Sentences with phrase «approach absurdity»

His bright oil paintings approach absurdity, but are grounded in political commentary drawn from an examination of his Native American and Mexican heritage.

Their two big fight scenes are a treat, especially an extended showdown in a grain warehouse that approaches the absurdity of Roddy Piper and Keith David in the alleyway in They Live.

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The absurdity of this approach is even more apparent in regard to the environment.

The absurdity of suggesting that Iain Duncan Smith's Christian motivations were any kind of secret and of criticising the use of moral categories to justify his policy approaches - only lefties are allowed to have morals, after all; to be Right Wing is, by definition, to be evil, seeking to impose final solutions on the poor, force them to eat rotting horse - flesh, and cleansing them from beyond the sight of nice middle class folk; any right - winger employing a moral term such as «wrong» or «sin» must have some sinister ulterior motivation - has been covered already by the Editor and by Cranmer.

Or they should: For Deadpool 2 to approach coherence, you must have seen Deadpool, Logan, and a couple of X-Men, and maintain a working knowledge of the corporate and contractual absurdities that make Deadpool's Marvel Universe distinct from both the X-Men's and the Avengers».

This approach proves to be the best for this particular story, considering all its absurdities.

Both use found footage, though their use of it is antithetical to the genre's usual approach, which is to emphasize the humor or absurdity of the material, whether a major world event or a TV commercial.

[SPOILERS END] This attempt to prove the universality of political oppression regardless of doctrine approaches hyperbolic absurdity.

In of the few bright spots in this otherwise unoriginal approach to the absurdities of the film biz, Devine eagerly shows Schats what he's found to stand in for the wild west.

This leads to moments of absurdity, such as when a mother and daughter stare at me blithely as I approach them, gun drawn and ready to fire.

Getting inspiration and influence from many different sources including classic western animation and Japanese anime, Alex's approach to art carries a distinct focus on absurdity and energy.

Tala Madani's paintings and animation approach issues of gender and taboo through humor, absurdity, and the grotesque.

With a witty approach to contemporary computation, Salavon's reductive methods reveal underlying currents — and absurdities — creating a body of work that feels like a wild ride through the collective digital consciousness.

Other artists» approaches to filmmaking approximated various tropes and moods of poetry, bending the medium to poignant ends alternately vested in distance and immediacy: Stanya Kahn's evocations of abject absurdity through stand - up comedy; Barry Doupe's alienated dreams told in disjointed narrations and flattened, chromatically charged figurations; Ryan Trecartin's bewilderingly familiar stream - of - consciousness rants grounded by a intuitive, cinematic fluidity.

He gradually turns to a sketchable and classical approach and confronts the economic times in a unique language of absurdity and morbid criticism.

With dark humour and a sprawling, uncontainable approach, Rainer's diverse work addresses a multitude of themes, including death, insanity, violence and absurdity.

The next three videos take a more humorous approach to the topic — poking fun at the absurdity of food waste.