What's most enchanting about this late Bunuel, I think, is the absolute ease, the way tenderness and monstrosity nuzzle together in the cage, the terror and the humor that are embroidered together (sewing was a great interest).
In the years since her downfall, Jiang has served as an image of political monstrosity in the West and in China (where she was denounced as a "white-boned demon"), a case study in revolutionary fanaticism and ruthless cunning.
But the difference is intrinsic to the stories — William Golding's book and Peter Brook's movie concerns children's degeneration into monstrosity in the absence of restraining authority, whereas "The Hunger Games" exonerates the tributes from their participation in the slaughter, looking instead at their personal morality as it emerges under the pressure.
I teach the history of the idea of monstrosity in the eighteenth-century British Empire, its relationship to deformity, disability and gender nonconformity.
"The Broadwater project is a monstrosity in the making," he said.
Mr. Law, 28, is an English classic of a different sort: an elegant, edgy actor who can accelerate from boyish playfulness to looming monstrosity in the time it takes to light his Dunhill.
The fiery demolition of this architectural monstrosity in which the accountant lives with his two children is the only thing worth applauding in this mess of film.
And so on, as character traits that are manageable in the course of the working week bloom into monstrosities in the heady liberty of the South Downs, the Yorkshire Dales or (not a good idea) the Cairngorms.
But I can't help feeling that anyone so neglectful of their personal appearance as to wear these monstrosities in the sight of another human being doesn't actually care very much about what anyone else thinks.
Metro will require a new set of tools as well as a new aesthetic and the vector-based graphics do not lend themselves to the usual Windows monstrosities in-house programming teams have been rolling out over the past decade.
