Sentences with phrase «affectation as»

Poppy may be permanently sunny, but Hawkins subtly sheds the character's more pronounced tics and affectations as the film progresses, gradually revealing a surprisingly steely self - assurance beneath a kooky artifice.

The artist cites these corporeal affectations as reminders of her own mortality, often speaking of the living death, a transitory state between being and nothingness in which a thing is left to molder and dissolve.

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Even as its groovy formula for urban renaissance is repeated in cities around the world — often with explicit reference to the original — the back - to - basics affectations of Brooklynization verge on cliché.

But his habitual response to any concept whose meaning he has not taken the time to learn is to dismiss it as meaningless, with the sort of truculent affectation of contempt that suggests he really knows, at some level, that he is out of his depth.

On the contrary, one who without affectation says that he is in despair is after all a little bit nearer, a dialectical step nearer to being cured than all those who are not regarded and do not regard themselves as being in despair.

In the Skimpole mentality, all the effort required to produce his wants is mere affectation, and as such requires no compensation, and no respect.

Though some people might like to dismiss these sorts of sentiments as wishful thinking, melodramatic affectation or worse, they actually emerge from deeply held beliefs about the power of suffering, the motivational memory of the beloved, and ultimately the hope of a potential reunion.

In a Wong Kar - wai movie, say, such lavish design will mirror or counterpoint emotion; here, in the absence of any emotion whatsoever, it comes across as affectation at best, desperation at worst.

Trust at times seems about as factually accurate as the «B.C.» comic strip, and Boyle's visual affectations and his over-reliance on split - screens do not always serve the story well.

Del is played with a wondrous lack of affectation by Steve Buscemi; honestly, the guy is so often cast as «quirky dude» that it's a joy to see him just sit back and act.

Fortunately, George is there to still some of the spotlight, as is Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Walking Dead) as a CIA agent with cowboy affectations and an «eh, fuck it» attitude.

Relying upon the language of the field is often too difficult an affectation to escape, as is falling prey to the manipulative mechanics; indeed, depictions of all things illusion - oriented are frequently guilty of styling their content and construction with an ample use of both.

Shot with no affectation, the performances are likewise unaffected, while Samantha's dedication to Cyril plays as the kind of genuinely - earned salve to melancholy.

As for Gyllenhaal, her lack of affectation is entirely right for a movie that while generically conceived has its intriguing moments.

Its characteristics are unmistakable: rapid - fire dialogue with quips flying as often as bullets, a cadre of contemporary character actors playing gangster, and a deep well of edgy cynicism on which to hang these affectations.

Little hints that he, much like Nikola Tesla or Keanu Reeves, is a suspected vampire are a nice touch, but that's included only for humor, as though no one involved realized that those vampiric affectations give real insight into what makes Wiseau, Wiseau.

Propped up by class and affectation — he wears a bow tie, attends Princeton reunions to bellow «Old Nassau» with other middle - aged inebriates, and competes with his wife to see who can more fully drop the «r «s in French words such as «chevre» and «memoir» — he's spent a lifetime imagining himself a success, only to discover abruptly that he is in fact a failure at both work and marriage and had simply never noticed.

At 26, he may be a bit long in the tooth to play a teen, but the light - voiced Canadian adopts no affectations to pass as Lonergan's 19 - year - old hero, Warren Straub.

• One of the pleasures of watching all the Coens» pictures straight through is that you get a keen sense of their many visual affectations and in - jokes as they come and go.

Promising to follow the James M. Cain pot - boiler formula with its dense voiceovers and faux - sordid, sepia - stained sexing, Ask the Dust is actually just inert, a painfully - overwritten, impossible - to - execute picture loaded down with self - conscious slatted shadows and mirrors (and all manner of noir affectations) that isn't only set in 1930s Los Angeles, but plays exactly as anachronistic and fusty as most films produced in the Thirties, too.

But even here Edwards is canny enough to save the incomparable Victor Spinetti for the shtick's final gambit, and then to transfer the affectation to Herbert Lom — back again as Clouseau's tormented superior Dreyfuss — with unimpeachable comic logic.

As is wont to happen when shooting with the Red camera, whites run hot, but detail, tack - sharp though it is, has cinematic affectations that transcend digital video.

Whereas the early going boasts at least a bit of lighthearted drollness, the film and its copious eccentricities become less charming the further the material veers into serious betrayal - and - forgiveness crises, with verve flagging and Oliver's oddball earnestness and desperation coming across as wan affectations.

Although Youth in Revolt has quirky comic affectations, the subdued styles of Arteta (Chuck & Buck) and Cera (Superbad) keep the film grounded, proving that the director and star are as well - matched as Nick and Sheeni.

As Mary's increasingly severe depression causes a polite chill in her relationship with Tom and Gerri, Manville gradually strips the character of her more appealing affectations, leaving little more than a shivering shell of woman.

Every scene is an exercise in drawn - out affectation, with the characters» silent stares at each other, gazes off into nothing, and pauses between dialogue exchanges — all set to meaningful piano twinkles and drum beats — so distended as to intimate parody, an impression exacerbated by William twice telling enforcer Vincent (Martin Donovan) that his comments sound like something from a movie.

There are a lot of good actors wastes and a lot of subplots hastily shoved to the side in favor of putting all the focus on Depp, who still manages to slather himself in makeup and prosthetics and affectation even as he returns to less Disney - fied fare.

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Argento, because he's in control at this point and knows it, literally drops a pair of red curtains (vaginal lips as stage affectation) on the scene before inexplicably cutting away to water circling a drain, an image that will never again be innocuous post-Psycho.

It's business as usual in the opening state of Sonic Mania, but everything's in 1080p, gorgeous, and it feels modern despite its old school affectations.

He's played by Joseph Gordon - Levitt (with a throaty, baritone voice that, when the real Snowden shows up at the end of the movie, seems like an odd and just downright incorrect affectation), and the movie portrays him as an American patriot who, at the beginning of the story, is about to become a man without a country.

It has long been fashionable in auto - enthusiast and auto - journalist circles to dismiss the Toyota Prius as a precious affectation of misguided Al Gore devotees, people who find automobiles something to endure — for the sake of pure transportation — rather than enjoy.

There are annoying and distracting stylistic affectations, such as every «yes» and «no» in dialogue being written as «ja» or «nein» and italicized (to remind us that the characters are really speaking German, not English?).

«He spoke of distances in meters and kilometers and it took me a while to understand that this was not an affectation so much as a driving need to convert units of measurement more or less instantaneously.»

Shelli, my thought would be that you could use the «spoken» style in something like an internal monologue, but it could easily be seen as an affectation if used through the narrative.

I personally don't like it and I don't think any of these affectations even work as well as, say, Lovecraft's and Poe's ponderous pseudo-gothic style.

is usually the affectation of a lazy editor and can be as cringe - inducing for the bylined writer as for the readers.

The only change this time around is that sometimes you'll be given the chance to choose between two possibilities, such as whether an occult piece of jewelry is simply an affectation or indicative of a belief.

When dealing with an artist as subtle as Arturo Herrera, the manner of interpretation is by nature complex, further complicated by what at first seems like wildly varied and distinct bodies of work, each adopting the formal affectations of the medium at hand: architectural interventions, collage, abstract paintings, biomorphic abstractions, hybrid paintings, photography, sculpture, mail art.

In his paintings, he celebrates their «affectations» and surrounds them with prized art and design objects of the 1920s, such as Donald Deskey's red leather club chairs and still - lifes that suggest the work of Bloomsbury Group painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant.

This group's thirst for nonconformist epistemologies is suffused with an appetite for irony quite capable of accepting the adoption of questionable tendencies, like white supremacy, as instances of banal posturing or jaded affectation.

Broodthaers's bourgeois affectations became a bit showier and more expansive as he took on the roles of party planner and interior decorator.

As curator Helen Molesworth, who organized the exhibition, contends in her essay «Amy Sillman: Look, Touch, Embrace,» included in the show's catalogue, that painting today is understood in terms of failure or ambivalence, affectation and power, and medium - specificity.

Michael David, the atelier's director, says the group's «radical sincerity» helps them avoid the affectation and mannerism that art critic Clement Greenberg once dismissed as «the Tenth Street touch» of second - generation Abstract Expressionist painters.

No one likes to be preached at or lectured to, even though Campbell wants the meaning of his works to be open ended, It for Others can seem more like an academic Powerpoint lecture than an artwork, even though I take its tone as an almost poetic conceit, an almost theatrical affectation.

The women are suggestive, and refer to other artworks as diverse as Persian miniatures, ukiyo - e prints from Japan, and John Singer Sargent's Madame X. With their bare, rounded shoulders and graceful hands, they seem poised to seduce, and yet they are completely engaged in their own affairs and thus devoid of affectation and coyness.