Sentences with phrase «given pathos»

For the rest of us, though, give me the pathos of watching the deconstruction of a team in the first game of a doubleheader, with the announcers trying to put whatever spin on it they could.

Middle - age agrees with Hawke, giving him the pathos we've been discovering in his last few performances.

Not exact matches

gave him depth and pathos, which I wasn't really expecting.

Elsewhere he likens a pastor gesticulating vehemently over a mundane matter to a man proclaiming he would give his life for the fatherland and then adding, with full pathos, «Indeed I would do it for ten rix - dollars!»

But in Jeremiah 3, in a shocking reversal given in a pathos - filled poem, God's own voice indicates a readiness to violate that Torah teaching for the sake of restored marriage to Israel.

Cloying fancy gives way to gross - out comedy, twisted social commentary, affecting pathos, and weirdly sexualized romance in this lurid live - action version of the classic children's book.

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.

The film assembled one of the studio's finest voice casts, led by Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres, gave them a ton of great gags and memorable characters (the surfer dude turtle and the «One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest» homage in the dentist's office first among them), and then grounded it in with a deep bass line of thoroughly relatable pathos.

Surprisingly, the movie doesn't go the easy route; there's comedy and pathos, sure, yet also a nagging desperation, particularly adhering to Kline, a faultless actor given to curious choices.

His combination of pathos and hardened reality give another layer of complexity to this story of survival.

Gen Xers looking for a good time probably found themselves cheated at having been pigeonholed like this and watching the film's fun, ironic beginning give way to goopy pathos.

Walken is given the best part and infuses pathos into a character faced with a desperate dilemma.

Unfortunately, the grittiness and weary pathos ultimately gives way to a disappointingly pat finale, undermining everything that came before.

Tagar is howlingly funny from the first moment that we see her, an entirely complete comic creation, but what's truly impressive about the performance is how she gives it texture and nuance as it goes on: when she returns in the third segment, Daffi's gone through officer training and has a new - found responsibility, or at least the pressure to look responsible, and there's truth and pathos in the way it tests her friendship with Zohar.

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.

Segel plays characters like this a lot, but he gives this particular man - child character more pathos than usual.

The recent Oscar nominee is given the weakest of the three female roles but still manages to find both some comedy and pathos in the delivery.

: 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.

The writer - director continues to stick to his guns, giving us more understated humor, awkward pauses, pitch - perfect montage and pathos in another thoughtful story that revels in fractured characters.

Carell gives a career - defining performance filled with pathos, vulnerability and 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.

Pathos Interactive are asking players to help them test out the Bannermen multiplayer alpha by registering their interest on Discord and following instructions that will be given to download the multiplayer mode and try it out.

A mid-film moment where Sutter gives Aimee a flask of her own as a prom gift elicits both a feeling of naïve romance and pathos, making the film feel (both literally and figuratively) like a car crash waiting to happen.

He gives a solid reading with some truth pathos, something seldom seen in his other roles.

Deftly handling the demanding material and giving it a certain something more is the amazing cast; Cusack, Diaz, and Keener are not only funny, but they lend a real pathos to their characters that lends some genuine emotional involvement to the story.

Director George Tillman Jr. (NOTORIOUS) gives the pretty white people a sense of pathos that gels with the tacky romance by finding a balance that pinpoints the character moments and celebrates what Sparks fans want.

Anaya gives the brunt on the pathos of this film, never giving away too much no matter how over-the-top or exaggerated the story gets.

After reviewing ethos, pathos, and logos the following day in class, I give students a list of rhetorical techniques.

In this body of new work, which includes three groups of photographs and a large - scale film installation, Taylor - Wood continues to explore the themes of absence and mortality that gives her work such strength, pathos and resonance.

The wit is here, and so are the pathos and preoccupations, but giving it all three dimensions adds visceral depth.