Sentences with phrase «dickensian bravura»

The dual parts require the performer to simultaneously attune to her inner darkness and light, hopping back and forth between dialectical extremes, to the delight of audiences enthralled by the bravura embodiment of such range and passion.

Social media break the rhythmic silence of listening and so all too readily become tools of anti-social bravura.

As the remarkable Gordie Howe opened his 24th hockey season — in triumph and with a burst of the old bravura — he recalled rookie days when he could hear the pucks from his pad

He shoots slightly more frequently than Costa does, but until a bravura run of league form in 2017 (when he scored 10 goals as part of Real Madrid's rotational «B» team that took the slack for a busy Champions League — filled schedule), he hadn't consistently been shooting from the most dangerous central areas.

Channel 4 News political editor Gary Gibbon said: «Shrewd, witty, bravura de-bunking.

Shadow first secretary of state Angela Eagle has been applauded for a «bravura» and «truly amazing» prime minister's questions debut.

Not a few believe «Hausa - Fulani» ultra-nationalism is expressed in the notorious «Fulani herdsmen», that kill with murderous bravura and satanic flourish.

Tedford puts in a bravura shift as Maggie, donning his twin set and pearls and doing an impression to rival Spitting Image legend Steve Nallon.

So it would have been a characteristically bravura, publicity - grabbing touch if the U.S. Attorney had chosen the end of last week to unveil a federal indictment of Mayor Bill de Blasio on campaign - finance - related charges — while de Blasio was out of town, jetting to Chicago and Fort Lauderdale and Beverly Hills raising money for his reelection campaign.

Shadow first secretary of state Angela Eagle has been applauded for a «bravura» and «truly amazing...

For all the cheers during and after David Cameron's bravura last PMQs the painful truth is that he was destroyed by hubris.

The guessing game over David Miliband's future dominated a day in which he gave his party a glimpse of what could have been — with a concession speech that turned into a bravura display of political theatre.

I admire the young man's bravura, but 10 - term incumbent Kevin Cahill, 62, will not go quietly into the night.

Even big Cameron critic, James Delingpole at The Telegraph was positive (about the performance at least): «Cameron's speech was a bravura exercise in super-salesmanship.

More than half of Labour voters (56 per cent) are pleased with Mr Corbyn's performance while just 25 per cent believe shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn, who was widely lauded for a bravura Commons speech backing military action against Islamic State in Syria, would make a good replacement, rising to 42 per cent among Conservative voters.

In a bravura speech designed to raise morale, he said that the Lib Dems were «putting radical liberal politics into action and blocking Tory policies every day».

Mosquitoes, a story of truth and communication, of belief and faith, of family ties and particle physics, is an act of conceptual bravura from a writer approaching the top of her game.

Another reason why girls prefer older guys is that they are faster than men mature and older men more attractive than their younger counterparts because the last still with the male bravura of their teenagers behave and can not move away from their adolescence or so it seems.

Irons, busily offset by Silver, gleefully choreographed by Schroeder, gives the picture its real bravura reason for being.

Together the two opening tracks constitute one of the most bravura opening sequences of any film score.

It's a bravura sequence.

Fritz Lang turns this into a creepily effective work, full of bravura set pieces and subtle suggestions.

Artistically constructed, and featuring a bravura performance from Ewan McGregor, Trainspotting craftily balances both a dark and charming tone.

Compared to that level of bravura, Stranger than Fiction's jokes never rise beyond simply pointing out how crazy a man would look if he thought there was a little voice in his head talking about him.

And through Will Patton's bravura performance, Sam becomes as much a center of the story as Dee who has the most to lose and proves there is always something worth fighting for.

Stunning visuals and a bravura performance from newcomer Suraj Sharma as the young protagonist make Life of Pi a quest destined to impress.

Christian Bale delivers a bravura performance as an unhinged Gulf War veteran leading his boyhood best friend (Freddy Rodriguez) astray during a drug - fueled foray into the seedier side of Los Angeles in this gritty drama.

In what may be the film's most bravura sequence, Isabelle meets the young and swarthy actor after a performance, after which she manages to painstakingly cajole him back to her place.

Watching Krisha is a revelation: there are expected «rules» for such material (a former addict returns home for a holiday), but then director / writer Trey Edward Shults breaks every rule, making those rules seem tired and arbitrary in the process, and he does so with bravura, confidence, flash.

It is the film's most bravura set piece and features Coogler's signature one - take (as seen in Creed), capturing a brawl from all levels and sides of the casino where the trio ambushes Klaue.

Field also has a sequence where she gets to tame Tommy Lee Jones with much softer, but sharper, words; it's the kind of bravura supporting actress work that steals Oscars.

As much as Herrmann and Chapman play a major part in the proceedings, though, so too does the unsettling delivery of DeNiro in a bravura show of restraint and suggestion.

It's grisly, of course, but also inspired, a bravura bit of surgery involving a beer can and way too much peyote.

Here's a masterwork of technical bravura, adorned with inspired ensemble performances and directed with astonishing empathy.

Of all the bravura visual effects in Martin Scorsese's dazzingly stylish Casino, it's a glimpse of ordinary people that delivers the greatest jolt.

This is bravura stuff, some sublime notes within a symphony of silly.

Critic Consensus: Bracingly intense, passionate, and wildly melodramatic, Black Swan glides on Darren Aronofsky's bold direction — and a bravura performance from Natalie Portman.

Only the bravura of the cast, first and foremost Park and Lee (both veterans of Unbowed), generates sufficient interest to see the film through to its surprising conclusion, recounted in a respectful coda many years later.

No one kills people with the bravura relish of De Palma.

This devastating film is buoyed by Dequenne's bravura willingness to go all out; she's a baby - faced kid when the camera focuses full on and an exceptionally beautiful young woman in profile.

Critic Consensus: Impeccably mounted but occasionally bombastic, Les Misérables largely succeeds thanks to bravura performances from its distinguished cast.

Between the prospect of a definitive ending, the looming fear of catastrophe, and the continually exceptional performances, it's bravura television that somehow follows the model of earlier seasons while subverting expectations.

Critics Consensus: Bracingly intense, passionate, and wildly melodramatic, Black Swan glides on Darren Aronofsky's bold direction — and a bravura performance from Natalie Portman.

This is a riveting film with a bravura performance by Cranston, who's been the signature television actor of the past decade.

Similarly, by pitting everyone against the monsters right up front, we don't get a lot of bravura character on character chest thumping.

Enemy at the Gates, is no «Saving Private Ryan» - but thrilling, bravura stretches make it consistently entertaining, if less than profound, filmmaking.

Joanna reviewed Jackie at TIFF and she's right that it's a balls - out bravura performance from Portman.

Of course, he does this in the same bravura directing style of his past films, and with the rapid - fire comedy he and co - writer / star Simon Pegg brought to the first two parts of «The Cornetto Trilogy», Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.

It's fitting how A Most Wanted Man's final scene is its peak, Hoffman delivering another bravura performance to add to his roster of many.

Whether ruining a baby's naming ceremony or describing to Buddy's wife (Elizabeth Reaser, Twilight) how she still sleeps in his old t - shirts, Theron delivers with fearless, gasp - inducing bravura.