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Everything of course leads towards that speech, a stirring crescendo if ever there was one following ample helpings of tension and dry wit in Anthony McCarten's screenplay.

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Amazon Description:» «Fleabag» is a hilarious and poignant window into the mind of a dry - witted, sexual, angry, grief - riddled woman, as she hurls herself at modern living in London.

«There is nothing you don't know about what is going on in these counties if you live there,» says McGonigal, who's trim, mild - mannered, and occasionally reveals a dry wit.

In a passage not without its element of dry wit, he dissects the pathetic expedient to which Adam and Eve felt driven:

Really enjoy his dry wit that comes out in some of his interviews, one more year of that for everyone too.

«I think that was the first comment I made in the first round I played with Jordan: «I could be your dad,»» the 40 - year - old Swede with the dry wit added with a wry smile.

State Sen. John DeFrancisco, R - Syracuse, brandished his trademark dry wit, questioning why if Republican state Sen. Michael Ranzenhofer's Western New York district is the birthplace of Jell - O, yogurt was voted the state snack in 2014 — a reference to the infamous nearly hourlong debate over that simple distinction which became the butt of jokes on «The Daily Show.»

If there is anything that both Jarmusch and Murray are known for, it's their laid - back approach to comedy, utilizing self - ironies and an irreverent dry wit that makes you hang on their every word and inference, as their straight - faced approach requires diligent attention to find the point where they get that glint in their eyes that says, «We're just pulling your leg».

As the iconic run - down ghost we have Michael Keaton in one of his best roles (some would say it's The Founder but I beg to differ), For the dry - witted smart little girl we have the fabulous and a then a Burton regular Winona Ryder.

He left after a single season to pursue film opportunities, but did not really strike gold until Caddyshack (1980), in which he played a rich golf pro who oozed confidence and a dry sarcastic wit three steps ahead of anyone else.

The primary flaw in Get Over It stems from the uninspired script that supplants genuine insight and wit for ridiculous slapstick and some of toilet humor so raunchy that I almost dry - heaved from moments that included Berke's almost landing face first into a steaming pile of horse manure only to have the same horse urinate all over his face, and late a disgusting scene involving vomiting in a party punchbowl only to have others drink the putrid concoction in bewilderment as to it's unique chunky texture.

Captured in sharp black - and - white Cinemascope photography that complements its exquisite Tati - like sight gags, Aaltra undermines conventional attitudes toward the disabled with its dry wit and acerbic, vengeful characters.

Oh yes, there's also Hugh Grant getting in on the fun with his bemused dry wit.

Black Adder [4/1] Rowan Atkinson may be best known in the States as Mr. Bean (or other dumb - playing roles like Johnny English), but for my money, his absolute best series is Black Adder, where he plays a series of British noblemen (each season is set in a different century) with dry wit and an unfortunate lot of idiotic hangers - on.

But while Cronenberg's dry wit is on partial display here, the satirical tone feels off - key and the narrative is disappointingly disjointed but seemingly aware of it, as if it's playfully reveling in its lack of cinematic coherence.

The main problem with director Franz Oz's film was that it was all over the place in tone — veering between dry wit, scatological slapstick and sticky sentimentality — with dull sections that dragged in between.

For a while she moves in with Lev (Adam Driver) and Benji (Michael Zegen), dry - witted Brooklyn hipsters whose lives seem to consist mainly of wisecracks, beer and hookups.

Dry, droll wit mixed in with the occasional absurdist non sequitur is the ruler of the day.

This is a film whose warm sympathy for its central characters doesn't preclude frequent touches of dry wit, in dialogue and direction, says Kermode.

And in his eighth consecutive Anderson movie, the filmmaker's ideal delivery system for dry quips, Bill Murray, provides crucial wit as Boss.

Isle of Dogs is an oronym, a phrase sounding like another, in this case «I love dogs,» which writer - director Wes Anderson obviously does.Anderson's second foray into stop - motion animation applies his signature dry wit to wet noses, a...

Freeman brings his sage wisdom and gravitas, Caine is the suave gangster with dry British wit, and Arkin (who oddly starred in the similarly themed Stand Up Guys a few years back with Al Pacino and Christopher Walken) is the boisterous wild card who gets all of the biggest laughs.

Andrew Niccol's dry wit is on display to perfection in LORD OF WAR, which he both wrote and directed.

What Maguire lacks in humility he makes up for in dry wit («This is Times Square... Burbank»), and for all his movie - star petulance (sustained grudges about the day they made a cast of his torso and the unreliability of the Spidey costume's zipper), he redeems himself in such pithy summaries of his good fortune as his closing statement: «It's cool to play Spider - Man.»

The original series (which will run on BBC America, beginning Oct. 8) required all of six episodes; if all goes as it is supposed to in American broadcast TV, its domestic counterpart will need to spin its not - a-relationship relationship over 22 episodes a year, and even reckoning his compensatory dry wit, Azaria's character's teary neediness is wearing even after half an hour.

There is a satisfying amount of Benedict Cumberbatch's Dr. Strange, so, for those unsure about the character's place in the universe, will be won over by the actor's dry wit and the character's abilities by the end of the film.

Some of the «bits» in the film are full - on farcical, and some have a wintry dry wit.

Her dry wit is an essential grounding element in a film that could otherwise be far too flighty to take seriously.

As fate would have it, neither Gregory Hoblit nor Lakeshore had seen enough of Burke's dry wit and unshakable persona, so when it came time to find a match for Diane Lane in Untraceable (2008), he got the call to play the rock solid «Detective Eric Box».

Bonnie Hunt is good and delivers her lines with her trademark dry wit, but why do her t - shirts seem to get tighter in every scene?.

Peter Lord and Nick Park of Aardman Studios bring their trademark dry British wit and stunningly realistic models to life again, in a tribute to those old prison break movies (for instance, the 17 on the coop refers to Stalag 17).

On paper this sounds theoretical — more The American Scholar than «Tell all the truth and tell it slant» — but Davies is constitutionally incapable of making something so dry, and in addition to his trademark romanticism, A Quiet Passion also possess more wit than any other movie this year, save perhaps for Love and Friendship.

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.

,, and truly laugh out loud (most often at the rapier - like, dry wit which the major displays in the face of his son's absurdities - or the equally insightful comments of Mrs. Ali as she so gracefully negotiates bias and ignorance, not only from British villagers, but from her own family).

And about the highly efficient microbes that can turn a nice plateful of pasta into fat... Dunn's wry wit and his ability to relate potentially dry, if not downright boring scientific material in entertaining, non-clinical language makes me wish I could audit a few of his classes.

A novel of great humanity, written with dry wit, edgy humor, and emotional poignancy, Irma Voth is the powerful story of a young woman's quest to discover all that she may become in the unexpectedly rich and confounding world that lies beyond the stifling, observant community she knows.

We adopted a rescue in jaruary and have tried so many foods Iams, Blue Buffalo, every product we could find and she just turned her nose up and walked away but would eat treats and table scraps but no dog food wet or dry until we tried Freshpet beef and bison we mix it into her dry food and she gobbles it up THANK YOU FRESHPET as we were at our wits end.

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The announcer has a nice dry - wit timbre to his voice along with some catchy one - liners in store to berate you and your shoddy driving.

GLaDOS» dry wit, officially voiced by Ellen McLain, remind you of the humor you find in her original title.

This incident demonstrates Avery's dry, Yankee wit and at the same time is a reflection of his attitude about representing nature in his paintings.

In conversation, he can be incredibly charming, with dry wit, and deft comic timing.»

Since the beginning of their collaborative practice in the late 1970 ′ s, Swiss art duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss have engaged in dry wit, humor, and the absurd through their transformation of everyday objects in film, sculpture, installation and photography.

She fuses complicated subject matter such as stereotyping, violence, racism, gender roles, and the prejudice that we all confront at some point in our lives with dry wit and humor.

In Drink Canada Dry, the artist presents a cultural cliché — the lecherous boss and his dim - witted secretary — within a monumentally - scaled canvas.

In the painting's caption, the dim - witted protagonist is the butt of the joke, having misinterpreted an advertisement for the soft - drink «Canada Dry.»

In this joint retrospective, Farocki is the doyen of reticulated montage and cracker of documentary codes, while Graham is the deadpan jack of many trades, whose dry wit pricks the profligate beauty of his installations.

Siebren Versteeg combines a sort of dry wit and technologically infused conceptualism in his approach to abstract painting.

The word Droog, means «dry» in Dutch and refers to a certain brand of dry wit that is a guidepost for the design aesthetic.

The decision by Justice O'Donnell in R. v. Duncan (on SLAW here) has gained some notoriety in the legal community -LRB-(Katie Daubs, «Legal Decision with literary flourish and dry wit making the round...», Toronto Star, March 29, 2013) and was the subject of a SLAW post by Simon Fodden (The Judge's Tale, April 2, 2013).