Sentences with phrase «between laconic»

At over two hours, yes, it is big, and the scenery is pretty and that's all well and good except for the fact that director Kevin keeps all the actors on screen at an energy level that wavers between laconic and stoic and stoic may be overstating the case just a smidge.

Russell plays the role as a cross between Wayne and the Harrison Ford of the Indiana Jones movies, swinging between laconic understatement and macho displays of self - confidence.

Not exact matches

Not as insightful as «Topsy - Turvy» or «Vanya on 42nd Street» about the process of putting on a show, it's nonetheless a fascinating meeting of the minds — between iconic New York indie filmmaker Michael Almereyda and laconic American cowboy and dramatist Shepard.

Clooney is effortlessly charming as the laconic astronaut who behaves like a cross between Buzz Lightyear and a square - jawed hero in an old Howard Hawks Western.

Among its many resonances, Drive reminded me of Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa, another tale of a driver teetering between innocence and cruelty; of Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy and Once Upon a Time in the West, with their nameless, laconic protagonists and meticulous buildups to spasms of sudden violence; of the original 1971 Get Carter and its intoxicating pitilessness; of Halloween in its use of — well, you'll see.

I also like the interplay between Linda's frenetic, spoiled, stay - at - home son, Jeffrey (Ike Barinholtz, «The Mindy Project»), and the laconic, career State Dept. official Morgan Russell (Bashir Salahuddin).

Oscar winner Sean Penn voices the grunts made by laconic bird Terence, who looks like a cross between a cardinal and a sumo wrestler.

His fiercely laconic work destroyed the boundaries between furniture and sculpture, between private delectation and public use and radically altered the way we see many 20th - century masters, including Gerrit Rietveld and Brâncuși.

This exhibition catalogue - from its opening Q and A between Tate director Nicholas Serota and the laconic painter through half a dozen chronological essays - is indispensable.