Sentences with phrase «action absurdity»

I enjoy the action absurdity but I can't justify the theater expense to enjoy it.

The basic premise of a superpowered king fighting crime in a futuristic feline - themed suit is the kind of fresh - off - the - panel action absurdity that marks today's comic - book movies.

Not exact matches

The idea that there are spiritual forces at work in the world, or that human action does not fully control the public square, is of course rejected as an absurdity by many, if not most, people today.

As he points out, «If all our actions are in principle absurd, the act of heroically resisting their absurdity must also be absurd» (RG 41).

That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.

Leading lawyer Lord Carlile said it was an «absurdity» to ask Lord Rennard to say sorry for sexual harassment he strenuously denies and said the actions of the Liberal Democrats in the case made «the North Korean legal system look benign.»

Newton's law of gravitation first allowed such apparently instantaneous «action at a distance», but he himself was not a fan, describing it in a letter as «so great an Absurdity that I believe no Man who has in philosophical Matters a competent Faculty of thinking can ever fall into it».

After all, as Isaac Newton pointed out in his Principia, the notion «that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophic matters a competent faculty of thinking could ever fall into it.»

When I wasn't laughing at the absurdity of where things go I was bored out of my mind waiting for long silent stares hiding nothing to finally turn into action.

The action - movie absurdity is still in place, but so is Landis» muddy - bloody touch: by the end, Eisenberg's face is a purple, swollen wreck, and rightly so.

When it comes in entertainment AvP takes the absurdity of boring action, to the broken gameplay.

I visualized an improv version of Darkon (a doc that covers fantasy live - action role - playing), filming twentysomethings huddled in theater basements playing Zip - Zap - Zop, the camera pointing out the absurdity of their lives.

A work of realism through and through, the actions characters commit fall under such significant awkwardness that they find life's inherent absurdity, making for an equally gut - busting and somber affair.

This action movie misses the two big chances here: to play with the absurdities of its premise and to make a comment on corporate greed.

Though «The Purge: Election Year» inherits many of the same problems from 2014's «The Purge: Anarchy,» chief among them the absurdity of the Purge itself, it also builds on its strengths to produce another John Carpenter - styled action thriller that's equal parts cheesy B - movie and pulpy fun.

Director Pawlikowski makes no effort to universalize the experience, situating the action at a time and place in history in which Poland, having survived the horrors of Nazism, must know deal with the absurdities of Communism.

With a fiendishly clever script from Jack Reacher writer - director Christopher McQuarrie, the finest action - sequences - as - adrenaline - soaked - therapy - sessions money can buy, and a captivating performance from newcomer Rebecca Ferguson, the fifth film in this endlessly inventive franchise hit yet another level of delicious absurdity in its exploitation of masculine vanity.

The film is definitely more action - oriented than its predecessor, less concerned with building suspense than watching its would - be victims fight off a never - ending onslaught of crazies («The Warriors» and «Assault on Precinct 13» were obvious influences), but there are still so many questions about the sheer absurdity of the premise that it's hard to invest in the story.

But Blood Wars «screenplay (by Kyle Ward, who co-conceived the story with Cory Goodman) is clunky and uneconomical; for a film that runs 90 minutes, it frequently stops dead in its tracks so characters can narrate the action, or highlight their shallow thoughts and emotions to the point of absurdity.

Action flicks like Predator (1987) entertained us with a story, albeit a silly one, in which even the actors occasionally paused to marvel at the absurdity of it all.

I love Hudson Hawk but I understand it's a kind of absurdity that most people don't want in their action movies.

When it comes in entertainment AvP takes the absurdity of boring action, to the broken gameplay.

Featuring Gerard Butler as a (of course) wrongly accused prisoners and Dexter's Michael C. Hall as a singing, dancing, psychopathic game designer, Gamer is a non-stop blend of action and absurdity.

The games became increasingly action - obsessed to the point of absurdity.

Drawing equally from conceptual performance history and nonsense literature, as well as tenets of British empiricism and the rhetoric of political campaigns, Bob and Roberta Smith's allergy to pretension and preciosity can lend an offending bluntness or seeming nihilistic absurdity to their actions.

The past and future of the action become irrelevant in light of the urgency and absurdity of the problems faced by her characters.

Beyond anything else, these performances are driven by an idea of spontaneity and improvization: the quality of the filming equipment is not an issue, nor is the apparent absurdity of the action.

While the artists claimed absurdity for their action instead of a specific stance on gay marriage, the action rhymes not unproblematically with Wood and Harrison's one - liners.

Alterity, conundrums and absurdities together with no distinctions between the banal and the extreme, or the subjective and the objective are the structure for actions and language situations.

Documentation of performances through photography and video, which shows the artist experimenting within his own body in a series of simple actions — tossing, falling, hugging, smacking, tripping, and whirling — and his performative objects and installations uncover the darker absurdities of the body, space, and movement.

Greco called the action «regulatory absurdity and bad public policy.»

In the rare occasion where the absurdity of a threatened legal action matches up nicely with the devil - may - care attitude of a client, you get the stuff of internet magic: the epic smackdown letter.

But apparently there are vanishingly rare occasions where the absurdity of the threatened legal action matches up nicely with the devil - may - care attitude of a client, and then you get the stuff of internet magic: the epic smackdown letter.

(Yes, I appreciate such termination would almost assuredly contravene the provisions of the Human Rights Code, and I do not mean to suggest that such a course of action would be «prudent» from an employment - law perspective, what I intend to do is underline the absurdity of such a course of action as a means of limiting insurance coverage.)