Sentences with phrase «even pathos»

There's even some pathos to her situation as the film progresses.

Girls wrings humor, beauty, and even pathos out of those old Betamax - cassette effects.

Not exact matches

Even more vital to persuasion than Logos, says Aristotle, is Pathos, which includes the right - brain activities of emotions, images, stories, examples, empathy, humor, imagination, color, sounds, touch, and rapport, Price says.

The historical Dalit consciousness in depicts even greater and deeper pathos than is found in the Deuteronomic Creed.

But above all we find meaning speaking to us in the pathos of our human loving — and I have said pathos because I intend here combined joy and sadness, the awareness of another with whom we would unite our lives yet the equal awareness that the other, even when he also would unite his life with ours, remains «the other» whom we must reverence for himself.

If religion is true, its fruits are good fruits, even though in this world they should prove uniformly ill adapted and full of naught but pathos.

Liturgy, after all, celebrates the heart of human life, and even the young quickly learn that this heart is a strange mixture of suffering and struggle, accomplishment and joy, bondage and liberation, beauty and pathos, meaning and emptiness.

Even before he / she thinks about pathos; even before he / she acts to remove or redress or overcome this pathos, pain - pathos is simply thEven before he / she thinks about pathos; even before he / she acts to remove or redress or overcome this pathos, pain - pathos is simply theven before he / she acts to remove or redress or overcome this pathos, pain - pathos is simply there.

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.

An adrenaline rush of action, insight, drama, pathos, brutality, humility, humanity and even the occasional whisper of mischievous comedy.

(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.)

As Wiseau, Franco expertly mimics the wannabe filmmaker's many tics and unplaceable accent — Wiseau has never divulged his age, background or anything other than his name, which might not even be Tommy Wiseau — but also imbues him with a genuine sense of pathos.

The Queer Eye reboot finds perhaps even more pathos than the original one.

The humour, the pathos, the tension - even the blooming soundtrack - all conspire to ensure that the tale of a teenager traveling back 30 years to ensure his parents meet and ultimately mate can, given its vintage, now be fairly described as a classic.

For my part, I missed the sense of real pathos the trio managed in Shaun of the Dead — even the new film's father / son dynamic seems played more for the gag Point Break connection than for any real emotion.

was surprised just how good this film is.The humour and pathos of this film is quite moving.There is no - one remotely attractive in the cast, it is full of strange looking redneck Americans living in semi wilderness.Everyone is poverty stricken.The sadness of old age is there, as is the regrets of past memories, and the desperation of the son to heal the wounds of his father's past life.The acting is brilliant even with the bit part actors with the sunburnt aged faces.The fathers grumpy reticence is counters by his truculent wife, who never has a good word for anybody with her vicious put downs, which is at times laugh out loud funny.A funny sad and moving film about the sheer desperate meanderings of life and old age.

It is brilliant typecasting and the play sparkles with wit and verve and even a little pathos for the do - gooder Kyra, who misses the good life of her former lover - employer Tom, since she's now living in a freezing flat and can't even afford to buy edible cheese on her school - teacher - to - the - poor salary.

Even the film's petty villains — a pair of fellow female students narcissistically absorbed in their own beauty in a failed effort to age up that tired high school trope — are mean simply for the sake of being mean, not driven by any pathos or motivation beyond Deanna being... older, I guess?

What is more, once Vera has been arrested, her mute victimhood borders on catatonia — and even if this is supposed to reflect the powerlessness of women, or of the «lower orders», before the legal apparatuses of the Establishment, it makes the film's second half seem to drag, carried as it is purely by pathos without the accompanying support of drama.

Yet the clownish Riggs is not without pathos, unable to control his own worst impulses even when they threaten his relationships with his wife and son.

Baumbach clearly cares about his flummoxed protagonists, and uses them as cyphers for his own angst about middle age, often in genuine, self - deprecating fashion, giving the humor a real sense of pathos even during the most light - hearted gags.

by Walter Chaw Four years separate Satoshi Kon's astonishing Perfect Blue and his astonishing Millennium Actress; it seems that what the intervening period brought to Kon's palette is a strong sense of visual humour and an affecting pathos to cut the existential dread of his identity crises — the year or two distancing Tokyo Godfathers from Millennium Actress further refining Kon as a humorist even as it blunted his razor's edge.

There are surprises along the way and while there is little respite from the action, there is plenty of engaging banter between the protagonists and even genuine pathos as the heroes journey into ever more challenging situations.

The second (and sadly final) season of Starz's Party Down fit that description even more fully than its first, throwing the failed Hollywood dreams of the waiters and bartenders at the Party Down Catering Company into even starker relief via a blend of pathos and cringe - inducing comedy.

With a film this winning in its mixture of humor, marshmallow - roasting nostalgia, and pathos, it's hard to quibble, even when a «water - gun fight» gets thrown in to take the place of the obligatory food fight.

Utilizing his weirdo inflections from Peggy Sue Got Married, Cage manages to channel his familiar space - case into an unlikely outlet and pump it with quiet desperation — dare I say pathos — without even the smallest hint of the self - parody that's plagued him of late.

Loads of priceless gags are mined from Tim and Daisy's marriage pretense and Marsha's failure to recognize it as a sham, and by the end of the series there's even some bittersweet pathos in regard to the situation.

«If you think, why did God create the world, how does he love the world, what in the world, if you imagine him through the lens of Christ, what in the world breaks his heart, it seems to me it's the irreducible beauty and pathos of human beings and their capacity for love and their capacity for loyalty and all the rest that is simply beautiful, even though in many forms it is in error, it is possibly destructive, and so on....

A few things in our world transcend national boundaries or even language: laughter, music, pathos — and, apparently, Deal or No Deal.

When you first boot up MLB: The Show 18, you are treated to a montage of athletes, old and young, that, presumably, seeks to evoke a mixture of nostalgia, passion, and culture; It's a good use of pathos that even manages to rekindle this cynical nerd's former love of the game and appreciation for an athlete's journey.

But if these two struggle to deliver Ethos and Pathos, they fall down even harder when it comes to bringing the Logos.

It may even gain a little added pathos along the way.

Kerlidou writes: «Bonnefoi's strategies seem to condense a few aspects of the work of his American contemporaries: the objectification and theatricalization of a gesture devoid of pathos of David Reed; the deconstructing strategies of Jonathan Lasker — even if Lasker's use of exaggeratedly thick brushstrokes seems closer to Dunoyer; the collaged elements in Philip Taaffe's paintings; and the interplay between the front and back in the work of Craig Fisher.

You can't imagine him going in for the pompous transcendentalism of a Barnett Newman, the «sublime» posturings of a Clyfford Still, or even the dilute, wide - screen pathos of the Rothko Chapel.

Bonnefoi's strategies seem to condense a few aspects of the work of his American contemporaries: the objectification and theatricalization of a gesture devoid of pathos of David Reed; the deconstructing strategies of Jonathan Lasker — even if Lasker's use of exaggeratedly thick brushstrokes seems closer to Dunoyer; the collaged elements in Philip Taaffe's paintings; and the interplay between the front and back in the work of Craig Fisher.

And the pathos of the reduction or fragility of the self within a culture that becomes increasingly organized through industry, economy and the state intensifies the desire of the artist to create forms that will manifest his liberty in this striking way — a liberty that, in the best works, is associated with a sentiment of harmony, and the opposite stability, and even impersonality through the power of painting to universalize itself in the perfection of its form and to reach out into common life.