Sentences with phrase «affectation in»

Rangel gave him the address and basic directions, which was always a kind of affectation in Backton, and then she cruised away, all yellow and sedate.

Director Mike Mitchell and producer Andrew Gunn mock this stupendously immature affectation in «Welcome to Sky High» (15 mins.)

Not exact matches

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.

We might even grant him the affectation of wearing a larger belt buckle in Parliament.

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.

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.

(We might compare the affectation, in colloquial English, of saying «one» in place of a blunt «I.») Or he might have a particular reason for using some reserve and leaving a possible doubt whether he really meant himself or «so - and - so.»

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.

True, God could change in some ways and still be beyond affectations.

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

They are interested in the removal of ornamentation and affectation, in order to be intersected where they live.

Like any culture, the evangelical culture in the U.S. has its own linguistic affectations and quirks, blending together lines from Scripture, hymns, and tradition with everyday colloquialisms and figures of speech.

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

If you count — along with the 20 % non-religious — the vast percentage of people who don't really believe what they say they believe, and those whose religiosity is merely a casual affectation, I might even say that «we're» in the majority.

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.

Interestingly, the study also shows that while vocal fry is perceived negatively in both male and female speakers, women who use the affectation are perceived more negatively than men who use it.

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 worsIn 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 worsin the absence of any emotion whatsoever, it comes across as affectation at best, desperation at worst.

Endless fast cuts complete with whooshy sound effects, thumping techno bass lines, ugly on - screen graphics, garish colour filters, and * cringe * a hero who talks directly to camera (Michael Caine is STILL the only actor to EVER get away with that...) Every tacky, irritating and superficial MTV affectation is on display here, in an unbelievably lame attempt to make an american rip - off of a Guy Ritchie heist movie.

The plot is less suspenseful than the overacting contest between the two leads, Laurence Olivier and Gregory Peck, who spend most of their screen time one - upping each other in affectations.

Anderson's customary affectations are all very much in evidence: the marzipan palette; the finicky, meticulous compositions; the sentimental attachment to bygone relics, here ranging from macaroons and rotary phones to funicular trams and striped prison outfits.

Vaughn's southern affectation is an acquired taste, but once you settle in for the long haul it's his bruised knuckles and face stomping that does the talking.

Of the actors, only Kidman seems to have her feet firmly planted in both stylized affectation and real feeling.

It doesn't help that this is an Eighties flick, redolent of the standard biases of the decade: Since Stiller and McCarthy are playing trust - fund babies (in a manner of speaking), the filmmakers are far less afraid to flaunt their penniless affectations than those of the actual poverty - stricken characters — like Ringwald's, who appears on - screen only in conjunction with Matt.

Forrest is the ultimate Republican foil: Reagan in the ice cream suit of a Pentecostal minister (and Reagan would've played this role, sans significant affectation, a few generations earlier), listening to the good word of momma, God, and the girl he only screws once (and for procreative purposes at that), in that order.

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.

The film is so like Scott's Domino in its visual affectations and uniform incompetence that the two pictures could exchange scenes willy - nilly without losing a step.

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.

This would all seem like a tick - list of indie affectations had the film shown no interest in connecting with its audience.

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.

Visually engaging with its washed - out, diseased, Cronenbergian / Lars von Trier colour palette and packed with innovative, maybe self - conscious camera flourishes and affectations, it all plays out a bit insular, a little too obvious given the entire history of the double in this kind of movie, but at least it's executed with a persistence of vision.

«Weisz and McAdams are excellent — and in McAdams» case especially, remarkably stripped of vanity and affectation.»

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.

Though it tries too hard to evoke the journey aspect of the Lord of the Rings DVDs» appendices, failing to earn the emotional tenor of a conclusion in which the ramshackle postproduction facility is dismantled and crewmembers speak of starting families in the time it took to complete the film, it's a piece blessedly light on promotional affectations.

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.

Uma Thurman in «Kill Bill,» Naomi Watts in «Mulholland Drive,» the ensembles of «8 Women» or «I Heart Huckabee's» — all are examples of performances whose affectations or polarities don't make a great deal of sense outside of the very particular story world that has been created to house them.

Said affectations raise their head again in Almodóvar's biggest commercial flop, the gratingly bizarre and unintentionally self - parodic, Kika.

Nominated for Best U.S. Narrative Feature and Winner of Best Actor (Alessandro Nivola) in a U.S. Narrative Feature at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, One Percent More Humid explores such themes of heartache, love, and retribution via the bold affectations of two young women trying to make sense of themselves and their circumstances.

Director Sylvain White utilizes a variety of in - camera cuts to up the movie's frenetic pacing, and though the angsty panic that this flash technique induces eventually morphs into overpowering music - video affectation, it's at least a bit different than the sort of hopelessly straightforward rendering one might expect.

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.

Director David Dobkin has conventional shooting style smothered in affectations where the courtroom is always dark and smoky.

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.»

Come to think of it, I've gotten more pleasure from a slice then this over-ripe, and rancid, exercise in cinematic affectation.

This latter affectation infuriates her mother, who hectors her daughter constantly and wonders aloud whether she'll get the grades to enrol in an east coast ivy league college.

Whether in the script stage, where the words he co-authored with regular partner Craig Pearce were penned with a grating affectation (undoubtedly to mimic Fitzgerald's prose), or during post-production, where those words are forced into the background amidst arrhythmic camerawork and fragmented editing, the director determinedly refuses to let his cast construct and finish sentences.

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.

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.