Sentences with phrase «brings wry»

His early piece Declaration of Intent (1968), created during the heyday of Abstract Expressionism, brings a wry criticism of the nature of art by creating a list of simplistic written terminology.

Toby Jones brings wry relief as Mason the company cook, fighting a losing battle against the uneatable

Toby Jones brings wry relief as Mason the company cook, fighting a losing battle against the uneatable, while Stephen Graham finds comradely warmth amid the gloom.

He's no slouch either as he deepens the narrative with descriptions of food, sidewalk cafes, and Sicily's intense blue sky, but nothing's done better than bringing the wry, and world-wise Sicilian people to the page.

San Francisco, CA About Blog Humor is the place for things that bring a wry smile to your face.

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He brings a keen eye, wry humor, and passion to his presentation that had everyone at the conference buzzing and tweeting.

The editor of Forum Letter, who brought the ELCA release to my attention, adds a wry observation on the claim of Guinness World Records: How many people, do you suppose, stood up that Sunday to profess the Creed in the cause of the faith?

In the first film, the sassy Johnson rendered Ana's «smart mouth» as a wry edge that brought some wit to the project without openly mocking the lines, but the franchise's hint of self - deprecation has evaporated as the sequels progress.

Back to Willis: That wry, «yippee - ki - yay» edge that he used to bring to action roles?

The humor is painfully reserved and wry, brought across via idiosyncratic rhythms, awkward pauses, and dialed - down performances.

Not so much radical as wry, It's Garry Shandling's Show reaffirmed the power that hoary show - business forms have to bring order to the chaos of modern life.

We're to simply trust the gasps and awestruck looks of those surrounding him of the genius of Turing, watching the gears turn away on his big mechanism while needless movie obstacles are brought up in order to create narrative tension, only to be (inevitably) resolved by some wry comment and a stiff upper lip.

Writer - director Jason Reitman (Juno, Up in the Air) brings his quirky, subtle, wry sense of humor to the small screen with Casual, an immensely likable rom - com about dating and sex that's refreshingly frank and intelligent.

The group — brought together in a scene reminiscent of Ocean's 11 — includes men like the charming James Granger (Matt Damon), the witty Richard Campbell (Bill Murray), the wry Walter Garfield (John Goodman), and an Englishman named Donald Jeffries (Hugh Bonneville).

Köhler, who shares a certain wry perceptiveness and slow - burn storytelling sensibility with his co-producer (and other half) Maren Ade, directs with the same measured, flash - free conviction he brought to «Sleeping Sickness,» sidelining the wilder genre possibilities of his out - there premise to look long and hard at its spiraling psychological realities.

Martyr (2001) might bring on a wry smile in some viewers since the violence of a tortured Saint Sebastian - like figure is offset by the sweet quirkiness of the childlike form.

Extending across the entirety of the museum, the exhibition allows for free association between artists and the themes they address: at once playful and dynamic, works from Ryan Gander, Institute for New Feeling, Liu Wa, and Yangzi invite audiences to explore a wealth of possibilities through combinations of meditation and wry humor; classical mediums of sculpture and painting are reinvented by Yngve Holen and Austin Lee; insidious implications of our hi - tech society are skewered by Lawrence Abu Hamdan and aaajiao; the powers of synthetic materials over human desire are brought to the fore by Sean Raspet and Pamela Rosenkranz; and products of Internet culture are given to refined study with Gillian Wearing and Amalia Ulman.

A group exhibition brings together new paintings by a group of key Los Angeles artists — including Carson, known for wry minimalist fabric works and her gutsy paintings of tractors, and Dingle, who has, in the past, reveled in the grotesqueries of little girls.

This group exhibition brings together paintings by a group of key Los Angeles artists — including Carson, known for wry minimalist fabric works and her gutsy paintings of tractors, and Dingle, who has, in the past, reveled in the grotesqueries of little girls.

These activists include Sharon Eubanks, a former US Department of Justice attorney who once helped bring a similar case against Big Tobacco; House Democrats Ted Lieu and Mark DeSaulnier; Canadian eco-loon Bill McKibben (who talks, with characteristic wry understatement, of Exxon's «sheer, profound, and — I think — unparalleled evil»); and, of course, Rhode Island senator Sheldon Whitehouse, another attorney determined to use lawfare to shut down the debate on climate change once and for all.

This wry observation from an unknown source expresses the stress and strain that the holidays can bring.