Sentences with phrase «flagellation too»

The male - centric romantic comedy premise is standard stuff, as we've seen the jilted boyfriend go through bouts of self - flagellation too many times to count in the genre.

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And Haneke, as ever, tucks his usual tricks in the margins: an uncanny dream sequence provides an excuse for his trademark shock - horror; a last - act gesture of violence dresses the nihilism of The Piano Teacher's self - flagellation up as something superficially humane; and, to quote Fernando F. Croce, his style is «so not - a-hair-out-of-place suffocating that even a lost pigeon's flapping wings [seem] too immaculately choreographed.»