Sentences with phrase «enough pathos»

The Rabbit Factory is a big, fun read leavened with just enough pathos to balance the humor.

In recent years Harrelson has made a habit of making unpleasant characters charming, and he gives Wilson enough charm to sell his rambling speeches as funny (to us) rather than annoying, and enough pathos so that his sorrows are soulful instead of saccharine.

Matthias Schoenaerts has not been unduly stretched since his previous detached lead role in Alan Rickman's recent costume drama, A Little Chaos, and again appears reluctant to navigate his character beyond specific emotional boundaries, but does inject just enough pathos into Gabriel Oak to consider him a plausible suitor for the headstrong but fragile Bathsheba.

As if real life doesn't have enough pathos, you have to put up with this?

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And if it is 1960 and the kids watched the movie, «The Five Pennies» enough times, they can even lie very well with amazing detail and pathos about polio.

(James Rogers, who directed American Pie 2, had a hard enough time maintaining the Weitz's canny mix of teen pathos and sex farce in 2001, and Dylan rarely even manages that.)

It's a good character for Dangerfield, one that veers him away from the «I don't get no respect» pathos that comes too easily to him, and enough attention is paid to the minimal plot to integrate Dangerfield's classically constructed one - liners into something like a dramatic situation.

Willis and Norton also shine, mixing some pathos with pure hilarity, while Murray (who worked with Anderson in «The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou») and McDormant as feuding married lawyers are not on screen long enough to really make much of a difference, but are effective in their small roles.

: Variety and Indiewire both giving the film passing grades while the Tribeca jury claimed «it manages the near impossible task of breathing new life into a well - worn genre, balancing humor and pathos with an incredibly deft touch, and offering a unique perspective on the way we process loss,» we're curious enough to give this a shot.

All of that would have been good enough, fueled by Pegg's keen understanding of his character's pathos and the pinpoint accuracy with which he and Wright nail the experiences of forty - somethings bidding sad farewell to their youth.

There is considerable comedy and much pathos in the film, the comic turns finding him asking hotel manager Mary Sinclair (Annette Bening) for a dinner date so many times that the audience can not be blamed for joining with Mary in saying «Enough, already.»

«Noah» is a fantastical epic, with enough visual splendor to make Peter Jackson blush and enough guilt and pathos to still feel like a film from the same man who delivered the documentary The Wrestler starring Randy «The Ram» Robinson.

The first had its goofily quotable hard - boiled dialogue, but it wore thin early on; MP2's unrelenting bleakness gets funnier as the game goes on, with just enough genuine pathos to keep the pain meaningful and darkly hilarious.