Sentences with phrase «biting black humor»

In this tragicomic saga of Coyote Springs, an all - Indian Catholic rock band from the Spokane Reservation in eastern Washington, Alexie mixes biting black humor, a healthy dose of magic, and sparkling lyricism.

Not exact matches

After settling down a bit I was able to see in the comment made by His Honor, the Judger of Motives, the black humor of blind irony.

While Bill Murray and Lucas Black hold up their end by supplying a bit of humor and purity, respectively, the story really belongs to Duvall.

While she still found herself in the comedic realm, Aniston began to take on slightly more daring projects like the black - humored Horrible Bosses, which allowed her to go against - type as a sex - crazed dentist, and Wanderlust, a bizarre bit of highly - exaggerated farce from the mind of David Wain.

Forman took full advantage of this by creating a series of films, beginning with «Black Peter» (1964), which commented on the lives of ordinary people with a filmmaking that combined a documentary - like style (including the use of improvisation and non-professional actors) with a biting and deeply anti-establishment sense of humor.

Black Panther is, obviously, a Wakanda story, meaning that its images ripple with Wakanda's specific rhythms and textures; characters» in - jokes and senses of humor seem to open up untold bits of history among them; rituals feel genuinely ritualistic, lived in and specific to the people and the place.

As a bit of black humor (pun intended), here's evidence that coal burning can emit more radiation than well run nuclear plants *.