Sentences with phrase «dry humour»

In an essay this might be enjoyed as dry humour.

It approaches the traps with dry humour, an emotion much to be preferred to the alternatives when your model asserts, with that blank confidence which only computers can muster, that it and you were consumed in a gigantic solar flare last Tuesday lunchtime.

Disappointingly, Yorgos Lanthimos» latest isn't nearly as densely packed with ideas as The Lobster or Dogtooth were — but the bone dry humour of the film comes close to making up for that.

The film is a fleet - footed, ultra ornate mittel - European caper with all retro fittings in place and bursts of cartoonish macabre filling in where the Martini dry humour once was.

Although even a tiny flicker of knowing dry humour would have made it a lot more entertaining.After his...

Filmmaker Stephen La Riviere goes out of his way to fill this documentary with the cheeky dry humour of the people who changed television and movies with groundbreaking puppet series like Thunderbirds.

I didn't expect a lot from gunn but I did expect him to deliver his classic dry humour and visually appealing films.

In war - torn Baghdad, the American bomb disposal team uses dry humour to cope with their job.

Peter Sarsgaard's character, a burn - out ex-Marine drafted in to assist with the pyrotechnics, adds some very dry humour to the brew, particularity in his verbal clashes with the ultra-meticulous Josh.

This quote contains your typical dry humour that you would expect in a quote from Buffett.

A clever micro-stealth puzzle game with some neat aesthetics and a line in dry humour, Serial Cleaner unfortunately never seems to find a tone it's 100 % comfortable with and has a tendency to get boring quickly.

The Stanley Parable is known for its secret endings, out - of - the - box thinking, and general dry humour.

This is sparred with in a tit - for - tat discourse by the satirical and dry humour drawn upon in hedonistic subcultures that colourfully populate dystopian tableaus of London in Lewis epic» paintings.

Yet Hausner's films are permeated with bone dry humour and a sense of the absurd.

Joel and Ethan Coen's latest is bursting with dry humour.

Although it's sounds depressing, Lonergan fills it with a lot of dry humour and the entire cast are excellent; Kyle Chandler only features in flashbacks but he brings a really strong paternal presence and, despite appearing high in the film credits, Michelle Williams actually features very little.

Try rubbing some Vaseline onto your dry humour!?

Not only is he very active, but his dry humour and sarcastic wit often make for very entertaining reading.

Her dry humour marked the speeches she drafted.

Dating in Yorkshire is a unique experience, thanks to the hardy mindset, dry humour, and the cheerful hospitality of the UK's largest county.

With its story built out of substantial but discrete blocks, many of them notable for their bone - dry humour, it sometimes calls to mind the dark comedies of Östlund's fellow Swede Roy Andersson, albeit with a less surreally heightened visual style.

Including all those dull moments that are left off - screen in other cop movies, this dry, slow - paced Romanian drama portrays the tedium of an investigation with remarkable realism, dry humour and a quietly political kick.Cristi (Bucur)...

Isle of Dogs may be ruff around the edges, but it's an exquisitely rendered animation overloaded with visual gags and dry humour.

Her section of the film is closely aligned with DA Pennebaker's 1967 documentary Don't Look Back, as Jude teases the British press (personified by BBC reporter Bruce Greenwood) with a series of non-sequiturs and riddles; and Blanchett comes closer than anyone to really capturing the spirit of the man, with the dry humour and cocksure swagger of her performance being brilliantly observed.

THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE Aki Kaurismaki's typical grimness and dry humour is all over The Other Side Of Hope, but it's sprinkled liberally with some actual humanity and even... OK, I'll say it... hope.

To add to the dry humour is the understated acting.

Despite the fact Andersson uses mostly unknown actors, they do a good job of underacting, which successfully combines with the dry humour to make quite a funny film, even if as a story it makes no sense.

Mirroring the decaying Detroit with the crumbling Tangiers, it's a masterpiece of darkly stoned atmosphere and bone dry humour, set against a mesmerising and eclectic drone soundtrack.

In the film, Prof. Hawking's struggle with his disability was chronicled, as well as his dry humour and staunch attitude not to let the disease prevent him from working.

If you didn't keep up with the mission objectives, you could expect Kevan to lay down the law immediately with his special brand of dry humour.

This exacerbates the dodgy playing, but the spontaneous nature of it adds to the dry humour that runs through many of my videos.

There's a comedic style here that you can see obviously inspired modern adult cartoon comedy, full of sardonic wit and dry humour.

She's an inspirational hero — curious yet conscientious, passionate yet thoughtful, and her interactions with Sylens reveal a dry humour and capacity for pithy asides.

After I've been bored by a series of ho hum stories and cloned games, trust Mad Head to give us an original storyline spiced with the hint of horror at every turn, dry humour and interesting puzzles.

In a work by Maximilian Kirmse (b1986, Berlin), a plastic portable toilet from a building site by the artist's studio is elevated to a pointillist style, exemplifying the kind of dry humour that underscores the whole display.

Elsewhere paintings are linked by other formal elements, a view of a mutely coloured estate with a post box in the centre of the frame, followed by the back of a spiked metal fence with a red phone box in the centre of the frame (this image has the title Time Machine, Shaw is happy to share his dry humour now and again).

Storytelling, pantomime and dry humour are interwoven with abstraction, conceptual art and contemporary, experimental performance producing an absurd, esoteric and multi-layered vocabulary of forms that teases the audience and plays with conventional rules of theatre and different art forms.