Sentences with phrase «from seamy»

The world she creates is populated by colorful eccentrics from the seamy side of life.

Hockney had also come to California from a seamy but swinging scene in London, while Hurson was from the Midwest, native to the unfulfilled promises and turmoil of America in the 1960s.

Today's easy access to pornography is a far cry from seamy video stores on the outskirts of town of yesteryear.

He also distances himself from the seamy old view that just because something is «natural» it must be OK.

It's hard to find examples of groups who are consistent in taking a detached view of their own past (human beings are not known for being consistent), but I would say that many countries look at their own pasts without flinching from the seamier side.

Nelson's installations are fictions made real: an abandoned room clawed to shreds by some frantic being; a sinister, backwoods trapper's camp relocated to the gallery; a maze of interconnecting waiting rooms, go - downs and cab - shacks from the seamier, sweatier corners of the world.

Not exact matches

The trial, expected to last four to six weeks, will have plenty of seamy detail about backroom dealings, court filings suggest — from jokes about wanting more «zitti» in alleged coded references to bribes taken from «The Sopranos,» to using clout to influence state agencies and routing more than $ 300,000 in alleged payoffs to Percoco through his wife.

This seamy picture of sea otter life has been built up from nine years of observations of the sea otters of Monterey Bay in California.

Just as the Julia Roberts fairy tale Pretty Woman morphed from something, in its script stage, dark and harrowing to, on the screen, something sweet and cheery, this could - have - been foray into either the seamier side of life or the less - than - squalid but more - than - ordinary steers clear of ever getting near the truly treacherous.

Based on the same novel that led to Elie Chouraqui's Man on Fire (1987, starring Scott Glenn as the burnout agent), Brian Helgeland's script takes a distinctly gringo view of this foreign land, where the fragile but courageous white girl is victimized by scary locals who range from the odious kidnappers (organized by someone known only as «The Voice» [Gustavo Sánchez Parra], aided by his weasely brother Aurelio [Gero Camilo]-RRB- to the corrupt cops, primarily, the visibly seamy Fuentes (Jesús Ochoa).

He travels from one seamy underground boxing venue to the next, scoring fights for his low - end bots that he's pieced together.

For the most part, the film looks true to its seamy quality, and at any rate, the unrated version looks vastly superior to the material that fills in the included director's cut, all of which was clearly gathered from inferior sources.

Thor Erikson (R.G. Armstrong, pumped into grotesque parody of his God - fearing roles as proponent of retributive justice in Peckinpah films), after sniffing a horse's portion of cocaine and raping the girl (Sally Field) who works for him in his seamy health spa, tries to exterminate Craig Blake (Jeff Bridges) with weightlifting bars and metal pikes that he tears from the bodybuilding machines in his gym.

The idea is, evidently, to mix characters who are vaguely memorable from the first movie with newer personalities, but in the seamy criminal world created by Miller, everyone talks the same, and after a short while the people fade into the background.

But there are real virtues to its comparative lack of polish: this story gains a seamy power from the rough edges, the exploratory style, even the slightly unstable editing.

From the antiseptic comforts of suburban Indianapolis to the city's seamy underworld, David Levien introduces a private investigator as complex, idiosyncratic, and sympathetic as any in modern crime fiction.

From exotic locales like the Greek islands to the seamy underbelly of New York City, these books have the right ingredients for an entertaining escape.

The exhibition Bitter Angel at Faurschou Foundation Beijing centres on a series of eight large paintings from 1999, which move within these contrasts between life and its seamier sides.

The show is heavy on costumes and memorabilia from Bowie's career, absent its seamier (and most creative) episodes, which is really too bad.