Sentences with phrase «as wry»

The sculpture has been read as a wry dig at the machismo of de Kooning and his fellow Abstract Expressionists; a step away from «living an aggressively heterosexual life and getting drunk both in and out of the Cedar Street Tavern», as art historian Fred Orton has written.

This exciting avenue for future development offers possibilities for discovering Connecticut artists overlooked by museums, such as the wry and witty Pop art commentaries of William Kent.

Above all, these paintings can be read as wry and self - deprecating commentary on Mesler's roles as a father, artist and art dealer, with the hand of judgement pointing to geographical locations that mark significant moments in the genesis of his personal evolution.

«Deft subtlety disguised as wry, inept wistfulness has always been Mr. Bryan's strength.

Because of the multiplicity of objects in her work, it is sometimes interpreted as a wry comment on consumerism.

Coming from Edelson, who began working as an activist during the civil rights movement, the homage to a woman who struck back at her violent husband reads as a wry monument to direct action.

Simonson's comedy of manners charms with its lovable and very human characters, as well as its wry wit and wisdom.

As wry Greek hellraiser Yorgos Lanthimos has gotten settled in Hollywood, he's embraced genre in a way that his unclassifiable Dogtooth and Alps resisted.

Not so much camp as a wry, underplayed little piece suffused with an undercurrent of loss and abandonment, Don Coscarelli's weirdly inspired horror comedy doesn't find a balance but does find a melancholy rarely experienced in such films.

Leia has rarely gotten this much to do in these movies, and here she's not only capable of extraordinary feats (the Force is strong with this one) but she's also as wry as we knew the actress to be off - camera.

While having to play down to the movie proves a challenge, Carell remains likable enough and there's little doubt that Freeman is delivering exactly what's desired in portraying mankind's Creator as a wry prankster.

J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner.

Not so much radical as wry, It's Garry Shandling's Show reaffirmed the power that hoary show - business forms have to bring order to the chaos of modern life.

Sure, it doesn't always pay off, but his directorial debut Bad Words is as wry, dry and funny as you'd expect.

The writer landed a suitable fill - in with director Craig Johnson and the infinitely lovable star Woody Harrelson, who jointly accentuate the honest affection in Wilson that can scan as wry sarcasm on the page.

Paul Dano's dramatic outburst after taking a lengthy vow of silence, Steve Carrell as the poetically insecure gay uncle, and Alan Arkin as the wry, drug - addicted grandfather account for much of the hilarity of the story.

Doc encounters an assortment of mostly corrupt malcontents, including Josh Brolin as a brutish cop, Owen Wilson as an airheaded surf musician, Jena Malone as his wry wife, Reese Witherspoon as a cynical district attorney not averse to puffing a joint, Benicio Del Toro as Doc's hip lawyer, and Martin Short as an evil dentist.

Based on one of the early cases taken up by future Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall when he was working for the NAACP, the film proceeds without much subtlety, though with a filigree of witty dialogue and Chadwick Boseman's panache as the wry, natty young attorney.

In the first film, the sassy Johnson rendered Ana's «smart mouth» as a wry edge that brought some wit to the project without openly mocking the lines, but the franchise's hint of self - deprecation has evaporated as the sequels progress.

Yet anyone whose last will and testament demanded the establishment of a Nick Cave Memorial Museum clearly has a sharp sense of humour, and Forsyth and Pollard (who have worked with Cave before on projects such as short film series Do You Love Me Like I Love You) are as wry, dry and entertaining as their subject.

As a wry cartoon for adults, the show is a successor to «Archer» and «Bob's Burgers.»

Not exact matches

You will quickly become addicted to their wonderful, wry observations as they ponder each Question of the Day.

You'll quickly become addicted to Altucher and Dubner's wonderful, wry observations as they ponder each Question of the Day.

Where Summers is seen, even by some of his supporters, as arrogant and bull - headed, Fischer is a legendary nice guy, deploying a wry smile and persuasive arguments to get his way.

I am that rare soul who can remember his First Confession, at age eight, very nearly word - for - word — I think because I was terrified, and hyper - alert, and intent on remembering everything that Father Newman said, mostly because it was my First Confession and I was afraid I would be sent to prison or farmed out to the Lutherans for the many times I had committed fisticuffs with my brothers and failed to honor my mother and father — but also because Father Newman was wry and funny and fond of reminding everyone that he was, as far as he knew, the only Jewish Catholic priest in the diocese.

And there are other passages that might perhaps — and then only if one were desperate to justify their inclusion in this volume — be described as «wry,» such as one long and splendid (though not really humorous) portrayal of the boredom that afflicts the ironist.

This book is inconvenient and necessary, hopeful and unflinching, humble and wry; it is as ferocious as love.

You can get away with a bit of humor when you're picking on your own community or culture, so long as it's gentle and wry.

The complaint may be that the curriculum is too «academic» and insufficiently «Professional»; too «theoretical» and insufficiently «practical»; or, conversely, that it is too single - mindedly focused on producing «Professional ministers» in a certain model and too inflexible to allow individual students to pursue their own intellectual interests; and, above all, that the curriculum consists of too many small pieces of information that are not adequately «integrated,» that it provides not so much a course of study as — in H. Richard Niebuhr's wonderfully wry phrase - «a series of studious jumps in various directions.»

I think we area wry close to where most fans wants us to bee, challenging for the PL, sign Schneidelin experience and quality 25m Sign Stones a good upcoming CB and home grown 20m Sign Lacazette as a second striker who will mature 25m We will be sorted for years to come Will be hard to replace Corzola though in a couple of years

Holaday was biting his lower lip as well, talking to his coaches and wearing the type of wry smile coaches flash when they know their teams have let one slip away.

Claudio Ranieri may have had a wry smile on his face after finding out that Craig Shakespeare had been sacked as manager of Leicester City.

If there is a message in this wry and honest parenting memoir, it's to toss unrealistic hopes, to stop parenting with such intention, or, as Lauren puts it: «Sometimes, you have to be content.»

-- Boston Globe «If there is a message in this wry and honest parenting memoir, it's to toss unrealistic hopes, to stop parenting with such intention, or, as Lauren puts it: «Sometimes, you have to be content.»

Arguably one of the best sections is the Wry How To's, which are as entertaining as they are useful.

We'll miss his wry sense of humor, his professionalism and (him) as a friend.»

I watch with wry amusement as the Westminster tribe try and work out how to do so.

I HEARD some wry comments about the choice of Wellington as the site for the conference.

By turns wry and giddy, Cormier teases out our uniquely human take on hedonism with tidbits as varied as the power of our orgasms (hint: no other creature on Earth can best us) and what the discovery of a 40,000 - year - old wooden flute reveals about music and our ancestors.

The joke above is usually told as a commentary on how the ideas of science are far removed from the concerns of ordinary people, but I see a more encouraging lesson embedded in this wry little observation.

She'd make a wry smile and say «There's no such thing as a free lunch» to mean «I don't have to give you anything.

As is the custom with Aardman productions, there is a sweet and modest decency — a wry celebration of Traditional British Values, if you will — peeking out amid the clamor and craziness.

The swooning here is undercut by anxiety, rage, and disappointment, often as a punch line, as if delivered with a wry wink from off - camera.

It's a great cast, and the show has its moments of both wry humor (my new ringtone will be Carey Mulligan asking, as Kip tries to chase down an errant lead, «Where the fuck is Boca Raton?»)

«The Walk» is worth seeing on a big screen for its final wire walk (intrusive voice - over notwithstanding), for its lovingly recreated images of the World Trade Center, for its often wry humor (including a marvelous running gag involving an elevator operator) and for some of the supporting performances (notably Kingsley's pitch - perfect mentor performance, and James Badge Dale's turn as a wise - ass Franco - American who joins the team infiltrating the towers).

Lustig's wry double - takes when his dates complain to him about rabbis allowing women to drive or his colleagues fret about selling lettuce that has not been rabbinically approved would do Buster Keaton proud, and his scenes with Ruben Niborski as his son have an unforced naturalness many actors would kill for.

Albert Brooks is especially good as Omalu's wry boss and chief advocate, Cyril Wecht, lightening the film's otherwise gloomy mood.

A million miles removed from such peripherally comparable fare as Sidney Lumet's A Stranger Among Us or Boaz Yakin's A Price Above Rubies, Joshua Z Weinstein's fiction - feature debut gets right under the skin of its characters, gently unpicking themes of social conformity and religious responsibility with melancholy wit and wry, tragicomic insight.

In 2000, he finally earned recognition as a talented young actor, thanks to his role as Laura Linney's wry, observant son in Kenneth Lonergan's much - acclaimed directorial debut You Can Count on Me, causing both critics and audiences to remark that perhaps big screen bankability had not been limited solely to Culkin the Eldest.

With her delivery as dry as a U.N. position paper, she plays the wry sidekick to perfection.