Sentences with word «blankness»

To the left, though, the vista modulated between forest and rangeland, then would fall away in the flat blankness of soy field: mile - long rectangles of bare earth.

The Tate Britain show includes his odd portrait of the DJ Tony Blackburn as a dark three - leaf clover, and another of German chancellor Angela Merkel as an expanse of green blankness with pale lips and a yellow chin.

Scott Campbell's broken egg sculpture from Blankness is Not a Void, on view until 4 June at Marc Jancou, 524 West 24th Street, New York.

Although his early work could be included with Abstract Expressionist painting in the Ninth Street Show in 1951, he made a clear move in search of a direction of his own when he made the White Paintings of the same year, whose flat blankness differed sharply from current conventions of self - expression.

Undervalued as a subverter of the A-list, Cronenberg uses Pattinson's own blankness (let's call it a career performance) as the visage of an unpersuasive godhead, surrounded by computer screens that don't comfort him.

The condemned man R (played with implacable blankness by Yung - do Yun) doesn't die.

But the film's restraint verges on blankness; a mood of desolation builds in this story of the West Memphis Three, but not an involving drama.

The screens glow vivaciously in daylight and their seemingly frictionless surfaces dim to a slick, black blankness when switched off, but this digitalization marks the end of a great era of mechanically analog information transfer.

Bereavement can be, not blankness and utter loss, but suffering that with all its poignancy is nevertheless the beginning of a richer fellowship with the Eternal.

While «Farewell, My Queen» does boast admirable elements (more on those below) overall, despite some showy trappings it is a frustratingly empty experience, built around a character whose blankness is supposed to be a virtue, but ends up costing the film dearly in terms of identification and interest.

«Primary Atmospheres» had a novel idea, however: this version of the 1960s stood not for blankness but for light.

The character of Ray Moody in «Take Me,» played by character actor Pat Healy (in his directorial debut) is made up of equal parts blankness, desperation and fragility.

And often, with stress comes, turmoil, indecisiveness, nail biting, day - dreaming and total blanket blankness.

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(The apotheosis of hero - dude blankness: Keanu Reeves» Neo in The Matrix.)

Actually, 2001 doesn't exactly fit that first camp either: something in its mandarin blankness and balletic vastness, and refusal to trade in the emollient dramatic forms of human interest and human sympathy.

Sometimes she subsides into a strange blankness, or bursts forth in tremulous quivering need.

In both the Earthlings and the aliens, there's just too much blankness.

Without putting too fine a point on it, Holmer occasionally shows us the concrete - covered blankness of the outside world, the hard - edged reality through which Toni must move.

The result is something quite rare in professional show business: 1 1/2 hours of pure blankness.

With minimum dialogue, he conveys Joe's internal blankness and frustration beautifully, despite the fact that his character remains an enigma.

In time, Belle sees past the Beast's dreadful visage - a puzzling CGI - generated furry blankness that suggests bad taxidermy more than fearsome ugliness - and her love solves everything.

In projects as varied as That Awkward Moment, We Are Your Friends, Dirty Grandpa, The Paperboy, and At Any Price, he's had opportunities to play all manners of comedy, drama, and romance, and he approaches it all with the same himbo blankness.

In the ominous sci - fi blankness of the «Area X» interrogation quarters, Lena's fraught uncertainty generates fascination as well as suspense.

Lois Smith and Jon Hamm's scenes together are like the ebb and flow of the tides; he draws her out with an eery blankness, searching to become the Walter she remembers and needs.

As the film's anti-hero, Ryan Gosling channels the ambiguous, amoral pretty - boy blankness of Ryan O'Neal in The Driver and Richard Gere in American Gigolo — in many ways, Gosling's character is himself a gigolo, but one who seduces cars rather than women.

Shame wears its emptiness like a badge of honor; McQueen is trying for banal blankness, and though he succeeds in that respect, you kind of wish that a filmmaker (and one with a background as an artist at that) would aspire to do more than just say nothing.

In both Losing Isaiah and Candyman the racial positioning of key figures essentially winds up taking the place of characterization; self - consciousness about correct images effectively yields a kind of enforced blankness that not even good actors (like Jessica Lange and Halle Berry in Isaiah) are capable of filling.

Amour means love, and this film could easily have been titled Love and Misery, as strong and indescribable feelings mount when a life partner begins the inevitable slide downhill... a trip which often starts with something as bland as a few moments of blankness at the breakfast table.

One minute, a hollow commitment - phobe who partakes in binge - boozing and public bathroom sex to feel any kind of connection, the next an empathetic human connection for recently orphaned Lucy (Quvenzhane Wallis), Seyfried's doe - eyed performance runs the gamut from passion - free blankness to public histrionics.

In this one, Tris (Shailene Woodley, with her constantly - surprised blankness) and Four (Theo James) find themselves in a dystopian Chicago, I think, except that later they're taken to a place I believe is also Chicago, or at least Future O'Hare, thus as the characters repeatedly referred to «going to» Chicago, I was never for a moment not confused.

Instead, that blankness becomes a handsome mask concealing a cruel spirit.

Judging from Robert Pattinson's recent non - «Twilight» roles, directors enjoy using his beautiful blankness to evoke soullessness.

In early scenes, Phoenix's pot belly essentially precedes him on - screen, and his boozy blankness when he first meets the college dean is a thing of understated comic, awkward wonder, timed just behind the beat.

A representative of the Randall plantation bought her for two hundred and ninety - two dollars, in spite of the new blankness behind her eyes, which made her look simpleminded.

The grand houses opposite had a Sunday blankness to them — but then, they had that every...

As the market trend in painting favors non-compositional process abstraction (somewhat reductively classified as Zombie Formalism), the return to New Image Painting or Bad Painting or simply the art of making pictures becomes a radical refusal of the passive blankness of art made as an easy commodity.

An eerie blankness holds his mother's face at an impossible distance, just as Picasso's twists so often do to his lovers.

I could not explain what they were seeking in all that thick blankness.

When first exhibited in 1953, Robert Rauschenberg's White Paintings — monochromatic panel paintings — were unprecedented in their deceptive blankness.

When the head rolls over we see the dark blankness of its interior: who can ever know what is going on inside another person's mind?

The double portrait of Gorky and his mother, who died in the Armenian genocide, has a monumental blankness that Curry's regionalism could never attain.

Wagenknecht's latest body of work puts a new spin on Klein's act, laying her own nude body on blank canvases while a Roomba saturated with IKB shuffles around her, creating a confused pattern of blue streaks outlining the large patches of blankness where she reclined.

Instead of religious imagery, Artschwager has adorned his panels with anything but — ghostly blankness, an orgy, quotidian domestic interiors.

But prolonged looking brought the realization that these flecks of white served to assert the thingness of the canvas, their grainy blankness crackling against the dots and strokes of color, and reinforcing the tactility of the surface.

«Can you consider presence in absence when narrative flows and then opens into blankness, absent vowels, truant bodies.»