Sentences with phrase «character sketches by»

- Booklist «This is a captivating but gentle fairy tale with memorable characters and wonderfully swirly, evocative, energetic character sketches by the fabulous Feiffer.»

16 «Swinging gait,» see Francis Darwin, «A character sketch by Darwin's son,» pp. 88 - 107 in his The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887).

Not exact matches

In an episode of 30 Rock broadcast live in 2010, attention - seeking sketch comedian Tracy Jordan (played by Tracy Morgan) catches some reruns of The Carol Burnett Show and decides to start mimicking its tendency for characters to «break» — that is, succumb involuntarily to laughter on - screen — on purpose.

The beauty the world has to offer is what is lost by the «Rationalist,» the type of modern man whose character Oakeshott sketched in his most famous essay, «Rationalism in Politics,» first published in 1947 and republished fifty years ago in his essay collection of the same name.

The project showed 48 13 - month old babies a series of puppet sketches where one character would hit another, first by themselves and then in the presence of another character.

This classical nude was inspired by a vintage sketch, so you can still see the character - rich foxing and watermarks of the original.

About Blog Sketch blog by Barbara Malley - a Cartoonist and a Character Designer based out of sunny Southern California, USA.

The film, which might be semi-autobiographical and certainly influenced by Cassavetes» style, consists of a number of sketches painting a picture of the working class characters and their limited ambitions, and their resignation that their station in life is fixed by destiny.

Perhaps, because it was unwilling to risk becoming camp, this Flowers can't achieve the necessary passion, either — Corinne's viciousness is lost in the shuffle, and volatile Cathy and confused Christopher remain sketches of real characters, whose love never becomes the lifelong connection that takes them by surprise and desperately rushes them toward freedom.

Ms. Union fleshes out a character that the script, by Ryan Engle, often merely sketches.

This well - meaning film winds up seeming more than a little obtuse in its flat avoidance of geopolitical detail, not helped by disproportionately faint sketching of its non-western characters...

Critic Consensus: A Family Man has some worthy ideas, but they're bungled in a middle - of - the - road melodrama populated by thinly sketched — and occasionally downright unlikeable — characters.

Andrew Haigh's muted character sketch builds slowly to the 45th anniversary party for an elderly couple — played by Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay — who've begun drifting apart over the course of the week they've spent preparing for their big day.

Clarkson's solo performance in the cottage, accompanied by flashbacks of Helen and her husband (Callum Keith Rennie), sensitively sketches the character's loss.

Expertly sketched by Baumbach, this memoir - like portrait of lives half - lived is the kind of bittersweet, dimensional character comedy we're now used to seeing told in three seasons of prestige television.

Then, in a twist that wouldn't feel out of place in a Two Ronnies sketch, Padilha and screenwriter Gregory Burke torpedo the emotional centre of their movie by having a kindly airport security guard inform Pike's character that the telephone she's using — the one she's just poured her heart out into for two straight minutes — is out of service, but she's welcome to try again from the bank of phones over in that corner.

The script, cowritten by Simon Beaufoy (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen) and Michael deBruyn (Oblivion), is an able adaptation of complex source material, hitting all of the right story points and effectively sketching in the larger cast of characters, brought to life by the likes of Jeffrey Wright (Broken City), Jena Malone (Sucker Punch) and Sam Claflin (Snow White & The Huntsman).

Expertly sketched by writer - director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale) this memoir - like portrait of lives half - lived is the kind of bittersweet, dimensional character comedy we're now used to seeing told in three seasons of prestige television.

The Florida Project unfolds at first like a series of sketches about the characters who live in the motel, held together by the hysterical antics of Moonee and her pack as well as long - suffering hotel manager Bobby (a splendid, warm Willem Dafoe), who tries to put up with it all while keeping some kind of order.

Director Amat Escalante uses artful long takes, nonprofessional actors, and moments of abject miserableness — in one terrible - to - watch scene, a character has his genitals lit on fire — to sketch the story of a decent Mexican family churned up by their country's corrupt police force.

It starts by sketching out the underpinnings of character in fine fashion.

As you might surmise by some of those character sketches, «Gringo» is a politically incorrect and sometimes convoluted actioner that doesn't expect you take it seriously for a second.

The Fleischers played on that conceit in their silent - era, pre-Boop cartoons, collectively titled «Out of the Inkwell,» through an innovative blend of live action and animation that made it appear that a flesh - and - blood cartoonist (usually played by Max) brought the characters to life by dipping his pen and sketching them on a drawing pad, at which point they would take on wills and identities of their own.

Fey's character Kim is a single New York City media worker (a writer of news copy rather than comedy sketches) who eventually acquires an irksome and persistent love interest played by Martin Freeman, in a film written by 30 Rock mainstay Robert Carlock, and produced by Fey and Lorne Michaels.

characters are deftly sketched; brash Texan Beck Weathers (Josh Brolin), regular guy Doug Hansen (John Hawkes), Japanese adventuress Yasuko Namba (Naoko Mori), and journalist Jon Krakauer (Michael Kelly), whose bestselling first - person account «Into Thin Air» was one of several written by the survivors (though none are credited as source material by the production).

Return once more to those five questions: in each case, an answer different from that given by traditional character education will help us to sketch the broad contours of a divergent approach.

Technical Tuesday Writing Tips Presents Outlining: Characters, Creating the Protagonist, Hir or Her Character Sketch and Backstory by Kim Cox

«A multi-layered cover where the main feature (the map) was first sketched out in pencil by the author, then digitalized onto the main character's back by the cover designer.»

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Manga Shaenon Garrity takes a fond look at the wrestling manga Ultimate Muscle, the sequel to the 1980s series Kinnikuman: «As in the original series, the superhuman world is packed with weirdoes: a wrestler who turns into a sneaker, a wrestler who's a walking toilet, a young wrestler with an elderly wrestler growing out of his arm, a wrestler with a microwave in his abdomen, a wrestler who turns into a motorcycle, a wrestler made of Legos, wrestlers shaped like bananas, sushi rolls, photo booths, roller coasters... Also as in the original series, most of these characters come from ideas and sketches submitted by readers.»

Well worth checking out, especially if you're a First Second fan, are the two Between the Panels books, which are promotional pieces put out by Macmillan, with creator essays, character sketches and side stories, all related to different First Second graphic novels.

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About Blog Sketch blog by Barbara Malley - a Cartoonist and a Character Designer based out of sunny Southern California, USA.

Here's what you'll get when you pre-order or otherwise grab The Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond The Myth: the 24 - Page Art Book - Beautiful character art and concept sketches by the illustrious Yuji Himukai cover the pages of this magnificent art book.

24 - Page Art Book - Beautiful character art and concept sketches by the illustrious Yuji Himukai cover the pages of this magnificent art book.

The article included a Mario sketch by the character's creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, that a young Vignocchi copied.

Enjoy a 24 - Page Art Book filled with beautiful character art and concept sketches by the illustrious Yuji Himukai.

Also shown are sketches for the two original characters, drawn by the creator of One Piece himself, Eiichiro Oda!

Character sketch from Kickstarter Update # 69 (left) and the costume worn by a shrine assistant in Japan (right).

Exposing the enigmatic and mentally unstable modern artist Forest Bess, Gober paints a character sketch of Bess by virtue of paintings, extensive wall texts, archival letters (exchanges between his New York dealer Betty Parsons) and photographs.

K4, the system of character codes that Michael Müller (b. 1970) has developed over the past 25 years is positioned beside the eponymous neon sign by Alfredo Jaar (b. 1956), executed in the artist's handwriting and thus a self - reference as a sketch to the actual work.

«The One I Love» is a romance and a mystery and a drama, with really only two characters in it, characters who are sketches approximating human beings, but played with sadness and humor by the two lead actors.

If you took a random survey of his friends I don't think they would describe him much differently from the character sketch offered by the shocked friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who, as I write this, is the subject of a massive manhunt in a shut - down Boston.

About Blog Sketch blog by Barbara Malley - a Cartoonist and a Character Designer based out of sunny Southern California, USA.