Sentences with phrase «almost manic»

Kusama's provocative Performances and her almost manic obsession with polka dots have made her famous all over the world.

The almost manic sense of exhilaration expressed in the mash - up — fans used to blow air currents across a work's surface, tires, coke bottles, taxidermy, a bed, or any of the innumerable curiosities Rauschenberg absorbed into the Combines — amazingly retains much of its punch, even after so many years and so much reproduction in art history texts.

Condensing the epic poem's fifteen - book narrative into a five - minute looped video, After Metamorphoses (2015 — 16) has an almost manic rhythm, somewhat calmed by German musician Wibke Tiarks's soundtrack.

It's broken up into vignettes, which give it a brisk, almost manic narrative style.

It's broken up into vignettes, which give it a brisk, almost manic narrative

Hague and other Tory propagandists such as Daniel Hannan and Iain Dale — who are almost manic in their obsession with proving that Kaminski is the right man to lead the Conservative MEPs in Strasbourg — pray in aid the Pole's support for Israel.

In the late»90s, for instance, Cott was almost manic in its efforts to diversify and nearly went bankrupt.

He / she is characterized by an almost manic pace of new directions, tossing ideas that are only a few days old, and constantly shifting the team's direction.

Not exact matches

While there haven't yet been massive job losses in Canada's mining and exploration industries, juniors have stopped hiring almost completely after four years of manic activity, Stafford says.

It is not hyperbole to say that Hamann's writings constitute probably the most difficult body of literature within the German language: they are brief, compressed, manic, irrepressibly inventive, at once diffuse and piercing, and almost occult in their impregnability.

Yet, this same lobby shrieked loudest, almost to the point of manic celebration, that the Buhari government, to echo their preferred cliché, could boast «no single conviction.»

If people had equal numbers of depressive and manic episodes, the diagnosis would be a snap — almost.

However, sufferers of bipolar disorder will almost certainly experience excessive irritability or aggressive behavior during manic phases.

sleep for days, brain fog, depression cant get out of bed and days of not sleeping, and almost in manic state.

Also mega props to you babes who took part every (or almost every) day, like Pinup Dreams, PinupElaineTreat, Nadiafaye and Soda Fontaine, because even I had to cheat a couple times due to a manic week that would not allow for pretty pictures every day.

Tutu struggles with manic depression and has a volatile relationship with almost everyone in her life, especially Bridge.

The dialogue, particularly from Fiennes, is so rapid - fire, it's almost as if this was written by Aaron Sorkin — and I can usually tolerate Sorkin's manic scripts.

The protagonist is such a profoundly boring and uncharismatic character, as played by Jack Lowden, that it falls to these successive manic pixie dream girl archetypes to push him into doing really anything at all, and when his efforts fail - which they almost always do - they are cast aside.

The shtick that worked so well, that manic drive coupled with depraved instincts, is almost gone in this installment.

Daniel Plainview is so manic and driven as to almost be caricature, but Day - Lewis finds the exact pitch at which his actions and reactions are both terrifying and brilliant.

Director Gary Ross» coverage can get a little manic during a fight scene or two, but generally, his camerawork is notably fresh offering up all sorts of appealing camera angles, almost all of which serves the material in a deliberate fashion, enhancing emotion and, at times, making you feel as though you're in Katniss» shoes.

The opening 30 minutes in particular are chockfull of laughs, fully embracing the zany humor of the band members with such manic energy that it's almost impossible to keep up at times.

I love an actor who's willing to make an art out of our desires to see him almost fail — which is also what's so useful in seeing him punch slightly above his weight class in a heavy dramatic role, as in Born on the Fourth of July, or in a role where he has to fly off the rails with manic emotionalism, as in Jerry Maguire.

Top down and with the manic Lambo - sourced atmo V10 screaming to almost 9000rpm behind me, it was hard to think of a better car for this job.

For instance, one woman discusses the stark contrast between her sister's manic and depressive episodes, admitting that she envies her sister's freedom during the mania: «I'd almost like to join her and run around the city if only she could keep it from spinning out of control.»

Final Fantasy XV is a manic, imposing Frankenstein's monster of a game, and its failure is almost as interesting as its success.

His visual language is almost schizophrenic in combining the manic and destructive with the more esoteric, fragile and beautiful.