If Death Grips isn't the fourth horseman of a hip-hop apocalypse, its music at least tests the genre's threshold of extremity: The trio's abrasive, jittery style teeters on the edge of palatability, and plays toward a morbid curiosity to which many listeners won't succumb.
If any person examines by the microscope that part towards the extremity of the spider's body from whence its thread proceeds, he will observe the spot to be, as it were, surrounded by five several protuberances or risings, each ending in a point and altogether forming a kind of enclosure.
I like the way that psychological extremity can illuminate more 'normal' characters by forcing a comparison.
The difference between a cult and a religion, of course, lies in extremity.
Happy are those few nations that have not waited till the slow succession of human vicissitudes should, from the extremity of evil, produce a transition to good; but by prudent laws have facilitated the progress from one to the other!
Deadwood lies at the northern tip of the Black Hills, where the land is ancient and rubbed smooth by time. The Black Hills are more rugged at their southern extremity, where bare granite forms pinnacles and spires.
In the extremity of war, character is revealed.
Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.
Man's extremity is God's opportunity.
Unfortunately, I've seen violence, and I think, in films, it is the dramatic extremity of it.
