Sentences with phrase «by laconic»

Byrne's work is characterised by a laconic humour.

The barges are imbued with his signature wit, as underscored by the laconic title, «F ----- g Couches,» that he gave to the 1972 show at New York's Lo Giudice Gallery at which they had their commercial debut.

Characterised by a laconic humour, Byrne's projects examine the ambiguities of language and of what is gained or lost in the translation from text to image.

The new film from Martin McDonagh (In Bruges), in theatres nationwide on Dec. 1, roots itself in the fury of a mother, Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand), whose daughter has been raped and killed and seemingly forgotten by laconic local police.

Oscar winner Sean Penn voices the grunts made by laconic bird Terence, who looks like a cross between a cardinal and a sumo wrestler.

Not exact matches

He captured the Public Links championship of the United States last week by hitting some marvelous iron shots and one - putting 12 greens to bring down little Gene Towry, a laconic 28 - year - old student in electrical engineering at SMU.

Bill Owens with the laconic presence of the late great actor Gary Cooper, humble and genuine being gazed upon by an obviously pleased Nicola Luciani of the Air Force, after their discussions about «Veteran Issues» which Secretary of Veteran Affairs Eric K. Shinseki also participated in.

Joe is played by Matthew McConaughey, whose natural laconic, easy - going way is mutated into something snake - like and insidious here.

But we're always pulled back in by the performance of Mr. Taylor, an Australian actor who absolutely aces the laconic American lawman.

Garret is played by Kevin Costner, who should avoid all future roles that call for overalls and goggles and who this time crosses the line from teasingly laconic to stodgy.

By the same token, the cast speaks in his stylized yet authentically provincial patois («I like the way you talk,» the two heroes of his Sling Blade confided in each other, echoing our sentiments exactly), and in a movie with a less laconic pace than Thornton the director seems willing to accept.

Reeves, sotto - voice and laconic throughout does his most daring feat of derring - do by maintaining the lightest of ironies in his performance, and not being afraid to give in to sentiment when appropriate.

Led by Michael Shannon, who has appeared in all of Nichols» films, the large cast is fantastic; although Joel Edgerton has received acclaim for his role in Nichols» Loving (also released this year), his laconic supporting performance here is arguably his finest work.

They're called «auteur sitcoms», laconic half - hour vignettes driven by a singular artistic sensibility, reflecting the idiosyncratic worldview of its creator.

Beyond that, it's the same laconic director getting pumped by the same admiring interviewer, to not much effect.

But the energy levels are low, not helped by the early stages of the film being anchored by the mumbling, laconic mess that Phoenix presents.

This low - key Danish prison drama is convincingly grim, but is the same old story of a laconic youth struggling to survive by doing what Mr Big tells him.

Stewart is increasingly proving to be one of the more persuasively minimalist actors in today's cinema, adept at the evocation of thoughtful complexity — as witnessed by her anguished but laconic role in Olivier Assayas's upcoming Personal Shopper.

The pretend Doug is dutiful and dull, dogged by recurring dreams of a more exciting life; Hauser is the real deal, tough, laconic, deadly accurate with an arsenal of weapons.

Co-directed by veteran stuntmen David Leitch and Chad Stahelski, Wick reconfigures the badass, laconic cool of crime and action movies past to create a colorful, remarkably self - contained vision of a world made of dominos falling into disorder.

by Walter Chaw Matthew Modine has made a career of acting the idiosyncratic man of action — that scattershot chortle masking some unusual skill and the kind of laconic intelligence that Eric Stoltz has utilized to far different effect.

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This year was marked by the usually laconic Charlie Munger, known for his typical «I have nothing to add» answer, answering many questions in depth.

After they noticed that people got slightly outraged, they attempted to rectify the situation by sending us this laconic email.

Whereas Max Caulfield was once all about hunting down photo opportunities, Chloe focuses on spreading her laconic world view by finding suitable targets for her snarky graffiti.

The laconic paintings and blown - up aphorisms in «Neil Jenney: North America» at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum here, organized by Harry Philbrick, the museum's director, are indubitably the creations of this reclusive, hard - to - pigeonhole artist.

Prince's signature laconic writing style is represented by autobiography, fiction, observations and confessions.

ANDREW KREPS GALLERY The larger of this gallery's two spaces has been dimmed to screen four moving - image works by the Ohio - born artist Kevin Jerome Everson, whose laconic films explore the quotidian passages of African - American life and, more recently, the everyday consequences of the Midwest's economic downturn.

In his laconic way, he then confirmed that he was as fascinated by Bram's work as he was by his persona.

This potential ecological message — ahead of its time — is given support by Rauschenberg's laconic comment on his use of stuffed animals: «Too bad they are dead.

Those who get Slaw's entries by RSS or email may not regularly read comments to our posts and so might have missed a rather important, laconic comment to my entry yesterday on the New York Times's deep linking feature.

In the landmark — if decidedly laconic — Zambrano case, the Court held that the Colombian parents of two Belgian children — born and raised in Belgium and who had never exercised free movement rights — could not be denied residence and work permits where it would have the effect of depriving the Union citizens the genuine enjoyment of the substance of the rights conferred by their status as EU citizens.

Of course if you're laconic by nature this is less of a problem — or if you're dealing in simple bits of information.