Even baseless claims can be horrifyingly expensive to defend against.
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I will have a horrifyingly embarrassing moment in my life.
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Which means, horrifyingly, the worst may be yet to come.
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Ryan's anecdote would be funnier if it weren't horrifyingly true.
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His feet drew back, horrifyingly, and stuck to his rear end.
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We know that Sally Horner's experience was only too horrifyingly real.
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It's the unhappy couples — and the subsequent breakups — that are horrifyingly unique.
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The other problem with Lovecraft is that he's deeply and horrifyingly racist.
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THE CHILLING scene seems drawn from a thriller, but was horrifyingly real.
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The red paint looks horrifyingly bloody and the off-white paint looks... nasty.
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Horrifyingly, statutory rape within marriage is not considered a crime in many states.
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But then, more horrifyingly, a stunt injury left her at risk of paralysis.
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He always says exactly what he's thinking — even if those thoughts are horrifyingly offensive.
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Horrifyingly, maximum velocities achieved during strikes ranged between 4.2 to 4.8 meters per second.
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"She has this Jayne Mansfield body and a horrifyingly great brain," said John Malkovich.
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I begrudgingly drag myself across the street with a horrifyingly large bag of laundry.
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Horrifyingly, some captive female octopuses have been observed to slam their bodies against the tank.
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Horrifyingly, Somalia, Yemen, South Sudan, and northeast Nigeria are dangerously close to meeting these qualifications.
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It's such a horrifyingly casual display that it becomes grimly amusing before it turns devastating.
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The sweaty, drunken pieces of the evening suddenly came together in a horrifyingly clear mosaic.
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Back inside, Jonathan whips out horrifyingly oversized prop hands à la noted Philadelphia attorney Jack Kelly.
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But Jackson is even worse than his horrifyingly brutal record with regard to Native Americans indicates.
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Horrifyingly, the O's had to come back and play a second game of a doubleheader just after.
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It's a chilling thought, horrifyingly consistent with how the Islamic State has fought this battle for months.
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These directors make the kinds of films that are often either blessedly short or horrifyingly over-extended.
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Horrifyingly, preschool student loans, an April Fools' Day joke from CommonBond, actually already exist in New York.
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Exploring something as horrifyingly real as rape in such philosophical terms runs the risk of insensitivity, even sensationalism.
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Among young people attracted to jihadist ideology, "the line to blow yourself up remains horrifyingly long," he said.
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Perhaps most horrifyingly, the body of a likely murder victim was found in the woods behind the building.
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That can manifest itself in a number of ways, from big, brash blind rage to horrifyingly quiet seething.
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Little did Justice Blackmun realize that his metaphor would turn so gruesome and ghoulish — and so horrifyingly accurate.
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Until then, let the horrifyingly soothing words of Waititi as fake Hitler wash over you in the trailer above.
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Horrifyingly, we find ourselves hoping Quinn's plan to injure him actually works, so he'll get the surgery he needs.
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AttnGAN is supposed to visualize text-based captions, but it's not very good at it—at times, horrifyingly so.
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It all seemed so horrifyingly obvious on the bystander video: Mr. Garner, with no weapon, throwing up his arms.
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The brilliance of the performance is to render Inga's actions horrifyingly logical for someone unconstrained by the social contract.
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They couldn't repeal Obamacare, because their plan was horrifyingly unpopular and actually would have, literally, led to more deaths.
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Girls, by contrast, is horrifyingly mundane, not escapist or otherworldly (if frequently absurd), and never aspirational in the slightest.
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You won the Nobel Peace Prize and are the Mandela of our age, but with a horrifyingly different ending.
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But the reality is that much of what I learned in the Army is horrifyingly relevant in the classroom.
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Building up their numbers is horrifyingly easy, too, since longhorned ticks have the ability to both sexually and asexually reproduce.
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That is just one of the varied jobs of the Green Reaper, the US Department of Energy's horrifyingly adorable mascot.
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A few minutes later, a jolt and a horrifyingly loud scraping sound from the ceiling made her eyes open wide.
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Other victims, for instance, may rethink coming forward with their own horror stories, and reporting rates are already horrifyingly low.
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In a sense, Iran is backed into a corner, and it's acting out in one of its horrifyingly favorite ways.
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When we spoke, they had weathered penitentiary bids, maddening label purgatory, and a brief but horrifyingly public Twitter break-up.
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In a joint interview, they were insistent that T. rex is far more than just a pretty, horrifyingly scary face.
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Even more horrifyingly, you probably noticed how easy it was to also accidentally hit the send button instead of cancel.
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In this case, these shifts help blur time — the past remains horrifyingly present — and underline the magnitude of her trauma.
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Shots of near-empty streets and an abandoned steel mill provide a melancholy frame for behavior that seems horrifyingly incomprehensible.
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First it'll be the robots (which could be shaped, horrifyingly, like children instead of adults), and then it'll be actual humans.
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He's needed to help repair the communications system to call for help, but quickly realizes that something has gone horrifyingly wrong.
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Usually, landslide-generated tsunami are smaller than these giants, but they can still be horrifyingly destructive, and remain elusive to scientists.
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Here are their pictures of either a super-fun family vacation or a seemingly innocent trip about to go horrifyingly wrong.
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Don't think Wismansyah is alone in Indonesia in his homophobia—other Indonesian politicians have made horrifyingly similar remarks in the past.
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Like most of his work, it's a story in which fairy tale logic is taken in a horrifyingly, deliriously dark direction.
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If they're woken, or the gauze becomes disturbed, the women become horrifyingly violent; the me who are left behind become primal beings.
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" Speaking to RS for the piece, John Malkovich says of Thurman, "She has this Jayne Mansfield body and a horrifyingly great brain.
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The elevator dropped towards the ground, plummeting downward as floors whizzed by, like the Tower of Terror at Disneyland, only horrifyingly real.
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Trans women are subjected to horrifyingly high rates of violence, and we owe it to our fellow women to protect each other.
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A few passengers stay on to get horrifyingly crushed between the metal, but miraculously none of the eight injured were seriously hurt.
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There's just one problem: consultants are horrifyingly misaligned with startups, as a recent discussion about how to be a great consultant attests.
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This sentencing marks the end of a years-long run of Weiner engaging in horrifyingly inappropriate behavior, apologizing, and then repeating the cycle.
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Of course, the reason for that nonchalance soon became horrifyingly clear: Watts knew exactly where they were, because he had put them there.
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He panned to the freezer, which was crying in pain because it had, apparently, horrifyingly, been left open for a very long time.
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An inadvertent beacon of horrifyingly entertaining gaffes and flubs, Spicer is bad at smoothing over controversy that shouldn't be smoothed over to begin with.
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Horrifyingly, some research indicates that at least one species of already very large spider will get even larger, though some species will get smaller.
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The videos and text messages provide a horrifyingly familiar glimpse into what it's like for students hiding in their classrooms during a mass shooting.
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Both networks are key players in the push to raise the college graduation rates for low-income minority students — a rate that's horrifyingly low.
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I logged on, played a game or two, and suddenly, horrifyingly found that I was still playing it at 4 AM on a Tuesday.
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" Rather, the Pearson patriarch survives the blaze and dies later in the hospital of a horrifyingly-named medical complication called "a widowmaker heart attack.
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There's a contingent of Americans who supported the strike if casualties were limited but not if casualties were horrifyingly large, as we might expect.
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Horrifyingly, the whole Umber clan has been taken by the White Walkers, and little John Umber was left behind as an undead warning sign.
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"The Chinese Communist Party uses tactics and methods to suppress its own people that would be horrifyingly familiar to former East Germans," he added.
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Horrifyingly enough, Walton said it's unlikely that the lawyer was unaware of the bugs, whose bites can leave painful rashes anywhere on the body.
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Horrifyingly, there were all these posts that said the symptoms of weed withdrawal—which I was already experiencing big time—would last for months.
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Horrifyingly, a hole was recently discovered on a different Soyuz capsule, the MS-09, that was attached to the International Space Station in late August.
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Horrifyingly, a fresh wave of whales made their way to the beach and rescuers formed a human chain in a futile attempt to block them.
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Worse yet, manufacturers and distributors are exploiting this fact by peddling a beverage that targets a certain demographic of young women with horrifyingly precise accuracy.
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Horrifyingly, it turns out there is a deep market for a similar approach in politics — to the surprise of many pundits, but not Donald Trump.
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Our law enforcement sources say Ronnie gave chase ... running after Jen, allegedly with a knife in his hand, and horrifyingly, also with their infant daughter!
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"It's a horrifyingly familiar feeling because this public safety threat has cast a shadow over every aspect of American life," she said in a statement.
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"It is not normal to receive any type of treatment from a trusted team physician and refer to it horrifyingly as the 'special' treatment," Biles wrote.
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In a sea of horrifyingly unhealthy fast food options, this sandwich is a rare safe haven for those who want to eat a plant-based meal.
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Of course we should still celebrate culture that is gratuitous, and I personally can watch a horrifyingly violent film and then get on with my day.
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Another standout skits from the night included Kate McKinnon reprising Kellyanne Conway to Beck Bennett's Jake Tapper in a horrifyingly real sketch based on Fatal Attraction.
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Everyone knows how horrifyingly unequal the world is, but nothing quite drives that idea home like peeking into the life of a beneficiary of that inequality.
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Before you have time to react, you horrifyingly watch your supposed best friend pounce upon the poop, gobbling it down in the blink of an eye.
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It really looked like fan favorite Daryl Dixon was about to find himself in a situation horrifyingly reminiscent of an infamous character death in the book.
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We know, without a doubt, that there is a lead poisoning crisis in Flint, Michigan — the headlines and the data make that fact abundantly, horrifyingly clear.
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If the recommendation system is truly a horrifyingly competent engine of radicalization, then it's difficult to imagine Bonnell or anyone else making much of an impact.
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"It is not normal to receive any type of treatment from a trusted team physician and refer to it horrifyingly as the "special" treatment," Biles wrote.
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As an example, she pointed to Studio FOW, a notorious hyper-realistic form of animated porn known for its extremely brutal, horrifyingly graphic, and unbelievably popular content.
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"Our country will be horrifyingly polarized, even more than now ... after everything we are about to go through," he said at the Democratic debate earlier this month.
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An NFL match where you don't care about who wins is a horrifyingly drab affair, mostly composed of oversized men in oversized pads ambling back and forth.
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Claire has always been the show's most complex character: She's even more diabolical, cunning, and manipulative than her husband, but she's also, horrifyingly, just what democracy needs.
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Yes, there's a genuine hate-cohort in the Republican Party — neo-Nazis, or "clowns and losers," in Bannon's terms — of about 10 percent, which is horrifyingly high.
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According to The Cut, the Italian special effects firm Makinarium that created Gucci's horrifyingly realistic replica explained that it cost around €10,000 (or roughly $11,000) to make.
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While horrifyingly extreme, the attack exists along a broad spectrum of intimate partner violence that many people in the U.S., particularly women, are all too familiar with.
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Second, thanks to the immense — horrifyingly immense — number of watts poured into it by miners every hour, it is, by far, the scarcest of all our digital scarcities.
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This year, more than 5,000 Glastonbury goers abandoned their tents on the site, while more than 6,000 dumped their sleeping bags there — a horrifyingly privileged approach to trash.
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When you consider the perfectionist culture and insular politics of the sport, it's horrifyingly obvious how a sexual abuse scandal of this scale happened right underneath our noses.
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The province of the aforementioned horrifyingly complicated algorithms, Numerical Weather Prediction addresses a range of time scales, from three days out to the vast arcs of climatic change.
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It's an absurd, laugh-out-loud scene that's made weirder by the fact that just last week, in China, a wave pool horrifyingly malfunctioned, resulting in 44 injuries.
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In it, she visited the Cape Coast Castle, one of the European-built forts in which slaves were kept in horrifyingly inhumane conditions until they were shipped overseas.
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Of course, in America, as Jackson horrifyingly points out, if this divide is just too unfair to withstand, we have a second option available: picking up a gun.
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In the middle of his flip-out on the copy shop employee, Chuck collapses in the store — smacking his head horrifyingly hard on the counter as he goes down.
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For example, being mistaken for custodial or administrative staff—which, horrifyingly, happened to almost half of the black and Latina women in STEM surveyed by the Harvard Business Review.
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Maybe she is suiting up herself as another badass she-ro alongside Brie Larson's incoming Captain Marvel — or maybe, horrifyingly, she'll appear as one of Thanos' evil minions instead.
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It's pretty cute-looking as far as printers go — in some horrifyingly corporate alternate universe, this printer is totally a starter Pokemon that'll eventually evolve into some faxing monstrosity.
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After Williams won the French Open in 2015, for example, Desmond-Harris wrote: Williams was compared to an animal, likened to a man, and deemed frightening and horrifyingly unattractive.
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She immediately began feeling symptoms of the disorder, including intense physical pain, insomnia, lethargy and "horrifyingly scary" visions of her family being harmed, and wasn't diagnosed until 16 months later.
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But in a new case in which this weapon has so horrifyingly been wielded, in the northern state of Haryana, India, the perpetrators may actually have defeated its own usefulness.
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But the truth is that turning the remains of a human being into a spectacle is worse than just horrifyingly bad taste: by sensationalizing suicide, it could also be dangerous.
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Problem was, the chain's big foray into the world of hardware production was horrifyingly inept, driven by film-industry interests, and put into place in partnership with a law firm.
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Anita Hill, Marcia Clark, and Monica Lewinksy were all subjected to horrifyingly misogynist attacks in the 1990s, and by a quirk of the zeitgeist, all are in the news again.
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Why it's important to watch: One of the darkest episodes of the series, Walt stands back and does nothing as he horrifyingly allows Jesse's girlfriend, Jane, to choke to death.
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Some began cleaning the horrifyingly unsanitary bathrooms in the student center, while others cooked the one daily meal they could ration to the nearly 1,000 people Rodriguez estimated took refuge there.
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It's horrifyingly revealed at the episode's end that Walt tricked Jesse into believing that Gus poisoned a child — the child of Jesse's then-girlfriend Andrea — when it was Walt all along.
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For example, in the moments surrounding her win at the French Open in June 20093, Williams was compared to an animal, likened to a man, and deemed frightening and horrifyingly unattractive.
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For example, in the moments surrounding her win at the French Open in June 22014, Williams was compared to an animal, likened to a man, and deemed frightening and horrifyingly unattractive.
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He became the target of verbal abuse by anyone who considered his politics "too intense;" at one party, someone even got up on the mic and horrifyingly called him out about it.
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Weeks prior, a doctor in Oklahoma was charged with five counts of second-degree murder for prescribing "horrifyingly excessive amounts" of potent drugs, Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter said in a statement.
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An Oklahoma doctor was charged with five counts of second-degree murder on Friday, after prosecutors say she prescribed a "horrifyingly excessive" amount of painkillers to her patients, according to News 9.
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It's difficult to watch more than two episodes at a time—this is reality TV at its most heartless and cynical—but it's also horrifyingly compelling, like watching blackhead extraction videos on YouTube.
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Each of these vignettes builds on an idea: you're a fighter pilot or you man a tank or you just put on a boatload of armor and wield a horrifyingly large machine gun.
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While the chant is horrifyingly common among men's games in Brazil, the Australian Associated Press says that it was the first time that many Brazilian journalists have heard it at a women's game.
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The details of the most recent episode in the Trump madness are now well known and yet every new detail that helps add texture to the story also renders it more horrifyingly egregious.
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By the time Explosion has been promoted from town to county, the rulers view themselves as gods, and in magic-realist fashion, the moral chaos is horrifyingly reflected in the dysfunction of nature.
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In many cases, though, they also needed to undergo some massive changes to eliminate some horrifyingly dark details that you might never know exist in the originals if you only know the Disneyfied versions.
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Moreover, with climate change will come sea level rise, and that in turn has the potential to make Katrina-like events, with their once-every-500-years storm surge, into a horrifyingly common phenomenon.
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The opening cinematic features a Mind Flayer systematically infecting imprisoned characters with a Mind Flayer "tadpole" that (rather horrifyingly) burrows in through the eye of its victim and takes up residence in their bodies.
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Why you should watch: "Unbelievable" is based on the Pulitzer-prize winning ProPublica story of one sexual assault investigation gone horrifyingly wrong, another set of investigations done exactly right, and how the two collided.
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Stark has to not only defeat this villain but also reconcile that mission with the fact that Thanos's plan is horrifyingly adjacent to Stark's dream of a universe so safe that Avengers are rendered obsolete.
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If the Potions cover was all nebulous slop and bare flesh bathing in moonlit radioactive swimming pools, this one's a little more fuck-me-robots-are-actually-massively-massively-horrifyingly-terrifyingly-absurdly-scary-aren't-they.
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As horrifyingly disgusting as that was, it still wasn't quite as gross as some of the dishes the chef had to eat in another sketch that ran during that same episode called Master Chef Junior Junior.
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He took horrifyingly overreaching actions on immigration, but did not employ authority he actually has over the trade issues that propelled him to victory in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and thus into the White House.
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Thanks to technology's surveillance creep the world has been given a close-up view of how horrifyingly brutal the Saudi regime can be — and through the lens of an individual it can empathize with and understand.
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In chapters that move back and forth between them, we follow Tom on his Asian travels and Ally in Cornwall, where she works in an insane asylum whose female patients are treated with horrifyingly primitive methods.
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As they endure the Blitz as children — the excitement of the bomb shelter, the otherworldly destruction that's almost a playground to them — the fate of Dovi's family back home makes the stakes of war horrifyingly clear.
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If you are a human being who has spent any time whatsoever in close quarters with a group of your peers, you've done at least one thing so horrifyingly embarrassing that people are still talking about it.
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Horrifyingly, although home to only 5% of the world's population, in 2014 the Arab world accounted for 45% of the world's terrorism, 68% of its battle-related deaths, 20063% of its internally displaced and 58% of its refugees.
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Each year there are news stories of dogs dying in horrifyingly hot parked cars after they are carelessly left there by their owners, but severe winter weather can be just as dangerous to pets abandoned in a vehicle.
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It's about a bitter, alcoholic horse who spends most of his days whining about his life from inside an enormous mansion, but somehow the show makes his (incredibly) privileged problems feel intimate, devastating, and sometimes even horrifyingly relatable.
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" Lenika Cruz, The Atlantic: "Before I get into this episode, I need to acknowledge how unfortunate it is that Tyrion decided to give the new ruler of the Six Kingdoms a name as horrifyingly ableist as Bran the Broken.
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But now, decades after we watched Sarah Connor grow from a horrifyingly permed waitress in "The Terminator" to a musclebound guerilla fighter of "Terminator 2," we will at last get to see her again: older, wiser, tougher and crazier.
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Documented or not, many of those immigrants have been subject not to the welcoming traditions of our faiths, but rather to racism, nativism and xenophobia that have been exaggerated and horrifyingly normalized by our president-elect and his advisers.
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The Mark Zuckerberg for H&M collection (identical gray T-shirts and jeans) is actually pretty well-done: Artisanal toilet paper is so horrifyingly plausible, I had to check to make sure there weren't Portland Airbnbs already using it.
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Kentucky Senator Rand Paul told the Washington Post on Tuesday that he's inclined to oppose confirming Rudy Giuliani and former U.N. ambassador John Bolton—two Trump allies who, horrifyingly, are reported to be leading candidates to serve as secretary of state.
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BERLIN, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Russia slays political opponents and China's tactics would be "horrifyingly familiar" to former East Germans, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday, describing free nations as being in a "competition of values" with unfree nations.
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Today, despite horrifyingly frequent mass shootings and yearly gun deaths topping 30,000, lawmakers, nearly all of them Republican, stand in lock-step formation against even modest gun-control efforts — like preventing people suspected of terrorist ties from easily buying firearms.
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"Rick and Morty" is often horrifyingly violent, and its family dynamics are a defiantly unpleasant reversal of the classic will-they-or-won't-they romantic tension: Instead, we root for characters to get divorced for their sakes and for their children.
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She works as a nurse in the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments, a shambling Catholic institution in Karachi that is corrupt, underfunded, and horrifyingly filthy: rats make nests of human hair; gunnysacks filled with body parts sit in a corner.
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He was able to build his small media empire, which he says now pays more than his engineering gig, in part because of the horrifyingly dismal customer service that Uber, Lyft, and other gig economy jobs provide to their contractors, Campbell told me.
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Throwing more moderators at the problem might help catch a few more horrifyingly violent or inappropriate videos from slipping through the cracks, but in the absence of a fair and protected workforce, it sacrifices the wellbeing of these contractors for the company's bottom line.
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Blanche's rape is staged as brutally as I've ever seen, and its aftermath is as horrifyingly realistic: she is legitimately terrified even to see her brother-in-law, and has to be physically restrained by the mental health workers who come to take her away.
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"Confessions," a slender book with a high body count, is set in the middle of the civil war, in the thick of kidnappings and ambushes on refugee camps, when a child's bag of marbles turns out to be, horrifyingly, a cache of human eyes.
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When I became a volunteer with Gay Men's Health Crisis in the late 1980s, recruits were horrifyingly required to attend sensitivity training sessions in which we had to define ourselves as types of flowers, and I have been allergic to botanical identity games ever since.
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She has been the center of ridicule for her horrifyingly racist views for years and was once sentenced to three years in prison for electoral fraud (she ultimately served 11 weeks, as an appeal overturned the conviction), has become a major political figure once more.
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But I guess I understand the impulse to retroactively endorse Bush—Trump is horrifyingly bad in way we've never seen before, and it can make the Bush years, during which the US had one of the worst economic collapses in its history, seem rosier.
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Despite the fact that she'd only given Facebook information from her vanilla identity, the company had somehow discerned her real-world connection to these people—and, even more horrifyingly, her account was potentially being presented to them as a friend suggestion too, outing her regular identity to them.
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In addition to being horrifyingly offensive, the film's plot is badly executed and difficult to follow, but it basically goes something like this: Sexy 20-somethings get roped into house-sitting for the Infamous Creepy Crazy Misandrist Lady Who Lives in the Mansion on the Corner, on Christmas.
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Strangely, this was the second time we had nearly sold the house, and we had the sense that it was clinging to us, like a boyfriend you keep breaking up with who begs you to take him back — and then self-destructs so horrifyingly that you cannot dump him.
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This is a horrifyingly real practice, and the movie follows this thread of removing human autonomy for the sake of profit, exploring all the ways in which Sawyer and her fellow inmates are clamped into drug-controlled routines in cheap conditions to hold them until their jailers get the ransom.
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"It didn't end with the Third Reich," I managed, quaveringly (This would become even more horrifyingly true after Orlando.) Ingrid called my attention to an array of other brass-topped stones sunk into the pavement at Güntzelstrasse 49, which she said she went out to polish from time to time.
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Adult life being what it is, my French went unattended, but recently, with a milestone birthday approaching, I've decided to study for and take the French Ministry of Education's proficiency exam, a horrifyingly intimidating test that certifies you as someone who has at least a respectable grasp of the language.
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By buying Lifetouch for $825 million, Shutterfly not only gets the leading photo service for those adorably cute (or horrifyingly cute) school pictures that only a parent can love, it gets an opportunity to sell more crap that can now be customized with the faces of a parent's darling little angel (or angels).
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"Frankly, that statistic has been horrifyingly low and hasn't moved," said Schmeiser, noting that only 42% of the 1.7 million high school students who took the SAT in 2015 were determined to be "college ready" and not likely to need any remedial attention in English Language Arts or math when they got to college.
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After a visit to what bears a striking resemblance to the Apple Store where a disgruntled employee named Denice (Wanda Sykes) roasts Phil for his millennial smartphone addiction, Phil gets a new phone that offers an audacious and horrifyingly independent A.I. assistant, Jexi (voiced by Rose Byrne), which I will refer to using she/her pronouns.
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Critical focus on any single decade comes at the cost of ignoring the larger science fiction influences entangled in the show's pop culture DNA Beyond the physical elements of its predatory nature, Stranger Things' Demogorgon also resonates with one of The X-Files' creepiest creations: the horrifyingly pallid, sewer-dwelling flukeman featured in "The Host," which aired during the show's second season in 1994.
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An acid attack affecting such a large group of people is rare, but the use of noxious chemicals—or "face melters"—as a weapon of choice is now horrifyingly frequent in the UK. Figures released by the Metropolitan Police found there has been a steep rise in the number of reported attacks in London to more than one incident a day, from 21980 in 2015 to 454 in 2016.
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Despite a large number of survivors emerging with virtually identical stories about being paid to massage the billionaire when they were in middle and high school and then being molested or worse, and despite corroborating phone and flight records, willing witnesses, and a horrifyingly detailed little black book with even more names of possible victims, Epstein was ultimately offered a plea deal on prostitution charges that landed him a mere 13 months in county jail.
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Each person is required to listen to the whole set and then pass the tapes along to the next person on the list, like a demented chain letter: the boy who told the entire school she was a slut after they kissed once; the boy who reduced her to the best ass in school; the girl who believed the rumors and blamed Hannah when her boyfriend dumped her — and, eventually and horrifyingly, the boy who turns out to be a rapist.
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The Danish actor Claes Bang — a hit at Cannes, where "The Square" won the Palme d'Or thus igniting a "Bang for Bond" (as in 007) campaign — stars as Christian alongside Dominic West, as an artist whose gallery talk is interrupted by an audience member with Tourette's syndrome; Terry Notary, as an ape-man whose performance piece for a patrons' dinner veers horrifyingly close to reality; and Elisabeth Moss, as an American journalist who beds Christian, leading to the most hilariously paranoid tussle over a used condom that some of us will ever witness.
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