Sentences with phrase «as lumpen»

America's radical welfare policy in the 1930s, as Hutton's piece reminds us, did not just use people cynically as lumpen manual labour.

For his exhibition at Guido W. Baudach last September, Hope visualised his own persona as a lumpen German interloper in the fast - and - loose US cultural landscape.

We are as lumpen frogs to the sporting gods.

Not exact matches

I believe as socialists we need societies to be societies of givers and not takers but if it makes some people feel better the lumpen generally live crap, unfulfilling lives.

As Anastasia and Christian argue back and forth with only minor variations over admittedly major points of contention — his possessive nature infringing on her charmed career, their disagreement over when to start a family, whether she should remove her bikini top on the beach or not — Leonard's lumpen script zeroes in on a tinny thriller subplot, centered on the violent, mysteriously vengeful stalking of Anastasia's smarmy ex-boss Hyde (Eric Johnson) as the main attractioAs Anastasia and Christian argue back and forth with only minor variations over admittedly major points of contention — his possessive nature infringing on her charmed career, their disagreement over when to start a family, whether she should remove her bikini top on the beach or not — Leonard's lumpen script zeroes in on a tinny thriller subplot, centered on the violent, mysteriously vengeful stalking of Anastasia's smarmy ex-boss Hyde (Eric Johnson) as the main attractioas the main attraction.

As Jerry on NBC's «Parks & Recreation,» Jim O'Heir was the butt of every joke, a lumpen Midwesterner who absorbed ridicule with a genial earnestness that only invited more of it.

As a result, you tend to glide through combat by guzzling potions to compensate for the lumpen blocking mechanic, and even when you get to more challenging boss encounters where enemy healing and shielding threatens to become an issue, you can almost always progress through sheer gluttony and overkill rather than by having to think too deeply about what sort of combat approach to take.

Lumpy can also mean lumpen, as with Matthew Monahan's Nation Builder.

Her orchestrated assemblages tease out notions of function and display, as when she nestles awkward glazed vessels on worn readymade armchairs, couches, and tables, or props them up on lumpen or lean plinths of her own devising.

He is one of the few contemporary sculptors who is able to animate his essentially abstract work, as well as evoke the delightful wackiness and incipient violence of cartoons without directly quoting their lumpen heads, awkward figures and imaginary landscapes.

Guston's painting is lumpen, ugly, funny, full of pathos, and as full of doubt as Labille - Guiard's is full of confidence (and bravura painting technique) but is equally as chock full of information about the artist and their position in the world.