If it were to be magnified to the size of St. Peter's in Rome, with its proportions remaining unchanged in their own relationships, the temple would be out of scale, and the result would appear monstrous.
It can only appear monstrous to outsiders to see this myth of a sanitised Syria promoted by a government at war with a large part of its own people.
Indeed her creatures appear monstrous but cuddlesome.
When Deluy pulled on the costume, with the help of van Herpen and van de Merwe, she appeared monstrous and volatile, surrounded by a quivering nimbus of quills that amplified her gestures.
Fatherhood was not Malraux's forte, and his grandiosity never appears so monstrous as in his relations with his children and his nephew/stepson, Alain.
But the chapters written from his perspective make him appear less monstrous.
They lost touch with her and became famous performers, appearing as monstrous caricatures such as "sheep-headed cannibals" or "ambassadors from Mars".
In New Britain, an island of Papua New Guinea, members of a secret terrorist society called the Dukduk appear in monstrous five-foot masks to police, to judge, and to execute offenders.
(Who can forget the cover of _The Economist that carried a picture of a waving Kim Jong Il under the headline "Greetings, earthlings"?) For anyone not in their thrall or under their thumb, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il appear so monstrous and so aberrant that it is almost an insult to reason to acknowledge that their primitive, impoverished ideology is not an expression of madness.
Season two, however, took its guest stars to a new level: America's morning TV sweetheart Kelly Ripa gamely appears as a monstrous version of herself, Patricia Clarkson is a neurotic New York socialite, Alia Shawkat turns up as Ilana's doppelganger, and Seth Rogen's storyline proves that you should never cook fajitas in a poorly ventilated apartment.
Palin's overwhite teeth, which often appear veneered with blinding-white porcelain, can exaggerate her frequent smile and make her look monstrous.
