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horrifying and sexual
Unconventional sexual relationships are a recurring theme in Jordan's work, and he often finds a sympathetic side to characters audiences would traditionally consider deviant or downright horrifying.
Justice Alan Maxwell described the crime as " One of the most horrifying physical and sexual assaults.
They can include a disregard for tradition, law or practice ( e. g., lewd or tasteless sexual references or obscenity ), defiance of the social or moral code ( e. g., vulgarity, brutality, nudity, feces, or profanity ) or the display of images or words that are horrifying, terrifying, or repulsive ( e. g., gruesome or revolting scenes, or violence ).

horrifying and gone
The farmer heard stories of great adventures in years gone by, of the heroes who crusaded across the Kingdom of Ehb, battling against marauding Krug, vile mucosae, and the horrifying Seck.

horrifying and wrong
This horrifying state of mind caused Vimes to try to balance it out through drinking, but he would get the dosage wrong and would just end up drunk.

horrifying and image
For example, after capturing a murderer of telepaths, they implanted an image in his mind so horrifying that the person had to be permanently restrained to prevent him from ripping out his own eyes.
He has since striven to change the horrifying image of death promoted by his predecessor.
When NightMare executes, it lies dormant for an extended ( and random ) period of time, finally changing the entire screen of the computer to an image of a skull while playing a horrifying shriek on the audio channels.

horrifying and man
Elizabeth later confronts her agony over Mark's death and also makes peace with Nathan during a horrifying case where the wife and son of a decent man have been killed by a drunk driver, and they are able to save his other son by doing a transplant from the dying son.
Jiro comes to the horrifying realization that Tenkai had tricked him ; the man he stabbed was his father.
These eyeballs act as the titular " doorway " for an alien species, allowing it to see into our homeworld ; only the eyeballs are imperfect windows, and distort everything that the aliens see into horrifying monstrosities which, the man perceives, it fears and hates intensely.
The Joinings are horrifying werebeasts, made by merging man and animal, and the Dark Templars are priests of darkness, with power beyond compare.

horrifying and up
At around 10 p. m. he was discovered by Peter Lozgachev, the Deputy Commandant of Kuntsevo, who entered his bedroom to check up on him and recalled a horrifying scene of Stalin lying on his back on the floor of his room beside his bed wearing pyjama bottoms and an undershirt with his clothes soaked in stale urine.
In ‘ Neighbors ’ Gross gave a gripping account, containing horrifying scenes of Jews being assaulted, rounded up and killed, describing how on " one day, in July 1941, half of the population of a small East European town murdered the other half-some 1, 600 men, women and children.
: The point of recapitulation in the first movement of the Ninth is one of the most horrifying moments in music, as the carefully prepared cadence is frustrated, damming up energy which finally explodes in the throttling murderous rage of a rapist incapable of attaining release.
In these films the moment of horrifying revelation is usually preceded by a terrifying build up, often using the medium of scary music.
Indeed, one has to pay careful attention to figure out just what it is that who is doing to whom in Three Days of the Condor and, if I understood it correctly, it's never as horrifying as the real thing ... The suspense of the film depends less on this kind of plausibility than on Mr. Redford's reputation ( in a movie we accept the fact that he can do anything ) and on the verve with which Mr. Pollack, the director, sets everything up.
She asks for the assistance of Dr. Hook to uncover the truth about the hospital and the mysterious spirits who haunt it — including a young girl, killed after the original fire ; a sinister teenage boy ; and a strange animal that follows and protects the young girl she calls Antubis, who is similar to a giant anteater, whose long snout opens up to a horrifying set of jagged teeth.
* Given the weather, anyone appearing at the window and doing something horrifying enough to instantly kill someone would have had to trample the flowerbed, which is still intact, and come right up to the window ;
Faced with the horrifying prospect of having to pay for law school by himself, Mark decides to take up a scholarship, but the only suitable one is for African Americans only.
The girl ends up falling, horrifying young Tuvok.
I thought I should try something I'd never done before and I'd never stood up in front of a band and been the lead singer, which was fucking horrifying and still is!

horrifying and ;
The world has never lacked for horrifying examples ; ;
Glenn Close received considerable praise for her performance ; she was lauded by the New York Times for her " richness and comic delicacy ," while Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that, once she " finally lets loose and gives way to complete animal despair, Close is horrifying.
Despite the healthy fear with which the worshipers ( and even the Loa themselves ) regard him, he is also viewed as a necessary evil ; there must always be a Kalfu to balance Legba, and a force of overwhelming creativity and expression, even if that expression often takes horrifying forms.
* August 6-BBC withdraws a planned airing of The War Game on BBC1's Wednesday Play anthology series ; the network, officially, deems the film's depiction of a fictional nuclear attack on the United Kingdom and its aftermath as " too horrifying " to air on television, though it was widely believed that government pressure led to the banning.
Recurring characters included the Friday Night Girls ( Walsh and Jones ), a homely, dateless pair of female friends whose Friday nights rarely consisted of anything more exciting than riding the Metrobus ; Dakey Dunn ( Walsh ), an unexpectedly insightful macho lout ; Frank Arsenpuffin ( Andy Jones ), a hapless talk show host faced with a succession of horrifying guests ; Marg at the Mental ( Sexton ), a patient in a psychiatric hospital ; and Jerome and Duncan ( Sexton and Malone ), a flamboyant pair of gay lawyers.
The British Board of Film Censors had demanded a number of cuts before finally granting the film an “ X ” Certificate, but newspaper critics were still aghast at its horrifying special effects ; questions were actually asked in Parliament as to why British censors had allowed the film to be released and further asked what was the British film industry thinking in trying to beat Hollywood at its own game of overdosing on blood and gore.
Witchfinder General is emphatically not a horror film ; it is, however, a very horrifying one ..." Monthly Film Bulletin observed, " Not since Peeping Tom has a film aroused such an outcry about nastiness and gratuitous violence as this one ... the tone of the film is oddly muted, with torture and death in plenty, but viewed matter-of-factly and without stress ...
On the one hand, there were the prohibitionists, who pointed out Ludlow ’ s addiction to “ hasheesh ” and his horrifying hallucinations ; on the other, those who believed that cannabis deserved a second chance and saw Ludlow as a literate chronicler of the mystical heights that could be reached using the drug.
Chuck ( and Melvin ) and the Beanstalker ( December 3, 1994 ) – Chuck and Melvin ( the narcissistic prince and his sidekick from " The Sleeping Beauty ") return ; this time in a horrifying retelling of " Jack and the Beanstalk " where they must steal the treasure of a giant Cyclops named Beanstalker.
A horrifying realisation hits Tysle ; this is what the high priest of Hobb wears, and that is Wendel's true identity!

humor and specifically
Internet humor may also be regarded as humor that specifically relies on characteristics belonging to the Internet, such as the domain name slurls or the " geek " or " hacker " humor ( i. e., humor that would not exist if not for the Internet ), some of which can be considered ironic.
He is, then, not only a source for exposition and understanding, but connection — specifically, connection to the humor of the play, the playfulness of the play.
Laugh-In had its roots in the humor of vaudeville and burlesque, but its most direct influences were from the comedy of Olsen and Johnson ( specifically, their free-form Broadway revue Hellzapoppin '), the innovative television works of Ernie Kovacs, and the topical satire of That Was The Week That Was.
In black humor, topics and events that are usually regarded as taboo, specifically those related to death, are treated in an unusually humorous or satirical manner while retaining their seriousness ; the intent of black comedy, therefore, is often for the audience to experience both laughter and discomfort, sometimes simultaneously.
* Discordianism, although many Discordians specifically view the label of ' parody ' as dismissive, arguing that the inlaid humor and silliness are just as profound and legitimate as that of any other form of spiritual pursuit.
Because the humor of these films often relies on specifically Utah-centric Latter Day Saint culture, they tend to have a smaller audience than the other LDS sub-genres, even among Mormon viewers.
Although the first season of South Park received a lot of criticism from commentators who felt the show was disgusting and offensive, Parker specifically defended the episodes " Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo " and " Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride ", which he felt included moral values and a " sweet side to it " among the sophomoric humor.
A humor magazine is a magazine specifically designed to deliver humorous content to its readership.

humor and sexual
Geoffrey Miller, drawing on some of Darwin's largely neglected ideas about human behavior, has hypothesized that many human behaviors not clearly tied to survival benefits, such as humor, music, visual art, verbal creativity, and some forms of altruism, are courtship adaptations that have been favored through sexual selection.
Their lyrics often gave evidence of band's humor and thematically focus on personal experiences and sexual innuendos.
According to the site's summary of the critical consensus, " Chasing Amy explores gender roles, sexual mores, and the limits of friendship with a mixture of sensitivity, raw honesty, and director / screenwriter Kevin Smith's signature raunchy humor.
*" Èṣù ": in the play A Tempest ( 1969 ), by Aimé Césaire of Martinique, Èṣù is the virile trickster who comes to sing defiant songs laden with sexual innuendo and add humor to this highly political rewriting of Shakespeare's classic play, The Tempest.
These comedians added an element of social satire and expanded both the language and boundaries of stand-up venturing into politics, race relations, and sexual humor.
Despite the zany humor of the show, Taxi often tackled such dramatic issues as drug addiction, single parenthood, blindness, obesity, animal abuse, bisexuality, teenage runaways, failed marriage, sexual harassment, pre-menstrual mood disorders, gambling addiction, and the loss of a loved one.
These shows were designed to appeal to adults as well as children, and thus incorporated plenty of " adult humor ", such as pop-culture references and veiled sexual innuendos.
Her take on life reveals a sharp and critical eye which neatly dissects the idiosyncrasies of genteel England with humor, compassion and irony, detailing in particular sexual and emotional values.
He learned the art of the guitti, the Neapolitan scriptless comedians, heirs to the tradition of the Commedia dell ' Arte, and began developing the trademarks of his style, including a puppet-like, disjointed gesticulation, emphasized facial expressions, and an extreme, sometimes surrealistic, sense of humor, largely based on the emphatization of primitive urges such as hunger and sexual desire.
The horn-shaped rhyta are carefully woven in composition with the erect male organs of the satyrs, but this blatantly sexual and somewhat humorous theme appears to be a late development, in keeping with Athenian humor, as is expressed in the plays of Aristophanes.
The humor often featured profanity, sexual references, drug innuendo, crude humor, bodily functions, and violence.
The show deals heavily in politically incorrect and " racy " humor, including many jokes about race, sexual orientation, drug and alcohol abuse, and rape.
But Fellini sees the humor that underlies sexual obsession, except ( usually but not always ) in the eyes of the participants.
The CMX version is rated Mature instead of Teen from ComicsOne, because of nudity, sexual humor, and bad language.
The dub is edited for content to some extent, but many scenes — including the frequent appearance of Shin's naked buttocks, humor relating to breast-size, transsexualism and other sexual concepts — remain in the finished product.
The FUNimation dub is adult-oriented, with many sexual references, dark humor, and references to current popular American culture, the latter of which makes the series appear to be set in the " present day " ( 2006 ), rather than in 1992 ( the year the series was first broadcast in Japan ).
However, some episodes are rated TV-MA for more offensive language, stronger sexual dialogue, and objectionable humor / content deemed too strong for a TV-14 rating.
Yota's resulting embarrassment and attempt to extricate himself from the situation results, as always, in some slapstick humor and more resulting sexual tension.
Despite being animated in the style of television Christmas specials, the film is adult oriented, featuring significant sexual and scatological humor, and focusing on such topics as alcoholism, bereavement, and depression.
Eight Crazy Nights is rated PG-13 for " frequent crude and sexual humor, drinking, and brief drug references ".
By the 1940s, the original 1929 film had become illegal to view or exhibit in the United States due to its Pre-Code content which included sexual innuendo, lewd suggestive humor and open discussion of themes such as homosexuality.
His Jokes series ( beginning 1986 ) concerns the sexual fantasies and sexual frustrations of middle-class America, using stand-up comedy and burlesque humor.

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