He's covered with salt!" Mr. Hearn's "slam dunk" was coined to describe the power of a monstrous basket stuff by the 7-foot Chamberlain, according to "The Language of Sport," by Tim Considine; the phrase has been picked up in other contexts to convey forcefulness.
With their jagged crests, male great crested newts can look like miniature dragons in breeding season – even though they are only 15cm long – and this rare amphibian is the stuff of monstrous legend in the building trade, a legally protected beast whose presence in any puddle of water halts all grand designs.
Congress's efforts to remove the subsidy have morphed into a monstrous corporate-tax bill, stuffed with giveaways for everyone from tobacco companies to bourbon distillers, that would do more harm than the tariffs.
The blonde girls with pigtails would have cheese sandwiches that appeared to have been cut with the aid of a set square and I had a monstrous heap of shredded meat stuffed inside a pitta bread.
His black and white work has strong goth appeal with its monstrous images and spider things and stuff.
They've built all kinds of incredible stuff for this show, from a monstrous treadmill that runs the length of the stage, to a dynamic waterfall wherein each drop is independently controlled to rain images of flowers and birds down from the bigtop, to a dress covered in flowers that subtly bloom to life.
There's bullying, sibling rivalry, salvation through music and comics, a monstrous stepparent — and I know, we've seen all this stuff.
Here, in a case near the floor, you find Ms. Bourgeois's "Spider," from 2003: a little female effigy of stuffed pink knitted fabric that is elevated on monstrous stainless-steel spider legs protruding from its torso.
A fast and furious satire of stomach-churning excess, it features a memorable and monstrous anti-hero – Steven Stelfox – who spends much of the book with his penis stuffed into the mouth of one hapless prostitute or another, before deciding that the best way to get the better of his business rivals is simply to kill them.
Burton's style is like that of a bold, science-minded Grandma Moses with a keen sense of perspective; her dawn-of-time stuff has the near-psychedelic energy of van Gogh's "Starry Night"; her dinosaurs have the monstrous drama of Zallinger's "The Age of Reptiles".
