Sentences with phrase «bon mots»

and other such bon mots.

Not your usual standards of bon mots.

Guests who come up with new names for their favorite works in the exhibition will have their bon mots projected on the big screen, and the best one will win a limited - edition Abstract Expressionism T - shirt.

Watch what you say around Kevin Beasley's sculptures in Casey Kaplan's booth at Frieze — lest your trenchant insights and charming bon mots be broadcast in ways that could compromise.

Oscar's bon mots and flamboyantly witty social gestures mirror those of his written personae, to the extent that his life is his art and is art is his life, exactly as he almost said.

It was a near - perfect copy of last year's shindig: leggy ladies, wearing orange instead of 2004's white, offering greetings; dealers, from Tracy Williams to Johann König, happy to have a drink; a few collectors wondering aloud why they couldn't get into the convention center early this time; and ABMB director Sam Keller at the front door, pressing the flesh and offering bon mots.

Pranks in art turn out to be as richly varied and diversely resonant as their distantly analogous verbal and written equivalents, which might include puns, shaggy - dog stories, bon mots, satire, doggerel, and funny lyrics.

Replay your best bon mots as you bubble away in a jetted tub.

And that makes for some highly entertaining reading, especially if you like your history sweetened with delicious anecdotes and tasty bon mots.

The remaining extras are a two - and - a-half-minute montage of Brittany's bon mots from both season one and two; and a mercilessly brief, completely useless unused song from the Rocky Horror episode («Planet, Schmanet, Janet») that's nothing more than a snippet mouthed by an anonymous set of lips.

A fun game would be to compare Deadpool bon mots and Dennis Miller bon mots.

This is a marginally effective movie without the intricate plot lines of a much better one, «Funny Games,» by fellow Austrian Michael Haneke, though watching these brats at work becomes tedious as they are not particular clever or witty or adept at issuing bon mots.

As Gartley's counterpoint, J.J.J. Pictureman (Jeremy Crutchley, done up in what looks to be make - up identical to Englund's), acts the world - weary Weegee, snapping ghoulish pictures with a noir camera — one of many out - of - time touches that feed the Dick Tracy comparison — and offering up wizened bon mots too late to affect any sort of change.

Our hope that this would be a 90 minute chamber drama in which the characters trade bon mots and sip Dubonnet are duly dashed by this big, loud, business - as - usual trailer.

Death, disease, and depression blow like a cold draft through A Quiet Passion's backstretch; even those who didn't glaze over during the gorgeous, static suffering of Sunset Song may wish this new film's spritely barrage of bon mots — and Nixon's radiant delight, dimmed by one too many losses — didn't give way to strokes and seizures and private anguish.

Consider a central set - piece where our hero Billy (Judd Nelson) and his buck - toothed cohort Joey (David Caruso) stage a weird re-enactment of the heist from The Killing at a dog track that includes not only such bon mots as «I'm new at this!

In fact, he's often better in comedic roles (Pain & Gain) than in his more serious fare (San Andreas), as the seeming disconnect between his hulking form and perfect delivery of bon mots makes the laughs that follow doubly special.

This 1984 concoction is one of writer / director / star Woody Allen's most enjoyable diversions, jam - packed with bon mots such as «Don't forget to do «My Funny Valentine» with the special lyrics about the moon landing.»

He offers stories and offers opinions, slags a few people and ideas, and expresses varied regrets, bon mots and tangents along the way.

Packed with the frightfully clever bon mots of Oscar Wilde, A Good Woman can not help but entertain, and yet Mike Barker's adaptation of Lady Windermere's Fan is a bit of a cheat.

That's fitting since the screenplay comes from Deadpool writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who seem to have an ample supply of bon mots for the actor.

The quick - witted bon mots, and the juvenile gags still hold much of the humor and relatable adolescent burnish they always did, and I'm pretty sure I'll be trotting this one out every Halloween for a laugh, and a gushing grin for forever and a day.

Palahniuk is quite a character; he indiscreetly names specific names for his characters» real - life analogues (which, in one instance, had to be bleeped out) and tosses off such bon mots as praising Bonham Carter's «fucked - up Lucille Ball quality.»

His ability to toss off bon mots is less smooth as smug, often peppered with some ill - advised mugging and other sorts of physical gags.

Again, it's endlessly charming and funny, but has a lot of texture underneath the zaniness and the bevy of classic bon mots.

Talking - heads with Wong, Yam, and Fok are discursive and occasionally bizarre — Yam is almost incomprehensible and Wong offers his little Franco-esque bon mots about how movies are, essentially, for idiots, which sounds like something that an idiot would say.

Blame Kruger, who writes the most insipid non-Akiva Goldsman scripts in Hollywood, cobbling together creaky bon mots and every dusty cliché in the book with a shameless avarice.

Mistress America, however, lacks the emotional pull of While We're Young; it's a looser but more disposable entertainment, and while Gerwig and Baumbach remain masters at penning hilarious bon mots, they've failed to supply their joke - machine narrative with the kind of prickly, complicated characters that occupy the director's best work.

The history of the 13th Amendment necessarily comes with a large cast, and Spielberg turns many of his antagonists into grimacing faces and occasional bon mots without ever touching on their motivations or making them into people.

At the same time, after three years, the core characters are just as enjoyable, to say nothing of their savage bon mots, so perhaps a little indulgence would be just fine.

Gilliam and his co-screenwriters (an uncredited Charles Alverson (Jabberwocky), Charles McKeown and most famously, Tom Stoppard worked on it on and off over six years) stuff the film with subversive bon mots, furiously paced slapstick and sight gags, and the blackest of humour — it is at once thrilling and hilarious.

Cutting into each other's answers, fielding each other's questions, and trading favorite Onion headlines, they seem close as kin — a product, perhaps, of spending a few weeks firing bon mots for the director of Kicking And Screaming.

Sally Potter's «The Party» is an atmospheric, rapid - fire dark comedy about a celebratory dinner party where unexpected revelations come as quickly as bon mots.

But its bon mots have always been along the lines of an animated corpse shouting «I'll swallow your soul!»

(Give Stone a few wisecracks and she can always run with them; the actress hasn't had this many bon mots since Basic Instinct 2.)

Julian Mitchell's script freely doles out all kinds of pithy, self - conscious bon mots among its cast, but doesn't bother to flesh out convincingly the emotional conflicts and dramas in which the characters find themselves.

Dialogue whips past in huge, devastating chunks, dense with pop - culture quotes, literary allusions, legal and financial jargon, elaborate and often profane metaphors... and a ton of brutal bon mots... The pacing and writing reflect the culture of its characters.

Luckily, Francis rebounded over at Warner Bros., a company much more in tune with her special style of earthy glamour, and though she was never the lead female, she excelled in such delightful pre-code bon mots as Smart Money (1931), in which she is a faithless blonde helping Edward G. Robinson lose his bankroll, and Blonde Crazy (1931), where her target is the irrepressible James Cagney.

So when the B - grade bon mots start flying, it's the moral equivalent of a relatively gory but unspectacular beheading from a serial killer.

Despite one shocking revelation (if you don't know the play) and the handful of Wildean bon mots that make it into Howard Himelstein's screenplay (says Lord Darlington, «Marital bliss is a terrible burden to place on two people; sometimes a third person is needed to lighten the load»), «A Good Woman» goes nowhere handsomely.

However, the execution of their duties varied radically, since Batman tended to be rather serious and grim while the web - swinger always tossed in delightful bon mots as he bopped the baddies.

However, the execution of their duties varied radically, since Batman tended to be rather serious and grim while the web - swinger always tossed out delightful bon mots as he bopped the baddies.

Makeovers, party planning, dance - offs, dropping vintage bon mots as if they were bonbons.

Lead investigator Jason Hawes, founder of the Atlantic Paranormal Society, not only looks like and has the same day job as Samuel «Joe the Plumber» Wurzelbacher but carries himself with the same air of surly distrust, as if suspicious that the whole world might be encoded with hilarious bon mots at the expense of his sister.

Who knows what chaos will happen when hoards of people around the world are simultaneously adding their bon mots to the evolving work?

In addition, let's say a coach really does get the ref to pay attention, and really gets under the official's skin with a series of well - timed bon mots — «I've seen better eyes on potatoes,» for example.

The made - for - TV photo - op had everything — the ceremonial presentation of the offending club from The Donald, a few jocular bon mots from the tourney host that played more to the crowd ringing the area than to McIlroy, and the guys in the Golf Channel booth providing the requisite laugh track.

Last week a week's supply sold out in two days at a Whole Foods in North California, and as Grist.org points out: «Maybe you don't think you WANT a better fake meat, but you probably thought you didn't want a social network that let you transmit 140 - character bon mots, either.»

We can derive some comfort from George Bernard Shaw's bon mot, «The last Christian died on the cross,» for there is a certain absolution in realizing that we all fall pitifully short.

The bon mot of Chesterton applies quite well: «There is no history: There are only historians.»