Jews, as no others, know the lacerating trials of statelessness.
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He was thrown from many horses, once lacerating a testicle.
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Cheney mentioned both issues in her comments lacerating Trump's decision.
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The tomato soup, though, was so acidic it was almost lacerating.
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He moved to the suburbs, lacerating himself in grief and guilt.
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And, like Fernando, I was subject to the countess's lacerating critiques.
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Its tonal register ranges from meditative lyricism to self-lacerating humor.
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Clinton was also planning to give remarks Monday lacerating her rival.
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De Palma's wit is more facetious and, one might say, lacerating.
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He's also proved a lacerating satirist of America's ongoing military fetishization (Starship Troopers).
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Apparently stung by her comments, Trump aimed a lacerating tweet towards Berlin on Tuesday.
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The unpopulated area was pounded several times in 2015, lacerating the northern sluice gate.
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And that intimacy has become the antidote to the lacerating world in my head.
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And though he can be lacerating to others, he's hardest of all on himself.
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As a senator, she has won viral recognition for her lacerating questioning during hearings.
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JW: Self-aggrandizement is so much nihilism — critical, self-lacerating feelings of total impotence.
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Before #MeToo, Louis C.K. was beloved by many for his often self-lacerating comedy.
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Meyers and John Oliver are both excellent, but lack the lacerating bite that Bee possesses.
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Most of my favorite writers are pretty lacerating, so I shudder at what they'd do.
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The revelations in Daphne Merkin's piece aren't particularly new, though they're lacerating in their specificity.
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In Sea of Solitude's strongest moments, it communicates this core emotional takeaway with lacerating, startling efficacy.
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But with his new band, Purple Mountains, he returns clear-eyed, bracingly personal, and self-lacerating.
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A meta-besotted, multilayered, impudent, lacerating exhibition that pricks pretense and self-delusion on every level.
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"The Office," a lacerating cringe comedy with a humane spirit, synthesized Gervais's two sides into greatness.
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It's Lear's astonished, self-lacerating recognition of what he calls "unaccommodated man" as a universal condition.
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In both films, a perfectly deadpan tone sharpens the sadness while rendering it tolerable with lacerating humor.
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"I like Donald", Mr Cruz declared ominously, before lacerating his rival's record on more or less everything.
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The president took to Twitter, lacerating Mr. Frazier and attacking Merck, bluster that alienated more chief executives.
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A lot of smart women make a lot of dumb choices in Gina Gionfriddo's lacerating comedy-dramas.
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The actors, perhaps tellingly, embraced van Hove's reading and were finding in the song a lacerating energy.
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Part of my life, Dick, has been a lacerating experience and I have my share of bitterness.
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The president took to Twitter, lacerating Mr. Frazier and attacking Merck, bluster that alienated more chief executives.
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I should be clear here that the incredibly lacerating portrayal of Bob feels like a Brooker special.
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Crafted for hungry throngs of bass-loving crowds, "Grave" dances between cinematic breakdowns and lacerating, speaker-shaking drops.
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This makes her rejection of him, as a gay man with Good Housekeeping dreams, all the more lacerating.
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Some of the problem lies in the scripts, which swing unsteadily between lacerating the couple and empathizing with them.
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When her turn came, Wu chose an emotionally lacerating eight-minute scene from "Middletown," a play by Will Eno.
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Before lacerating the Trump administration in her speech here on Friday, she had begun on an almost wistful note.
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These stories are lacerating, but they taught me that educational choice is about more than spreadsheets and dueling philosophies.
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The series opens with an absolutely lacerating birthday toast from one of Robert and Frances's friends, played by Tracy Letts.
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The comedy, which suggests a Middle Eastern answer to "Curb Your Enthusiasm," is a lacerating farcical satire of religious extremism.
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He was the subject of a lacerating 2013 New Yorker profile, and described as a "notable mansplainer" in The Atlantic.
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He has been basking in the exaltation of Trump backers ever since his lacerating defense of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.
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She was asked what her mother, whose lacerating one-liners made her a feminist icon in her day, might say.
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Eventually, in one of the series' most lacerating episodes, he landed in bed with his oldest friend's teen-age daughter.
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He shows how "a lacerating sense of historical change" cuts deep into the exhausted bodies and brooding minds of his characters.
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Theater This lacerating, painfully insightful comedy about the legacy of slavery is guaranteed to take you way outside your comfort zone.
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She turns her batty charm into a self-lacerating weapon, revealing achingly painful subtexts in her stammers and clenched facial expression.
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A month ago, a lacerating commentary entitled "Goodbye Anbang" spread widely on Chinese financial news websites and on social media platforms.
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"Not Dead Yet" is laced with self-lacerating wit and celebrity cameos (Dustin Hoffman, Tony Bennett, Adele) rendered with unusual candor.
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Racist slurs and stereotypes cling to Davies's characters like burrs, the lacerating bits of American culture against which they must define themselves.
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But to do this is to overlook the scars that terrorism's long and lacerating history in India has left on us here.
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And though Wuorinen's tendency toward lacerating public pronouncements has changed little in the half-century since, his language has broadened and deepened.
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Cozying up to Mr. Trump does not come naturally to Mr. McConnell, who has a sly, sometimes self-lacerating, sense of humor.
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Israel is waiting to see if Erdoğan will abandon his lacerating public criticism and rebuild the longstanding military ties between the two countries.
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But one of the more poignant points of Madonna's lacerating speech was the music industry's unwillingness to support women of a certain age.
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Chapman's driver told the police that Chapman had fired the gun shortly after he punched the window of his car, lacerating his finger.
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Dovaleh's edgy, "tightrope-walking" shtick narrows into a lacerating narrative of the cadet camp where, at 14, he learned of a parent's death.
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And, whether by design or mere inclination, Warren has emerged as Trump's most vocal and lacerating critic, almost seeming to relish the role.
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The Agatha Christie-like ecosystem pairs with lacerating contemporary wit, and alternating past and present scenes makes for a multilayered, modern detective story.
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The rituals commemorating the death of Hussein involve self-flagellation, with crowds of mourners striking themselves and some lacerating their heads with blades.
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But whereas Lil Uzi Vert is impudent and takes hip-hop bluster as a foundation, these artists instead tend toward the self-lacerating.
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The layers of Ms. Channing's interpretation, with its core of lacerating anguish, are more intriguing than the plot that builds to an anticlimactic reveal.
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In the blazing "Resurrection," Jesus doesn't so much rise as erupt from his tomb, aided by buff angels with wings of lacerating white stripes.
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BLUE NIGHTS by Joan Didion This book is "honest, unflinching, necessarily solipsistic and, in the way of these things, self-lacerating," our reviewer wrote.
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Though everyone is committed to the same cause, ferocious quarrels about theoretical and practical issues lead to shouting matches and episodes of lacerating humiliation.
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Though possessing a raw beauty, Lennon's self-lacerating lyrics, probing the darkest part of his psyche, made it ill-suited for the contemporary hit parade.
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"Le Villi," though, fascinated nonstop, from the scintillating introduction to the soprano's opening love song, through the obsessively self-lacerating aria for the sinful tenor.
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For example, the drones in this category wouldn't be allowed to have open rotor blades—'cause you know, lacerating people upon impact would be horrifying.
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This biographical and autobiographical one-man show from the musician and actor Loudon Wainwright III is beautiful, both touching and absolutely lacerating at different turns.
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"Nanette," the Australian star's stand-up special is "lacerating in its fury" about how women and queer people like her get treated, dismissed and silenced.
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Here, Lorde makes getting drunk and hooking up sound downright spiritual as she examines her fumbles through adulthood with enviable grace, lacerating honesty, and even humor.
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But a Trump administration could refuse to attend summit meetings or submit plans or progress reports, with no consequences beyond lacerating speeches at United Nations podiums.
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As we pass the Statue of Liberty, foreign tourists pop onto the outer decks for quick photos, their fur-trimmed hoods flapping in the lacerating wind.
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Unlike cane workers today, who wear heavy, protective clothing, the enslaved workers were vulnerable to being gouged and cut by the lacerating leaves of the plant.
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A lacerating Justice Department report documented systematic racial bias and abuse by the Baltimore Police Department, drawing we-told-you-so's from the city's black majority.
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For just a few beautiful, lacerating moments, they are the blood-bound mother and son, nurturer and child, that on some level they have always been.
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As slender and sharp as a paring knife in his dark navy clothing, Mr. Hiddleston's lacerating Robert seems to live in a state of existential mourning.
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Lean and boy-faced, with lacerating comic timing, he got his break in 2011, in "The Book of Mormon," playing the bushy-tailed missionary Elder Price.
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Every bite is a small tumult: lacerating lime; a basal note of fish sauce and undersea funk; enough chile to make you start taking shallow breaths.
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As with basically everything he puts out, it's true to him: honest, winking, able to leap from a grin to a lacerating punchline in an instant.
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Several other factors added fuel to the fire, from Trump's combative inaugural address, to his lacerating tweets, to defiant statements by chief White House strategist Steve Bannon.
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One of them struck Yilmaz on the head with it, a blow that caused a compressed fracture of his skull, lacerating his brain and damaging it irreparably.
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Lacerating domestic battles such as this one, filmed with the kind of confrontational intimacy that Engel's equipment enabled, would soon be a defining trait of independent filmmaking.
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With seconds remaining in the third quarter, he made a lacerating left-handed drive to the basket and finished a crushing two-handed dunk over Lou Amundson.
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Mr. Rush's output for Cobra showcased his lacerating, vibrato-laden electric guitar lines and his gritty, gospel-inspired vocals — throaty mid-register groaning, thrilling leaps of falsetto.
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The album, a self-lacerating work that also takes aim at President Trump, is Eminem's eighth in a row to debut at No. 23, a Billboard record.
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It stars Cynthia Nixon, who portrays the poet as a lacerating lampooner of the New England mores and manners that constrained her life and impeded her career.
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Musical modernity, of course, begins with "Elektra," the lacerating and dazzlingly orchestrated marvel from 1909 that came from the minds of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
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Judging by the volume of lacerating tweets he dispatched, Mr Trump himself took it personally, even if he misspelled the name of Karen Handel, the eventual Republican winner.
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If a negative quote appeared in the press, he would be on the phone, irreverent humor shifting to a lacerating bark when he sensed a lack of cooperation.
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JANET KING on Acorn TV. Marta Dusseldorp is Janet, a senior crown prosecutor with a lacerating tongue and even sharper investigative skills in this popular Australian legal drama.
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The main problem is that "Vice" seems to want to have it both ways -- at times playing like a straightforward biography, at others, a broad and lacerating satire.
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For "West Side Story" he wrote "poetic" lyrics that Bernstein loved but that embarrassed their author — yet also produced, as the collaboration matured, lacerating lines that never cloy.
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In 1970, a state-owned record label, Polskie Nagrania Muza, released his debut album, "Music for K," in which he fronted a quintet that played lacerating, tumbling improvisations.
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Playful but lacerating, it's a riveting spectacle of celebrity burnout that seems both real and staged, and for anyone who has been in proximity to the L.A.-N.
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As the self-involved, self-lacerating womanizer in the play "Linda Vista," Ian Barford aims to offer the audience just enough reasons not to give up on him.
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JANET KING, SERIES 3: PLAYING ADVANTAGE on Acorn TV. Marta Dusseldorp is back as Janet, a senior crown prosecutor with a lacerating tongue and even sharper investigative skills.
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The bullet that struck Gasper entered her right underarm and traveled through her breast tissue, shattering her ribs and lacerating her liver before exiting her body, the lawsuit states.
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The lacerating image spread virally, and became a lightning rod in the charged U.S. political discussion of President Donald Trump's hard-line policies against asylum seekers and other migrants.
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It is a lacerating portrayal of the director as an official who was in charge of enforcing the law but who seemed blasé about perceptions of his own conduct.
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It made sense that Mr. Sanders, now 75 and still in possession of his full and lacerating tenor saxophone sound, played in Sunday's concert too, with his own band.
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Both the weirdest and most ambitious song they've ever written, it boasts Grote's newfound self-lacerating sarcasm and his falsetto, something he rarely used on the band's earlier albums.
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Headley's prose can be stark, lacerating, insightful ("If events don't make sense, a story grows to cover up the confusion"), but it also has its over-the-top lapses.
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While 1990 may have seen the end of Lebanon's lacerating 15-year civil war, it also saw, with Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the beginning of the first gulf war.
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But even before "The Elephant Man," he was nominated for an Oscar for his supporting role as a self-lacerating drug addict imprisoned in Turkey in "Midnight Express" (270).
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No matter how hard you try, no matter how closely you follow this advice, you're probably going to fuck it up somehow, causing yourself yet more humiliation and lacerating pain.
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Hillary Clinton delivered a lacerating rebuke on Thursday of her likely Republican opponent, Donald J. Trump, declaring that he was hopelessly unprepared and temperamentally unfit to be commander in chief.
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"Zone," Énard's fourth book (and the first to be translated into English), is to war crimes what " Moby-Dick " is to whaling—the encyclopedic wake of one man's lacerating obsession.
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He and a friend from Yale, Jacob Grigolia-Rosenbaum, presented a production of "The Fever," Wallace Shawn's lacerating 1990 satire about liberal complacency, in the homes of friends and acquaintances.
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Written and directed by the playwright Radha Blank — who also stars — it traces the rebirth of an artist with lacerating insight, a great deal of warmth and terrific comic timing.
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Mr. Bennington's worldview could be bleak and his lyrics self-lacerating, but his honesty and the steeliness of his vocals on tender subjects bred fierce loyalty in the band's listeners.
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Try to avoid elbows and knees as much as possible, besides a bare knuckle these hard and flat surfaces are better at lacerating than any other part of the human body.
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One detainee allegedly required surgery after lacerating his own penis following deteriorating symptoms of psychosis — which were not treated by a psychiatrist, despite several requests for treatment from ICE health officials.
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Prosecutors said Mr. Matos was the instigator, chasing after the young men, stabbing one of them in his shoulder and back, lacerating his liver, and slashing the other above the eye.
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Purple Mountains, which he released just a month before his death, saw the former Silver Jews frontman return from a ten-year hiatus with some of his most lacerating songwriting yet.
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As wry in person as he is in his lacerating prose, Lofgren told BuzzFeed News that despite what the "Deep State" has come to mean, he's happy with the work he's done.
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"Manchester" is a lacerating, but also frequently funny, study of the long aftermath of grief, with Casey Affleck as a man damaged by past trauma trying to help his nephew (Lucas Hedges).
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Yet it can never have been easy to keep company with a moody, mercurial, compulsive human being, one noted for his prodigious appetites for sex, alcohol and drugs and his lacerating tongue.
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Yet it can never have been easy to keep company with a moody, mercurial, compulsive human being, one noted for his prodigious appetites for sex, alcohol and drugs and his lacerating tongue.
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Mr. Trump excoriated Mr. Sessions for not ordering his own investigation into the handling of the Russia inquiry during its early months, calling his attorney general "DISGRACEFUL" in a lacerating Twitter post.
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Suzanne Coe, 52, a local pub owner, hoped Ms. Clifford might sign her copy of "Fire and Fury," by Michael Wolff, the lacerating, if error-specked, insider account of the Trump administration.
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Although the lacerating humor in "Interior Chinatown" never skips a beat, what makes the novel so compelling is its strong commitment to characterization, without which the pointed commentary would be less potent.
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They recalled episodes of his television show, "Parts Unknown," on CNN; his lacerating restaurant book "Kitchen Confidential;" his support of the #MeToo movement; and his example as a culinary — and cultural — adventurer.
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Yet Carl Schmitt (Chris McGarry), the headmaster at Thomas More, sees unusual promise in the lad, a natural writer who has a head full of poetry and a lacerating obsession with the Nazis.
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But in the summer of 2018, roaming among the pictures of nudes by these three artists — humanity literally stripped bare — the lacerating visions of the Viennese painters turn Picasso's Neo-Classicism increasingly frivolous.
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"You egged Solange on, knowin' all along, all you had to say was wrong," he raps on "Kill Jay Z," lacerating himself for almost losing his wife and child in the subsequent years.
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Her father was the outrageous, lacerating British theater critic and writer Kenneth Tynan; her mother was the volatile, sharp-witted American novelist Elaine Dundy (her novel "The Dud Avocado" remains a cult classic).
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Elisabeth Moss's furious incarnation of an out-of-control rocker on a quest for redemption is matched by the lacerating dialogue and pugnacious cinematography of Alex Ross Perry's "Her Smell" (opening April 12).
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His resilience and perseverance result in drawings as lacerating as Daumier's, as distinct as Toulouse-Lautrec's, and as beautifully, tragically human as Schiele's — mostly in the milieu of underground countercultural cartoons and illustrations.
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" However, during the "pretty tortured" recording process for "Lost in the Dream," Mr. Hartley recalled Mr. Granduciel as a self-lacerating defeatist: "There was not a single time we'd listen and be stoked.
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"They have covered up what the president of the United States has done in his grievous action when they had the the ability to find out more," Bernstein said in lacerating the GOP majority.
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Beautiful, hypnotic, mysterious and elliptical, "Zama" is a story about a man at odds with a world that he struggles to dominate, which becomes a lacerating, often surprisingly comic evisceration of colonialism and patriarchy.
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Don't let Mensa's clever Coldplay pun "I wanna open up my parachute but it's cold playing this role" fool you, this track is one of his hardest hitting and most self-lacerating offerings yet.
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The new round of lacerating attacks come less than two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, which Clinton narrowly won in 2016 and where Sanders is locked in a tight four-way race this year.
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It captures the flair for melodrama, appetite for mischief and exaggerated sense of humor — alternately self-lacerating and self-lionizing — that constituted a gay armor, worn because we lived in a sort of exile.
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Still, this lacerating critique is noteworthy when stemming the flow of drugs is among the promised benefits of the Trump administration's proposed border wall, while Attorney General Jeff Sessions has advocated harsher drug sentencing policies.
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There are still bruised feelings among some in the Biden camp over her lacerating remarks about his views on busing during a debate-stage clash, but Mr. Biden has said that he doesn't hold grudges.
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Created in Paris in 1994, this lacerating comedy dissects the bonds among three friends when one mocks another for buying an expensive all-white contemporary painting, and the third is stuck in the uncomfortable middle.
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He seemed so sure-footed then, so certain in his vision of this country, that his lacerating words were like balm to the black students who were on a whirligig in search of their identities. . . .
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And despite lacerating reviews, Ivo van Hove's ice-cold "Obsession" is packin' 'em in at the Barbican Center, partly because it features Jude Law emoting manfully (and shirtlessly) as the fulcrum of a fatal triangle.
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More specifically, this lacerating comedy from the Lightning Rod Special troupe in Philadelphia is about finding ways to speak to one another about an unspeakable American institution a century and a half after its official end.
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There's tartness here, too, as the movie's guests — including Ephron's three sisters, two ex-husbands and a chorus of Hollywood luminaries and New York literati — honor her sometimes lacerating candor with a dollop of their own.
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The starry cast, which includes Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill and James Franco playing lacerating versions of themselves, bumbles about in an effort to save humanity, food supplies, and the most important natural resource of all: friendship.
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On the other side are two former permanent secretaries, Sture Allen and Horace Engdahl, who have made lacerating statements in recent days, calling the reaction to the allegations overblown and denouncing Ms. Danius as a weak leader.
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As he does in "The Report," also opening Friday, Driver delivers an honest, transparent performance in "Marriage Story," in which he and Johansson are asked to be tender, lacerating, lighthearted and bitter practically in the same scene.
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In Han Kang's propulsive, lacerating novel "The Vegetarian," translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith, the bloodless union between Yeong-hye, a hushed bookworm, and her largely indifferent husband ruptures when she ceases to be a carnivore.
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But despite the precise and horrible catalog of side effects of these women's conditions — lacerating scars, burning seepage, an abiding stench they try to disguise with homemade perfumes — she doesn't really understand what they are going through.
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A world away from violating our vulvas with arsenic and burning ourselves at the follicle, we are getting much closer to lacerating societal ideals about what our bodies should look like in order to be accepted or desired.
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Mr. Babcock is as close to a Craig Finn — the Hold Steady's bard — as punk has had in some time: wry, self-lacerating, disappointed with the state of the world, constantly writing the story of his own failure.
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But she also endorsed him after her home state of California voted, and there are still bruised feelings among some in the Biden camp over her lacerating remarks about his views on busing during a debate-stage clash.
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I was as prone to anger as anyone—in fact, my "rage blackouts," as my brother calls them, in which I'd stamp my foot like a cartoon character and hiss lacerating insults at people were the stuff of legend.
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Release date: April 6 What makes it great: You Were Never Really Here is about a tortured hitman named Joe, played with typical lacerating mastery by Joaquin Phoenix, who finds himself hunting for a teenage girl who's gone missing.
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Early collages incorporate "anti-artistic" materials like chipboard and scrap metal, and by the late 1960s, Miró was lacerating and stabbing through some canvases — or hammering nails into them — to get viewers to look beyond the surface of paintings.
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In light, then, of evidence suggesting that women have been burning, boiling, and lacerating their skin since the dawn of time in the search for ultimate beauty, the recent mainstream appreciation of female body hair is actually pretty radical.
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Using a play on Winston Churchill's famous phrase about an "iron curtain" falling over a divided Europe after World War Two, Francis said new divisions were lacerating the face of the continent 30 years after the fall of communism.
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The laughs come in jolts and waves in "The Death of Stalin," delivered in a brilliantly arranged mix of savage one-liners, lacerating dialogue and perfectly timed slapstick that wouldn't be out of place in a Three Stooges bit.
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And the royals have long done what they can to curtail newspapers' access to their personal lives, seeking to stymie the lacerating articles about their indulgences even as they court more admiring coverage for their weddings and tours overseas.
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Following 24 hours of memes and speculation, Drake — facing a lacerating track that questioned his authenticity, attacked his friends and family and insisted that he was hiding a secret child — opted to respond, for now, only to the photograph.
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Steve Beshear (D) will rip President Trump as "Wall Street's champion" and accuse him of "eroding our democracy" in a lacerating rebuttal he's set to give following the president's speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night.
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Naturally, for a novel steeped in realism, the crash manifests itself as a hangover, which in Knausgaard's hands constitutes a private hell of lacerating regret and shame, the modern everyman's version of the punishment that follows Raskolnikov's crime in Dostoevsky's novel.
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The two new Father John Misty singles that came out the other week suggested that Tillman is (thank God) steering his character back towards sweeping, witty, self-lacerating love songs, one year after trying to diagnose society's folly on Pure Comedy.
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According to new legal docs ... Mira took her son, Johnny Backus, with her to a house she was looking to buy on a night in September 2013 when the owner's dog went after him, biting and lacerating his legs and knees.
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Clinton has appeared to relish the chance to brandish a more lacerating wit, grinning through laugh lines and using campaign muscles that have generally been untapped in her two primary runs, when any intraparty squabbles have demanded a different tone.
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FATIMA, Portugal (Reuters) - Pope Francis, visiting one of Catholicism's most famous sanctuaries, on Friday prayed for an end to wars he said were lacerating the world and urged the faithful to "tear down all walls" to spread justice and peace.
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"As a maternal-fetal medicine specialist, if you told me you're doing a one-day procedure at 25 weeks without preparing the cervix, I would say you're risking lacerating the cervix and this patient could bleed to death," Chasen says.
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And whether brilliant architects, scheming second-raters, proto-Communist demagogues (boo, hiss!), a king-making newspaper publisher or the self-lacerating fire-and-ice goddess they all love, these characters conduct themselves with an ardent faith in their own importance.
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Even Mr. Trump's most virulent Republican critics have managed something of a two-step, lacerating the president for his attacks on the justice system, on American alliances abroad and on his political enemies as they continue to vote with him.
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When Mart Crowley's play opened Off Broadway in 1968, it was an instant and surprise hit, a by turns vicious, lacerating, bitingly funny and squirm-inducing portrait of eight (maybe nine) gay men at a disastrous birthday party in New York.
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Has there ever been a major pop hit more brutally self-lacerating than Janis Ian's confessional song "At Seventeen," in which she used the words "ugly duckling girls like me" to describe the misery of not being a high-school golden girl?
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Trump himself spent the hours leading up to Tuesday night's address by taunting Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Twitter, privately lacerating top Democrats in an off-the-record meeting with news anchors and complaining to aides that his speech wasn't partisan enough.
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Written by and starring Mr. Eisenberg, this lacerating comedy of humiliation — about a whiny, rich, hyper-articulate and terminally narcissistic young New Yorker who impulsively sabotages his own life and that of his Nepalese roommate — appeared destined to be lost in translation.
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Clinton's allies have floated several options: Representative Joseph Crowley of New York, who is from Queens, where Mr. Trump grew up; James Carville, Mr. Clinton's chief strategist in 1992, who has a gift for lacerating banter; or Mark Cuban, another billionaire businessman.
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In a detailed, thorough and lacerating assault on Mr. Trump and the angry movement he has inspired, Mitt Romney, the party's nominee in 2012, attacked him as "a fraud" and "a phony" who would drive the country to the point of collapse.
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This synopsis barely skims the surface of a multilayered, impudent, lacerating exhibition that pricks pretense and self-delusion on every level, from mega-rich collectors fancying themselves pillars of civilization to politically committed artists rationalizing their aspirations to the high-end gallery system.
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Nah. When they find themselves taken in by a Shaker-like religious sect, led by a blind lay preacher (Max Baker, hilarious), Jim is quick to point out the errors of his host's altruistic ways, in a lacerating, crockery-smashing dinner scene.
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Last year, many of the same paintings were on display as part of the Leopold's permanent collection, but compared to the lacerating immediacy of the hundreds of drawings at the Albertina, they appeared overworked and overwrought, heavy as lead and dead on arrival.
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It might be a lot better than that, but you can always count on a large quotient of rage and consequent distortion and lacerating atonal shrieks you can almost see graphically represented above the stage as cartoon notes with a shudder running through them.
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But there was one especially shocking video, captured via cellphone , that ignited international outcry: a fighter with the all-female Kurdish unit known as the YPJ lay dead and half-naked in the dirt, her body mutilated with deep cuts lacerating her exposed breasts.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court justice who came under fire recently for lacerating comments about Donald J. Trump, has dropped another eyebrow-raising remark about a different figure in the news: the N.F.L. football player Colin Kaepernick and his protest surrounding the national anthem.
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This idea is initially not without a certain self-lacerating poignancy coming from Mr. Audi, 60, and Mr. Baselitz, 80, whose globby neo-expressionism is the subject of a current retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. But it goes nowhere.
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Ms. Gadsby, an Australian comedian, is the creator of "Nanette," a stage show turned Netflix special that is lacerating in its fury about how women and queer people like her, and anyone else who might behave or look "other," get treated, dismissed and silenced.
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"I do not believe you are a racist," Senator Kamala Harris of California told former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. What followed was a deeply personal and at times lacerating explanation of what Ms. Harris, a black former prosecutor, did believe and had experienced.
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Ms. Feiffer — whose earlier works include "I'm Gonna Pray for You So Hard" and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit of the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City" — is a virtuoso in creating self-lacerating heroines.
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Mary McCarthy's "Memories of a Catholic Girlhood" (1957) intersperses autobiographical essays she'd written for The New Yorker and other magazines with self-lacerating interludes inspired by an uncle disputing those essays, turning the entire book into a pointed commentary on the fallibility of memory.
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While Baumbach's characters have never lost their lacerating wit — his obsession with their lowest moments and ugliest conflicts is a longstanding virtue — there has been a softening to his perspective as he's gotten older and an easing off on that Margot-like instinct to provoke.
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When Griff and Liv drop in to complete the tableau of family dysfunction, the book becomes less like "The Shining" and more like Edward St. Aubyn's Melrose novels, with their lacerating descriptions of how cruelty courses like poison through the veins of a family.
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Making his Broadway debut, the Oscar-winning movie star Forest Whitaker will be waging this struggle between consoling myth and lacerating memory in "Hughie," O'Neill's one-act drama from 1942 in which a petty grifter meditates on his luckless life in a seedy Manhattan hotel lobby.
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She has earned a reputation as one of the more effective and entertaining Trump neutralizers on Twitter, largely because she can go toe-to-toe with him both in the sheer volume of tweets she fires off (19,000 and counting) and in her lacerating, no-filter style.
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In between, Mr. Albee (his name is pronounced AWL-bee,) turned out a parade of works, 30 or so in all, generally focused on exposing the darkest secrets of relatively well-to-do people, with lacerating portrayals of familial relations, social intercourse and individual soul-searching.
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In mid-century Montreal, Melzack's talkative diabetic might have described a migraine as lacerating or pulsing, but the Sakhalin Ainu traditionally rated the intensity of pounding headaches in terms of the animal whose footsteps they most resembled: a bear headache was worse than a musk-deer headache.
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Cory Booker laced their calls for unity on Wednesday with lacerating attacks on Trump in specially scheduled speeches, Biden's in Iowa and Booker from the Emanuel AME Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, where nine black parishioners were killed by a white supremacist gunman in 2015.
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Ciaran Hinds is in fine, fighting form as Vanya's gruffly spoken brother-in-law, an aging professor whose younger second wife awakens a longing in both Jones's angsty Vanya and Armitage's self-lacerating Astrov, a doctor who has stared death in the face once too often.
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But even as the duchess has faced lacerating criticism from Britons who like their royals to be dutiful and traditional — and from the tabloid newspapers that feed off and direct public opinion — so, too, has she had her own problems with life in her adopted country.
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There were outbreaks of self-aware kitsch (cartoon characters of every provenance wearing gas masks), flamboyant irreverence (Carrie Lam's name lends itself to a pun involving gonorrhea), and lacerating satire (a missing-person notice for "good Hong Kong cops," a death certificate for Hong Kong democracy).
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But in a lacerating speech on Friday, Madonna — the highest-grossing female touring artist of all time, who in March wrapped up a tour that took in $170 million — resisted the notion that all was well and fair for women entertainers, particularly as they get older.
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He'd released more critically acclaimed albums in a year than some artists do in their entire careers, built a cult fan base into a mainstream one, and found himself being heaped with praise for his self-lacerating music and innovative run as the year drew to a close.
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The panel has faced lacerating criticism from Democrats and voting rights groups that argued it could be a vehicle for changes that would make it harder for lawful voters to cast ballots - and by a number of state governments reluctant to hand over information about their voters to the White House.
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And again, that gets to empathizing with the experience of people with addictionI do feel like one of the great struggles of my life has been the struggle with and against self-obsession, and again, I say that less in a self-lacerating way—it's probably one of everybody's huge struggles.
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INVISIBLE EXPORTS Nearby, at Booth 11, is a group of Cary Leibowitz's hilariously lacerating latex-on-wood pie charts — one is divided between "low self-esteem" and "excessive self-confidence," another among five wedges all labeled "me" — hung against checkered red oilcloth, as if for a picnic of performative self-hatred.
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The series shares some thematic elements with other hall-of-mirrors meta-shows, like HBO's brilliant "The Comeback," in which the former "Friends" star Lisa Kudrow played an aging sitcom actress—except that "The Comeback," beneath its jokes, was a serious project, a lacerating satire of Hollywood narcissism and misogyny.
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Sanders is banking on the enthusiasm of young, more liberal voters while Clinton is relying heavily on minority communities and may be hoping that the largely positive reviews among Democrats of her speech last week lacerating Donald Trump as unfit for the presidency will give her a late boost among undecided voters.
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Well, there's marathon screeds about how Ariel Pink is underrated, sketchy stories about his interactions with fans, and one chorus that just goes "diarrhea, diarrhea, diarrhea" (all on one song called "The Mark Kozelek Museum"), basically the same sort of self-lacerating autobiography he's already been pouring out for the last half-decade.
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The Australian legal drama (beginning Monday, March 14, on the streaming service Acorn TV) stars Marta Dusseldorp in the title role, a senior crown prosecutor with a lacerating tongue and even sharper investigative skills who, on her first day back from maternity leave, is hurled into court to try a sexual predator.
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As the most celebrated producer of television comedy in England in the last 15 years, from "The Office" and "The IT Crowd" to "People Just Do Nothing," the current BBC Three mockumentary about a group of scraggly underground club kids, the 44-year-old Atalla cultivates writers who share his lacerating black humor.
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A close examination of his surfaces reveals no erasures, and his many stylistic quirks, such as the lacerating strokes denoting musculature and the squiggles indicative of body hair, are less observational details than they are notational shorthand for the artist's overriding attraction to/repulsion from the animalistic nature of the human body.
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Even more self-lacerating: his insistence that President Barack Obama had authorized surveillance on his 2016 campaign, a claim that continued unabated despite rebukes from Republicans, denials by the congressional intelligence committees and complaints from the British government after Mr. Trump's spokesman suggested that one of its intelligence agencies had aided in the spying.
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As directed by Dominic Cooke, and performed with nuance and conviction by a cast that includes Sharon D. Clarke in the title role of a volcanic blues singer, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," more than confirms its reputation as one of the most lacerating stage portraits of how racism is internalized by those caught in its belittling gaze.
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He has governed in a manner that concedes almost nothing on any major policy issue to any constituencies outside of the Republican coalition, and he has expressed, often with lacerating ferocity, the anxieties and resentments of the voters most uneasy about cultural, demographic and economic change (as when he told four House Democratic women of color to "go back" where they came from).
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"To mock his stolid behavior and the surprising conventionality of his values is to conceal his commitment to thirties' belief in technological progress, businesslike efficiency, and a naïve adherence to the benefits of 'growth,'" Bookchin wrote, lacerating Sanders's "macho" manner and "narrowly productivist" view of the world—a manner and a view that have remained essentially intact in the three decades since.
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Brosnahan is never better than when she's tearing through this material, and Sherman-Palladino is terrific at finding new ways to tell stories about Midge both succeeding and bombing (and sometimes bombing by succeeding, in a male-dominated industry that doesn't particularly want to hear her lacerating takes on the men who will always regard her as a cutesy-faced sideshow).
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Still, it is impossible to dismiss the dark imagination and at times lacerating wit coursing through the poses assumed by the occupants of the Corridor of the Men — the first passage awaiting you as you enter the crypt — as they "stand" high on a ledge and turn slightly in your direction, as if their hollow, hungry eyes were following your every step.
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This is exactly the kind of label he would find absurd, but over the course of the last four decades, no artist has so consistently broken down the accepted boundaries of the genre in order to bring it closer to the public, with lacerating, perspicacious and gloriously anti-authoritarian projects that play with our received notions of race and class and almost always cut more than one way.
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" (It also meshed well with the Victorians' fascination with torture—"they just loved to show you the most egregious, horrendous torture instruments lacerating the human flesh," Classen said.) Indeed, according to the book Misconceptions about the Middle Ages, in 1996 the British Museum had to remove a "medieval chastity belt" from display after it was found to have been made in the 18th or 19th century, an age when people would construct the clunky sexist diapers as "curiosities for the prurient or jokes for the tasteless.
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