Word: inhumanness
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...inert; far from it—dancefloor music is alive, forces you to listen with more than your ears. What corner you inhabit depends on how you feel. Why else would U.K. grime artists like Dizzee Rascal and Wiley Kat have come up with the inhuman beats they rhyme over? They grew up listening to breakbeat hardcore and jungle, whose twisted beats became their “rhythmic code” (to borrow from Simon Reynolds...
...comparison with Talented, Game is more successful at translating Highsmith’s perception of humanity’s inhuman depths: We watch and cheer as Trevanny loses everything for Ripley’s amusement. Malkovich is so dispassionate that life and death become just another game...
...pace was moved up a gear again for the rest of the evening with a few brief ballads in between to cool the audience down. The talent of the fiddlers combined with an accordion, a guitar and a bouzouki managed to achieve an almost inhuman speed in most of their jigs, which made this a dynamic performance...
...were a grievous horror; 200 killed, 1,400 wounded. Slaughter of this magnitude causes emotion of inexpressible depth—made all the more upsetting because only now have investigators learned who was responsible and what their motive was. What happened in Madrid was so atrocious as to seem inhuman, and yet the world is faced with the difficult realization that such disastrous destruction could be, and indeed was, man-made...
...Japanese warriors by becoming the “last samurai” of the title). The audience is simply supposed to accept the idea that everything Western is an abomination, deserving of the murderous (if also suicidal) contempt of the samurai, who at times are depicted as almost inhuman in their ability to withstand the bullets of their enemy. Native Americans and the Japanese become interchangeable, with the Japanese effectively avenging the destruction of the Cheyenne...