Sentences with phrase «wry social»

A former magazine editor whose insights are witty and devilishly pertinent, Kruger's art remains a wry social commentary on our media - saturated world.

Palmer tweaks the traditional family saga with wry social commentary and tinges of malevolence as brooding as an English winter rain.

The French playwright Yasmina Reza has made a career out of penning wry social satires («Art,» «Life x 3») that savagely skewer the hypocrisies, absurdities, and pretenses of bourgeois values.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Amnesiac Adjusts to Soulless Utopia in Wry Social Satire Suppose you were suffering from amnesia and suddenly found yourself inexplicably welcomed to an unfamiliar city you don't recognize by soulless strangers who inform you that you're an accountant before escorting you to your new home.

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Or under a pseudonym, like Michael J. Astrue, the smart and serious commissioner of Social Security, and the poet A.M. Juster, wry and clever, attempting most evenings to solve the clandestine mysteries of things through verse.

In the skilled hands of Alan Ball, the conceit allows for both deft social commentary and wry humor.

A million miles removed from such peripherally comparable fare as Sidney Lumet's A Stranger Among Us or Boaz Yakin's A Price Above Rubies, Joshua Z Weinstein's fiction - feature debut gets right under the skin of its characters, gently unpicking themes of social conformity and religious responsibility with melancholy wit and wry, tragicomic insight.

A wry opening, with protagonist John Marston seated between fellow passengers of a very different social class, sets the scene nicely, with just a passing glimpse at what lies ahead as the train ride reaches its natural conclusion.

With her means of support rapidly dwindling, marriage is clearly the endgame for Lady Susan — as it is for all of Austen's leading ladies — but the romantic emotion that's supposed to go along with it proves to be little more than a social affect in this wry comedy of manners.

Jordan Peele, the mastermind of «Get Out,» a social thriller about American racism, became the first African American to earn producer, director and writer nominations for a single film; the academy nominated a female cinematographer, «Mudbound's» Rachel Morrison, for the first time in its 90 - year history; and Greta Gerwig became just the fifth woman recognized as a director, feted for her wry, observational coming - of - age story «Lady Bird.»

Grim narrative prospects but we can count on Loach and his screenwriting partner Paul Laverty to wring wry humour from such social strife.

When failed concert promoter Uncle Sweetheart (John Goodman) asks down - on - his - luck folk singer Jack Fate (Dylan) about the importance of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin to American rock - and - lore, the inanity of the answer (and the evasiveness of Dylan's demeanour — «Well, it matters to someone, I guess») isn't mysterious so much as inane and disingenuous; even the evocation of social phenomena as important and galvanizing to roots rock and the inner city as the myth of Stagger Lee is tossed off with a wry flick of the hand.

BookPage interviewed Williams - Garcia back in February 2010 and praised the author's «gift for combining everyday settings with social commentary and wry wit.»

Witty, compassionate, and wry, it captures the social, political, and spiritual upheavals of those decades through the experiences of a middle - class couple, their four children, and the changing worlds in which they live.

Together with the works on paper is a hand - sewn soft sculpture of two intertwined snakes - a male and a female - decadently dressed, offering a wry statement on the privileged social systems media imagery exploits.

Gachot's mixed media sculptures made from found materials demonstrate wry and wit while frequently making social commentary.

Last week, Gusford Los Angeles held its opening reception for Adam Mars» second solo exhibition at its gallery featuring his newest body of works, Once Upon a Time, We Weren't Stalkers, which sheds insight on the ubiquitous nature of social media with a dose of wry wit that is as telling as it is humorous.

With this take on his own technique, Bradford is showing the public an aspect of himself in the form of bright color, wry wit, and his personal gift for maintaining grace and humor in his engagement with the full range of social discourse.

In this it shares a lot of characteristics with some of the engineering and social sciences for example (as an aside I get a wry smile when I hear people say climate science is unique because we only have one experiment, and think about the way social scientists leap on those rare longitudinal studies to help them understand things like learning and criminal behaviour).