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Though we'd never expect bombast from Palermo, this exhibition is easily lost in Chelsea's shuffle.

«We run BOMBAST from the daily classes,» explains Baez.

Even if these references hint at the sort of story that Midnight Special tells, what you won't see coming is the genuinely extraordinary coup de cinéma that Nichols pulls at the climax, about which I'll say only that, after years of brain - numbing visual bombast from Hollywood, here is a sequence that restores your faith in the capacity of special effects to achieve real grace, strangeness and beauty.

State - of - the - art filmmaking and showy narrative technique meld uncomfortably with some hoary old war movie clichés in Dunkirk, the latest exercise in borderline bombast from Christopher Nolan.

Your review is bombast from a pompous ass whose opinions mean nothing.

Of course, that creates problems too, not least the incessant hand - holding, whether that be in the form of cursing out a trader at a financial firm or loudly lamenting the stupidity of a would - be participant to said participant — a situation common to all commodity markets, at least judging by the occasional bombast from the coal or weather desks.

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Ficino, with his «natural magic Paracelsus for all his bombast, Giordano Bruno in spite of his «Egyptian» fantasies, did more to advance the concept of the investigation of a regular «Nature» than many a rational, sensible, Aristotelian scholar who laughed at their absurdities or shrank from their shocking conclusions.

By the same token, mainstream Republicans, weary of the bombast erupting from the top of their ticket, might just stay home.

Yet Barron, despite his bombast and caustic rhetoric, has his own powerful backers — including endorsements from DC 37, the potent union of city workers, and Rep. Towns.

Apart from its smug villain (Alex Veadov)-- another Russian sociopath who hisses things to underlings like «You talk to the police and I rape and disembowel your mother» — We Own the Night has none of the usual genre bombast.

Audiences who go to see The American expecting a conventional Hollywood spy thriller will no doubt be disappointed to find out they've stumbled into an art - house film — and an unrelentingly grim one at that — but those seeking relief from the inanity and bombast of the summer movie season will be pleasantly surprised.

Director / co-writer Roland Emmerich returns from part one, determined to re-create as many scenes as he can and up the ante on ships, aliens, and overall bombast.

The characters, aside from our mute protagonist, are all voiced with bombast and rarely come off as annoyingly over-the top and the music is delightfully twee and charming.

Over-indulgence, bombast, and excess have been part of Vaughan's filmmaking DNA ever since he severed ties with the similarly over-indulgent, bombastic, and excessive writer - director Guy Ritchie, transitioning from producer to director more than a decade ago.

It's disheartening that the film becomes a poster child for the cliched accusations of thin characterization and soulless bombast that this kind of entertainment faces, and squarely because it comes from one of our most skilled populist filmmakers.

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GET OUT An unbelievable achievement from a first time director and a film which has inspired discussion around an important subject in the way that the best horror / suspense films always do, utilising subversion and subtlety instead of bombast and realism.

They are mostly free from the sort of bombast and cruelty that dominates much of popular cinema today.

Watch and marvel as Ceylan's film deflates all that bombast like air from a tyre.

Uncle Drew features Kyrie Irving, Shaquille O'Neal, Tiffany Haddish and more in a summer movie that might be a nice distraction from all the usual blockbuster bombast.

The Town is the perfect September movie to bridge us from the bombast of the summer to Oscar season.

From Carey Mulligan's hurting looks to John Goodman's bombast, to the caramel coloured kitty cat in Isaac's embrace.

The hallmarks are there, from the microscopic attention to the family dynamic to the ridiculous, set - piece bombast of the grand finale.

That «Lone Survivor» also marked an impressive segue from the flag - waving bombast that director Peter Berg had Jablonsky give to «Battleship» shows how personal these collaborators have now gotten for their third picture — albeit in the epic, real - life disaster of «Deepwater Horizon.»

It's a random mishmash of juvenile ideas without a single lucid thread to hold them together, except for both the incessant CG bombast ripped off from video games and the works of Peter Jackson, the Wachowskis, and Quentin Tarantino, as well as the recurring lascivious gaze of Snyder's camera on the china - smooth skin and full lips of bleached - blond heroine Baby Doll (Emily Browning).

The bombast of these pronouncements couldn't be further from the world of a non-studio, intensely personal artist like Terence Davies, but the British filmmaker nevertheless begins the narrative proper of his 1992 masterpiece The Long Day Closes with the blazing brass pomp of Twentieth Century Fox's iconic fanfare, written by Alfred Newman.

Analyze clips from the daily news together to help students differentiate between bombast or name - calling and effective argumentation backed by evidence.

With tentacle - ridden new enemies, Lambent Beserkers and all of the bombast we've come to expect from the series, we're already pant - wettingly excited.

But when they get irritated too much by the mosquito, the music changes from a mysterious espionage soundtrack or elevator - grade easy listening to bombast fight tunes, and they engage in some of the weirdest battles with the mosquito: While they stomp around like Godzilla trying to squash it.

Another 2016 soundtrack from the mad - for - sadness section is Disasterpeace's Hyper Light Drifter (listen on Spotify), which while possessing flourishes of action - backing bombast, is for the longest time a yearning, aching listen.

With a penchant for creating powerful emotions and memorable themes, Hulick's original scores range from fantasy landscapes and sweeping sci - fi to orchestral bombast, intimate piano and small string ensembles.

If you're coming from the console world, you'll be impressed by scale of the community and ecosystem that Valve has managed to quietly build in the shadows of Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony's bombast.

Plainly speaking, once the initial bombast and controversy surrounding Rivington Place's construction died down, regard for Iniva has been allowed to slide from recognition of its initial iconoclasm and brilliance to an informal consensus about its current inconsequence and irrelevance.

At the end of a long incubation period, SITE is aiming to elbow its way back into the big league, equipped with a literal sharp edge — and perhaps some added wisdom to protect from bombast and frivolity.

That unabashed bombast has made Wiley a walking superlative: the most successful black artist since Basquiat, possibly the wealthiest painter of his generation, certainly the one who made his name earliest (he was 26 for his first major solo show), a gay man who has become the great painter of machismo for the swag era, a bootstrapper from South Central who talks like a Yale professor (much of the time), a genius self - promoter who's managed to have it both ways in an art world that loves having its critical cake and eating the spectacle of it, too, and a crossover phenomenon who is at once the hip - hop world's favorite fine artist (Spike Lee and LL Cool J own pieces) and the gallery world's most popular hip - hop ambassador.

But the descriptiveness and deliberate bombast of Chicago's often immense figurative statements are light years from the circumspection of Remington's images.

About this new body of work, Storr writes, «This is vigorous, straight - from - the - shoulder art devoid of strain or bombast and imbued with a sureness and grace that are the hallmarks of genuine mastery.»

Though it's likely to be lost in the bombast and disappointment around a messy framework, there may be at least one tangible result from the Copenhagen summit: REDD, or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, is essentially a

Though it's likely to be lost in the bombast and disappointment around a messy framework, there may be at least one tangible result from the Copenhagen summit: REDD, or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, is essentially a mechanism to pay developing countries to keep their trees standing, thereby maintaining habitats and preventing the release of carbon that happens through deforestation.

If you're coming from the console world, you'll be impressed by scale of the community and ecosystem that Valve has managed to quietly build in the shadows of Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony's bombast.