Sentences with phrase «by wry»

Created in 1991, it was the first major sculpture by the wry Italian, according to the auction catalog.

Kurt Voelker (Park) wrote and will direct the film, which centers on a widower and his 17 - year - old son who move from a small northern California town to Los Angeles, where their lives are transformed by a wry old friend and two extraordinary women.

Shame, then, that Stephen Bradleys earnest drama never gets to grips with its remarkable heroine, played by a wry Deirdre OKane as an adult, and by standout Sarah Greene as a young woman.

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.

Superb characterizations and riveting action are leavened by wry humor, making Deutschland delightfully addictive.

They tell their stories less by way of well - plotted action than by wry reflections on the meaning of their lives and times.

Not exact matches

On Saturday the world enjoyed the long anticipated March for Science, which transformed Earth Day into a global defense of STEM, led by quietly spirited people undaunted by weather, buoyed by conviction, and waving an unlimited supply of wry, funny signs.

Where Summers is seen, even by some of his supporters, as arrogant and bull - headed, Fischer is a legendary nice guy, deploying a wry smile and persuasive arguments to get his way.

• «From the Camp of the Incendiaries» is the wry title of a reflection by Hadley Arkes on why some friends reacted so negatively to the FT symposium on the judicial usurpation of politics.

to be the only moment of actual nobility in the New Testament, the wry taunt of an acerbic ironist unimpressed by the pathetic fantasies of a deranged peasant.

And in 2009, a longtime missionary couple were sentenced by a Gambian court to a year of hard labor for sending a wry comment in an email to their prayer list.

Longtime missionaries David and Fiona Fulton were sentenced by a Gambian court to a year of hard labor last December after pleading guilty — in hopes of a lenient sentence — to sedition charges stemming from a wry comment e-mailed to a prayer list.

Old Moses the magician would be giving a wry smile that his ruse has been gobbled up by another sucker.

When he wrote it, my brother had gone through the wars, so to speak, spiritual and emotional, and it has a wry, nightmarish intensity to it, run through by deep veins of both withering cynicism and luminous faith, that I found fascinating and rather disturbing.

Tuesday then delivered the Canadians a wry gamekeeper turned poacher moment with revelations by the ACCC that CBH had offered court - enforceable undertakings that aim to promote contestability in WA's grains logistics business.

Wry Mummy is a funny, witty and down - right helpful blog written by Jess, a mom of 3 boys.

[72] On occasions when Blunkett was guided by then Prime Minister Tony Blair the wry comment has been made: «who is guiding whom?»

She would clearly be upset for her daughter that this super safe seat was not inherited by Tamsin, but there would be a wry smile at the kicking that was inflicted on Gordon Brown and his Government.

By turns wry and revelatory, and occasionally maddening, Carr succeeds in shaking the reader out of screen - zombie complacency.

For those physicists and philosophers puzzled by nature's fourth dimension, Patrick Gill has a wry response.

By turns wry and giddy, Cormier teases out our uniquely human take on hedonism with tidbits as varied as the power of our orgasms (hint: no other creature on Earth can best us) and what the discovery of a 40,000 - year - old wooden flute reveals about music and our ancestors.

The Wikipedia Revolution by Andrew Lih (Hyperion) No other Web site can match Wikipedia's maddening combination of usefulness and unreliability — except perhaps Wikiality (inspired by Stephen Colbert's wry coinage), where truth is determined by vote.

The Calculus Diaries by Jennifer Ouellette (Penguin Press) This dash through a daunting discipline bursts with wry wit.

Actress Lily Tomlin and screenwriter Jane Wagener were in their 70s by the time gay marriage was legalized, so they viewed the idea of getting married with a wry sense of humor, quipping they may dress up like chickens on the big day.

The swooning here is undercut by anxiety, rage, and disappointment, often as a punch line, as if delivered with a wry wink from off - camera.

Irons» Von Bulow is easily the most attractive and entertaining movie heavy since James Mason's villain in «North by Northwest,» a figure with whom he shares a taste for elegant homes and wry understatement.

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION, like the other films co-concocted by Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy, WAITING FOR GUFFMAN, BEST IN SHOW, and A MIGHTY WIND, is a wry exercise in improvisation by an intrepid cast working from scenarios and guided only by their imagination and daring.

«The Square» is a wry and decidedly dark Swedish comedy about an art museum curator (Claes Bang) who is variously forced to contend with a stolen wallet and phone; with trust issues, particularly as they pertain to a one - night stand with a reporter (Elisabeth Moss); with a viral - advertising disaster; and with a formal dinner disrupted by a performance artist (motion - capture coach Terry Notary) who seems to have reverted to a primal state.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Amnesiac Adjusts to Soulless Utopia in Wry Social Satire Suppose you were suffering from amnesia and suddenly found yourself inexplicably welcomed to an unfamiliar city you don't recognize by soulless strangers who inform you that you're an accountant before escorting you to your new home.

It's also pretty clearly influenced by such wry post coming - of - age comedies as «Diner,» «The Big Chill» and, believe it not, Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen's great 1955 noir musical, «It's Always Fair Weather.»

The raucous, raunchy Deadpool 2, which opens in wide release Friday, is a fitting sequel to the wry and self - referential original, a superhero film billed as a new frontier in superhero cinema that took the box office by storm in 2016.

Based on one of the early cases taken up by future Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall when he was working for the NAACP, the film proceeds without much subtlety, though with a filigree of witty dialogue and Chadwick Boseman's panache as the wry, natty young attorney.

The wry comedy, financed by Amazon Studios and K5...

The wry comedy, financed by Amazon Studios and K5 International, will team the rising star with Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani -LRB-» Body Of Lies»).

Scored with wit by a pointedly wry Seventies soundtrack that crucifies its older generation protagonists, The In - Laws is ultimately that rarest of beasts: a modern comedy that knows its strengths and exploits them.

Chadha and co-screenwriter Paul Mayeda Berges offer a wry, low - key feature - length commentary with some fairly interesting / entertaining recollections, including the thinking behind the somewhat ballsy use of a corporeal David Beckham in the epilogue, the unblinking national reaction to the Sikh rituals depicted in the film, and Chadha's desire to exploit her male cast members by getting their shirts off as often as possible.

The wry saliency of this graphic scene isn't that Reygadas is Hegelian in his thoughts on the individual and the spirit, but how he exposes the absurdity of the rich seeking to make their sexual proclivities permissible by intellectualizing them.

For a film about early onset Alzheimer's, this is a remarkably wry, honest and even hopeful drama, anchored by another staggeringly sensitive performance by Julianne Moore.

Get Out is artful in a way a lot of studio films aren't, laden with dread and portent but still leavened by a light, wry touch.

Corruption in the police force, long an undercurrent in classic noir, takes center stage in «L.A. Confidential,» a wry, stylish and devastating police drama directed by Curtis Hanson.

As shouted by a flurry of headlines, the wry, humane coming - of - age comedy Lady Bird — the solo directorial debut of actor Greta Gerwig — is no longer merely «well - regarded» or «critically acclaimed»: it is, officially, THE BEST REVIEWED FILM OF ALL TIME.

Mixing wry comedy and unexpected pathos, and featuring music by Mark Knopfler, this stirring ode to Forsyth's native Scotland follows a Texas oil executive (Peter Riegert) whose life is changed when his boss (Burt Lancaster) sends him to a Scottish village to buy up land for a new refinery.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

Craig's always been a craggier Bond, more solid and serious than Sean Connery, who initially gave James a sly, wry elegance, a tone that was largely continued by the Bonds that would follow.

There are wry flashes in the whole TV - world sequence — most obviously betokened by the presence of Joan Rivers (played by her own daughter Melissa Rivers)-- but when the calls start coming in, and the mop proves a hit, we seem genuinely to be dealing with the same kind of triumphant epiphany you'd find in a sports movie.

If, like me, you know both of the documentaries well, have read some of the legends, seen him in concert and have been colonized by some of his songs, you are likely to respond with a wry admiration for the enormous risks Todd Haynes has taken here.

Directed by Lenny Abrahamson and co-written by Peter Straughan and Jon Ronson, «Frank» has a wry sense of humor, the ring of authenticity and glimmers of genuine wisdom.

Inspired by the true story of New York siblings Stewart and Cyril Marcus, who were found dead in the bachelor pad they shared on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, it's serious like a cancer diagnosis, but it's also quite funny, rich in wry detail, and brimming with the outrageousness of its premise.

Filmed by Claire Denis» long - time cinematographer, Agnès Godard, Claudia Sainte - Luce's debut feature, based loosely on events from her own life, blends a wry and moving naturalism with moments of inspired comedy.

In «From the Head,» a film made by and starring George Griffith, we spend a day in the life of Shoes, a wry, worldly grifter on his third anniversary of hanging out behind the men's room door of a Times Square club, drinking, smoking and secretly smirking at patrons as they pause to leave their tips.