Sentences with phrase «between irreverence»

Leitch's ability to create violent eye - candy is a given, but he and the screenwriters find the right balance between irreverence and storytelling.

Not exact matches

She had some public instincts, it is true; she hated the Lutherans, and longed for the church's triumph over them; but in the main her idea of religion seems to have been that of an endless amatory flirtation — if one may say so without irreverence — between the devotee and the deity; and apart from helping younger nuns to go in this direction by the inspiration of her example and instruction, there is absolutely no human use in her, or sign of any general human interest.

But an excess of levity can quickly become its own kind of leadenness, and for long stretches between its genuinely amusing gags and set pieces, «Thor: Ragnarok,» credited to the screenwriting trio of Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost, is a bit too taken with its own breezy irreverence to realize when it's time to rein it in.

The film seems stuck in a back and forth between melodrama and weak - willed irreverence, trying desperately to contrive the natural disorientation of Marji's childhood.

Unfortunately, that humor comes in the form of profane, self - referential epithets typically traded between 15 - year - olds while playing video games online, which means if you've actually used bad language in a public setting or are older than 15, the mileage may vary on Wade Wilson's particular brand of irreverence.

Perched somewhere between the relentless goofiness of 21 Jump Street and Starsky and Hutch and the slightly more serious - minded Spider - Man and Batman franchises, Michel Gondry's decidedly odd take on the radio / TV / comic classic mixes dark vigilante justice with candy - colored irreverence.

But somewhere between gratuitous violence, the breaking of the fourth wall, action and emotional drama, there are certain value - additions within irreverence and comedy.

A side - scrolling shooter, Cyber-Lip falls somewhere between being a Metal Slug clone and a Contra rip - off that nevertheless achieves its own unique blend of punk irreverence and chaotic sci - fi.

Upending traditional distinctions between fine, folk, and decorative arts, Grebenak subverts the readymade tendencies of the Pop - era to establish a cheeky - irreverence all her own.

By re-staging painterly craft as a playful irreverence between intractable materials and willful deliberation, the processes of abstraction, decoration and humour unfold into a heady mix of the serious and the sensual.

The astounding range of creativity, irreverence and abstruseness that resulted was bracketed between endpapers with wide - angled views of masses of humanity: The first showed the 1963 March on Washington, the last the 1969 Woodstock festival.