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.
Gone is the suffocating
dourness of
Check your cynicism at the door as Hugh Jackman and cast are the perfect antidote to
the dourness of 2017.
In a perpetual game of oneupmanship, the Avengers and company trade barbs, creating plenty of opportunities to alleviate
the dourness of tragedies.
Not exact matches
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 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.
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.