Sentences with phrase «brash british»

One of BookBrowse's Top 3 Favorite Books of 2009 Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa.

During the Napoleonic Wars, a brash British captain pushes his ship and

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In 1952, as a brash, ambitious attorney, he backed postal workers in an unprecedented strike against British authorities.

He is a very different type of leader from his predecessor Neil Kinnock, who was probably a tad too brash for the British electorate; Smith is the friendly bank manager in the High Street (before, that is, bank managers became a toxic brand) and he leads a united Labour opposition.

«China Seas» (Tay Garnett, 1935) Another MGM all - star special, this time set on a boat plagued by piracy and romantic rivalry — with a quadrangle that embraces brash captain Clark Gable, shady - lady songbird Harlow (in an archetypal role), British flower Rosalind Russell and sneaky crook and Harlow admirer Wallace Beery.

Wilkinson is particularly good, while Weisz captures the brash, impulsive American's energy and her frustration at not being able to speak for herself in a British court.

All with the help of an enjoyably brash script written by British journo Jon Ronson.

You and three other people step into the shoes of the Raid squad which is composed of an extremely polite British marksman, a Russian wearing a gas mask, a brash American and a former SS soldier, all of whom are now out to earn themselves a health paycheck in gold.

Case in point, the mini-retrospective at Frieze of British artist Linder Sterling's brash collaged female avatars of soft porn, so amusingly outre in the 70s but, as reprieved today, irretrievably lewd.

The British movement differed from its American counterpart by being less brash, more romantic and more nostalgic.

Having created a platform for young British artists, d'Offay had been somewhat eclipsed by the brasher talents of Charles Saatchi and Jay Jopling (Jopling bought his first work of art from the d'Offay gallery at 14 - a limited edition Gilbert & George book that cost # 16.

Despite being less brash, less kitschy, more romantic and more nostalgic than its counterpart across the Atlantic, British Pop - art during the early and mid-1960s was strongly influenced by a US pop culture which it regarded as being more up - to - date and more exciting than the home - grown variety.

As Damien Hirst dusts off his # 50m diamond skull in preparation for his Tate Modern retrospective this spring, a new generation of young British artists are working in a very different climate from the brash super-confidence of his 1990s heyday.

Hirst, 46, occupies a unique place in British culture: the prime mover among a brash and brilliant generation of artists who emerged in the early 1990s, determined to be famous, unabashed by controversy.

As the ringleader of a brash clique of art students who became known as the Young British Artists, he staged a pioneering 1988 show («Freeze») in a disused London warehouse.