Sentence examples for human freaks from inspiring English sources

Properly top-hatted and shawled, men and women of Britain's upper crust gawked at, prodded and squeezed these so-called human freaks, amusing themselves with the deformities that were paraded before them.

In the repertory company of my mind, Bernard Pomerance's 1977 play, "The Elephant Man" (now in its first Broadway revival since 2002, at the Booth), would rotate with a number of other dramas about human "freaks," who were further misshapen by fame and empire.

In showbiz since age 14, Ward made a living selling the extraordinary, macabre and bizarre across America: two-headed animals, three Native American boys wrestling alligators (one lost a finger – "There was danger to it!"), monkeys in race cars, a wax replica of The Last Supper, a man bare-handedly milking rattlesnakes, foetuses in glass bottles, and human "freaks".

Her contention that in the twentieth century human freaks came to seem more uncanny than machines may not entirely persuade, but the exotic particulars especially those pertaining to a group of circus midgets called the Doll Family more than make up for this inconsistency.

"The whole concept of legally binding yourself to another human being freaked me out".

So why is that only humans are freaks of nature?

But eventually, Leonardo's work got Miljenko lots of unwanted attention from the press, and the human canvas freaked out and fled.  .

I got super stoned before watching it and the scene where the witches take off their "human masks" freaked me out so much I had to press pause and do something else.

Though the elephant is a long-time symbol of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, CEO Kenneth Feld remarked that a successful business needs to adapt to an evolving market, and pointed out that when his father acquired the circus in 1967, they were still doing human oddity freak shows, which were also phased out. 1.

Matte and I were both mutants, freaks, human unhumans — a fact I could at least forget when I was with real people, those with death in them".

Among the people they meet afterwards are "self-made freaks" human blockhead Dr. Blockhead (Jim Rose) (who interrupted the funeral by hammering a nail into his own chest) and his "geek" sidekick The Conundrum (The Enigma), who will eat anything, but says nothing.