Sentences with word «grandiloquence»

But then, that kind of grandiloquence is usually a way for filmmakers to spray a shiny coat of metal over the same old lie: You're gonna be held in high regard again.

Which makes perfect sense, since the film trades intellectualism for grandiloquence in its sets and neat - for - the - time special effects.

Squirming between wet - cat disdain and an unshakable grandiloquence, Cate Blanchett's performance instantly vaults her into the company of the great film neurotics.

This would seem a small thing, the elision of four words, except that Howard's eloquence (some would say grandiloquence) is lost in that simplification.

Day - Lewis» Lincoln also tends to grandiloquence even in private speech; when he utters the line «time is the great thickener of all things,» Secretary of State George Seward (David Strathairn) first nods in agreement, then quips, «Actually, I have no idea what you meant by that.»

Some of them, including Haneke and Denis, are shown visiting Bergman's house — a secluded humble dwelling in the woods; Alejandro González Iñárritu, with his habitual grandiloquence, proclaims the place a Mecca and a Vatican simultaneously.

The flipside of that coin, though, are the times when the ponderous pacing and over-the-top grandiloquence of the film actually work really well.

Like almost everything about the Academy Awards, it rewards tragedy rather than comedy, and grandiloquence rather than subtlety, so there is something operatic in lining up a five - part fantasy league of the best actress winners.

Sally Hawkins, «The Shape of Water» Considering the heightened reality of Guillermo del Toro's latest film universe, a lesser actor might have opted for a physical grandiloquence in playing a mute laboratory maintenance woman.

Her paintings convey a profound sense of history, recalling figures such as Mary Heilmann and stalwarts of Modernism, but they shy away from grandiloquence.

Tyson is one of those artists who can speak about his work with a sort of analytical grandiloquence, as if he's solving a theorem: «I am always trying to find some way in a solid and static artwork to show something dynamic.»

It's true that Rothko and Newman have accustomed us to the fact that a very simple form on a large field can be as dramatic and eventful as any baroque grandiloquence, but extreme simplicity can have its own rhetorical hollowness, and it's this inflation of less into less that Hoyland neatly avoids.

In a 1990 review of the Frankenthaler survey at LACMA, Times critic Christopher Knight wrote that Frankenthaler's later works devolved into «decorative grandiloquence.»

On a recent morning at the Metropolitan Detention Center, sitting in a plastic chair in an airless, glassed - in booth in what resembled a large hospital waiting room — minus the televisions, the pastel watercolor paintings, the magazines and the windows — Mr. Espada seemed shorn of the grandiloquence that those in Albany had come to know so well over the two decades of his singularly unruly political career.

By casting everyday objects in bronze the artist demonstrated his insistence that his work must engage with something real and recognisable — «free of tricks or grandiloquence, a direct art».