Sentences with phrase «also pathos»

As on Young Adult, there is the entertainment value of a diverting studio film but also the pathos of a dark, offbeat indie.

Not exact matches

It not only helps them to come to terms with their historical consciousness, which is submerged in pathos and protest, but also to comprehend a God who in Jesus restores «humanness» to Dalits.

But above all we find meaning speaking to us in the pathos of our human loving — and I have said pathos because I intend here combined joy and sadness, the awareness of another with whom we would unite our lives yet the equal awareness that the other, even when he also would unite his life with ours, remains «the other» whom we must reverence for himself.

And I think we also can appreciate the simple pathos of Heidegger's disenchantment with philosophy.

A more lofty and idealistic one is that most of us, as Jews, hardly know ourselves or have a sense of Judaism that is not in some way tied up with our experience as cultured members of Western Civilization, which is Christianized not only in an explicit religious sense but also in the pathos and longing of its secular consciousness, as exemplified in its literature and art.

The music also provides the key to the film's peculiar blend of fantasy, humor and pathos.

In his rare sympathetic roles, he's also capable of generating genuine pathos for the put upon plight of struggling small - timers.

As Wiseau, Franco expertly mimics the wannabe filmmaker's many tics and unplaceable accent — Wiseau has never divulged his age, background or anything other than his name, which might not even be Tommy Wiseau — but also imbues him with a genuine sense of pathos.

It's a sad, thoughtful depiction of midwestern eccentrics regretting the past and growing bored of the present, ideas that Payne regards with gentle humor and pathos but also something of a shrug.

There is also much prom queen pathos when Rose confronts the low - key disdain of her former classmates.

Surprisingly, the movie doesn't go the easy route; there's comedy and pathos, sure, yet also a nagging desperation, particularly adhering to Kline, a faultless actor given to curious choices.

While there's humor in the performance, Murray also generates a surprising amount of pathos.

Helgeland's version does also work very well, and it is a good film, but the theatrical cut also has its strengths as well, playing up more laughs and adding an interesting pathos to the mix.

Finding the right rhythm of pathos in the confusion of her relationship status with her trans ex-husband and comedy in the pathos, Light's submission, «Flicky - Flicky Thump - Thump,» also provides a sharp commentary on sexuality and sensuality in your 60s.

Brolin's Bigfoot Bjornsen, ultra-hard-assed cop and moonlighting commercial spokesman / Adam -12 bit player, also has his moments of psychotic pathos.

Willis and Norton also shine, mixing some pathos with pure hilarity, while Murray (who worked with Anderson in «The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou») and McDormant as feuding married lawyers are not on screen long enough to really make much of a difference, but are effective in their small roles.

It's also a shame that the Coopers» daughter is no longer a toddler but a teen; that the zombies apparently know how to use tools in the prologue (a brick to break a window) but lose that ability for the rest of the film; and that moments of real pathos, especially during the epilogue, are narrated into homily.

If there's a drawback in the biopic department, it is that for all the pathos on show, we learn little about Turing's later accomplishments; also his imprisonment feels slightly glossed over in the final act.

Not only is Lance Daly's newest feature a rollicking western with fantastic action and excellent performances, it also demonstrates how a film's subject matter can add much - needed pathos and nuance to a genre.

Believe it or not, amidst all of the oversized collars and outlandish suits, Bale — who also added 50 pounds for the role — wrings real pathos out of Irving, making him a three - dimensional character.

Yes, she had been in Twilight, but she also scored an Oscar nod for Up in the Air, showing, quite early in her career, that she could exhibit an astonishing amount of pathos and maturity on screen.

And yet, somehow, it also produces its own kind of pathos in the form of Will Arnett's Batman's repressed longing for a family.

Not only are they instantly likable and have a genuine, gentle rapport, they also have the chops to bring real pathos to overly familiar dramatic situations.

Just to top off the paternalistic righteousness jug, they also import more pathos into Ramón's apparently insufficiently pitiable plight, as do an Alzheimer's - afflicted father (Joan Dalmau), a simpleton nephew (Tamar Novas, playing a pastiche of several characters as the, sniff, son Ramón never had), and a degenerative disease for Julia (Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Sub-cortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy), thus allowing her to have a tear - jerking coda of her very own.

by Walter Chaw Closer in spirit to Mystery, Alaska than to the similarly Olympics - inspired Cool Runnings, Men with Brooms is an underdog sports intrigue mashed together with a bedroom farce — and neither dog - eared formula is handled with very much originality, while uncomfortable subplots concerning adultery, alcoholism, and healing father / son rifts (see also Hoosiers) vie for a level of pathos that always feels out of place in what is essentially The Bad News Bears (or The Replacements, or Slap Shot) for curling.

Andrew Haigh's 45 Years also involved a very similar return - of - the - repressed plot but one that was actually steeped in visceral pathos and nuance.

Similarly, every amusing faux pas also brings with it an underlying pathos due to the unfortunate reality of their disorder.

Mildred's idea of avenging Angela inevitably has a cascading effect, not only with Willoughby — played with upstanding directness and pathos by Harrelson — but also by his dumb - as - a-rock deputy, Dixon, portrayed in an amusingly scurrilous turn by Sam Rockwell.

Of course, alongside the pathos I also found in these games a wonderful mix of exploration, experimentation with the many weapons and character builds available — and of course, the punishing difficulty.

Created under the shadow of Reagan - era conservatism and, later on in the decade, the increasing anger, confusion, and tragedy of AIDS, Tseng's work reminds us of an extraordinary period in our recent cultural history — exuberantly relentless and insolent, but also full of humor, pathos and life.

The brothers argue that by «rectifying» works by such a revered artist they also «convert the pathos of Goya into something much more pessimistic and cynical, and much more brutally undermining.»

He is a totally secular, un-fundamentalist good ol' boy from an oil port in Texas - Port Arthur, also the home of the late Janis Joplin, with whose randy generosity, narrative howl and sense of pathos Rauschenberg has more than a little in common.

It also prompted the British art critic David Sylvester (1924 - 2001) to write about the «cosmic grandeur» of Newman and the «cosmic pathos» of Mark Rothko.

Arguments based in pathos commonly take the form of non-sequiturs — also known as fallacies of irrelevance.

Aristotle, however, defended rhetoric, arguing that a rhetorician attempts to persuade not only by appeals to the emotions (pathos), but also by appeals to logic (logos) and by demonstrating an ethical character (ethos).