That beleaguered mother in "The Others" is tormented by phantoms and she is also, herself, a ghost, with a streak of Medea-like monstrosity underneath her fierce maternalism.
Shortly after the climactic battle scene of this final instalment of Peter Jackson's Hobbit series gets underway, an outsize troll-like monstrosity with a pointed stone headpiece runs full tilt into a fortress wall, making a breach through which a bunch of orcs and other malevolent nasties can pour through.
So the abandoned mental hospital is turned into a particularly lurid setting, complete with spiders and rats to attack a trapped, naked Megan, a Mother Bates-like monstrosity to be discovered late in the story, pornographic images from Japanese comic books and a pack of wild dogs roaming the neighborhood.
It was a Shea-like cement monstrosity that happened to have short porches and relatively thin air.
Like the monstrosity "cyberspace", it will probably drop out of use in our lifetimes.But if daily computing has not led to big changes in the way we talk, it still has its own dead metaphors to deal with.
Conceding that the plan had "hit a little bit of a buzz saw this week," Mr. Obama acknowledged that the process "has been less than pretty" and that the measure was so big and unwieldy it looked like "a monstrosity," creating fear and anxiety among ordinary Americans.
After the heady, pungent Southern anthems ("Find the River", Everybody Hurts", "Nightswimming") on Automatic, 1994's Monster felt like a rock monstrosity, too brash, too confident, less like the outsiders they always felt like.
They're fairly lightweight, especially compared with what we used when our kids were younger (like these monstrosities).
While all the flats around them were welded shut, they clung limpet-like to their concrete monstrosity.
But when you put it all together, it starts looking like just this monstrosity".
If people will pay extra for meat from a monstrosity like the Belgian blue, anything is possible.
