Sentences with phrase «faced irreverence»

This defiance of expectations, done with bold - faced irreverence, allows Lucy to work on its own terms.

A darkly comedic attack on the cozy pieties present in most teen flicks, Heathers — an even more wickedly canted take - down of adolescent social cliques than its most recent descendant, Mean Girls — assayed popularity, teen suicide and downright sociopathic behavior with equal, cold - water - to - the - face irreverence.

Not exact matches

He was keenly aware that he had become the public face of science, a role he treated with seriously playful irreverence.

For starters, congrats on retaining your self - effacing humbleness (and refreshing irreverence) in the face of such life - altering success.

In a characteristic act of irreverence, the artists have transposed their own faces onto these two primordial bodies, casting their likenesses in the image of our primitive ancestors, and provocatively positioning themselves at the dawn of creation.