Sentence examples for grenade of a from inspiring English sources

Thirty years after painting his subversive modernist grenade of a picture Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, his cubist intelligence was now enriched by the mythology and poetry unleashed by the surrealist movement.

"Quartett," by contrast, is a hyper-concentrated grenade of a piece for two actors that consists mostly of long, salaciously self-indulgent monologues by the depraved aristocrats, the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont.

Rolling Stones Jon Dolan complimented the album's the "wide-ranging production", labeling it a "Rihanna-meets-Gaga-meets-Pink-meets-Britney party grenade of a record".

In Mr. de Blasio's eyes, his father was a tragic hero, a man who fought courageously in World War II, only to lose part of his left leg to the grenade of an enemy soldier he had just killed.

The spectacularly pitched, preening central voice, so distant from McCabe's own, was an even more staggering achievement, perfected, he says, by reading Colette and women's magazines: "It's meant to be a small hand-grenade of a book, but a burlesque as well.

Ruffalo is back on the cultural radar because he has just been Oscar nominated for his role in Spotlight, an appropriately angry hand-grenade of a film that takes its title from the special investigations team of the Boston Globe, and chronicles its celebrated 2002 exposé of clerical sex abuse in the city, and subsequent cover-up.

As Sandywell & Heywood (2012) suggest, this approach casts video as the "paradigmatic aesthetic machine of the nineteeth century" (p. 18) failing to recognise its wider potential as a "grenade of meaning" (p. 37) and a source of multimodal speculation.

Witnesses said the attackers threw the grenade out of a moving car.

It's got a couple freaky-looking arms capable of either carrying a wounded soldier or daintily plucking a grenade out of a purse.

This step is the same as above, but a tad bit more time consuming as it take more practice to place a shot grenade instead of a thrown one.

Then, after absorbing multiple wounds from the grenade blast, Sabo attacked the enemy trench, killing two soldiers with a grenade of his own, and helped his injured ally to the shelter of a nearby treeline.