Sentences with phrase «delivering acerbic»

Delivering an acerbic political and social commentary through impeccable draughtsmanship, Victor's works act as incisive reflections on the human condition.

Not exact matches

All four actors click really well as a group, but they also deliver some great individual performances — especially Aubrey Plaza, who proves she can do more than spout acerbic one - liners and mug for the camera like on «Parks and Rec» — resulting in one of the funniest, sincerest and most charming movies of the year.

But seeing Bruce Nauman's latest effort, «Contrapposto Studies, i through vii,» brought me back to a scene in the film Chinatown in which John Huston's Noah Cross delivers a rather acerbic view of reputation and longevity: «Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.»

Delivered via acerbic satire, the work of Conrad Botes effects an embodied meditation on South African society, politics, and the country's class divide, while metabolising a wider commentary on the conditions of political existence through his post-apartheid, post-pop aesthetic.