Sentences with phrase «biting commentary»

Using a «fake news» platform The Beaverton offers devastating insight and biting commentary on Canadian life, politics, and the world around us.

Ephraim Radner's typically fertile reflection — replete with biting commentary and plenty of pox to go around, meted out courageously across party lines — finally alights on problems of Christian unity proper, and rightly so.

It could be called bad taste by some, but Iannucci and company choose to go all - out comedy as a form of biting commentary.

Often raucous, fueled by fast - pouring booze and biting commentary from hosts like Ricky Gervais and Tina Fey & Amy Poehler, the show is meta - Hollywood at is sharpest sometimes.

While not overtly political (though it could be argued that, with the underrepresentation of women in tech, just working with technology as a woman artist is a feminist act), these works act as historical precedents to the more biting commentary by younger artists.

Guerrillas in our Midst A Film by Amy Harrison 1992, 35 minutes, color Thursday, June 19 · 12:30 pm Since 1985, the Guerrilla Girls have delivered witty and biting commentary aimed at gender and racial disparities in culture, politics, and the art world.

Brown's paintings deliver biting commentary on the Gulf War, the HIV / AIDS pandemic, and the Savings & Loan industry collapse and bailout through inventive use of luminous color, silhouetted figures, stylized natural forms, and dramatic shifts of scale and perspective.

All the while, its athletic department Twitter account relentlessly attacked skeptics with biting commentary.

With biting commentary and trenchant opinion from journalists, academics and business people, this new section is designed to offer readers further insight into the issues facing Canadian businesses today.

Bunyan's biting commentary on human folly, joined to an inspiring account of human possibility, must have played an important part in shaping Lincoln's complexity of mind through a life of action and of reflection, often mordant reflection, on that action.

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In conclusion this book is equal parts superhero movie; cutting - edge satire on the price of Internet fame; biting commentary on fanboy culture; and slapstick comedy this is easily David Wong's finest effort.

But Tina Fey's addictive - as - MSG show manages to be both super-sweet and a biting commentary about society.

NEWS: «Saturday Night Live» Takes Aim At Harvey Weinstein Scandal, Pulls No Punches With Biting Commentary

In theory The Bronze had the potential to riff marvelously on the trappings of fleeting celebrity while adding some biting commentary about the jingoistic sensationalism of American competition.

«It's a biting commentary on American labor and capitalism in the form of a mainstream crowd pleaser.»

«What the movie is about is not funny,» Peele insisted back in November about his biting commentary on racism, white privilege and horror movies» tendency to kill off their black supporting characters first.

This year, with NBC's Jimmy Fallon anchoring the show (the same network that's airing the Globes) I expect a lot less of that biting commentary and more of Fallon's genial, inoffensive blandness.

Alice Lowe's pre-natal horror Prevenge shies away from biting commentary, content with absurd bloodlust.

And South Park Bigger Longer & Uncut remains their defining statement, a work combining epic scale (a land war with Canada, a trip to the depths of Hades, a daylight raid on the Baldwin compound) with intimate character comedy (Satan's grief over his lover Saddam Hussein's infidelity is genuinely touching), wrapped in a biting commentary on censorship and topped off with belting show tunes worthy of West Side Story.

The screenplay, by a team of four writers, including Inarritu himself, is packed with witty, sharp dialogue, some dark elements, and smart, biting commentary on a variety of topics, including Hollywood vs. Broadway, movies vs. the stage, actors vs. celebrities, performers vs. critics, career vs. family, and «the biggie»: the true meanings of life.

The One I Love might play like a mumblecore / Twilight Zone mash - up by way of Charlie Kaufman, but beneath its amusing, quirky surface and eccentric sci - fi twist lies a biting commentary on the fallacy of romantic idealism.

Chockfull of vivid imagery couched within a biting commentary on the information age in which we live, Palahniuk's chilling story is an allegory for the power words can wield.

ICEY is a biting commentary on the entire medium of games.

RD: First of all, I love her work — it's a complete visual treat and a biting commentary on the role of products in our lives.