A 6-foot-6 and 308-pound senior, Pelc is monstrous and skilled enough to play offensive guard and center in the N.F.L.
And a review in 1855 shamefully dismissed Longfellow's "Hiawatha" as "embalming pleasantly enough the monstrous traditions" of the American Indian, "an uninteresting, and one may almost say, a justly exterminated race".
A world-class heel and adulterer, a lousy father (to Bryan Greenberg's Barkley) and worse husband (to Mary Steenburgen's Sarah, Elii, with his monstrous ego, would be enough for a lot of movies but turns out to be merely the warm-up act for a chaotic plot involving a violent kidnapping, a distant suicide, murky secrets and outright distortions.
Raimi approved the new themes during their first performance, but rejected the initial music to the birth of Sandman, finding it too monstrous and not tragic enough.
I can't imagine Sons coming to a satisfying conclusion in a few weeks; in fact, given everything that has happened, I'm not sure that Jax murdering his monstrous mother will be enough of a payoff.
The Horrid Henry Books, The Monstrous Child I was lucky enough to read the first Harry Potter when it was just a book, like any other.
But in a blockbuster summer distinguished by the darkness of Christopher Nolan's jet black Batman Begins, this future-retro B-movie harbours enough that is monstrous to compensate for the awful inevitability of its climactic group hug.
Lein, a big guy, but not quite big enough given the monstrous foes confronting him, is afflicted by a nervous "habit of slowly raising his hand to his face and then rubbing the tip of his nose in one quick motion, as if to remove a stain that only he can perceive".
