Sentences with phrase «by wry humor»

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

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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.

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.

THE DEATH OF STALIN — A Review by Cynthia Flores If you appreciate wry, dry humor, love political comedy, and you're a...

There is wry humor in it, and a cheerful willingness to offend... And in a film that is alive and not mummified by convention, you never know what you might see when you look out the window.»

We care about Jean - Do, but his wry voice - over (taken mostly from the book written by the real - life inspiration for the story) and the caring but never maudlin camera allows a dark humor that keeps the film from becoming yet another heroism - in - the - face - of - adversity stories.

However, for those of us in the first group, we will be totally enchanted by the characters, story lines, wry humor, costumes, sets, and songs.

At first blush, a debut novel by comedian and BBC late - night host Graham Norton sounds like it would be rife with wry humor and witty antics in the vein of his TV show.

She's a spy and he's a thief, but they have a shared history — and she owes him a debt that he aims to claim in this delightful historical romp, narrated to perfection by Potter with sprightly dialogue, sparkling wit, and wry humor.

Written by a geophysics professor, The Mathematician's Shiva is brilliantly written and infused with wry humor, quirky characters and an honest and insightful look at both the world of academia and the immigrant experience.

The Surrealists, informed by the psychoanalytical work of Sigmund Freud, also believed in the efficacy of powerful subconscious associations with objects, which gave their assemblages an added level of theoretical obfuscation that often translates into wry humor.

Committed to figurative painting at a time when it was out of favor with critics and collectors, Steers nonetheless gained appreciation for his expressionist - realist narratives of a life shadowed by isolation and mortality, yet infused with wry humor, camp, and what Steers himself called, a «gorgeous bleakness.»

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.

United by an energetic brushstroke and a wry sense of humor, the paintings convey what Alan Pocaro, writing his catalogue essay, calls «honesty, integrity, and an abiding sense of the personal made universal.»