Sentences with phrase «deadpan humor»

For Chris Doyle, a Brooklyn artist who channels complex emotions through deadpan humor, laughter is often the best revenge.

The letters themselves, their sound and their shape, are the subject of the painting and telegraph Reeder's potent deadpan humor.

Drawing on a variety of sources that also included his own drawings, prints and artist's books, Ruscha was often associated with the west coast cool style, but ultimately his work confounded the art world with its sly and elusive sense of deadpan humor, as seen in his series of bird paintings and in the liquid word paintings that rounded out the decade.

Earl A. Powell III, director of the National Gallery of Art notes, «With his unique combination of technical invention, deadpan humor, and cultural daring, Roy Lichtenstein moved the line between commercial and fine art and changed the way we look at our world.

And while the exhibition will indeed be imbued with plenty of cats, along with Auerbach's absurdist, deadpan humor, it will also provide a showcase for the more serious aspects of her work.

Armed with deadpan humor, Shea manipulates viewers by allowing them to be both predator and prey.

His figures always hinge on abstraction, while his use of color, composition, and deadpan humor balance the discomfort that comes from the voyeurism inherent in his gaze.

Even as such works appear to aim for a Minimalist degree - zero of sculpture, their deadpan humor surprisingly invokes a broad range of potential meanings and emotional responses from fear and anxiety to pleasure and empathy.

Roger White's writing has a dry, deadpan humor to it.

With Automobile Tire Print, Rauschenberg picked up a trace of the city streets in another way, creating an artwork that strikes an irreverent balance between abstract gesture and deadpan humor.

While the drawings and prints in the exhibition reflect the purity of his mark - making, his deadpan humor comes across especially in a series of drawn - on polaroid images of his fingernails.

Leveraging player expectations as a core design ingredient, The Messenger is first presented as an 8 - bit action platformer with a simple story only to turn into an epic time travelling tale, eventually revealing itself as a 16 - bit Metroidvania packed with replay value and deadpan humor.

Headmaster's deadpan humor and increasingly weird premise make it a PS VR star.

Hijinks ensue, recounted with deadpan humor and flickering hope by Flora Bialy, Zloty's understudy and our shy narrator.

Filled with deadpan humor and unforgettable characters, Batuman's semi-autobiographical debut is set in 1995, during endearingly awkward Selin's freshman year at Harvard.

The story of a Harvard freshman, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, completely won us over with its deadpan humor, pre-email communication foibles and brilliant (and often painfully accurate) depictions of love.

This hilarious account of the author's travels abroad is read with deadpan humor that accents the ludicrous nature of his foreign encounters.

The animation is lively and unusual, and the script is full of grace notes and genuinely funny moments, but what really makes the movie work is the characters, who are voiced with such intelligence, compassion, and deadpan humor that I found myself truly caring about them and whether or not they would survive their adventures.

With a mix of icky brutality and stoic, deadpan humor, Hale welcomes readers to Friendship, Wisconsin, where homecoming queen Ruth has just been found dead in a cornfield, stuffed like a scarecrow.

With deadpan humor and skeptical eye, the determined detective is on the case, and everyone who has the misfortune to be connected to Parker is a suspect — the failing mystery writer in town to sign books; the beautiful young wife, and the bookstore employee who appears to be more nervous than aggrieved.

Using deadpan humor and savage charm belying deep empathy for her characters, Miller's debut captures the angst, sexual rivalry, and escalating self - doubt of teenage life in America while announcing Miller as a fierce new voice.

In this concluding volume of a thematic trilogy, Klassen employs all his trademark dry wit and deadpan humor to tell the story of a hat - related caper.

Though it's flecked with deadpan humor, the sketchy psychologization of the deterioriating Marina and her family is overshadowed by the film's ruthless narrative drive and violence.

He turned the rom - com inside out with The Lobster last year, and now he's turned his sights on the horror flick — though you'd be mistaken if you assumed that would distance him from his streak of deadpan humor.

Using a style that faintly echoes Hartley's, Shelly beautifully balances deadpan humor, pathos and heartbreakingly lovely moments of happy truth.

Characters are all upraised by deadpan humor through oddball dialogue and mesmerizing acumen by the quirky cast.

«TrollHunter» isn't outright scary, but it sure is fun and goofy combining what's - out - there tension with deadpan humor into the

The training scenes are played for laughs — especially the gruff deadpan humor of Tommy Lee Jones as Col. Chester Phillips (a Men in Black - style role he could play in his sleep) and the flirtations between Rogers and his comely British superior Peggy Carter (buxom caricature Hayley Atwell).

«The Front Page» (1974) with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau dealt with deadlines and deadpan humor.

Bateman is a known commodity in the realm of comedy, and he rarely disappoints with his brand of dry, deadpan humor.

Only music superstar John's catalogue of hostage sighs and profane outbursts, which practically count as deadpan humor here, come closest to possibly mirroring how the audience might feel at any given moment.

In it, he demystified war heroics and masculinity with his deadpan humor.

There is a real sense of life to the action, even when it steers well into the realm of the absurd, although the emotional core of the film is often subsumed by its deadpan humor.

The stop - motion animation (ala 2009's «Fantastic Mr. Fox»), the slightly offbeat music, and the almost instant deadpan humor are unquestionably Andersonian.

It's loaded with very physical slapstick comedy and perfectly ridiculous deadpan humor.

He adds much - needed deadpan humor to the story.

(Better known for tough guy characters in Rollerball and Mission: Impossible, actor Jean Reno also displays his previously undisclosed talent for deadpan humor in this role as Martin's straight man.)

Deadpan humor and even eloquently - selected puns occasionally lighten the bleakness.

To be fair, the first half is actually very engaging and interesting, as the terrier Max (voiced with deadpan humor and line delivery by Louis C.K.) and his new humongous furry mutt roommate (played by Eric Stonestreet) escape animal control (following being kidnapped for accidentally straying away from their dog walker), come across what is essentially a mob of unwanted animals led by a rabbit (voiced by Kevin Hart, and as you can probably assume, his performance is energetic and most definitely fits animation).

They display a wonderful chemistry, and complete command over the process of turning droll, deadpan humor into some uproarious moments.

And I actually really liked the villains played by Dev Patel, Cliff Curtis and, of all people, The Daily Show «s Aasif Mandvi, who brings some welcomed deadpan humor to his part.

Though «People Places Things» is tailored to Clement's strengths as an actor with well - placed moments of deadpan humor, it also gives him a chance to flex his dramatic muscle, or at the very least, showcase a different, more mature side compared to his goofier work in «Flight of the Conchords,» «What We Do in the Shadows» and «Dinner for Schmucks.»

The mysterious Lorne Malvo (Billy Bob Thornton) amuses with deadpan humor, stuns with violence and sets the riveting story in motion.

In the vein of his previous screenplays for «Chuck and Buck,» «The Good Girl» and «Beatriz at Dinner,» White depicts the darker side of human nature with deadpan humor and daring honesty.

The movie is also funniest when Lang's team is in on the act, thanks to the deadpan humor of Michael Pena (who may finally get some mainstream success) and Scott's fellow tech - nerd crew of criminals.

The original Roseanne, one of Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, followed the working class Conner family, who used deadpan humor to counter the struggles of everyday life.

The show's acquired taste — its largely deadpan humor confused audiences during its 2003 — 2006 run — was a perfect outlet for Michael Cera's own quirky sense of comedic delivery.

Ragnarok still favors bathos over emotional culmination, jest over zest, toilet humor over deadpan humor, broad strokes over character - driven subplots, saucy rewrites over respectful updates on Norse mythos.

Johnson («Looper») deftly weaves the plot threads together, mixing deadpan humor, familiar characters — like the stalwart Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo, filling the furry boots of Peter Mayhew) and the chrome - plated Captain Phasma (Gwendoline Christie)-- and some surprising new ones, led by Laura Dern's Vice Admiral Holdo.

While this quirky mockumentary about the making of a stage musical didn't strike it big at the box office (earning less than $ 3 million worldwide), it soon became a cult classic for its deadpan humor and oddly lovable characters.