(1) Glee and American Horror Story impresario Ryan Murphy returns with this camptastic take on the slasher genre where a sorority house is besieged by a killer.
(2) Prior to working on Blade Runner 2, which may or may not be his next film, Scott will make his long-awaited return to science fiction with Prometheus, a film "set in the same universe" as Alien, his cult 1979 slasher in space.
(3) Sure, they have watered-down, sexualized soaps such as Teen Wolf and the TV version of 90s slasher flick Scream, but Scream’s premiere garnered only a million viewers, compared to 10.1 million for AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead .
(4) It can also be revealed that a tape found in Bridger's video player when police raided his home was paused at the point of a rape and murder scene from the slasher film The Last House on the Left.
(5) Even as his foes caricature him as a slasher of the state, he seeks – unashamedly – to colonise the political centre-ground and to claim the support of working people.
(6) But I think we've made something more elevated than a straightforward slasher movie.
(7) On becoming chief executive of Aer Lingus his decision to axe 2,500 jobs at the loss-making airline earned him the nickname "slasher Walsh" – another label he professes to find mystifying.
(8) jumping from a height and hanging were compared with 19 wrist-slashers.
(9) The lineup included a strand of 80s frighteners with certified gay appeal , including The Lost Boys and A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2; an indepth talk on queer slasher history; a tongue-in-cheek feminist house-of-horrors installation called Killjoy's Kastle ; and Monster Mash , a short about gay gorehounds hooking up at a Halloween party.
(10) Many people hate slasher movies because they rely on the psychopathic male gaze.
(11) The reality is that Grayling is making the most of exploiting the legal profession's image problem as cover for his real priority – demonstrating to his own backbenchers his credentials as a budget-slasher.
(12) The 50 Shades adaptation seems to be conscious of this trait with its casting of Jamie Dornan, whose quiet portrayal of a bloodthirsty therapist in The Fall means there's hope for the story yet – provided he's allowed to bring notes, and avoid the genre's other pratfall, namely rigidity, as so ably demonstrated in Mark Wahlberg's 1993 school slasher The Substitute.
(13) But as with all slashers and burners, he hadn't the bottle to name what specific cuts he meant.
(14) After Slasher Walsh's battle with BA cabin crew, a similar showdown with Spanish staff was anticipated.
(15) Cable said the Tories were trying to present their economic team as "'Slasher' Osborne and the Hard Men".
(16) And then there's my own personal favourite: those Worcester-based jokers Analogue Domestos , who are about to release a single entitled I'm Mental, and do weekly slots at the voguish London club Byte Slasher.
(17) Sigourney Weaver is in talks to reunite with director Ridley Scott, architect of her breakout role in the 1979 slasher in space classic Alien, on his forthcoming biblical epic about the life of Moses .
(18) Male subjects viewed either two or five R-rated violent "slasher," X-rated nonviolent "pornographic," or R-rated nonviolent teenage-oriented ("teen sex") films.
(19) The farmer and his sidekick, both wearing blood-stained white smocks, like two mad dentists from a slasher movie, hoisted the deer in a kind of metal cradle and, in just a few seconds of mesmerising knife-work, removed its hide entirely.
(20) He is happy to be both a Tea Party-style slasher of taxes and public works projects, unilaterally killing a decades-in-the-making new tunnel under the Hudson River, as well as an ardent advocate of big government in the form of Hurricane Sandy relief.
Warp
Definition:
(v. t.) To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter.
(v. t.) To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise.
(v. t.) To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert.
(v. t.) To weave; to fabricate.
(v. t.) To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object.
(v. t.) To cast prematurely, as young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc.
(v. t.) To let the tide or other water in upon (lowlying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance.
(v. t.) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns.
(v. t.) To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam.
(v. i.) To turn, twist, or be twisted out of shape; esp., to be twisted or bent out of a flat plane; as, a board warps in seasoning or shrinking.
(v. i.) to turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper course; to deviate; to swerve.
(v. i.) To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects.
(v. i.) To cast the young prematurely; to slink; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc.
(v. i.) To wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam.
(v.) The threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof.
(v.) A rope used in hauling or moving a vessel, usually with one end attached to an anchor, a post, or other fixed object; a towing line; a warping hawser.
(v.) A slimy substance deposited on land by tides, etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed.
(v.) A premature casting of young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc.
(v.) Four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See Cast, n., 17.
(v.) The state of being warped or twisted; as, the warp of a board.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's no coincidence that both novels are about how easily children can be warped or damaged, but of the two it is the shorter, sharper Great Expectations that has aged better.
(2) Abdella, now 19, illustrates the constrained choices and warped pragmatism that many here face.
(3) But this time warp is a Seville one, and all the statues of (ecclesiastical) virgins, winged cherubs, shrines and other Catholic paraphernalia, plus portraits of the late Duchess of Alba, give it a unique spirit, as do the clientele – largely local, despite Garlochí’s international fame as the city’s most kitsch bar.
(4) On this logic – warped because Soviet rule hit Jews as hard as anyone else – the "double genocide" in effect says: you hurt us, we hurt you, now we're even.
(5) In the second trial 24 grafts without velours trimming (Cooley II, Meadox), 24 grafts manufactured by a new warp-knitting procedure without velours trimming (Protegraft 2000, B. Braun AG) and 24 identical grafts of B. Braun AG but with gelatine impregnation were evaluated.
(6) Thus we propose that the internal or "intra-laminar" cross-bridges are the active force-generating ATPases in this system, and that they generate overall bends or changes in the helical pitch of the axostyle by altering the longitudinal and lateral register of microtubules in each lamina individually; e.g., by "warping" each lamina and creating longitudinal shear forces within it.
(7) The breathing sounds were recorded with the small transistor warp type microphone inserted through the nasal orifice into the trachea, main bronchi and segmental bronchi, and were analyzed with sound analyzer.
(8) Magnetic resonance angiography of the pulmonary vasculature was evaluated in 12 subjects using breath-hold gradient echo scans and surface coils at 1.5 T. Flow-compensated GRASS, spoiled GRASS (SPGR), and WARP-SPGR sequences were utilized.
(9) It dismays Kirk that Warp moved to London but he's still in touch with them and their releases, effusing particularly about DJ Mujava and "Township Funk".
(10) Warp wanted him to make a feature film in the same style as he had made his early shorts: quickly and spontaneously, with no script.
(11) It was Warp that optioned the novel and suggested Ayoade direct it.
(12) She said: “We struggle to comprehend the warped and twisted mind that sees a room packed with young children not as a scene to cherish but an opportunity for carnage.
(13) Now, the Obama administration has warped the AUMF even further.
(14) This method is based on the investigations of GIBSON and DAVIS (1958), who showed the tendency of cartilage to warp when one surface is cut.
(15) If there is money to hand out to senior managers who are returning to the health service, but none to help nursing staff who have endured three years of pay restraint, then we are dealing with some seriously warped priorities."
(16) Warp's next act of subversion was to wind up Pete Tong by declaring that bleep was dead and that the future of music was "clonk" - the title of Sweet Exorcist's next 12in.
(17) He developed a parallel career as a rock video director after mentioning in a meeting with record label and film company Warp that he loved the Arctic Monkeys, and ended up directing a string of videos for them (given the band's legendary reticence, the mind boggles at what the initial meeting was like) as well as Vampire Weekend , Kasabian and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs .
(18) When a patient's wave form is compared to a normal template, warping can identify the peaks in the patient's wave form that correspond most closely to the peaks in the normal template.
(19) I can’t help but think that that will eventually come back to bite somebody’s ass, although it may well be your grandchildren’s.” Gibson told me that when he visits London, he’s struck by the extent to which overseas money has warped the fabric of the city, but even more so by “the denial of my lifelong Londoner friends.
(20) (The NSA’s warped interpretation of Section 215 was also the subject of John Oliver’s entire show on Sunday night .