Sentences with phrase «class foibles»
Russell doesn't downplay their lower - class foibles; he just uses naturalistic touches rather than big, broad strokes to depict them.
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She's helped considerably by a fine cast (including the too seldom seen Marie Riviere and Andre Wilms), but in the end it's Bruni Tedeschi's sure grasp of the milieu — and in particular her acute understanding of the specific foibles of a rich, arty but out - of - touch class nostalgic for an earlier era — that makes the film a modest but surprisingly substantial delight.
The American filmmaker, Robert Altman, takes a witty and absorbing look at the foibles of the British class system in this intelligent murder mystery set in the early»30s.
What is it, then, that elevates the nominally similar work of David Hammons (b. 1943)-- a MacArthur «genius grant» winner in 1991 — so far above the pack that it seems as if he's landed from another planet, equipped with X-ray vision and telepathy, hoisting our foibles about race and class with a variety of pithy petards?