Sentences with phrase «british eccentricity»

As the blurb says, «The classic nature of the English gentlemen's jacket is retained but an almost surreal aspect is developed, exemplifying a British eccentricity.»

The basis of the brand personality and language is «British Eccentricity», which sets the tone for the entire identity, from business cards to staff uniforms to menus.

But it's sort of their shot at a foul - mouthed pot - sex - bodily - functions - Judd Apatow - style comedy and as such seems watered down, with just a hint of the British eccentricity that made them cult heroes.

(U.K.) This warm - hearted new comedy by Stephen Frears («The Queen») celebrates flavors of British eccentricity in a bucolic village.

Not exact matches

«This collection finds the humour, and the beauty, and the pathos, and the sheer glorious eccentricity of the British way of dressing.»

All four are seduced by the eccentricity and scope of Hill House, which, in real life is Harlaxton College, a 19th century British manor.

But British director John Boorman, making his first US production, approaches the material with probing eccentricity.

Ruth Rendell's PORTOBELLO (Scribner, $ 26) is a wry homage to the enduring eccentricities of her British countrymen.

Linguist Nicholas Ostler would appear to be that singular type of British scholar who combines daunting erudition with an equal measure of eccentricity (one of the two dozen or so languages he knows is Chibcha, an ancient South American tongue).

A small group of islands bursting with character and eccentricity, the British Isles will be sure to capture your heart from the moment you arrive.

It's been more than a decade since Grayson Perry RA won the Turner Prize for a series of brightly coloured, darkly themed ceramic vases decorated with images inspired by eccentricities and archetypes found in contemporary British society.

I agreed with some reluctance to review British Folk Art, since I anticipated an overdose of quaint charm, naive whimsy and endearing eccentricity.

The spinning, tottering eccentricity of this playful British sculptor's unpredictable abstractions mirrors modern scientific understandings of space and time.

I Just Want to Do Whatever I Feel like Doing; GRAYSON PERRY ON HIS CROSS-DRESS HAPPINESS; EXCLUSIVE The Mirror (London, England); October 22, 2014; Wynne - Jones, Ros; 700 + words... ROS WYNNE - JONES When artist Grayson Perry was made a Commander of the British... going to compromise my identity as Britain's pre-eminent transvestite... woke up to the eccentricity of Grayson Perry.

It is a celebration of the eccentricity and the diversity of British people.