His portrayal painted Polyphemus as monstrous, yet also a bit pathetic (at least until he kills Acis).
Her latest role, as Charles Dickens's wife in The Invisible Woman, based on Claire Tomalin's book about Dickens's secret mistress, feels like a bit of a departure from her more monstrous characters.
Teratophilia, the sexual attraction to "deformed or monstrous" people, is having a bit of a moment.
There are monsters in public life, and there are places rotten with corruption; but very few people are utterly monstrous and most organisations are a bit rubbish, some of the time.
It's a bit like watching Goldie Hawn turn her trademark gamine allure into monstrous egotism in "The First Wives Club".
His anxiety about his small penis, which exposes him to quack remedies on the Internet, sounds a bit bourgeois; but the quality of his self-delusion approaches the monstrous.
A brief clip of some British comedian (Stephen Fry) on an Irish religious affairs programme causes a bit of a storm when he calls God an 'evil, capricious, monstrous maniac'.
Civilians can bow out fairly gracefully, however, it is those left behind to tear down the monstrous bunkers and the military withdrawal that will be a bit more complex to remove.
And down the road, he said, up a rarely explored trail, lay the Blue Room, a monstrous cave filled with swimmable spring water; it was, we discovered, isolated and magical — if a bit too eerie for us to relax.
It's one of those things that takes a bit of tinkering to wrap your head around… until suddenly, you find yourself 40 playlists deep with a monstrous collection of new tunes behind you.
