Sentences with phrase «imbued with wit»

The fifty - odd canvases in this show are imbued with wit, tarred innocence, and, at their best, a melancholy grandeur.

Imbued with wit and an economy of line, her images are often painted through the filter of her memory, using text to anchor recollections and facts.

Not exact matches

Lily James imbues Elizabeth with the same wit and charm that she brought to «Cinderella,» and Sam Riley has fun as an especially snarling version of Darcy, but it's Matt Smith who steals the show (and most of the laughs) as the pompous and absurd Mr. Collins.

Alongside the two leads, the supporting performances are also very fine, Grainger imbuing Louise with a wit and forthrightness that portrays her not only as the «good» woman in contrast to Rachel, but also as a voice of common sense against Philip's melodramatic swooning.

Helped by screenwriting and direction that pruned away the worst excesses of E L James» largely unreadable book, Johnson even managed to imbue the pallid character of Anastasia Steele with some actual personality and wit, and became far more watchable and engaging than the material really deserved.

Lockhart has to be charming and yet inept, quick - witted and yet dull, and Downey manages to imbue him with these qualities and still more — he is manic and thoughtful, hero and villain.

Curated by Dr Klaus Wolbert, the former director of Mathildenhöhe Institute in Germany, the selection reflects Botero's artistic exploration of the human experience, imbued with his characteristic socio - political insight and ironic wit.

The barges are imbued with his signature wit, as underscored by the laconic title, «F ----- g Couches,» that he gave to the 1972 show at New York's Lo Giudice Gallery at which they had their commercial debut.

Tweedy's voice, a ghostly summons, and his lyrics — imbued at times with an elemental wit, pain and anxiety, and shimmering in other moments with a strange, cryptic beauty — are uniquely suited to the intimate grandeur of Marfa's Liberty Hall.

But an anonymous Time magazine writer anticipated those views in 1969, writing: «Noland's supposedly impersonal canvases are vividly imbued with a dozen remarkably personal characteristics — pride, imposed logic, arrogance, grace, wit, independence and inner tension.

Although Mesler's autobiographical paintings evoke illustrations from a children's alphabet book, his distinctive style imbues them with a dark wit that reveals pivotal moments from his life.