Sentences with word «dourness»

Gone is the suffocating dourness of Drive and Only God Forgives, replaced by actual legitimate and purposeful humor, with Refn 100 % in on the joke.

There's a critique that ought to be evident in all of the carnal opulence on display — a critique experienced somewhat through Rick's dizzying dourness as he masquerades unhappily through the scene — but the larger picture — that of a celebrity who's become engulfed in his own sickening self - importance — escapes Malick in the most significant, reproachable of ways.

While the key to the episode is a huge Griffin Muppet animated, in part, by Henson's son Brian, the humour of its spoiled prissiness is offset by a melancholy subplot involving a doomed ferryman played with convincing dourness by veteran character actor Robert Eddison.

Gone is the suffocating dourness of

The look of the film complements the pervasive dourness; cinematographer Rachel Morrison captures this purgatorial locale with the same kind of gray - green quotidian palette favored by Tim Orr in his collaborations with David Gordon Green.

Though while DC maintain a certain po - faced, dourness about their «dark» endeavours, Marvel productions are thriving off the opposite notion, revelling primarily in the art of pure entertainment — and the latest to have come from this prosperous universe, Captain America: Civil War, is no different.

While there was some very good work behind the camera (Affleck does seem to have a solid understanding of the fundamentals of shot construction), and some very good work in front of the camera (Blake Lively, for instance), Affleck as actor was unable to distinguish dourness from sincerity.

But it created a model of what an «important» superhero pic looks like, with which Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is hopelessly enamored, despite the fact it doesn't come close to pulling off the same tricks in trying to pass off dourness as intelligence.

A few more in Scotland where they have rather a reputation for grimness and dourness.

Elsewhere, the dourness multiplies.

In a perpetual game of oneupmanship, the Avengers and company trade barbs, creating plenty of opportunities to alleviate the dourness of tragedies.

However, dourness is not a desirable quality now, nor was it back then, when even serious films featured comedic elements.

Check your cynicism at the door as Hugh Jackman and cast are the perfect antidote to the dourness of 2017.

Set in Kentucky circa 1861, Treitz's feature - length debut follows a year in the life of two farmer brothers, shy Henry (Tim Morton, playing the part with a dourness that evokes a drowsier Buster Keaton) and dimwitted Francis (David Maloney), whose sleepy backwoods existence is disrupted when the former runs away to enlist in the Northern infantry.

As soon as it becomes apparent that we're supposed to laugh, Russell Crowe turns up the dourness as if to admonish our amusement.

«Iron Man 3» is joyous and inspired, vehemently rebuffing the dourness that had overtaken the genre.

Smith appears to verify Klein's interpretation in the show's two most variegated canvases — Must Be (red) and Seldom Have We Understood So Little (black)-- which respectively drive home the blitheness of certainty and the dourness of doubt.

Mitchell pushes its dourness further by darkening it with black, which erupts in smears across the surface.

The dourness and bitterness contained in so many comments here indicate to me people not energized to find solutions so much as people eager to score political points and feel superior.