Sentences with phrase «about ugliness»

Paul Biba over at TeleRead pointed out the other day a post at the Wired blog by Priya Ganapati about the ugliness of eBooks.

Mark Harris» latest Grantland column about the ugliness of Oscar season — the Age of Outrage meeting Oscar season but lest we forget what happened to Zero Dark Thirty last year, and Lincoln for that matter.

Sweet Country is a handsomely made film about ugliness.

In execution and theme, it reminds a great deal of Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin, another film that is confounding and uncomfortable and essentially about the ugliness of the world in general but especially if you're a woman.

Really, the hatefulness on the board says much more about the ugliness of the current base voters of the Democratic Party than it does Mia Love.

Not exact matches

I need a serious break from the ugliness of DC health - care politics, so let's talk about three interesting and related economic questions: inflation, labor demand, and consumer spending.

You're going to want to do this for a while, because people respond to messages far more strongly than they do to specific design quirks (barring complete ugliness, which is really about authority anyway).

I don't really care about the argument (which will inevitably go on forever); I just want to cut away the pretense and ugliness, exposing the argument for what it is.

The best way to protect America is to warmly welcome law abiding citizens of any faith, such a rare and wonderful thing about us, something we can hold up as unique and special, something that does nt provoke but binds loyalty.Being different, more accepting and loving than the ugliness found in anti-Christian cultures, is our greatest strength.

She compels belief in the unbelievable, and she knows that thousands of people have reason to deny her version of the truth — about the abuse that she claims is part of her experience and the ugliness revealed by the light she shines on her Mormon upbringing.

While subsequently advancing this thesis through readings of the literature, Donoghue gets sidetracked into shrill complaints about the current administration and the ugliness of American power in general.

Amazing sharing of a personal story, thanx I have seen that when people make talking about the god and right belief about their god so central (or even mildly important), this sort of ugliness is inevitable.

Paladino, of course, is doing just that today, trying to put the ugliness of last week's personal attacks behind him by refocusing on policy with a new Web video that talks about eliminating taxes that are onerous on businesses.

What the film is saying about goodness (or ugliness or badness) is unclear as the «good» is just as bad as the «ugly,» but I can imagine that it's attempting to show that morality is more contextual than absolute, creating, as it does, an environment in which everybody is immoral even the Union and Confederate troops, who seem to be passing through this film on their way to another.

As a picture ostensibly about love, revenge and the ugliness of slavery, «Django Unchained» has almost zero subtext and is a largely soulless bloodbath, in which the history of pain and retribution is coupled carelessly with a cool soundtrack and some verbose dialogue.

The film also has an undercurrent of ugliness to it, intentional to a certain extent, with more shots and dialogue about human waste than is typical for a law enforcement thriller.

No, Keeping Mum is best regarded as a smug, self - satisfied bit of ugliness perpetrated by guys who should know better and, at the end of a long piece about Patrick Swayze, this is as good a place as any to stop: with his corpse wrapped in a tarp in the back of his truck, the victim of the business end of irony.

Truth is, we never come to care about these characters, or the clichéd storyline, we just can't bear to see freak - out moments of ugliness.

The implications about the current state of online culture in the film is disturbing, perhaps even a bit hyperbolic, but what better than a B movie cheapie to spell out the ugliness of social media in both the genre and the social platform's gruesome, unforgiving terms?

Yet on the inside, Ifans maintains that same ugliness, as he's used here to provide some difficult thoughts about the very frank «caveman» instincts within men, especially when someone like Emily Blunt is involved.

But inAPPropriate Comedy is a barren, laughless wasteland, and the ugliness of its racial stereotypes and crude sexual humor makes it seem about twice as long as its 83 - minute running time (which is really more like 75 minutes padded out with outtakes, bloopers, and an unusually long end - credits sequence).

On paper, a film about a fashion - obsessed woman on a downward spiral when her seemingly stable relationship goes askew would be prime terrain for some misogyny - driven ugliness about women and vanity.

, seem quite content to follow BMW down this rathole (see Honda Accord Crosstour and Acura ZDX, about whose ugliness I could write a book).

With the state of race relations in our country, you would think more would be done about teaching the history of our people instead of hiding it's ugliness.

Yet nothing can be done about blatant ugliness?

Writing unflinchingly with equal vigor about the beauty and the ugliness, Diane Ackerman manages to re-sensitize the reader to acts of war and acts of grace.

He goes on to say that many people, especially young people, shy away from reading about slavery, lynchings, Jim Crow, and racism because the ugliness and the pain seem unremitting, but «without embracing the past one can not create her future.»

My work is about finding beauty in the ordinary or mundane — beauty in ugliness, also known as wabi sabi.

What about the effect of the uncanny or the aesthetic of ugliness as Karl Rosenkrantz used to call it?

They made me think about what ugliness can do in art.

This is all the opposite about the lawyer's shutting off feelings and emotions, but is instead battling with full engagement without allowing emotional debilitation from ugliness and potential harmfulness from others.

And when asked about what Alan called his «ugliness» during the breakup of their marriage, Joan shared, «Alan is a good guy.

I also felt bad about junking the well constructed and serviceable doors that we already had, despite their ugliness.

«BE HAPPY about your ugly floor because the ugliness gives you permission to risk ruining it!»