Sentence examples for grotesque atmosphere from inspiring English sources

The art film Dom za vešanje (1989; Time of the Gypsies) marks a further plunge into the surreal with its portrayal of the almost grotesque atmosphere surrounding a group of Roma (Gypsies).

The irony of a woman who has created a fake identity by forging blood flowing from sacrificial wounds turning adviser to a man trying to escape a trail of the stuff dominates the grotesque atmosphere of this tiny, almost inexplicably suggestive novel.

Ionesco's work characteristically combines a dream or nightmare atmosphere with grotesque, bizarre and whimsical humor.

During his years in Los Angeles, where he is currently a professor of art at U.C.L.A., Mr. McCarthy has used his own body as a locus for social criticism: mutilating it, caressing it, humiliating it, exalting it, all in an atmosphere of humorous, if grotesque, mockery.

In its hothouse atmosphere, new exotics evolve in grotesque shapes, while insulation has ensured that ancient forms of behavior, including cannibalism, survived here long after their extinction elsewhere.

Alfonso Cuarón took over for the third movie, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," and developed an atmosphere of dread and a grotesque humor that brought the material to life.

These figures appear in grotesque poses or in mock execution scenes, creating an atmosphere of tension that oscillates between the lighthearted and the outrageous, the mundane and the excessive, offering an often implicit satire of contemporary Chinese society.

Angelini is less appreciative of The Ash Tree, noting that the literal adaptation of the story's ending loses the atmosphere of earlier instalments: "While the creatures are certainly grotesque and threatening, compared with some of the other adaptations of the series, The Ash Tree does lose some power through this lack of ambiguity.

The voices of the other characters – Thomas's mother as well as a cast of recognisable grotesques: a taxi driver, a bully, the local drunk – add to the atmosphere of dissolving reality and, at times, to the sense that they may exist only in Magill's head.

In the Monk's Parlour, an eerie, dark corner of the spooky crypt where Soane arranged medieval fragments to create an atmosphere fit for reading the ghost stories then coming into fashion, sits a grotesque golden chair.

But then, Martinelli's quite happy to milk all the grotesque horror he can out of her in the name of a bit of ghoulish atmosphere: she's eating with "her face struck between two armpits" while being "used by a commuter as a newspaper table" and grinning like a madwoman.