Sentences with phrase «comic pathos»
Katy Grannan, with a touch of Arbus - like mockery, photographs strangers as they would wish to see themselves — dreams of private transcendence tinged by comic pathos.
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No matter how passionately you may hold it (pathos)-- no matter how sound your argument is (logos)-- no matter how respectable a person you are (ethos), this weepy argument about a comic book America is unpersuasive to the typical a **** le who will never disappear despite one's good intentions.
This is a remarkable movie: lovely, slow - paced and almost silent, rich with pathos and deft comic gestures.
Director Neil Burger (Divergent) knows when to pepper scenes with comic moments and when to season lightly with pathos.
Tagar is howlingly funny from the first moment that we see her, an entirely complete comic creation, but what's truly impressive about the performance is how she gives it texture and nuance as it goes on: when she returns in the third segment, Daffi's gone through officer training and has a new - found responsibility, or at least the pressure to look responsible, and there's truth and pathos in the way it tests her friendship with Zohar.
But this one spends more time than its predecessors in a comic sweet spot, thanks to a gifted cast that milks moments of inspired slapstick, goofiness, and pathos from a script whose thin, generic arc seems engineered to encourage improv.
No comic filmmaker in America today works so hard to stay on the knife's edge between humor and pathos or is so eager to challenge his viewers emotionally.
There is considerable comedy and much pathos in the film, the comic turns finding him asking hotel manager Mary Sinclair (Annette Bening) for a dinner date so many times that the audience can not be blamed for joining with Mary in saying «Enough, already.»
De Niro has proven to have both pathos and adept comic timing, so this look at an aging insult comic could provide both laughs and some tears.
Focusing on his «imaginary portraits», which conjure varied mental states with a mixture of comic absurdity and the heart - rending pathos, and incorporating sculpture as well painting, the exhibition offers a comprehensive survey of three decades of his art.