| 单词 | morbid |
| 例句 | “Mysterious, morbid, dependable friends,” intoned the Gran to enormous cheers from the crowd, including a group of parents who looked like they had died last week. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “Just why do you think you have such a morbid aversion to fish?” asked Major Sanderson triumphantly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Scarlett's mother occasionally exclaimed about how morbid this all was and how fine and good it was that they would soon be leaving it behind forever. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “Do us all a favor, morbid one,” she chides. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z In retrospect, it is odd how little power the dead farmer exercised over an imagination as morbid and hysterical as my own. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The more I thought of it the more I fell into a kind of morbid fascination with the possibility. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is turning into a really morbid project,” Levi says. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z All my moments which were not consumed with efforts to escape the cold were absorbed with morbid Poe-like fancies. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Thomas couldn’t believe how morbid a statement that was. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The overall effect is slightly morbid and incredibly elegant. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Of course some people have a morbid dread of it,” said Colonel Julyan. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Because it’s morbid to stay here and watch,” I told him. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z He was surprised at having such a morbid thought. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z There were two things the factory manager possessed a morbid fear of: insects and stolen chickens. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Scythes Rand and Chomsky have these morbid conversations. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “The next, ‘The theory of the book is bad, full of morbid fancies, spiritualistic ideas, and unnatural characters.’ Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z I was wrong of course, morbid, stupid; this was the hyper-sensitive behaviour of a neurotic, not the normal happy self I knew myself to be. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The sound of hurrying footsteps drove the morbid thoughts from her head. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Adah did weird, morbid things for her hope chest, black borders on cloth napkins and the like, which exhausted our mother. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I wouldn’t want to fall on that, he thought with a morbid shiver. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z To derail this morbid train of thought, I tried changing the subject again. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Annh! Why do you Americans have only these morbid thoughts in your mind?” cried my mother in Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z My first thought is the rhyme from my morbid poster. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Both she and Ben discovered in themselves a morbid curiosity that made them both secretly ashamed. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The giant woman wouldn’t stop talking about it, describing the scene in morbid detail for the others. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The morbid thoughts were becoming harder and harder to push from his mind. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “You should plan your wedding, not your funeral. Don’t be morbid.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z He was tormented inexorably by morbid fantasies involving them, by dire, hideous omens of illness and accident. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Don’t be so morbid. Could have been an accident.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z First class today was an elective he’s taking out of a combination of morbid fascination and academic curiosity: The Press and the Presidency. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “It’s a morbid hymn, for funerals. No one plays a funeral hymn loud unless they want to wake the dead.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I asked with the morbid curiosity of the young. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Olmsted found the English countryside charming, the weather bleak and morbid. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Bit of a morbid topic for the dinner table.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z This march is much too morbid, I realize, everyone clad in Tariq's death shroud. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Hagar let her morbid pleasure spread across her face in a smile. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “So, Connor,” Dad said, removing his ridiculous goggles, “what are you interested in? I mean besides pulling morbid pranks with my daughter and scaring our visitors away.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She might as well have said to the fire, “don’t burn!” but how could she divine the morbid suffering to which I was a prey? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He was more fascinated with Mr. Taylor’s morbid interest in his story than with the tale itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It was silly and morbid to entertain such ridiculous notions. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z It is the first day of November, nearly dusk, and he is speaking in morbid riddles again. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A few would show up out of morbid curiosity. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z She was beginning to fall victim to a morbid fascination with things from beyond the grave. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She was not particularly morbid, but she found herself wanting to know which blades had been used, and how. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Maybe it was the morbid effect of living in a crime scene, but I imagined him drinking blood. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z “You have a morbid aversion to dying. You probably resent the fact that you’re at war and might get your head blown off any second.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z They hid their morbid curiosity behind the shield of scientific investigation. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z One thing I do know was that I could not understand the morbid cruelty and satanic impulses that drove people to kill others. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It was just a museum display, albeit an excessively morbid one. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Eventually, a morbid quiet settled over the house. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The sloping walls of her prison were a canvas for her morbid inquiries, particularly between sundown and Martin’s late-night visit. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z We all scooted closer on our stools, like it was story-time in some morbid kindergarten. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It's fascinating, maddening, a train wreck you can't pull your eyes away from, however morbid. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Some stared at the afflicted child with morbid fascination, but most turned away. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z And in its own morbid way, I suppose it was. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z While his brain was contemplating this morbid observation, Butler’s gun hand was coming up. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z When told of their diagnosis, Perry Smith said, “How would they know? They just wanted to be entertained. Hear all the morbid details from the killer’s own terrible lips. Oh, their eyes were shining.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z A morbid part of me wants to ask her how she lost her eye. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “B is for Basil, assaulted by bears,” I reply, continuing the morbid rhyme we memorized off the poster on my bedroom wall. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Thousands of them dangled off the wall on nails in a morbid inventory of manacles and fetters, of shackles for ankles and wrists and necks in all varieties and combinations. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z And still others might just be out there because of morbid curiosity. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The story of a dying girl and the morbid young man who loves her, “Restless” rolls Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s five stages of dying into a single, dreamy state of feeling. | ?Restless': ?Restless? With Mia Wasikowska - Review 2011-09-15T23:00:10Z “I don’t want to sound morbid, but if something happens,” he said, trailing off the words. They Traveled the World Together, Long Before Their First Date 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z He was not a morbid or melancholy artist — quite the opposite, in fact: His images are passionately alive. The Man Who Taught a Generation of Black Artists Gets His Own Retrospective 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z “When I Die” is morbid but practical, and ultimately affectionate. Lizzo Conquers Self-Doubt With an ’80s Jam, and 7 More New Songs 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Though the actual music might be relatively kooky and unassuming, Mitchell's lyrics are suitably morbid and full of references to "golden vomit" and "the weak one's living flesh." President Trump devoured by Mitch McConnell in John Cameron Mitchell’s strange music video 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Sometimes here Mr. Gokey’s spirituality is overt, as on the Southern gospel-influenced “I Still Believe” and the curiously morbid “It’s Only.” Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-02-28T23:00:00Z “It was just this weird, morbid thing that I got interested in,” Belle said. Are you listening? 8 Seattle-area podcasters share origins, advice 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z This one’s a don’t-miss movie only for folks with a strong constitution and a morbid curiosity about a game-changing but troubling exploitation film. Summer Horror in the City 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Advertisement After that inaugural wine dinner, we decided that we were on a collision course with morbid obesity if we didn’t get some exercise. Seduced by Beaune in Burgundy 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z “That is was done though an opioid overdose lent an unnecessary grim and morbid dimension to an otherwise happy family show,” Barr said in a statement. Roseanne calls TV death 'morbid,' audience slumps for 'The Conners' 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z But while a kids' schoolyard skirmish was a springboard from which Reza explored festering incivility, Joseph uses the nasty wounds and upset stomachs of children to etch the unbreakable pattern of a morbid long-term friendship. Terrific actors face off in "Gruesome" play 2011-02-01T03:36:14Z In his morbid fantasies, he imagines Mr. Caro appearing on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” where the guests often play games with the host. Conan O’Brien’s Unrequited Fanboy Love for Robert Caro 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z I agreed with the sentiment that the Transgender Day of Remembrance in November being the only trans holiday was morbid and depressing and that celebrating happy, healthy trans lives was a positive goal. The dark side of “visibility”: How we slept on trans people becoming the new scapegoats of the right 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Jones was convinced the song was too "morbid" to catch on. George Jones, country superstar, has died at 81 2013-04-26T14:36:09Z Re: Husband: A rather morbid thought, but one to keep in mind. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: He won’t take care of himself, so his wife should protect herself 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z A reminder that whimsical indulgences are still permitted, and still funny, no matter how morbid American life has become. Can gigantic skeletons save Halloween? 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z She is best known for playing April Ludgate in Parks and Recreation, a sardonic and contrarian member of the low-level local government department who spends her days spouting morbid soundbites and making people feel uncomfortable. 'It's exhausting not being human' – the weird world of Legion's Aubrey Plaza 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z In her funniest sketch, she plays a proudly morbid talk show personality named Sylvia Chronic: To air your woes, dial 666-SUFFER. Review: Tovah Feldshuh Embraces Life at 54 Below 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z I grieved almost five full years, so deeply that some around me thought it was a morbid grief, over the passing of my mother. William Peter Blatty talks literature, life after death and lousy movies 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z It’s hard to think of a classic work of American literature less in need of a morbid makeover. A True-to-Life Setting for Voices From the Dead 2011-06-16T22:30:07Z The morbid commercial sparked social media jokes and general confusion. Super Bowl 2015: Ads round-up 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z Fox News ingeniously leveraged the story into a pictorial T&A bonanza of “Other Model Deaths.” It was quite the morbid spankfest, right there. Reeva Steenkamp was more than a sexy bikini model 2013-03-06T16:53:00Z In different times, the original short injected morbid comedy into Trevor’s habit of pretending to off himself for attention. ‘Trevor: The Musical’ Review: He’s Coming Out 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z One of the high points of his career is “Music for a New Society,” a 1982 album that combined keyboards with open space and dark, morbid lyrics. John Cale’s new society: “There’s much more sophistication in hip-hop than in regular rock ‘n’ roll” 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z “At a horror restaurant, nobody is afraid,” said Mr. Scrivner, a behavioral scientist at the University of Chicago who studies morbid curiosity, or why terrifying experiences appeal to people. What Does Horror Taste Like? ‘Carnage Asada’ and Bloody Cocktails 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z That isn't to undermine the quality of this morbid picture book turned disturbed nightmare. Limbo 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z Why do so many readers, especially preteen and teenage girls, have a penchant for such morbid stories? Lurlene McDaniel has made a career of making people cry 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z She writes in the acknowledgments, “When one day thousands of files arrived at my home, it was like Christmas — a morbid sort of Christmas, but a holiday nonetheless.” A Factual Account of Truman Capote, Notorious Embroiderer of Truth 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z But sporadic dangers were always lurking, from storms to shipboard accidents, fomenting an undercurrent of anxiety, which crews tended to confront with a morbid sense of humor. TikTok’s sea chanteys — how life under the pandemic has mirrored months at sea 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z In a morbid synthesis of two Paul Greengrass movies, “United 93” and “Captain Phillips,” the found-footage film “Default” imagines the hijacking of a United States news crew after a visit to the Seychelles. In ‘Default,’ Somali Pirates’ Demand Is for Coverage 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Lamenting the death of New York rap has become a morbid parlor game in recent years; the conversation relocated a long time ago to Atlanta, to Miami, to Houston and plenty of other places. Music Review: Food on His Mind, and in His Stomach as Well 2011-07-26T21:45:30Z In some ways, it's weird to laugh about it because it's so morbid, really, but it's the truth. "Resident Alien" star Sara Tomko on otherness and relationships: "It's so hard to be human 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z The film seems at once a parody of German Romanticism and its logical, morbid end point. Werner Schroeter, German Film and Stage Director, Dies at 65 2010-04-21T02:25:00Z Even all these months after her Princeton op-ed, she continues to exploit our morbid curiosity about what ludicrous words will escape her mouth next. Princeton Mom is out of control: How Susan Patton turned one crazy op-ed column into a mini-empire 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Or those people with a morbid fascination for perverts? Tiger, Tiger: What is the point of reading this memoir of abuse? 2011-03-27T00:05:57Z “So we had the conversation. Did Mom want a photo with all seven of her children and was it morbid that one of them was dead?” The iPhone at the Deathbed 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z True to both Halsey and Nine Inch Nails, the song has a morbid streak. Backed by Nine Inch Nails, Halsey Connects Past and Future 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z "It's a cut that didn't make the album because the producer thought it was too morbid," she explains. Abigail Washburn: fingerpicking good bluegrass with Chinese flavouring 2011-01-20T23:08:01Z The morbid graveyard scene startled the ear with a richly twanging harpsichord that seemed to be grinding out delirious, slow-moving fantasias in the style of a latter-day Bach. Nikolaus Harnoncourt Explores ?Porgy and Bess? 2010-06-04T13:37:00Z The eight-part series follows Mason through a single, morbid case, one that becomes the foundation for his lifelong pursuit of justice. What’s on TV Sunday: The ESPY Awards and ‘The Woods’ 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z Student visitors are treated to an interactive “amputation demonstration” with replica Civil War-era surgical tools, and an after-hours “morbid curiosities” tour emphasizes surgical history’s darker moments, said Michelle Rinard, manager of education and events. Chicago’s creepy cabinet of curiosities 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Lest the film’s description sound at once saccharine and morbid, rest assured that “Breathing” is neither an oddball triumph of the human spirit nor another artily austere, stacked-deck entry in withheld redemption. Movie Review: ‘Breathing,’ Directed by Karl Markovics 2012-08-30T23:18:16Z A voracious reader of the morbid and obscure, Mr. Tsang began scouring books and online texts for inspiration. Tsang Kin-wah Channels His Outrage in a New Show 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z She used to be weight-appropriate, and we have no family history of overweight individuals let alone morbid obesity. Perspective | Ask Amy: Should she weigh in about sister’s obesity? 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z Instead, the film never rises above morbid fascination for a family trapped on the road to nowhere. 'October Country': Sympathy, but no hope, for dysfunctional family 2010-03-18T21:51:00Z And it’s unclear exactly how much Smith manipulated her persona—the eccentric, the morbid girl, the warbling singer. The Uneasy Verse of Stevie Smith 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Q: Talking about the movie in this way makes it sound morbid. ‘Lucky’ director John Carroll Lynch on life, death — and Harry Dean Stanton 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z When he would talk about his own death so matter-of-factly, was that just his morbid sarcasm? ArtsBeat Blog: Speaking for the Quiet Beatle: Olivia Harrison Discusses the George Harrison Film 2011-09-23T12:02:32Z His morbid capacity to say or do a new thing every day makes him a fresh-minded, electrifying Whitman in comparison to his competitors. Jokes and Shame, from Chris Rock to Donald Trump 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z At times her descriptions seem gratuitously to indulge the same morbid fascination that has long drawn people to these objects. Yes, Books Were Bound in Human Skin. An Intrepid Librarian Finds the Proof. 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z The song, “Cry Baby,” goes bounding along on a triplet beat and a hopping bass line, but there’s no hiding its morbid streak, which resurfaces throughout the album. Review: Cage the Elephant’s ‘Tell Me I’m Pretty’ Edges Toward Darkness 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z They might be surprised to learn that their favorite purveyor of morbid tableaux and sinister verse was not only American but also worked right into the Internet age. Review | A peek inside Edward Gorey’s modern Gothic world 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z The law of diminishing returns states that there is an extremity of weirdness beyond which curiosity becomes increasingly morbid and Jackson operated way beyond that point. Rewind TV: Upstairs Downstairs; When Harvey Met Bob; Michael Jackson's Secret Hollywood; Toast 2011-01-02T00:04:01Z “Considering the sunny, relatively pleasurable romantic business that precedes it, the elderly stuff seems dark, morbid, and forced upon us.” 9 Reasons The Notebook Still Sucks 10 Years Later 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z "It's not morbid to talk about death," he insists. Terry Pratchett: 'Fantasy is uni-age' 2013-04-22T06:00:16Z The show’s cynical and morbid components are more persuasive, if a tad monotonous. Review: Chita Rivera Stars in Kander and Ebb’s ‘The Visit’ 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z “I thought it was morbid and thought that it wasn’t even possible,” Ms. Gatehouse, 52, said. Their Loved Ones Died. Preserved Tattoos Offer a Way to Keep Them Close. 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z My family and some of my friends found the idea a little morbid and chalked it up to my new persona, tortured and tormented for vague reasons that no one understood. The Survivor by S?nia Hern?ndez, translated by Samantha Schnee 2011-04-01T11:27:00Z As with Channel 4's excellent maternity ward documentary One Born Every Minute, it's moving without being sentimental, and frank without being morbid – especially when giving a platform to some heroically cussed teens, refusing further operations. Great Ormond Street 2010-04-19T23:05:00Z It’s a sendup of true-crime obsession in the vein of “Only Murders in the Building,” but relocated to Southern California and more aggressively morbid in its humor. 30 Shows to Watch This Summer 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Even now, as a happily married 41-year-old with a 7-year-old son, watching peers implode or abandon one another holds a morbid interest. ‘The Leftovers,’ About a Small Town’s Loss, Comes to HBO 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Greenberg gives a deliciously morbid performance, self-diagnosing her character’s melancholia as “complete and total despair.” | Westchester: A Review of ‘Last of the Red Hot Lovers,’ at the Schoolhouse Theater in Croton Falls 2013-06-15T00:31:49Z “As a strong cinematic work with, remarkably fine acting, it is extraordinarily effective,” Mordaunt Hall wrote in The Times in 1933, but he found the film “shocking and morbid.” DVDs: Now on DVD, Glenda Farrell as Torchy Blane 2010-05-08T02:52:00Z It’s largely a statement, he says, about the morbid fan culture around his murder trial. Why the organizers of a pop-up 'O.J. Simpson Museum' are displaying the artifacts of notoriety 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z The film explores the development of Mr. Kenney’s juvenile and morbid sense of humor, which would come to define an entire generation. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Norma’ and ‘Jane the Virgin’ 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Though he ultimately cast these morbid plans aside and announced his desire “to live it out,” there didn’t seem much reason to believe Frank would be back. Frank Bascombe’s Seafaring Foil 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z It houses hundreds of, well, morbid artifacts and books, such as antiquated medical equipment, taxidermy, funereal ephemera and skeletons. Had your fill of the Met? Visit these six quirky New York City museums instead. 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Essentially, “The Baby-Sitters Club” is a procedural, in which the cases involve not crimes but kids: a trio of tiny terrors, a delightfully morbid little girl who holds a mock funeral for her doll. ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ Defies and Exceeds Expectations 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Skulls, taxidermy, holy curios and books about death supply the “morbid” in this small museum’s name. Had your fill of the Met? Visit these six quirky New York City museums instead. 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z When Lacey confided in friends his age, they found him intense and morbid, and distanced themselves from him. Teenagers on loneliness: ‘We want to talk to our parents. We need their guidance’ 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z Although it sometimes turns a bit monotonous, and, by the end, morbid, the show gives evidence of Western art’s not entirely healthy obsession with realism, as well as the resurgence of sculpture in recent decades. Real, or Too Real? A Dazzling Show Goes the Way of All Flesh 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z It isn’t morbid, nor is it vain, a celebrity’s ponderous concerns about her legacy. Annie Lennox Cleans House 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z I never use a morbid or crude approach to showing the naked bodies of older people. Paolo Sorrentino: ‘I never use a crude approach to showing the naked bodies of older people’ 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Song titles like "Whiskey Was the Medicine" and "Putting the Fun Back in Funeral" are indicative of the good professor's jauntily morbid inclinations. Avant-garde a cappella high jinks at Chapel Performance Space, and the sour-jazzy musings of Professor Gall at The Pink Door 2010-07-07T21:07:00Z In one rendition of her story, she entrances children with her shocking face and then gives them increasingly morbid instructions, culminating in suicide. Momo Is as Real as We’ve Made Her 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z It may sound morbid to some, but not the way Oswalt recalls it. ‘Without my daughter, drinking would have been a problem’: Patton Oswalt on bereavement 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z Songs Mr. Cantrell wrote without Mr. Staley, which dominated the set, were just as morbid, with titles like “We Die Young,” “Down in a Hole” and “Them Bones.” Music Review | Alice in Chains: Dancing Around Death, With Elephant in Room at Terminal 5 2010-03-11T22:49:00Z President James Garfield had a morbid fear of cats. Style Invitational: B all you can B — a neologism contest 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z “I’m not a morbid person, but I think about death all the time,” says McElhenney. Rob McElhenney: 'I was fuelled by privilege, ignorance and testosterone' 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z “It seems very morbid and feels exploitative, and why’s there a film about this?” When Rebecca Hall First Got This Script, She Hid It 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z At Brooklyn’s Alamo Drafthouse on reopening night, House of Wax, the morbid cocktail bar-slash-museum, was curtained off and dormant, a shame. The Zombie-Mall Weirdness of Going to the Movies Again 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z But moviegoers swooned for Mr. Burton’s stylized blend of morbid darkness and cartoon brightness, and it remains a cult favorite. Review: In ‘Beetlejuice,’ the Afterlife Is Exhausting 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z It informs the brilliance of Thomson's characterisation, from the morbid monomania of a tormented Cosimo, to the brutish, coiled savagery of the Dominican enforcer Stufa, to the ghostly sadness of a neglected child. Secrecy by Rupert Thomson – review 2013-03-20T07:59:01Z The inspiration for all this morbid chatter is the novel “The Immortalists,” by Chloe Benjamin, in which a fortuneteller predicts the dates when each of the four main characters will die. Meet the woman who is turning the joy of missing out into a business 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z There’s no disputing that Maier was peculiar and prickly, and that her interests spanned the benign and the morbid. Vivian Maier and the Problem of Difficult Women 2014-05-10T04:00:00Z A morbid strain runs through other works as Feinstein grapples with and battles the forces trying to shut down painting in favor of other media. 20 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z What they are aiming for is high seriousness, which somehow rings a bit hollow, as if all the stuff about God and morbid matters is what they think they should do. White Lies ? review 2011-02-08T18:15:24Z They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we've got to rein in the spending.' Bachmann ties God to quake, Irene 2011-08-29T15:49:00Z In “Triumph of the Wall,” the first-time filmmaker Bill Stone all too faithfully records his morbid fascination with a stonemason’s attempt to build a 1,000-foot wall on a Quebec estate. Movie Review: ‘Triumph of the Wall,’ a Documentary by Bill Stone 2013-05-30T23:30:55Z His take on death was as morbid as it got. Jerry Seinfeld slays them in Seattle with bits on this and that 2014-02-09T00:03:15Z She dwells unhappily on their unsatisfactory lives with something close to morbid relish. Theater Review: ‘Him,’ by Daisy Foote, Stars Hallie Foote and Tim Hopper 2012-10-10T02:00:00Z I was never morbid or anything, it was just magical. Daughn Gibson: 'I just want to see the weird' 2013-06-20T15:30:02Z There are now 40 startups in the digital death field, and things have never look less morbid. SXSWi: Bigger than ever - but does that mean it was better? 2011-03-21T07:00:04Z If that was what he was thinking, he was quite right: I was nervous and afraid, because I, for one, have a morbid fear of losing my eyesight. The eye surgery I never should have seen 2014-01-28T00:00:00Z The songs are hypnotic and grotesque, heavy with the force of the unconscious, celebrations of morbid triumph. Music Review: Rap?s Pied Piper, Lil B, at Santos Party House 2010-07-26T22:36:00Z But Mr. Goldsman, making his directing debut, suppresses the morbid and even the merely sad implications of the story in favor of wide-eyed, mystical wonder. Movie Review: ‘Winter’s Tale’ Takes Beauty and Wonder to Its Limit 2014-02-13T23:57:22Z Only I didn’t want to focus on the tragic and morbid details of Parsons’s death, as so many people have done for the past half-century. The Legend of Gram Parsons, in 12 Songs 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z If this “Perry Mason” ultimately delivers the comforts of justice served and wrongs righted, it takes its sweet and often morbid time, which may or may not keep viewers returning. In ‘Perry Mason,’ Matthew Rhys Plays Defense 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z People actually bought the new consoles, despite much morbid prophesying in the years leading up to their arrival about the death of set-tops. 13 Reasons I'd Still Pick Nintendo's Wii U Over the PS4 and Xbox One 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z This is a morbid but also surreal question to end on, but I have to ask if you played Gala's corpse in "Dalíland?" "It's very complicated": Salvador Dalí biopic delves into odd and kinky relationship with wife Gala 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z Linney, who is making her debut as a TV series regular, insists that it's not as morbid as it sounds. Showtime's new series 'The Big C' finds humor in cancer 2010-08-11T23:09:00Z "The story could be fun, morbid and then tragic and then bounce back and forth between them in the second half of the movie." They recognized the story was a keeper: 'Finders Keepers' at Sundance 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Then in the first episode of Season 4, he delivered a morbid little speech to his bodyguard Colin about how when people die, nothing comes after. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 3 Recap: Long Live the King 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z We talked about the two women’s morbid mutual attraction and the vicious cut and thrust of their relationship. Killing Eve: how my psycho killer was brought to life 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z The papers at the time were especially excited by a new menace: feral boys, “made morbid by the habit of reading,” an editorial cautioned. ‘Huck Finn’s America’ by Andrew Levy 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Truman Capote risks his integrity and betrays his friends in pursuit of his literary ambitions, his motives a volatile mixture of compassion and morbid curiosity. An Appraisal: A. O. Scott on Philip Seymour Hoffman 2014-02-03T17:36:07Z Near the end of the night she sang a morbid, vindictive “Never Again,” followed by a devastating, almost cowering “Because of You.” Concert Review: Kelly Clarkson at Radio City Music Hall - Review 2012-01-22T18:02:05Z The cohort of friends and lovers in Makkai’s novel live in a constant state of morbid apprehension, first awaiting their test results and then, if the news is bad, awaiting their initial symptoms. Surviving AIDS, but at What Cost? 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Philip had to have that dialogue with himself, and it must have been a pretty morbid one, filled with questions like: At which point exactly do I lose all sense of moderation? John le Carré on Philip Seymour Hoffman 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Her latest exhibition promises some respite from the morbid comedy of fashion errors, but not the intense attention to detail and overlooked pockets of female experience. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-08T00:06:27Z A nonconformist with a biting, sometimes morbid sense of humor, Mr. Kaniuk wrote newspaper columns and a blog that dealt increasingly with the indignities of old age and his approaching death. Yoram Kaniuk, Maverick Israeli Novelist, Dies at 83 2013-06-11T03:08:23Z With autumn upon us, some turn morbid in our thinking. Spirits: Nutmeg, unlike ‘pumpkin spice,’ gives cocktails a subtle taste of fall But his interest in the subject was not morbid. Terry Castro, a Proud Outsider in the Jewelry World, Dies at 50 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Although "The Violet Hour" is unlikely to move you to tears, it sure offers plenty of thought-provoking psycho-literary analysis and intimate biographical details to satisfy your morbid curiosity. In 'The Violet Hour,' Katie Roiphe looks at five great writers shuffling off this mortal coil 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z It looked as if Barclays was also taking the “work ethic” to morbid extremes. Do you work more than 39 hours a week? Your job could be killing you 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z The effect of seeing all this is certainly haunting, but too beautiful to be morbid. Review: ‘An Art That Nature Makes,’ an Illuminating Look at Rosamond Purcell 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z To an almost morbid extent, I circle around stories after completing them – I find it hard to let go and move on. 'I was definitely a bit of a tool': Louis Theroux on 25 years of documentary-making 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z It’s all part of Annelise’s morbid vision — or is it a religion or cult? — of life’s “cosmic horror,” its symbol “a jaw that chews up all fears.” New International Fiction, From Ecuador to Zimbabwe 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z What is the spiritual catastrophe that seems to have almost all these artists in its grip, driving so many of them into morbid withdrawal from the can-do business of modern life? Art Review: ?Real-Surreal? at the Whitney - Review 2011-10-27T22:50:36Z “What That Drink Cost Me” is morbid and resentful: “I lost a good man to a bad habit/He didn’t love the whiskey, he just had to have it.” Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-03-07T23:58:25Z Laughing surely beats crying all the time, and while the tableaus and squirting blood are gently morbid, they are also and finally proof of life. ‘Dick Johnson Is Dead’ Review: A Father’s Painful, Funny Goodbye 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z The hard truths of addiction don't fit neatly into pop tunes - or morbid 27 Clubs - but play out over years of toil. Winehouse among music talents gone too soon 2011-07-24T11:51:14Z Half of them contained a significant degree of violence or morbid themes. Does Netflix have a killer problem? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z He was incensed at not being accorded the same kind of respect as his contemporary, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, and the morbid tableau was his response to an art establishment which, he felt, had overlooked his achievements. Self-portraits 2010-08-07T23:02:00Z Readers may expect a morbid story line, but Jones skillfully fuses tragic events with amusing dialogue, keeping the story lighthearted. Review: Darynda Jones' debut novel is divine 2011-03-04T15:41:11Z But he says that we view that country through “Orientalist bigotry,” seeing only its morbid qualities. Books of The Times: Bruce Cumings?s ?Korean War,? Corrective on Conflict 2010-07-21T21:41:00Z It’s Vacation Time, Grief Stalker Suri Krishnamma’s “Dark Tourist” takes an effectively unpleasant trip down the lost highway of a morbid mind before its bad choices start catching up with it. Movie Review: ‘Dark Tourist’ Stars Michael Cudlitz 2013-08-29T23:16:47Z But these autumnal reflections — “Leaves are fallin’, winter’s on my mind,” goes the opening line in “Here to Stay,” a blues dirge — point toward a familiar species of morbid resilience. New Albums by Honeyblood, John Hiatt and the Fred Hersch Trio 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z They’re experimenting with speeding up and slowing down the timeline, trotting out unlikable characters and testing our tolerance for crazy, for demented, for morbid. Riff: ?Clues That Lead to More Clues That Add Up to Nothing? 2011-12-16T17:03:47Z The image is visually arresting, including chromatically, as black shifts against white with a spooky, morbid loveliness that draws you in. Movie Review: ‘The Retrieval,’ a Civil War Drama 2014-04-01T22:46:50Z The morbid fact about symbols is that most earn that mantle in death whether they wanted it or not. T'Challa forever: We lost Chadwick Boseman but not the symbolism of what he represents 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z "In a morbid sense, these patients were literally killing their friends and relatives, but from their deathbeds rather than the hereafter." Why vampires? Book looks at science behind monsters 2012-11-08T13:16:04Z But residents are pessimistic about the project’s prospects for completion, and there’s morbid humor in an aerial shot of a span without a destination. ‘Suspension’ Review: Roads to Nowhere 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Tomorrowland is a shapeless mess of a film that we watched out of morbid curiosity. My baby has ruined culture for me 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z Manohla Dargis called the film “a sly rethink of the freakily morbid fairy tale” in The Times in March, adding that it “is at once direct, complex and peculiar.” DVDs: Thrills From British Vaults 2010-06-20T02:00:00Z By any measure it's an atmospheric and unnerving piece: a morbid symphony of shadow and light. Gabriel von Max's monkeys and martyrs, at Frye Art Museum 2011-07-27T22:15:04Z Then there’s the case of “The World’s Angriest Boy in the World,” a morbid children’s book character that bedevils our heroes as they wind their way through the labyrinth of David’s mind. ‘Legion’ Season 1, Episode 3: Days of Future Past 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z It is steeped, instead, in a single shade of morbid resignation. Review: In ‘Thérèse Raquin,’ Keira Knightley as a Baleful Adulteress 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Helen never swears – "My God," she gasps, when her morbid imagination runs wild, "My God!" James Kelman 2012-07-29T19:00:01Z Looking back at a career lasting almost 50 years, Polke's art is a clutter-bag of images, techniques, reversals, jokes and morbid fantasies, using strange and sometimes poisonous radioactive and light-sensitive pigments, and other incongruous materials. Sigmar Polke ? sorry I missed you 2010-06-16T15:10:00Z It wasn’t that we were morbid, we were just — into it. The Duplass Brothers: The First Time We Got Cable TV 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z We can just as easily respond with indifference, morbid fascination — or worse. The Responsibility of Watching 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z The spectacle of a talent so hamstrung inspires both morbid fascination and acute embarrassment. On Video: Buster Keaton’s Talkie ‘Free and Easy’ Comes to DVD 2014-03-23T19:49:40Z I hesitated, wondering if I should say: these are just sad songs, you know me, I like the morbid stuff, or if I should tell him the truth. Confessions of a crybaby 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z Was it "Girlfriend in a Coma," the wickedly morbid Smiths single from 1987, delivered as a cha-cha-cha with cowbell? Mexrrissey's Spanish blast of Morrissey rocks an L.A. crowd 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z He’s sardonically morbid in “My Own Version of You,” a skulking waltz with a Frankenstein-like narrator who’s scouring “morgues and monasteries” for body parts to bring someone to life. Bob Dylan Still Bristles on ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Multiple interpretations of affluenza abound: one Christian group implores those infected with “credit card mania”, “greed fever” and “morbid despair” to “declare your independence from stuff!” Affluenza: the history of the 'disease' that plagues the wealthy and privileged 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Sure, it’s counterintuitive: “The Happiest Place on Earth” wouldn’t seem a natural habitat for black-sheathed disciples of the grim and morbid. For Goths at Disneyland, It’s a Dark World After All 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Beyond our usual, morbid fascination with the inner lives of the wealthy, beautiful, otherworldly being that is the celebrity, why do we care? Why do we even care which celebrities bathe? An investigation 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z Feeling very adult—31 is not that young—as well as a touch morbid, I took the train to Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, in search of a place to begin my afterlife. A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z Ms. Edebohls said that was not as morbid as it might sound. Green-Wood Cemetery, Where Presidential Aspirants Enjoy an Afterlife 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Suitably morbid given he’s due to play the villain in the new series. Emmys 2015: winners and performances – as it happened 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z There is a medical condition called coulrophobia, which is defined as a morbid fear of clowns. The wisdom of clowns 2011-03-17T07:59:00Z Says Felicia Nimue Ackerman, an ethical philosopher at Brown University: "Many seriously ill people find the 'morbid phase' of their lives well worth prolonging." Amour: how can we embrace a film that is so clearly an advert for euthanasia? 2013-02-28T12:35:58Z I was wondering why I have such a morbid sense of humor. "The Death of Dick Long" dares you to love the men who love Nickelback 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z The Tales of Hoffmann,” equally morbid, is a far more uneven film, but its best dance moments are piercing — and its finest, and strangest, performance is that of Mr. Ashton. Dance This Week: ‘Fantasia’ at MoMA and Ballet at the Joyce 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Caravaggio was involved in a sword fight, and he actually killed someone: that's what seems to be recreated here, and that's why the morbid gravitas of that situation really comes out of the painting. Caravaggio and me 2010-07-24T23:04:00Z This is a strikingly morbid image for the usually warm and optimistic Renoir, but these were not warm and optimistic times. DVD: Dana Andrews in Jean Renoir?s ?Swamp Water? on Blu-ray 2012-03-16T17:49:47Z Knausgaard doesn’t bite off more than he can chew, for he chews with a morbid enthusiasm, one that the reader never quite comes to share. At the Close of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle,’ a Magician Loses His Touch 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Vavrek's libretto harnesses the plot's morbid intensity by filling in details. L.A. Opera's 'Dog Days' goes out with a bang, not a whimper 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z The early going of “Breathe” is rich with many similarly fine-grained passages about Michaela’s morbid disorientation in the face of her widowhood. Review | Joyce Carol Oates captures the wobbly reality of widowhood in ‘Breathe’ 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z You can’t cook the food for your own funeral, unless you are good with freezers, time things well and have a morbid streak. Recipes for a Tidy and Tasty Death 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z This live, chirping bird, the only replaceable component of Edward Kienholz’s 1964-65 assemblage “The Wait,” animates a comically morbid tableau of old bones, faded photographs and musty wallpaper. Art Review: A Haunting Tour, One Room at a Time 2011-01-20T22:19:28Z The book’s morbid sense of humor will hit the Halloween sweet spot. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z And the band’s morbid pessimism hasn’t been leavened by the years; the lyrics are full of references to blood, drowning and war. New Music: Albums by Christina Aguilera, Soundgarden and Brian Eno 2012-11-12T23:19:31Z On a professor of hers: “I have a morbid desire to cut open her fat white flesh each time I see her and see if its onion juice or what that keeps her going.” Sylvia Plath’s Letters Reveal a Writer Split in Two 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z In 1993, ABC aired a Saturday morning cartoon show, "Tales From the Cryptkeeper," that featured a somewhat softer approach to the morbid material: characters didn't die, and being dismembered was off-limits. 12 spine-tingling facts about "Tales From the Crypt" 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z In these stories, ordinariness is not a mask hiding the morbid and the macabre. Review: `Revenge' filled with haunting prose 2013-01-29T21:01:05Z Even if it's got a very interesting subject matter, it's lost because the film is too morbid to enjoy. 'Sapphires' actor O'Dowd on aboriginal similarity 2013-03-29T13:37:08Z “I went through a phase where I had a huge morbid curiosity,” says Forget, who considered becoming a coroner, but ultimately went into the military. 'Banned in 46 countries' – is Faces of Death the most shocking film ever? 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Young-chan and Soon-ho are so deeply connected that when they voice their shared desire that one not outlive the other, their declarations don’t seem morbid so much as practical. Movie Review: ‘Planet of Snail,’ a South Korean Documentary 2012-07-24T22:08:39Z It’s a morbid comedy set in the Billy Barnes Extended Care Unit at Mt. ‘Getting On’ season 2: Hilarious medicine, in a weaker dose I say I follow these emergencies because I’m morbid, but the truth is that they fortify a fruitful attitude toward life. The Fortifying Pleasures of YouTube Cockpit Videos 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z It’s a premise that would usually play out as either morbid, shock-value horror or mordant, over-the-top comedy. ‘The Patient’ Review: The Doctor Is In. In the Basement. 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z My favorite of the American films, Ingrid Jungermann’s “Women Who Kill,” is a comedy so low-key and diffident, not to mention morbid, that it can take several beats to catch on to the jokes. The Tribeca Film Festival at 15: A Packed Lineup 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z As for gay conversion, I had this morbid curiosity about it as this very different sort of prison. Makers of gay-conversion film say they don’t want to ‘throw God under the bus’ 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z How morbid was it, I wondered, how presumptuous, for me to choose to get pregnant again? “I didn’t feel fit to be a mother:” I was holding it together, pushing through, getting by, and then one night, I wasn’t 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z His wife, Charlotte, tries to curb his morbid fancies by bringing home an antique typewriter that proves to be an amusing distraction. Many Sinners, Very Few Saints 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z For many home buyers, a morbid or criminal history is something they want to know about before moving in. ‘Murder houses’: The haunting final chapter in true-crime stories 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z The threat in “Warning,” an impish collection of morbid sci-fi shorts, is aimed at the audience. ‘Warning’ Review: Untethered From Humanity 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Also, less morbid though no less heavy: the loss of innocence. He Can See Dead People but ‘Not Like in That Movie.’ (OK, Sort Of.) 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z It's not that he's a morbid guy; he's just wryly aware of his musical legacy. Hitmaker Mark Ronson unveils his "Record Collection" 2010-09-26T19:17:00Z The character’s absurdism aligns with the authorial voice, which is not just humorously morbid but merrily macabre, as when Spencer wraps up a funeral oration by describing existence as “random, pointless, without redeeming value.” Armando Iannucci Gets Lost in Space in “Avenue 5” 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Still, passion and engagement ran high among those in attendance; seldom have I heard the work’s morbid humor elicit laughter so readily. Music Review: ?Lulu? at the Met, Now Conducted by Fabio Luisi 2010-05-09T22:19:00Z Recovering from a breakdown brought about by complications of modern fame, Alice is morbid but openhearted, a secret idealist in wolf’s clothing. Sally Rooney’s Novel of Letters Puts a Fresh Spin on Familiar Questions 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z “I guess it depends on how morbid a kid you are.” Secrets of the crematory: “Hey, come in here and help me get this big guy on the table” 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z Cale said that people walked out and the owner threatened to fire the band if it played the morbid “Black Angel’s Death Song” one more time. A Walk Through Velvet Underground History With John Cale 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Relentless and thoroughly preposterous, Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy’s script hews to its own batty logic, its frantic pacing peppered with morbid humor. ‘Ready or Not’ Review: The Run-and-Slay Bride 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z When I think “Victorian,” I think Melville and Dickinson: passionate, sardonic moral thinkers, too in love with beauty to be morbid. Art Review: ‘Jasper Johns: Regrets,’ a New Series at MoMA 2014-03-21T16:46:57Z One of the reasons these shows exist is to deliver a morbid thrill, like those supermarket magazines called 'Take A Chat!'. Charlie Brooker and Daniel Maier build the perfect TV detective 2012-08-24T23:05:00Z The Nationwide insurance company's commercial also sparked buzz on social media — mostly because of a message deemed morbid. Super Bowl ads: Tears (Budweiser), jeers (Nationwide), positivity (Coke) They wanted to pay tribute to a woman who exemplified compassion in a field that can so easily descend into a ghoulish morbid fascination, an objective Garbus would also come to adopt. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: the story of the search for the Golden State Killer 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Despite all the incomplete bodies, there’s nothing morbid or gory about Zimbelmann’s figures. Like time-lapse photography painted onto canvas: The art of Waldemar Zimbelmann 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z A sense of what we’re doing to the planet accompanies me all the time, but mostly as a distraction, a morbid static in the air. Inventing Climate-Change Literature 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Those words come from his classic lecture on “duende,” the spirit he saw as presiding over Spanish culture — the dark, earthy, imperfect, wild, morbid quality of its greatest art, music and bullfighting. Review: ‘Ainadamar’ Turns Lorca Into Death-Haunted Opera 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z “I have a pretty dark tone, and I find myself attracted to the sad aspects of things — not morbid, but realistic.” Meet the Next Generation of Cabaret Showstoppers 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z “In his most morbid moments,” McKenzie writes, “he sometimes thought: Lose a mother, gain a million aunties.” In the Caribbean and Beyond, Aunties Are So Much More Than Just Family 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Suitably morbid given he’s due to play the villain in the new series. Emmys 2015: winners and performances – as it happened 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z On the cover of the Book Review, Lily King praised Moshfegh’s sentences as “playful, shocking, wise, morbid, witty, searingly sharp,” and said that as a character Eileen is “as vivid and human as they come.” Reader’s Guide to This Fall’s Big Book Awards 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z It joins a roster of morbid whodunnits like “Top of the Lake” and “The Killing” — which, like “Broadchurch,” center on dead or missing children — as well as “The Bridge,” “The Fall,” “Rectify” and “Hannibal.” Television Review: ‘Broadchurch,’ a Dark Drama, Arrives on BBC America 2013-08-06T20:21:39Z "It's important not to be morbid," he said. Clive James is 'saying goodbye' 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z It sets the table for what follows: an exploration of the dividing line between sex and death that's at least as morbid and philosophical as anything in modernist European literature. "The Killer Inside Me": Much ado about misogyny 2010-06-17T14:01:00Z A western audience would be shocked to hear the elderly so nonchalantly on such morbid matters. One Child Nation: looking back at China's horrifying policy 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Maybe–and maybe I’m being morbid here–losing the church was itself the two-boats-and-a-helicopter. The Leftovers Spins the Wheel of Fortune 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z There’s something morbid about a world where a brave man is more scared of financial, than physical, risk. ‘Stuntman’ Review: A Big Leap 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z A similar morbid romanticism floats around her, an aura of tragic mystery deepened by her wry, impatient resistance to sentimentality. Review: In ‘Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,’ a Comfort Zone That Cannot Last 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Concerts featured naked dancers, flames, bullhorns and slide shows that included morbid films of surgeries and garbage fires. Teresa Taylor, Butthole Surfers Drummer and Face of Generation X, Dies at 60 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Teen viewers deserve a show that doesn’t treat their problems with coy concern or with morbid fascination, but with actual compassion. 13 Reasons Why: what the controversial drama gets wrong 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z This is a novel with a high body count, but it has far too much energy ever to feel morbid. A Novel of 1918 New Orleans, With Murder and All That Jazz 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Someone a little more forthright, less prone to morbid introspection. Loss leader: can a TV show continue without its main character? 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z The play would be more haunting — and morbid enough — without the inclusion of Williams’s lurid ending. Review: ‘Desire,’ Six Plays That Second-Guess Tennessee Williams 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z But there is once again a growing demand among men for high-end skin-care products, in spite of a morbid economy and high unemployment. Skin Deep: Men, Once Again, Invest in Skin Care ? Skin Deep 2011-12-20T17:06:18Z It hangs alongside Louise Nevelson’s morbid vision of herself, and Lee Krasner’s studious one, both painted more than a century later. A Museum’s Fresh Take on the Whole Megillah 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z A family portrait that plunges into what will strike many viewers as T.M.I. territory, the documentary “306 Hollywood” makes for morbid, at times insufferable viewing. Review: In ‘306 Hollywood,’ an Excavation — at Grandma’s House 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z There’s environment, we touched on that, but there’s also human health, there’s morbid of obesity and type diabetes that running rampant. Producer Natalie Portman exposes disturbing truths about factory farming in "Eating Animals" 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z In a very morbid way, at 40 you become aware of how long you've been on Earth and you start to question what you're going to use the remaining time doing. Sharon Horgan: 'There is a black streak in everything I've done' 2012-12-16T00:05:12Z The effect would be morbid but for the child’s delicate gesture: With one hand she holds out a stick that has a single bird feather suspended from the end and twirling with any passing breeze. Art Review: ‘Pawel Althamer: The Neighbors’ Is at the New Museum 2014-02-13T20:22:19Z “There is this curious mixing of mourning, pilgrimage, paying respect and morbid curiosity, and it mixes together in a messy way.” From Chernobyl to concentration camps: why the morbid fascination with places of death and disaster? 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z In the hands of Stephen King or Karen Russell, such horrific ends might yield nasty, morbid thrills. Review | What does the afterlife look like? ‘The Ghost Variations’ offers 100 possibilities. 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z It’s the most morbid time of the year. ‘Christmas Under Wraps’ Among Top 5 Holiday TV Movies 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z On “Rumour Has It,” written with Ryan Tedder, there are hollow counterpoint vocals, and a daringly morbid bridge that jerks away from the song’s rhythm, before once again acceding to it. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-28T23:15:55Z After that, they’re sold in a gift shop to tempt tourists with morbid tastes. A 'perfect storm' for the paranormal: touring America's most haunted town 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z “Where to Look for Your Wife” ran a headline in the Fall River Daily Globe, over an item describing the “crowd of morbid females who are storming the door of the county court house.” An Enthralling New Look at the Mystery of Lizzie Borden 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z I felt as Eileen did, that she was biding her time, counting the days of her life and all their morbid mundane contributions to her own hell and the hell of others around her. Ottessa Moshfegh on becoming a writer and her buzzed-about novel, 'Eileen' 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z “There’s a morbid fascination that exists in so many elements of culture … which makes it all the more of a spectacle.” Discretion, not CGI: how Philip Seymour Hoffman was kept in the Hunger Games 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z If you take it too seriously it becomes really morbid. Oscars 2015: 'Boyhood's' Ellar Coltrane balances fame and the future 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z The movie’s morbid laughter in the face of death has been replaced by juvenile tee-heeing at the ways Beetlejuice can shock the other characters with his bawdy naughtiness. Review | The new ‘Beetlejuice’ musical is overcaffeinated, overstuffed and virtually charmless 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z This is morbid territory, and Clapin struggles to balance the tone as he cuts between the macabre present and the hopeful past. ‘I Lost My Body’ Review: The Quest of a Severed Hand 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Spiegelman, 74, speaks softly and with precision, and has a reserved, professorial demeanor that can seem at odds with some of his transgressive early comics, which can be hypersexual or grotesquely morbid. Art Spiegelman on Life With a ‘500-Pound Mouse Chasing Me’ 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z In person Ms. Garner is warm and lively, not the least bit morbid. Four Artists to Watch Now 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z It’s a spirited battle cry, sure, but it’s also a morbid one, made only more grisly by the fact that the first character to say it is a child. ‘The Sea Beast’ Review: Of Monsters and Men 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z But counterpoint among the violins was murky, and musical inspiration ran short during the morbid concluding Rondo, after which a sizable portion of an already thinning audience departed. Music Review | American Symphony Orchestra: Loosening the Reins on Composers After Stalin 2010-03-01T05:50:00Z The fictional killing in “Sabrina” is disturbing, but Drnaso doesn’t fixate on the gore or the culprit; he’s more concerned with how the public claims and consumes it, spinning out morbid fantasies with impunity. Can You Illustrate Emotional Absence? These Graphic Novels Do 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z The museum’s new facility is located in Industry City, a complex of erstwhile waterfront warehouses in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, that now house galleries, boutiques, restaurants, bars and, shortly, one museum of morbid mementos. Had your fill of the Met? Visit these six quirky New York City museums instead. 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Appreciation of a movie like this requires an almost morbid degree of connoisseurship, which may, in practice, be hard to distinguish from bored acquiescence. Godzilla, Grandaddy of Movie Monsters, Stomps Back 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z For squeamish visitors, Houpt recommends a tour, which peppers the morbid with humor. Chicago’s creepy cabinet of curiosities 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The show’s audience, and its one-time ratings dominance on A+E, was as much about morbid fascination as it was about identification. The “Duck Dynasty” American dream: A cynical self-parody of Southern whiteness, whistling Dixie while Jindal’s Louisiana crumbles 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Some of the titles are morbid — “I Who Committed Suicide,” “Graves of the Unknown Soldier” — but the work is imaginative and individually inflected. Art Review: Yayoi Kusama at Whitney Museum of American Art 2012-07-12T21:34:04Z The waters recede, but her morbid obsession with the man intensifies. ‘On the Other Side of the River,’ Translated From Yiddish 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z People often "form morbid cringe obsessions" with targets that are "a symbol of something they hate about themselves, something they're ashamed of," Wynn theorizes. Chrissy Teigen and Alison Roman's fight reveals a deep well of women's insecurity about cooking 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z The collection was lean, tough, in places morbid, and rejected practically everything happening elsewhere during Fashion Week — color, silhouette, decorum — in favor of a signature emaciated apocalyptic mood, Kevlar toughness at caviar prices. The New Shapes of Men’s Wear at New York Fashion Week 2014-02-13T00:49:46Z Every morning I have the slightly morbid habit of reading the New York Times obituary section. I’ve been on a diet since I was four. Can I finally make peace with my body? 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z Borrowing members from other L.A. punk bands, he recorded “A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die,” an raucous album that developed a cult following for its elaborate, morbid lyrics and experimental bent. Your week in Seattle music: Zola Jesus, Bubba Sparxxx and more 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z The episode ended in a flurry of revelation and what was presumably morbid fantasy. ‘The Affair’ Season 3 Premiere: Tough Times for Noah 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z On “Learning” repeated, bright two-note bursts cut through morbid lower-register chords as Mr. Hadreas sang menacing lines in a hopeful way: “You will learn to mind me/And you will learn to survive/Me.” Music Review: Perfume Genius, Singing and Suffering at 92Y Tribeca 2010-07-22T20:58:00Z It was not only duty that prevented me from joining her, but also a morbid fascination with catastrophe. Movie Review: ‘Charlie Victor Romeo’ Depicts Doomed Flights 2014-01-28T23:18:30Z All three mall stories are smart, funny and fun, despite having morbid tendencies. ‘Friday Black’ Paints a Dark Portrait of Race in America 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z But it turned out to be a faintly morbid publicity stunt to promote their new action stomper, The Tomb. Outtakes: the week's film news in brief 2012-02-09T20:00:13Z Someone once superimposed a Clorox label on a picture of Gavin drinking from a mug, making reference to a morbid suicide meme. Meet Gavin, the eight-year-old with a face shared more than 1bn times 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z "It's very morbid, and there's a lot of depth and darkness and despair," he admits. Neil Young's US God Save the Queen 2012-06-08T11:08:57Z Michael Dorman plays a young intelligence officer with deadly skills and bad luck who deals with his angst by writing and performing hilariously sincere and morbid folk songs. Reviews: Amazon Pilots Include a Revolt and the Supernatural 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z The staff members, in their hardened, morbid humour, also make them shockingly funny. Addicts' hostel inspires debut play 2013-09-19T11:33:10Z Jessie Mae, the self-centered daughter-in-law played by Ms. Williams, has been warning Mother Watts that it’s just plain morbid to wallow in the past. Theater Review: ‘The Trip to Bountiful,’ at the Stephen Sondheim Theater 2013-04-24T02:00:06Z We want to be looked at not with pity, not with fear, not with morbid curiosity. Sheryl Crow’s tumor damage control 2012-06-06T15:40:00Z It doesn’t treat taxidermy as an icky, morbid, red-necky kind of thing. Taxidermy Goes To Next Level With a New Reality TV Show 2013-02-14T19:36:56Z Some of these are just the flesh-and-blood people in Norman’s life, the bullies and teachers and even relatives who, with degrees of impatience and love, chastise the 11-year-old for his unusually morbid habits. ‘ParaNorman,’ About a Boy and Zombies, With Elaine Stritch 2012-08-16T21:44:18Z It's a monster, force-fed to morbid obesity, but with the bone structure of a baby. Welcome to Lagos 2010-04-16T05:45:00Z Even in commercials meant to promote Botox, a morbid shadow looms. The Art of Botox 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z But “The Blue Hour” is not a morbid retrospective, nor is it a linear one. Review | ‘The Blue Hour’ song cycle mesmerizes 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z She said: “I think there’s something morbid going on.” Burglars target church where author Stephen King spoke 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Still, the film’s final images of him, totally dependent on his keepers, achieve a kind of morbid poignancy. Review: In ‘Caniba,’ a Killer Tries to Make His Case 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Poe was most likely living in the small third-floor bedroom when he wrote his first true horror story, “Berenice,” about a man engaged to his sickly cousin who develops a morbid obsession with her teeth. Poe Museum Is Threatened With ?Nevermore? 2011-08-07T16:21:11Z The only “morbid thought” that gave Fowler comfort was knowing that, should she be murdered, “everyone would know exactly who was responsible.” Review | ‘Whistleblower’ and ‘Uncanny Valley’ offer a chilling look at life in Silicon Valley 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Nor is it morbid, because no one dies in this one. TV review: The Plane Crash 2012-10-11T21:35:01Z Mr. Sheen is hardly the first celebrity to mistake morbid, hysterical curiosity for adoration, or to think that he could extend his fame by finding the right alloy of self-mockery, bravado and false populism. Critic?s Notebook: Belligerent and Boozy, and That?s Just the Audience 2011-04-03T20:27:46Z Klam agilely balances an existentially tragic story line with morbid humor and self-assured prose. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z It also raises the question of whether Romeo and Juliet is actually a better story without the morbid ending. Star-Cross'd – review 2012-07-13T14:41:35Z The Flea Theater is world premiering Linklater's broody drama about grief and survival, which melds surprising, often morbid humor with plot twists that connect the characters in unexpected ways. Review: 'The Vandal' is suspenseful, funny drama 2013-02-01T01:34:15Z In making the case that taxidermy is misunderstood, the movie emphasizes its subjects’ cuddliness, as if dwelling on the craft’s morbid qualities would alienate viewers. ‘Stuffed’ Review: There’s Artistry in That Plumage 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z It solicits the audience’s morbid curiosity rather than gripping our emotions or haunting our dreams. Review: Arturo Ripstein’s ‘Bleak Street,’ the Story of a Mexican Murder Case 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z In wartime, she went without bathing for weeks; she felt morbid fascination in front of ruined train tracks and gassed German corpses; and she took home a few creepy battlefield souvenirs. Over There: Daughters of Liberty 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Wight was a “demonstrator,” a word for professors of anatomy, and as early as 1846 he was said to possess a collection of “many valuable preparations in both healthy and morbid anatomy.” The White City Devil’s early life: “I think that he would have killed her” 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. Paloma Faith: 'I wish I was more stupid' 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z As I've said before, I continue watching The Affair only through some sort of morbid curiosity about the outcome, not because of any dedication to quality television. ‘The Affair’ Season 3, Episode 8: People See What They Want to See 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Incorrigibly innocent, he refuses to recognise that sex can sometimes be maniacal, morbid, an arena of darkness. Nicholson Baker 2011-08-13T23:04:05Z This group — Ms. Lambert, with Angaleena Presley and Ashley Monroe — is devoted to vintage country grit, morbid tales about heartbreak and tough talk about revenge. From Retro Yuck to Foodie Rap 2011-12-17T03:03:14Z They said some viewing "this fictitious morbid image" on the Internet may think it is real. Jackson estate demands autopsy show cancellation 2010-12-30T00:57:20Z The idea that all goths are morbid and depressed definitely isn’t the case. ‘I haven’t worn colour since I was 14’: meet Britain’s longest-standing goths 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z She didn’t realize what kind of subversive, morbid glory was in there. Phoebe Waller-Bridge Loves Antiheroines. Of Course. 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Is it a fungus, a miasma, an electrical disturbance, a deficiency of ozone, a morbid off-scouring of the intestinal canal? Dishing the dirt 2011-03-18T15:59:52Z What sounds morbid proved the opposite, an affirmation of life through his closeness with death. The Best Dance of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Though he does not dare express this anger directly, it takes the black-comedic form of morbid curiosity about Mal’s morbid obesity. Books of The Times: A Very Big Man and the Brother Who Resents Him 2011-07-31T21:15:13Z The death of a child is an especially morbid topic for TV. A wave of recent TV series focus on child deaths. Is it all too morbid — or a sign of our times? 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z The dates that float at either side of his face, forming a kind of morbid frame, suggest that he died on his birthday, four years ago, at the barely realized age of twenty-two. Why Do We Change Our Avatars After Tragedy? 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z As for the Miser and others who would have been stuck in steerage, the museum’s $5 admission price makes the show an ideal option for commemoration, as well as morbid fascination. Weekend Miser: ?Titanic at 100? at South Street Seaport Museum 2012-04-12T21:48:43Z If Shaw looks back to a Britain of the 1970s and 1980s, his morbid nostalgia now has a more political edge, in spite of his introspective intentions. George Shaw's prophetic art of neglect 2011-04-04T10:40:17Z The titles are as morbid as “Three Got Through” and “Six Came Back.” Antiques: Victorian Collections Capture Worlds Under Glass 2013-06-13T20:01:05Z “But there’s always a hint of comedy to it, because I think all of it is very, very funny. Life itself is very funny. Even the morbid things can be very funny.” Five Short, Dark Comedies About Smartphone Obsession 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z The ongoing, morbid fascination with all things Kennedy is an aspect of American culture I find perplexing and somewhat dispiriting. Review: ‘Chappaquiddick’ Revisits a Grim ’60s Kennedy Scandal 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Mourning relatives, conspiracy theorists and morbid gawkers grab at him as though he’s in a zombie apocalypse of grief. Review | In ‘Dear Edward,’ the world’s most famous orphan finds something to live for 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z “The glue that bonds us might be morbid and sad and awful, but … I feel very protective of these people.” 5 Accusers Speak Out Against Bill Cosby 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z “I think museums or other instances of public history can effectively utilize morbid stories or pathologies to engage an otherwise uninterested audience, as long as they put such material in context,” he said. Chicago’s creepy cabinet of curiosities 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z This painting by Picasso is so human in its tragedy, so full in its view of life, that it made the Bacons seem indulgent and morbid. Picasso in Britain and Lucian Freud ? the week in art 2012-02-10T17:29:24Z In “Figuring Flesh” — the most morbid, chaotic section — the body is physically violated in various ways, by war, religion, abstraction or explorations of gender. Real, or Too Real? A Dazzling Show Goes the Way of All Flesh 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z A sketch about a baby contest turns violent, then sexual, then morbid, then violent again. I Think You Should Leave: is this the funniest Netflix show yet? 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Should Britain succumb to the gathering threat of morbid obesity, then no one could blame Channel 4, which has been unstinting in its efforts to bring our attention to this disturbing malaise. Rewind TV: Zen; Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent; Silent Witness ? TV review 2011-01-09T00:05:37Z But not to be morbid — I’m not a morbid person. With ‘57th and 9th,’ Sting Changes His Mind About Rock 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z “It is how we are defined. I think about this, but not in a morbid way.” Anselm Kiefer Raises History’s Ghosts 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z When I was an oversensitive, confusedly furious and faintly morbid teenager in the 90s, there was one film director who seemed to know my soul better than anyone. On the set of Dumbo with Tim Burton: ‘Like meeting up with your teenage boyfriend’ 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z I would avoid the really surreal or morbid stuff. ArtsBeat: Retrospective on Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams Coming to Museum of the Moving Image 2012-04-04T14:21:42Z A writer of intense, morbid and cloistered passions, Lovecraft expressed a pervasive disgust with physical existence itself, as well as the cosmic dread for which he has often been celebrated. It’s OK to admit that H.P. Lovecraft was racist 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z There are even physical sites for Clay to visit, so the cassettes become like an audio guide on an especially morbid walking tour. Tom McCarthy: how does Hollywood's hottest hitmaker plan to top his Oscar? 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z The Mütter, the Quays agreed, transcends the morbid. Film: Animators Amok in a Curiosity Cabinet 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z Yet despite the morbid laughs and the beatific smile that can light up Saul’s face like that of St. Teresa of Ávila, “Crimes of the Future” feels like a requiem. ‘Crimes of the Future’ Review: The Horror, the Horror 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z While fascinating in a morbid way, this is hardly a laughing matter. Cracking up: can mental health make good comedy? 2010-04-22T14:14:00Z I understood that moment, thinking of my mother, who has taken to more morbid discussions in the last year or so, for understandable reasons. For Mother’s Day, a Healing Meditation on Mortality 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Their morbid adolescent fantasies provided “strategies for survival.” Deception and death on a gorgeous Greek isle 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z Psychiatrists talk a lot about “insight,” or what one defined as “the correct attitude to a morbid change in oneself.” In ‘Strangers to Ourselves,’ a Revelatory Account of Mental Illness 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z As anyone might, he at first pondered the most morbid possibilities. Rediscovering Wine After Covid-19 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z What was Glenn’s father actually looking for in this morbid reading material? David Rabe on the Netherworld of Fiction 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z It is easy to be morbid and metaphorical about the unfeigned death of Michael Jackson, on 25 June 2009. Michael Jackson: King of hypochondria 2010-04-23T23:14:00Z Granted, creating a theme park based upon a story about a totalitarian regime that holds games every year in which children are forced to murder one another is a little…morbid. That Hunger Games Theme Park? Here Are 5 Attractions We Want to See 2013-11-18T10:45:58Z It’s almost a teenage, morbid fascination with what these young men went through, which was so horrific. Kit Harington on the 'Teenage, Morbid Fascination' Behind His Latest Role 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z The messages are reverent, if slightly morbid, looking forward to death’s release from worldly cares in songs like the Golden Echoes’ “Packing a Grip.” Playlist: Roots Rock and the Funk of the Firmament 2010-02-19T21:40:00Z The stories acted as a divining rod, signaling the morbid well within me. ‘Scary Stories’ Gave Me Nightmares as a Kid. Thank Goodness. 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z “Monroe zeroes in on the aftermath of murder, on the morbid curiosity that draws eager civilians toward the crime scene and catapults them into starring roles,” Kaitlin Phillips writes in her review. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z A morbid strain runs through some of the works as Ms. Feinstein grapples with and battles the forces trying to shut down painting in favor of other media. 10 Under-the-Radar Art Shows to See Now 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z They despise what they see as one of rock's ultimate commodities, the "morbid young men" persona. New band of the day ? No 754: Airship 2010-03-25T16:45:00Z Over 35 is considered severe or morbid obesity. Do you know what too fat looks like? 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z “It was really morbid. I was the only one who signed up,” she said. The Vegetarians Who Turned Into Butchers 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Such approaches are horrifying, but they also conjure, as it were, a morbid curiosity. Why the Life-Insurance Industry Wants to Creep on Your Instagram 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Likewise, though its subject matter is the inevitability of death and the various afflictions, physical and mental, of old age, the novel is far from being morbid or depressing. Rereading: Memento Mori by Muriel Spark 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z But neon is not necessarily so irate or morbid. 100 years of neon 2011-08-27T23:05:03Z “A mausoleum of some kind or a cemetery, because the music is very morbid.” Brian Eno: Ambient Sounds, but Political, Too 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Every second you sink into their story drains away more of your human spirit, and brings you that much closer to morbid despair. The Duggars and Caitlyn Jenner are the “real news”: The reality that the Hillary Clinton media spectacle wishes desperately that you’d ignore 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z If he was effective as a ghostwriter because he could verbalize complex, sometimes morbid dynamics between men and women, his new material is simpler. Pardison Fontaine and the Plight of the Ghostwriter 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z A random collection of images of construction in west London, set to morbid melodies, left me confused and irritated. Witty or gritty? What ingredients make the best short films? 2011-01-14T16:29:46Z And yet–just like the hospitalized kids themselves–its audience doesn’t want to dwell on the morbid, to forget the fun and promise of life. Review: Red Band Society Has Faults and (Potential) Stars 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z Like many in the Victorian hygienic movement, Woodhull viewed this “morbid vice” as sapping one’s energy and, for men, wasting precious bodily fluids. Mike Huckabee’s worst nightmare: Meet the radical sisters who revolutionized 19th century America 2014-03-09T15:00:00Z “As I got older, I got more Victorian and morbid,” he said. Possessed : The Artist Dustin Yellin is on the Lookout for the Dark Side 2013-07-05T18:40:34Z Works are categorized both thematically and chronologically and include jewelry, headdresses, ceramics, ancient stone carvings and textiles as well as the mesmerizingly morbid masks, weapons and vessels used in sacrificial ceremonies. Peru's Private Treasures at Museo Larco 2011-04-07T10:40:00Z The only Adams version that comes close to besting the original is his morbid deconstruction of “Shake It Off.” Teaming Up, Together (Drake and Future) or Apart (Ryan Adams and Taylor Swift) 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z In his 1919 essay, Freud linked the uncanny to a “morbid anxiety” caused by the return of a primitive belief we’ve done our best to repress. The Horror Novel Lurking in Your Busy Online Life 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z In “Who By Fire,” from 1974, one of his many songs that is both a list and an incantation, he itemized causes and sites of death, getting morbid while keeping a hint of puckishness: An Appraisal: Leonard Cohen, Master of Meanings and Incantatory Verse 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z “I do my best to stay away from morbid excitement of the masses,” says Browning, who actually loves every minute of his adventure. Bears and Poets: Endangered Prey in This Week’s Crime Column 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z More focused on morbid humor, for sure, and, like “Smallville,” reasonably well executed and entertaining. ‘Wednesday’ Review: The Strange Girl Is on the Case 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z It’s a really swell place, the kind of cheery eatery that you never encounter in O’Hara’s morbid, oppressive fiction. Essay: Postcards From My Literary Staycation 2010-08-27T15:04:00Z Martha Rosler used a morbid kind of irony in her 1967-72 photomontage “Red Stripe Kitchen,” showing a skewed but tasteful domestic scene with a broad stripe of blood on the wall. The Week in Arts: Idris Elba, Taking on War and José González 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z The image would feel morbid if we didn’t know about his daily dips in Miami’s Biscayne Bay. Perspective | Can Iggy Pop hear the future? 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z It’s been a morbid tourist attraction for decades. A morbid tourist attraction in Sicily? Of corpse! 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z “It’s a beautiful art, but it’s pretty morbid,” he said. Memorial T-Shirts Create a Little Justice, a Tiny Peace 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z It ran at the BAM Next Wave Festival last year; Charles Isherwood called it “morbidly funny, and sometimes just plain morbid,” and named it an NYT Critic’s Pick. 59E59 Theaters’ New Season: Finding Laughs in Death and Sexism 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z To say that books about death are morbid may seem a truism, but of course, most books are about death. ‘The Good Death,’ ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ and More 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z The more adult-focused haunted houses in the area are known for being crass and morbid forms of entertainment. Haunted house employee charged with battery, disorderly conduct 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z That could mean so many things … This morbid undertone may be found throughout medieval cookery. Thanksgiving, medieval style: Give thanks that “Red Deer testicles” and “living eels in roasted pig” aren’t on the menu today 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z This didn’t bother me much, given my morbid inclinations. When Tragedy Strikes, What Does Criticism Have to Offer? 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z “A little morbid parents, but they were fun.” A Sisterhood of Scares 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z It is the flying leap from boredom, irritation and suffocation into morbid fantasies of murder that is not credibly evoked in any of the three marriages in this volume. Books of The Times: Marital Death Wish: ?Mr. Peanut? by Adam Ross 2010-06-21T21:46:00Z Tattoo artists loved to copy his work, while detractors dismissed it as so much morbid kitsch. H. R. Giger, Artist Who Gave Life to ‘Alien’ Creature, Dies at 74 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z It may seem morbid to us, especially with the coronavirus pandemic still raging, but during the Victorian period, post-mortem photography was a popular way to commemorate the dead. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Big Flower Fight’ and ‘Dead Still’ 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z Tuesday is a generally morbid night on PBS, beginning with “The Forgotten Plague,” an “American Experience” documentary written and directed by Chana Gazit. Review: ‘Being Mortal’ and ‘The Forgotten Plague’ Explore Death and Disease 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z All of that to see a slight, morbid, misanthropic 2010 Woody Allen film. Cannes: Woody Allen's "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" 2010-05-15T23:01:00Z In Mr. Chibnall’s debut, words and ideas no longer have pride of place — the game playing is gone, along with the sharply morbid sense of humor. Review: The Doctor Regenerates, and So Does ‘Doctor Who’ 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Marie’s is a morbid tale, one that belongs — like James’s “The Turn of the Screw” — in the uncanny aisle of the horror supermarket. A Dark Cavalcade of New Horror Fiction 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z “What could, in less talented hands, be morbid, becomes both humorous and touching,” Mel Gussow wrote in The New York Times, adding that “Miss Jacker is very much a playwright to watch.” Corinne Jacker, Obie Award-Winning Playwright, Is Dead at 79 2013-01-25T01:10:30Z There is a certain morbid fascination in watching an artist crash and burn, but the reality for the sufferer is that depression is so debilitating it's impossible to create anything at all. Behind the music: Why are musicians more likely to suffer from depression? 2010-12-17T13:40:21Z Freud's colours – bruise blue, livid orange, morbid green, the irradiated red of chafed thighs, the silver of stretchmarks – gave substance to the body, but also to the life of the painting. Life writ large 2011-07-22T17:34:00Z When he returned five minutes later, he was met by a morbid silence. With the 2016 Summer Olympics just a year away, what Brazil can learn from World Cup 2014 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Within, a morbid exercise is taking place: cadaver scent training. Cadaver dogs: attending camp with the canines trained to smell death 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z And the production on this album, which nods to Wu-Tang Clan and late-period A Tribe Called Quest among others, is gooey and sometimes morbid, like on the slurry “Guild.” Earl Sweatshirt and ASAP Ferg, Hip-Hop Progressives 2013-08-15T16:50:54Z More recent works offer, instead of space aliens and prosthetics, morbid doublings akin to the one in “You, or Me.” Art Review: ‘Maria Lassnig’ Celebrates the Artist at MoMA PS1 2014-03-27T21:52:41Z The latter's morbid odor of sanctity, freighted with mystical symbolism, is a fragrance from which my critical nostrils recoil. Wagner and Mendelssohn make interesting bedfellows at Seattle Symphony 2010-06-18T18:33:00Z It is a morbid idea — one that the related essay describes as "preposterous" — but there is something seductive about it too: a rider loop-de-looping his way to eventual, euphoric annihilation. Devising death: 'Design & Violence' portrays real tools of violence and they are chilling 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z It’s played with power to match the design, so this “Richard the Third” is camera ready as a kind of morbid, icy hellscape. Review | There will be blood in the STC’s gross-out ‘Richard the Third’ 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z This morbid fascination with the suffering of the young and beautiful is not new. "The Wonder": Netflix’s story of "fasting girls" shows us starving bodies remain a public spectacle 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z It allowed us to cloak our morbid curiosity in safe-distance empathy. Review | Marie Kondo brings something besides her famous tidying skills to reality TV: Gratitude 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z For the last quarter-century of his life, Jackson's relationship with his body was by turns a matter of morbid public knowledge and pure mystery. Michael Jackson: King of hypochondria 2010-04-23T23:14:00Z A pop-up restaurant in Tokyo, Japan launched a menu of morbid meals for a limited time. Tokyo restaurant creates menu based on last meals of famous death row inmates 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z After experiencing numerous deaths — family members, kids at church, and in my village — I expressed my morbid curiosity too openly. Bring me to life: Evanescence helped me find my trans voice 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z Today, such morbid ruminations are hard to sustain in the brilliant summer light reflecting from Lake Geneva. Lake Geneva as Shelley and Byron Knew It 2011-05-27T19:00:27Z People are often fascinated by death and disaster – maybe morbid curiosity is inescapable. From Chernobyl to concentration camps: why the morbid fascination with places of death and disaster? 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z It is a morbid glow; indeed, Scottie’s unrealizable longing will cause Judy’s death. ‘Vertigo,’ Through Two Artists’ Eyes 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z The tone of that song — mournful, dazed, sullen, traumatized, self-absorbed, defensive, remote, morbid — was pervasive in the pop of 2017. Pop Music in 2017: Glum and Glummer 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z In contrast to the morbid and wildly neurotic Enoch, he’s matter of fact, very sensible, and more than a little exasperated by his friend’s extravagant moods. The New Season Film: The Breakthrough Performances of the Fall 2011-09-18T00:03:03Z "I don't think the show is morbid," he said, slightly anxiously. Dead good 2012-11-14T18:50:22Z In “A Tomb With a View,” composed by her musical director and pianist, David Caldwell, the mysticism was balanced by morbid humor. Music Review: Raissa Katona Bennett at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency 2012-08-23T22:26:11Z Two summers ago Gore turned 60, and it “really slapped me in the face,” he said with a morbid chuckle. The Exquisite Darkness of Depeche Mode 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z The more you think about Alice in Wonderland, the more morbid and perverse it becomes. Summer Voyages: The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster 2013-07-17T09:16:27Z I know this may sound morbid, but I was like, if I were to die today, I have all these half-songs on my hard drive, and I don’t want that. André 3000 Is Moving On in Film, Music and Life 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z It must be that dry British humor that helps decidedly morbid situations to play out as droll and even heartwarming. Kids save the day in 'What We Did on Our Holiday' 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z Just as with Furious 7, audiences were fascinated to glean every iota of morbid detail about how the process was carried out. Back from the dead: how Hollywood pulled off its most unexpected resurrection acts 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z When he offers romance, it’s usually with a morbid streak. Review: Hozier at Beacon Theater With Somber Songs of Love and Other Futilities 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z The image haunted Doughty for years, so much so that it awakened in her an unwavering curiosity with the morbid. America’s next top mortician: “It really improves your life to be around corpses” 2012-10-27T22:00:00Z As for Greuze – what visitor to the Wallace Collection spends much time on this sentimental, morbid, palpably dishonest artist's clogged and nauseating daubs? For critics, it's better to be interesting than right 2011-01-28T13:02:56Z Hovering above a morbid, anxious piano figure, Drake raps about the hollowness of being lonely, and after the chorus, uses Kardashian’s words but reframes them, making them sound like a lament about the single life. Drake Surprises With a Kim Kardashian Sample, and 11 More New Songs 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The town may in any case decide the pier is more of a morbid attraction for sightseers and film crews the way it is. Byzantium – review 2013-05-30T14:31:01Z Each features a troubled Englishwoman who takes an almost morbid interest in another person or persons. Mysteries review: Paula Hawkins’s ‘The Girl on the Train” and Harriet Lane’s ‘Her’ 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z She has been described as morbid, obsessed with mortality. My Hero, Emily Dickinson, Outlaw of Amherst 2010-05-13T14:38:00Z This tradition of what academics call "dark tourism" endures today: there is something morbid about peering at Amy Winehouse's skinny but healthily waxy arms. What makes Madame Tussauds' wax work? 2011-02-26T09:00:02Z When Linkous died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound last year, it left the way open, if you were so minded, for a morbid reappraisal of his lyrics. My favourite album: Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot by Sparklehorse 2011-08-22T10:54:28Z I don’t mean to be morbid or ungrateful, but at 69, statistically speaking, the vaccine will probably allow me to exist only through the first Kamala Harris administration. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: I admit it. Like a lot of people, I had vaccine envy. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z That year, photographs of his work were shown at the Venice Biennale, after which the artists revealed that they had drawn the documentation from the morbid “shock site” rotten.com. Watch an Art Work About the Dark Web, on the Dark Web 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z It's a little funny, in a morbid sort of way. "Dear Father" letters and DNA tests 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Jackson's mother skipped morbid testimony about Jackson's autopsy, but listened as her son's friend and makeup artist told jurors about watching him perform, and gradually become more dependent on prescription drugs. Jackson civil jury hears roots of singer's trouble 2013-05-11T14:53:08Z Because many of Mr. Cave’s songs deal with morbid themes, the connection between the tragedy and his gothic sensibility is inescapably eerie. Review: ‘One More Time With Feeling’ Listens to Nick Cave’s Darkness 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z In his view, mopping up morbid scenes that would give most people nightmares wasn't a huge stretch. He cleaned crime scenes, then wrote a book 2010-06-18T22:55:00Z He had a morbid dread of loosening the bond between himself and his readers, which he rightly saw as being "personally affectionate and like no other man's". The Great Charles Dickens Scandal by Michael Slater - review 2012-11-23T22:55:02Z It might seem nonsensical to imagine a 14-year-old weighing her odds of continuing life like some morbid hand of blackjack, but that’s where I found myself as a freshman in high school. “Punk,” “bitch,” “dumbass,” “slut”: bullying almost killed me, but leaving school saved my life 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Six Flags amusement park in St. Louis, Mo., is holding a morbid contest for the brave – and not claustrophobic. Missouri Six Flags holds 'Coffin Challenge' requiring guests to stay in coffin for 30 hours 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z The mood of morbid, smiling-through-tears sentimentality recalls “The Fault in Our Stars,” “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” and “If I Stay.” Review: ‘Before I Fall,’ a Melodramatic ‘Groundhog Day’ 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Sprawling group chats with relatives and friends and neighbors have become a morbid game of telephone, a way to take stock of who’s still alive and who’s been killed. Seattle-area Palestinians watch in horror, fear as Gaza siege continues 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z But in spite of the ghouls and revenants and other morbid players from the sidewalk boneyard, Halloween is a holiday for the living. Ghostly Presence 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z Research has shown that a major part of the attraction is their appeal to morbid curiosity. Morbid Curiosity Is Linked to Conspiracy Theories 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z This paradox is now being resolved by research on the science of scary play and morbid curiosity. The Evolutionary Reasons We Are Drawn to Horror Movies and Haunted Houses 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z All three of the Irving family members said they could hear and converse with Gef, who sometimes made morbid remarks and who showed a particular fondness for Voirrey. The strange story of Gef, the Isle of Man’s talking mongoose 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Wheeler said he accessed videos from the terrorist group calling itself Islamic State, which showed people being killed, out of "morbid curiosity", adding: "It's not something you see in every day life." Wiltshire A-level student guilty of terrorism offences 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z "We grew up during the Biafran war, surrounded by a lot of death. You sort of have this morbid fascination with everything horror," she says. Nuzo Onoh - the Queen of African horror who is terrified of ghosts 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z If the drive to seek out conspiracy theories is motivated by a desire to identify and understand potential threats, then we should expect interest in conspiracy theories to be linked with higher morbid curiosity. Morbid Curiosity Is Linked to Conspiracy Theories 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z In humans, morbid curiosity seems to be associated with cooperation and risk management. The Evolutionary Reasons We Are Drawn to Horror Movies and Haunted Houses 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Ozempic could drop one from the requisite weight associated with the danger zones of obesity or morbid obesity. Ozempic, the "miracle drug," and the harmful idea of a future without fat 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z A death meditation may sound morbid, but often it’s a celebration of life. A sound bath in one of L.A.'s oldest churches will take you to a higher plane 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z “As morbid as it sounds, it’s a natural experiment,” said Jason Spadaro, a biological scientist who manages the Coral Reef Restoration Research Program at Mote Marine Laboratory, an independent marine research institute. Florida's coral is in hot water. Scientists are diving in to rescue the fragile creatures before it's too late 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z The first study tested the question: is morbid curiosity linked with higher belief in conspiracy theories? Morbid Curiosity Is Linked to Conspiracy Theories 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Second, make sure that your morbid curiosity is educating you about risks in a way that is beneficial to you. The Evolutionary Reasons We Are Drawn to Horror Movies and Haunted Houses 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Their morbid curiosity didn’t take a break while shooting their feature debut, “Talk to Me,” in a hospital said to have a haunted wing. 'Talk to Me' directors Danny and Michael Philippou spill the secrets of their horror hit 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z Despite the morbid preoccupation with diving’s dangers, “The Deepest Breath” is an intense and often beautiful movie, likely to appeal to fans of extreme sports documentaries like “Free Solo” and “Riding Giants.” Review: Propulsive and risky, 'They Cloned Tyrone' is just what you want from young filmmakers 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z No parent should have to accept that their “child was killed and in a very disturbing, morbid, traumatizing way,” Melissa Smith said, according to a GoFundMe page created in May. Mothers hope for answers as authorities announce ‘person of interest’ in deaths of 4 women in Oregon 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Using the morbid curiosity scale and the generic conspiracist beliefs scale, we found that the more morbidly curious people were, the higher their general belief in conspiracy theories. Morbid Curiosity Is Linked to Conspiracy Theories 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Relative safety and inexperience are two of the most powerful moderators of predator inspection in animals—and of morbid curiosity in humans. The Evolutionary Reasons We Are Drawn to Horror Movies and Haunted Houses 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Pink’s reaction stands in stark contrast to her reaction to the morbid gift she received Sunday night: the ashes of a fan’s mother. Ashes to cheeses, remains to brie: Pink keeps getting weird gifts onstage from fans 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z For Tkachenko, the assault means there is likely no end in sight to his morbid data entry, which he considers crucial for the historical record. Spreadsheet of the dead: counting the cost of war in central Ukraine 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z She said: "It is not morbid, it is about their lives. It is very satisfying." Isles of Scilly churchyard volunteers uncover buried tales 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z In psychology, morbid curiosity describes a heightened interest in learning about threatening or dangerous situations. Morbid Curiosity Is Linked to Conspiracy Theories 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Fans called the use of the case as a clue “unnecessarily morbid” and in “incredibly poor taste.” Can you pronounce 'Solzhenitsyn'? These three 'Jeopardy!' contestants could not 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Maybe it’s morbid to play supermarket sweepstakes in the homes of the deceased. Skip the souvenir shop and scour an estate sale The operations, used to treat morbid obesity, are carried out in the UK. Warnings against 'reckless' weight loss surgery abroad 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z She said the pictures, including those of her 13-year-old daughter Gianna, were taken and shared "for no reason other than morbid gossip". LA agrees to pay Kobe Bryant widow almost $29m 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z It can be measured using the morbid curiosity scale, which gives a rating for general morbid curiosity, and curiosity in four domains: minds of dangerous people, violence, paranormal danger and body violation. Morbid Curiosity Is Linked to Conspiracy Theories 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z "I've passed through initial shock and intrigue, I'm over the hump of enjoyment, and I'm into morbid fascination, rubbernecking the awkward audience responses, dissecting the intricate hand-ography." Angela Bassett and Ariana DeBose did the thing: Stars embrace a week of internet infamy 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Noting that people were making stickers that said, “I Survived the Toxic Train Wreck 2/2/23,” Mr. Murphy gave a morbid laugh. In Ohio Town Where Train Derailed, Anxiety and Distrust Are Running Deep 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z “I don’t mean to sound morbid, but I don’t think it needs to be risk free because that’s one of the attractions.” NASCAR 75: Car evolution includes stock, wings, safety. EV? 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z At first, it may sound like a morbid choice for a show whose run falls so close to Valentine’s Day, but “Giselle” is a love story for the ages. Love triumphs in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s ‘Giselle’ 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z For the second study, we tested if the link between morbid curiosity and interest in conspiracy theories was driven by people’s perception of threats. Morbid Curiosity Is Linked to Conspiracy Theories 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z The reason insurers can offer payout rates that exceed what you may earn, say, in the bond market is because of a simple but morbid fact: Some people die earlier than expected. For More Certainty in Your Retirement Portfolio, Consider Annuities 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z The group has named its telehealth facility “The Samuel Alito’s Mom’s Satanic Abortion Clinic,” a morbid swipe at the Supreme Court justice who wrote the majority opinion last year in Dobbs v. Satanic Temple plans to open abortion telehealth clinic in New Mexico 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, Americans found that idea far too sad, morbid and weird to entertain. Opinion | We could all learn from Marie Kondo’s untidy pivot 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z A few months ago, out of a morbid curiosity, I visited Death Clock, a website that labels itself the “Internet’s friendly reminder that life is slipping away … second by second.” Perspective | If you could, would you want to know when you will die? 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z We found that the higher people’s morbid curiosity, the higher they perceived the threat in conspiratorial explanations. Morbid Curiosity Is Linked to Conspiracy Theories 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Its tale of the dying days of a New England clockmaker was knotty and morbid, but in a memorably lyrical, gentle way. Paul Harding's modest debut won a surprise Pulitzer. His third novel aims too high 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Nierman predicted that the movie will get a lot of attention because of morbid curiosity, which may not be good for Baldwin in the long term. Analysis | Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ comments may have hurt him, some experts say 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z I appreciated that you suggested that these photos should be seen as a celebration, rather than as some morbid refusal to move on. Advice | Ask Amy: Two women are having my babies. What should I do? 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z |
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