Maybe her ravenous eating wasn't grotesque because she was so positive about it.

Famous in his own time for his perceived ugliness, Abraham Lincoln was described by a contemporary: " to say that he is ugly is nothing ; to add that his figure is grotesque, is to convey no adequate impression.

Deeply disturbed by the surge of militaristic nationalism in 1930s world politics, Chaplin found that he could not keep these issues out of his work: " How could I throw myself into feminine whimsy or think of romance or the problems of love when madness was being stirred up by a hideous grotesque, Adolf Hitler?

But she was wrong ; the art the traditionalists deemed " not only incompetent, but grotesque " came to dominate the 20th century.

The effect of the Greek interpretation was to reduce a more-than-human female, daughter of the Sun itself, to a stereotyped emblem of grotesque bestiality and the shocking excesses of female sensuality and deceit.

Shortly prior to the performance, Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst was appalled by Staind's grotesque album cover and unsuccessfully attempted to remove them from the bill.

Elliot Stein of The Village Voice saw the film as an ardent critique of American involvement in Vietnam, arguing that it " was not set in Transylvania, but Pennsylvania – this was Middle America at war, and the zombie carnage seemed a grotesque echo of the conflict then raging in Vietnam ".

In France " arabesque " first appears in 1546, and " was first applied in the latter part of the 17th century " to grotesque ornament, " despite the classical origin of the latter ", especially if without human figures in it-a distinction still often made, but not consistently observed,

As used in Moorish and Arabic decorative art ( from which, almost exclusively, it was known in the Middle Ages ), representations of living creatures were excluded ; but in the arabesques of Raphael, founded on the ancient Græco-Roman work of this kind, and in those of Renaissance decoration, human and animal figures, both natural and grotesque, as well as vases, armour, and objects of art, are freely introduced ; to this the term is now usually applied, the other being distinguished as Moorish Arabesque, or Moresque.

I thought he was an extreme grotesque of a boy, a twisted boy.

* The Church of St. James, also called Schottenkirche, a Romanesque basilica of the 12th century, derives its name from the monastery of Irish Benedictines ( Scoti ) to which it was attached ; the principal doorway is covered with very singular grotesque carvings.

It is known that Alben W. Barkley, a Democrat and the Senate Majority Leader, called the film “ silly and stupid ,” and said it “ makes the Senate look like a bunch of crooks .” He also remarked that the film was “ a grotesque distortion ” of the Senate, “ as grotesque as anything ever seen!

" Although apparently elderly, he claims to be only 31 years old ( in 1993's " Selma's Choice ", his driver's license says he was born August 2, 1961, and in " Duffless ", Moleman confessed his real age at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, implying that his grotesque appearance has been caused by severe alcoholism ), though Moleman has been seen at the Springfield Retirement Home on season ten's " The Old Man and the " C " Student " and in the season 13 episode Little Girl in the Big Ten.

Pieter Brueghel the Younger () ( 1564 or 1565, – 10 October 1636 ) was a Flemish painter, known for numerous copies after his father Pieter Brueghel the Elder's paintings and nicknamed " Hell Brueghel " for his fantastic treatments of fire and grotesque imagery.

Having broken his jaw in a boxing match, Dawson was able to pull grotesque faces by pulling his jaw over his upper lip.

Because each head model had the same number of key points of reference, transforming one character into another was simple ; more difficult, the animators recalled, was ensuring that the transformation looked " pleasing " and not " grotesque ".

She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters.

His operas have a remarkably strong sense of dramatic effect as well as a great musical facility, and a grotesque humour which was characteristic of Italian grand opera down to the death of Alessandro Scarlatti.

According to an 1826 article submitted by a person well-versed in local history identifying himself as W. Reader, there was already a well-established tradition before his time that there was a certain tailor who had taken a peek at Lady Godiva, and that at the annual Trinity Great Fair ( now called the Godiva Festival ) featuring the Godiva processions " a grotesque figure called Peeping Tom " would be set on display, and it was a wooden statue carved from oak.

The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.

But after the doctor's return that night Alex could see, from the high window in his own room, the now familiar figure crouched on a truly impressive heap of towels, apparently giving its egg-hatching powers one final chance before it was replaced in its office by a sure-enough hen.

It was a fine broody hen, white, with a maternal eye and a striking abundance of feathers in the under region of the abdomen.

The purchase was effected and they made their way towards the hotel again, the hen, with whom some sort of communication had been set up, nestling in the doctor's arms.

Alex entered first and was followed by the doctor who, for all his care, manifested a perceptible bulge on his left side where the hen was cradled.

The hen appeared to have no doubts as to her duties and was quick to settle down to the performance of them.

The doctor sat down rather wearily, caressing the hen and remarking that the city was not the place for a poultry-loving man, but no sooner was the remark out than a knock at this door obliged him to cover the hen with his greatcoat once more.

Next, the hen was nested and all seemed well.

At the time Alex arrived he was engaged in some sort of intimate communication with the hen, who had settled herself on the nest most peacefully after the occurrences of the morning.

While Kepler considered most traditional rules and methods of astrology to be the " evil-smelling dung " in which " an industrious hen " scrapes, there was an " occasional grain-seed, indeed, even a pearl or a gold nugget " to be found by the conscientious scientific astrologer.

" hen an American soldier was captured by the Chinese, he was given a vigorous handshake and a pat on the back.

Under the section entitled " Whether the hen or the egg came first ", the discussion is introduced in such a way suggesting that the origin of the dilemma was even older:

... the problem about the egg and the hen, which of them came first, was dragged into our talk, a difficult problem which gives investigators much trouble.

" Among the experiments made ... was one upon a safe twenty-nine inches cube, with walls four inches and three quarters thick, made up of plates of iron and steel ... hen a hollow charge of dynamite nine pounds and a half in weight and untamped was detonated on it, a hole three inches in diameter was blown clear through the wall ...

In 1972, Shakur was the subject of a nationwide manhunt after the FBI alleged that she was the " revolutionary mother hen " of a Black Liberation Army cell that had conducted a " series of cold-blooded murders of New York City police officers ", including the " execution style murders " of New York Police Officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones on May 21, 1971 and Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie on January 28, 1972.

A traditional garnish was unlaid chicken eggs, which were taken from a hen and boiled in the soup.

While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.

Already our leaky lifeboat was filled with five inches of water.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

and `` Marmee '' March, like Sophie Szold, was the competent manager of her brood of girls, of whom the Marches had only four to the Szolds' five.

So what Fred and Ralph did was to attempt to prorate the money fairly by taking into account what each of the five had received, if anything, from the estate before Papa's death.

Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.

Trig was one of the five volunteers.

Giselle was reluctant but Alex succeeded in persuading her to come back in five minutes and the door was shut again.

At five o'clock that night it was already dark, and behind my closed door I was dressing as carefully as a groom.

The work program, as it was originally proposed, was to take five years to complete.

After five minutes with Blanche, one might welcome the astringency of Grazie, who was a sort of Gwen Cafritz to Francesca's Perle Mesta.

It was five minutes after four.

Overwhelmed with the care of five young children and concerned about persistent economic difficulties due to her husband's marginal income, her defense of denial was excessively strong.

For five days now, they had been in port and that filthy stuff was still in the hold.

If he is not told which of four or five readings was meant for him, he can more readily assess each item in a larger frame: `` Does that statement really sound as if it were for me, significant in my particular life??

After heavy rains and an onslaught of mice, snow fell on October 15, 1825, and remained on the ground through a winter so cold that the ice on the Red was five feet thick.

At twelve minutes after five on the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906, San Francisco was shaken by a severe earthquake.

Another common cure was to soak the feet five or ten minutes in warm water, then to apply a solution of equal parts of soda and common brown soap on a kid bandage overnight.

They adopted a program by which Louisiana was divided into five districts.

Each of the five principal posts was to have a director, responsible to a director-general at New Orleans.

The Oldsmobile with the license number JYJ 114 was in stall number five.