friend persuaded me – after he died 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z If you’re sick of guilt-ridden heroes and monstrous zombies, then the Silicon Valley panel is your best bet for some fun. The Comic-Con TV Shows We’re Most Excited About 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Rudi, 17, returns to a father who never knew him only to become a hunted murderer, forcing the father to face his own monstrous creation. Russian director defends "Burnt by the Sun" sequel 2010-05-22T12:52:00Z We set off walking in the monstrous megalopolis of 25.6 million — the second largest in the developed world. In South Korea, a search for beauty, one day at a time 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z But his fear kicks into paranoia when he begins having visions of a monstrous wolf man, a distorted memory of a childhood costume. ‘Hypochondriac’ Review: A Mother of All Breakdowns 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Through the consumption of a magic medicine, he would ‘turn into’ the other, baser, half of his character: the monstrous killer Mr Hyde. Jack the Ripper’s long shadow: From Sherlock Holmes to “Jekyll & Hyde” 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z At the Royal Institute of British Architects' 150th anniversary he lambasted the design as "a monstrous carbuncle". Prince Charles accused of pressurising Qatari royal family over residential development 2010-05-17T22:34:00Z But as Jesse’s body plays host to an increasingly monstrous being, his actions turn deadly. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z On the other hand, Willy himself is often so unrelievedly monstrous that you sometimes can’t see past it to the monstrosity of American business that Miller means to indict. Review: In a New ‘Salesman,’ the Lomans Look Like All of Us 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z They combed public records and ended up sitting in the courtroom as a judge considered bail for the alleged perpetrator of this monstrous crime. Perspective | The 10-year-old pregnant girl exists. Why did people think she didn’t? 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z But what’s most striking is the composer’s command of these monstrous forces. Review: A Rediscovered Symphony Radiates Cosmic Grandeur 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Now, Ellen DeGeneres joins an illustrious line of women in Hollywood rumored to be difficult to work with or for at best, monstrous at worst. The problem with Ellen DeGeneres is that she made "be kind" the unattainable goal of her brand 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z Still, when Nina told her father that most people who have encountered the play so far find Christopher monstrous, he replied: "No, he's not, he talks a lot of sense." Nina Raine: a great ear for anger 2010-10-11T21:00:00Z His stepsisters — not nasty — are rapacious and feckless; their bullying mother rules the roost with monstrous energy; Cinderella’s father is a melancholy, weak drunk. Mariinsky Ballet in ‘Cinderella,’ Under Alexei Ratmansky 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z The audience was primed to accept him as flawed, vulnerable, human, and to view her as monstrous. The Actual Malice of the Johnny Depp Trial 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z “People are a lot more complicated than monstrous or saintly.” Scene City: An ?Iron Lady? After-Party Fit for the Queen of Hollywood 2011-12-14T22:35:14Z For centuries, European intellectuals had imagined a world beyond their borders populated by “monstrous races.” Columbus believed he would find “blemmyes” and “sciapods” — not people — in the New W... 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z By the laws of show business, at least one of them should have succumbed to the traditional hazards of child stardom – drink and drugs, sexual transgression, monstrous egomania. Ant and Dec: just the two of us 2013-02-23T09:00:00Z Have you ever had to come to grips with a loved one doing a monstrous thing and sticking by that person? Marlon James: By the Book 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Most of the time, that meant attention on Ms. Milton, who is a monstrous drummer, completely limber and athletic in a way that’s unique in the band. Savages, a London Band, Plays Three New York Clubs 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Such grace notes of universal acknowledgment allow the viewer to find some way of respecting the tenacity fueling Murdoch's monstrous nature. With “The Murdochs: Empire of Influence," CNN has its "Succession" 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z “It’s not true to life if you come out that he’s just pernicious and monstrous. Neither that he was a genius. He was both.” 'It's easy to make someone a monster' - behind a Roger Ailes documentary 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z The title refers to a mysteriously woo-woo, sky-piercingly tall spire that somehow holds both the universe’s various worlds and its monstrous threats in check. Review: The Good, the Bad and the Stupid in ‘The Dark Tower’ 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Has she given birth to a baby monster or a monstrous baby? Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z “Sardines” involves a game of hide-and-seek that gets much too serious, while “The Harrowing” is a gothic horror tale with a monstrous secret hiding upstairs. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Inside No. 9’ 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z Malcolm Tucker isn't Basil Fawlty or Alan Partridge, and The Thick of It is immeasurably stronger for being an ensemble piece rather than the traditional 'one monstrous comedy character terrorising his subordinates'-style British sitcom. Alan Davies eats humble pie over Hillsborough, BBC lifts lid on comedy 2012-09-25T17:29:44Z Helpful Hints for Household Horror TELEVISION, long the home of monstrous behavior, has never seemed like the ideal medium for actual monsters. ‘Do No Harm,’ ‘The Walking Dead’ and Other TV Horror 2013-01-18T23:36:30Z Trump is like Cervantes’s Don Quixote, who tilted at windmills — that is, jousted — believing they might be monstrous giants. The story of Donald Trump’s feud with his one true nemesis: Windmills 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Private feelings were harder to justify because they were also enabling monstrous distortions of the truth. Reckoning with My Love for Prince 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z "He went through a lot of women and a lot of money. He certainly lived the life of a successful young kid who was a star. He was a monstrous star even before 'Citizen Kane.'" 'Magician' conjures up the life of Orson Welles in his own words 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z But the Motown legend soon hits his stride with the likes of Uptight, a monstrous Superstition and a touching rendition of Michael Jackson's Human Nature. Glastonbury festival final day 2010-06-28T20:30:00Z She deplores the “monstrous silence” surrounding the subject of mortality. ‘Dying: A Memoir’ Is a Bracing Illumination of Terminal Illness 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z But he included kinks and shades of personality that humanized both the angelic and the monstrous. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Amoral Clarity 2011-07-18T15:23:00Z But the writers don't excuse his atrocriousness by humanizing him, which makes one wonder what this show endeavors to say about the undeniable charisma of monstrous people. "House of the Dragon" is a slow ride back to Westeros that takes its time in lighting our fire 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z A piranha's actual teeth are small, triangular and mostly hidden by the mouth – not very monstrous. Aquarium curator Brian Zimmerman on Mega Piranha 2010-07-26T21:31:00Z Jon Snow is the heroic youth who brings the forces of the north and the south together to fight the incursion of the monstrous White Walkers. Six models of successful team leadership from "Game of Thrones" and "House of the Dragon" 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z Seeing this type of monstrous Other repelled generates a feeling of satisfaction. "Game of Thrones" isn't "just fantasy": Westeros is a reflection of our terrible realities 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z In many ways, her yearning makes her monstrous. Glad to be Glee 2011-01-06T20:30:01Z What a monstrous disappointment that such a fascinating yarn should end in a banal question about wedding gifts. Is Extra Help Hurting My Friend With Autism? 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z The story at the core of “Colossal” is one of a relationship that was monstrous in childhood and that, despite appearances, remains monstrous in adulthood. “Colossal”: A Monster Movie Hiding Ugly Romantic Passions 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z And at home many Germans concluded that the allied bombing raids were a revenge for the monstrous crime committed against the Jews, which suggested widespread guilt and awareness. Moral Combat: A History of World?War II by Michael Burleigh 2010-06-11T23:15:00Z Mitch came back and said he was committed to turning the whole thing into this monstrous book of photographs and text, which is a project which has been going on for three years now. Alan Moore Digs Up 'Unearthing' and Lays His Comics Career to Rest 2010-07-26T22:05:00Z This theory counters more common forms of historical explanation—federal subsidies in the form of highways and suburban housing, for example—but captures something of the monstrous, devouring nature of the American garage. How the Garage Became America’s Favorite Room 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z One of the early criticisms of the show from viewers was that it was difficult to root for any of these monstrous people—but that presumes that there are outcomes to root for. Jesse Armstrong’s Savage Comedy in “Succession” Season 1 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z I’m sorry, but can you describe how your wife’s troubled pregnancy led to this monstrous mother figure? ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: Nicolas Winding Refn on Being One With Ryan Gosling 2013-05-16T15:01:10Z Mr. Costanzo’s Galatea, full of dread and shame, complains that the monstrous Polifemo, presented as their master, keeps forcing “his vile lips upon me.” Review: A Baroque Opera Muddies Lines Between Him and Her 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z After his monstrous boss took power in 1933, Speer designed what he called a "Cathedral of Light" for a mass rally in Nuremberg. 'Paintings of Moholy-Nagy' gives only a taste of the artist's eclectic body of work 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z The “Ring” is “a monstrous, pulsating, ambiguous, big, queer thing,” he said. The Stakes Are Sky-High for a ‘Ring’ Coming to the Met Opera 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z The pages that constitute “Anna Livia Plurabelle” are surely the most easily decipherable in that masterly and monstrous ragbag of a book. Colin Farrell Joins the League of High-Profile Narrators of ‘A Portrait of the Artist’ 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z We hear several times from a monstrous local councillor obsessed with manhole-cover theft, whose foolproof "Sex Hex" is as creepy as it is funny. Burley Cross Postbox Theft by Nicola Barker 2010-05-14T23:27:00Z I don’t think women who complete their work — “finishers,” Dederer calls them — are in any way monstrous or comparable to male predators. Face to Face With Culture’s ‘Monsters’ 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z Perhaps no more monstrous children, outside horror films, were ever seen in Hollywood than those who interfere grotesquely with their parents’ lives in “All That Heaven Allows” and “There’s Always Tomorrow.” Douglas Sirk’s Glorious Cinema of Outsiders 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z “The Essex Serpent,” published last year, revolved around the existence of a monstrous water snake off the coast of East Anglia. A Dark Cavalcade of New Horror Fiction 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z He cannot revisit the country of his youth, the "monstrous Soviet era", because it no longer exists except in memory. The Life of an Unknown Man by Andre? Makine 2010-10-02T11:18:00Z Victor LaValle’s tender and monstrous modern fairy tale “The Changeling” could be a book for you, but you’d have to overcome your antipathy toward literary representations of New York City, the book’s setting. Dear Match Book: I’m Seeking Satirical, Semifantastical and Stand-Out Literary Fiction 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z In traveling around the world, from Mexico to Japan to New Zealand, Rigney introduces people who are risking their lives to catch monstrous fish. We’re destroying the seas 2012-07-09T13:55:00Z I heard the band at Le Poisson Rouge on Monday, with the monstrous drummer, and I finally got it. Music Review | Harvey Milk: At Le Poisson Rouge, Playing Like Its 1993 2010-03-09T23:20:00Z Indeed, Rash’s material detail, depiction of work and evocation of place — of nature, woods and stream, the play of light and the oppressive dark of the monstrous cliff — are truly splendid. Megaphone by Natalie Bakopoulos 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z Even Hannah Horvath, who at one point felt like a monstrous caricature of a millennial, has been cracking me up this season. ‘Girls’ Finale: Is It Just Us, or Did the Show Get Better? 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z What interested me was the part of someone who does monstrous things maybe, or misguided things. Arts & Leisure: For ?Iron Lady,? Armor Added to Streep?s Wardrobe 2011-12-23T15:01:39Z In order for there to be a story R must learn to keep his monstrous appetite in check so that he can be with Julie and not just consume her. Movie Review: ‘Warm Bodies,’ Written and Directed by Jonathan Levine 2013-01-31T22:50:15Z Saturday will also offer workshops devoted to creating massive, monstrous origami; magic wands; spooky ornaments for haunted trees; and tote bags hand-printed with stamps made from harvest vegetables. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z The “acting is excellent throughout,” Glenn Kenny wrote in his review for The Times, “and Ross Lynch in the role of Dahmer elicits genuine sympathy for an increasingly lost but not yet monstrous soul.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Christopher Robin’ and ‘The Heat’ 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z "The church needs money for its various activities, but these monstrous conditions are not possible," said the writer, a close friend of the late novelist Italo Calvino. Vatican in row over 'drunken tourist herds' destroying majesty of the Sistine Chapel 2012-09-29T10:48:32Z The animosity for the B & T crowd, that irrelevant "monstrous urban limbo" of Bronx-Brooklyn-Queens, extends beyond the city native's typical distaste for tourists, and instead it highlights both a class- and ethnicity-based bias. How MTV's "Jersey Shore" fetishized the Guido, a subversive ethnic stereotype that America disdained 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Introduced by the sound of a beating heart and images of deformed lab rats, the first shots of Laurent’s face promise something monstrous underneath. ‘Oxygen’ Review: The Thrill of Claustrophobia 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z She was a caricature of a matriarch, but brought complexity and nuance to a type that is usually relegated to sketch comedy, two-dimensional walk-ons or viral videos of monstrous Karens. Why Christine Baskets Was One of TV’s Greatest Characters 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z He was capable of monstrous actions and heroism, and his death exemplified both halves. 'Sons of Anarchy' series finale review: I got this 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Once again, Peele is exploring existential terrors and the theme of possession, this time through the eerie form of the monstrous doppelgänger. ‘Us’ Review: Jordan Peele’s Creepy Latest Turns a Funhouse Mirror on Us 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z We headed westward to the side of thunderous green mountains, on serpentine roads as monstrous wind turbines — pinwheels of the gods — churned slowly on the horizon. An Ancient Corner of Italy Finds the World on Its Doorstep 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z At one moment while hiding from the monstrous horde, each character explains what brought them to retail. ‘Black Friday’ Review: Killer Sales Bring Killer Customers 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z It is not so much a satire of Hollywood as it is an examination of Hollywood desperation, and the manic, monstrous ways that people behave when they crave fame. Kate Berlant and John Early’s Escape from Comic Realism 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z |
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