Sentences with word «bathos»

Each destination on the trip is separated by big white - on - black intertitles stating the next stop, and the film seems to progress with an equal measure of bathos and pathos.

It's a brilliantly modulated exercise in intelligent farce, with Baumbach conducting entrances, exits, bizarre characters (a pregnant houseguest, a nosey neighbour) and outlandish situations with a perfect touch, letting the laughs escalate without tippling over into bathos.

Diverse uses of comedy may throw into relief difficult ideas expressed through art: it can fixate on the grotesque, moderate the tragic, or playfully bathe somber themes in bathos.

As the camera pulls back, we see that he's missing hi legs, imbuing the wistful ditty with bathos and rather gothic camp.

As it is, the sheer bathos of much of the material is weirdly compelling («Did you go to the exhibition?»

Ragnarok still favors bathos over emotional culmination, jest over zest, toilet humor over deadpan humor, broad strokes over character - driven subplots, saucy rewrites over respectful updates on Norse mythos.

Yet the rambunctious crowd, calmed by the simple tune, sobered by its unapologetically nostalgic message, seemed not to notice the mellow sacrilege amid blatant bathos.

To some this darkly prophetic bathos is the most insufferable aspect of Heidegger's later writings.

It'd be ineloquent bathos, too crudely and redundantly stated, if it weren't sung.

Like Anderson's other films, The Darjeeling Limited is a comedy, and one in which the comedy deflects bathos (as in the works of Hawks).

He is the sole reason that impatient fans can appreciate broad comedy more and hate bathos less than they can fathom.

One false move and the movie would be plunged into some Sid & Nancy - cum - Kramer vs. Kramer morass of needlepoint bathos.

These fantastic alien forms are scuffed with ordinariness and even bathos.

«He rejected me,» she tells a co-worker with great bathos.

When Me and Earl and the Dying Girl opens in Baltimore next week (at the Senator Theatre), Inside Out will then have a rival for a film that best blends comedy and pathos (avoiding bathos, thankfully).

His feelings then, as now, were guilt and a kind of horror at the operatic bathos of her death scene.

The latter's films and performances exchange Pasolini's almost ritualistic sacrality for a numbing bathos.

This complex reflexive image brings together bathos and reverence, morbidity and humour, playfulness and deep sincerity.

Tenebrism implies and enacts a level of glorification of the depicted subject much at odds with the abject of Brierley's figures; this contrast stands at the core of her work's inescapable bathos.

A series of ersatz gold plastic bottles, drenched as much in architectural bathos as the sweet scent of cheap perfume, are arranged into an impoverished tableau of Middle Eastern progress (specifically, Dubai).

She brings a manic bathos to these scenes that lends them both gravity and levity; in every wide, glassy pair of eyes, grave questions of moral certitude are undercut by the absurd.

The second of three cinematic King adaptations from Frank Darabont, The Green Mile is by far the weakest of the director's efforts, too often falling into bathos, treacly sentimentality and overlong extrapolation of its central conceit.

The false asceticism of the middle ages and later the passion mysticism of the Lutheran hymns reduced the New Testament teaching of our being crucified with Christ to sheer bathos.

Even where the theology seems highly questionable in its trivialization of the gospel, drowning in bathos, the issues addressed deserve serious reflection.

The hour was late, the light poor, the air foul, and the moment of truth occurred in an atmosphere of bathos, which turned speedily to some confusion.

If you are self - consciously striving for a contemporary poetic idiom, you have to have perfect pitch, or you can easily slide into flatness, bathos, or cliche; and as good as these translators are, they are very far from having perfect pitch.

To modern «protest atheism,» the fact that God, though sympathetic with the suffering of humanity, is nonetheless enriched by it, would seem little more impassive than the bathos of the sentimental butcher who weeps after each slaughter.

The public events of an obscene war, presidential corruption, worldwide inflation and arbitrary tenor have been thrust back upon us in the stark depression of Godfather I and II, the bathos of Love Story and the Pyrrhic victory of The Exorcist.

The pathos - or bathos - of the project resides in the incongruity between Funk's epic pretensions and the actual findings of the Seminar.

Indeed, though the poet dwells persistently, almost obsessively, on the theme of families, and on their kindnesses and cruelties, the book is saved from the bathos common to confessional poetry by the larger view afforded by Christian faith.

Neither Midler nor director Bergman are able to navigate the queasy shifts from camp cartoon to bathos, as Susann sputters in denial over her cancer and autistic son.

Moll, we discover, isn't just gawky and socially uncertain — characteristics that Buckley suggests with a matter - of - fact apathy stripped of all bathos.

Perhaps a more imaginative director might have brought some genuine feeling or grace to this bathos, but Barnz merely allows Aniston maximum screen time and shoots her to highlight her artfully ratty hair and crosshatched skin.

It blends humor, romance, and bathos.

On the night of Saoirse's birth, her mother disappears into the sea, leaving behind a bathos - riddled husband (voiced perfectly by Brendan Gleeson), son Ben and her newborn child.

Eventually, it's all any of his family can think about in «Youth in Oregon,» a schematic and bathos - laden end - of - life indie from director Joel David Moore, whose title, if you replaced «Oregon» with «Asia» and said it out loud, cutely tells you the issue at hand.

The Avengers movies are often accused of bathos, but Deadpool 2 is by far the most egregious offender on this score.

A lesser director might descend to melodrama, cliché, bathos, Lifetime TV sentimentality, Big Scenes to sex up this kind of unglamorous subject matter.

A film composed almost entirely of women in corsets entering rooms in paroxysms of delight or agonies of despair, wearing expressions either beatifically radiant or stricken with desperation, with nothing in between, it's an overwrought, stagey muddle that suggests that Davies, ever a-quiver on the extreme high end of the sensitivity meter anyway, has quivered right off it and plunged into the depths of bathos.

In general, this ranking seems reasonable to me, even if I like Sicario much more than most and was completely underwhelmed by Moretti's blend of broad comedy and bathos.

Greenwald's film is a handsome affair, and although it occasionally traffics in sentiment, the solidity and strength provided by the female cast keeps things from sliding into bathos.

That typical of argument is reminiscent of bathos and lack of understanding of the law.

Writing about kids with cancer is an invitation to sentimentality and pathos — or worse, in unskilled hands, bathos.

Evans keeps the story on track and doesn't slip into mawkishness or bathos.

Paul St. John Mackintosh's coverage at Teleread in Anti-Amazon links bashing in The Bookseller brings new bout of bathos, picks right up on the comments at The Bookseller of author Diana Kimpton.

The script, created from a variety of sources — among them a published interview with gallerist Betty Parsons and Langston Hughes's 1933 story collection The Ways of White Folks — skips from condescension to bathos and back.

This new film work mixes media and involves collaboration using humour and bathos to explore issues and subjects including, our insignificance in the universe (The Starry Messenger, 2013) a hoarding dystopian future (ECHT, 2014) and buildings with odd angles (Hotel 70º, 2015).