Sentences with phrase «affectation by»

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.

The corpuscles are active in virtue of primary qualities — mechanical affectations by which all the phenomena can be explained at least in principle.

He makes a few half - hearted attempts to get the kid (played without any child - actor affectations by Michael Algieri) to the police and child services, but the boy refuses to leave him, for Sam is the best adult the boy has ever met.

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Secondly, by linking «art» with «communication», performance studies helps homiletics resist those impulses in the church and / or seminary cultures to devalue the human imagination in favor of «practicalities» and overemphasis on affect and affectation.

Thus Ferdinand Mount, in an otherwise astute essay on America's bicentennial, comments on the shock effect of Watergate: What Europeans are bewildered by is the American's affectation of pained surprise on receiving a specific proof of the corruption he knows to be endemic to his political system.

It is virtuous that a man should in measure sympathize with the sufferings of the lower animals: only in measure, for someone who tried to sympathize with a shark or octopus or herring would be erring by excess...; their life is too alien to ours for sympathy to be anything but folly or affectation.

North Coast Marijuana Growers Fear a Takeover by «Big Alcohol»: For the Humboldt farmers, Sonoma County's subterranean tasting rooms and Tuscan affectations offered a glimpse into a rarefied realm of legal intoxicants...

Sitting next to me in the ubiquitous chairs of tent revivals and corporate meetings, right in the front row by the ring, Mayweather leans in close with the deliberate affectation of someone who might struggle with aphasia.

It was there that the Henry Koehler drawings appearing on these pages were made — and the sturdy British tweeds and the waterproof Ride Macs being worn by the hunt - meeting devotees are not mere affectations.

Plaza doesn't stray too far from her brand — Tatiana is unsurprisingly droll and cutthroat — but the actress continues to prove that she's more than just her affectations, and her performance is backboned by a heartfelt riot of inner chaos and an uproarious talent for pratfalls (seriously, she has a gift).

At the Hilton, Danny tells Mary (Annette Bening), the hotel manager who is unimpressed by his colossal fame and ridiculous affectations until suddenly she is, «We have good patter.»

The alternative for Dominik would be to allow the interludes that focus upon Jesse to unfold silently, without any vivid affectation, permitting his audience to deduce the rationale for these scenes by themselves.

A compelling story about an unraveling marriage, the complexities of contemporary Iran, and the damage wrought by divorce, writer - director Asghar Farhadi's A Separation is a stunning film that is equally intimate, moving, and free of affectation.

Of course, the manic pixie dream girl who comes to life is an affectation, too, but in the screenplay by Zoe Kazan, Ruby Sparks (played by Kazan) turns out to be a multi-layered woman, with a personality all her own, which is not always to Calvin's liking.

Dante shoots his load here, incorporating everything but the bathroom basin: the French cowboy, if I'm not mistaken, paved the way for a «Doctor Who» reference, with his big - oil Texas suit adopting a Peter Davison affectation when worn by the gawky Short, and there's an altogether transcendent passage in which Quaid blasts a cry for help in the form of Sam Cooke's «Cupid» inside his now - ex-wife Ryan's skull.

The choice of vocalization is the first that many will be surprised by; this is no booming, commanding voice, but a soothing, almost provincial affectation.

Schaffner came from TV, and while he has few of the obnoxious visual affectations of the TV - trained director, he tends to restrict the most significant actions and relationships in his films to spatial arenas that could be served very adequately by the tube rather than the Panavision screen: the real convention hustle in The Best Man takes place in hotel rooms, hallways, and basements; the tensest moments in his strange and (to me) very sympathetic medieval mini-epic The War Lord are confined to a small soundstage clearing or that besieged tower; the battle scenes in Patton are hardly clumsy, but the real show is George C. Scott; and Nicholas and Alexandra comes alive only after the royal family has been penned up under the watchful eyes of Ian Holm and then Alan Webb, far from the splendor of St. Petersburg or the shambles of the Great War.

But reviving the film is not a bad idea from a sociohistorical perspective: Humbled by the previous decade's grotesque materialism, Nineties filmmakers generally felt like they were living down the Eighties and made a concerted effort to protect their product from dating itself *, but Reality Bites, with its Hughesian affectations, at least strives to be seminal — only Cameron Crowe's Singles, the Brady Bunch movies (which star Stiller's future wife, Christine Taylor), and the excrescent Empire Records so unabashedly embrace their pre-Internet moment.

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.

Yes, they're plagued by assorted anxieties and affectations; they're high - strung and self - absorbed.

Oliver Tate — the 15 - year - old protagonist played by Craig Roberts in Richard Ayoade's feature - length directorial debut «Submarine» — expresses one of his desires to the audience early on in the film through voice - over narration: «I suppose it's a bit of an affectation, but I often wish there was a film crew following my every move.»

While Frank and his compatriots are for the most part your stereotypical artistic eccentrics — Maggie Gyllenhaal's Clara plays the theremin and dresses like she's from the»20s, François Civil's boho bassist Baraque speaks French all the time, and though Frank's insistence on wearing a giant fake head is a symptom of deeper psychological issues, it certainly seems at first, to Jon and to us, that it's an affectation adopted by a deeply artistic soul — Jon's just... a normal guy.

The movie is narrated by Death (Roger Allam), a literary affectation the purpose of which becomes clear only at the end, and one which probably should have been left out of the film altogether.

This is a paint - by - numbers thriller that remains too slight and toothless, more concerned with affectation than authenticity, to make its protagonist feel heroic or its villains threatening.

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.

He systematically strips affectation and method from his performers by relentlessly drilling them in rehearsals until they master the mechanical, uninflected motions and line deliveries.

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.

Most cruise lines are, whatever their affectation, American - owned but Silversea is still family - owned by Italians who are proud of their baby.

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.

Taken from the celebrated S.O.S. Series, S.O.S. Starification Object Series (Veil)(1974 - 75) sees Wilke striking a revealing yet enigmatic attitude, an affectation owing much to a stereotyped glamour pose, but which is transformed into something more powerful and unsettling by the presence of small chewing gum sculptures stuck to Wilke's flesh.

Andy Dixon paints with Bosschaert's Belgium, affectations from Matisse and Rousseau and motifs from Veronese Renaissance Italy all at play by his easel.

Anybody dropping by CA will notice frequent references to this cultish affectation, often embellished to be the more creepy - sounding «citizen auditor.»

Attenborough's enchanting narration was handled well by the pint - sized center speaker, unearthing each lip movement and even gritty throat affectations and puffs of consonances with pinpoint accuracy.