It's crystallized right now in a pretty horrific set of circumstances that anybody in their right mind would just find unthinkable and unacceptable.
Mr. Paterson's performance is rightly the linchpin of a drama that shows the same combination of honesty and restraint, depicting an often horrific set of circumstances without either softening them or relying on lurid detail to manipulate the audience.
David Cook, a lawyer for the Goldman family, said: "Mr. Simpson himself has placed us in this horrific setting of seeking to liquidate this asset.
It's particularly relevant in light of the December announcement by veteran Hollywood stunt woman Olivia Jackson that she would lose an arm after a horrific on-set accident filming the upcoming Resident Evil: The Final Chapter.
(An additional sad grimness might also derive from the fact that this intense depiction lasting 27 minutes of a horrific death -- set in 1920s Texas -- was executive produced by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, to whom the movie is now respectfully and lovingly dedicated).
Apart from a few works, such as those by Bhabha and Uklański, and a couple of mutedly horrific sets of photographs — by Stephanie Sinclair, picturing Afghan women who had set themselves afire, and by Nina Berman, of a disfigured Iraq War veteran — this Biennial seems intent not only on not offending aesthetic appetite but practically on sedating it.
"It's hard to imagine a more cunning, cruel, or horrific set of circumstances," he said.
This horrific set piece, and the grim scenes that follow, promise something powerful: a meditation on the stop-and-start nature of surgical innovation, one grounded in the economic and racial fractures of the era.
By the way, that is what I lived through.' And what was shocking to me … [was that] I was not the only one and what really got me was the fact that just anecdotally, it seemed like more than half of all the women I talked to had some horrific set of experiences," Vassallo told Re/code's Kara Swisher.
No one disputes that, if such needs could be met universally without producing some horrific set of side effects, it would be good to do so.
