Sentences with word «hipness»

And, too, the good fortune borne of hipness swings like a pendulum; 40 years on, kids whose parents were sick of the Cadillac name are the ones now sick of Mercedes, BMW, and Audi, because everybody's already bought one.

For the past two years, conventional wisdom was that J.C. Penney's (JCP) brief and disastrous flirtation with hipness under former Apple executive Ron Johnson had set it back irreversibly against rivals like Macy's (M).

Did I mention that Brett McCracken is an expert on hipness?

The disc opens with trailers for the military drama Annapolis, love triangle dramedy Shopgirl, and solid box office performer Flightplan plus an anti-pirated DVDs spot which aims for hipness but hits lameness squarely on the face instead.

There were people at Sundance, racing from one indie hipness to another, who found it too slow.

During an after - party for a concert given by a Depeche Mode knockoff, Doris's fuddy - duddy language and critically uncool neon uniform is condescendingly rebranded as a show of ironic hipness by the brain - clouded millennials in the room.

Pop culture hipness.

But he's become a brilliant wise guy, unlike his hero Richard Pryor, who can turn profanity into poetry and hipness into humanity.

Perversely eccentric and frequently inert, screenwriter Mitch Glazer's directorial debut, Passion Play, will benefit from some of the well - known names attached, but the near - painful hipness of the production will yield poisonous word of mouth.

All this retro - hipness mightily impresses Josh and Cornelia.

For instance, when Marina and Orlando slow - dance, their song is not something chosen to demonstrate the filmmaker's musical hipness, but the moist Alan Parsons Project hit «Time.»

(Bone Tomahawk's fanboy cult regards it with the same silly, ahistorical hipness as they do Tarantino's western debauch, The Hateful Eight.)

I suppose the original intent of Playing God was to be a neo-noir with a gloss of postmodern hipness, something hinted at by Eugene's coolly detached and «ironic,» if pointless, voiceover narration.

at King Kong and then putting on the ape - suit himself and expecting us all to love him, Allen in his physical performances seldom transcends the self - imposed and self - defining limitations of his prominent verbal hipness.

SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD could easily have been a shallow exercise in arch cinematic posturing, but intelligent choices, a keen sense of how to use the bombastic without being used by it, as well as Cera's turn at once again redefining hipness with his unassuming yet endearingly overwrought self - awareness, does more than make it work.

In its probing of the generation gap that defines hipness, Doris bears similarities to Noah Baumbach's smart 2015 comedy While We're Young, though its societal critiques are not as clever nor its story as compelling.

The Ghibli office is modest and spare in a manner not at all reminiscent of the tech industry's self - adoring hipness.

Woods, on the other hand, hails from the school of film that believes that shock value in and of itself equals hipness.

Visman says that she was inspired by Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) and Booklist describes Yellow as «like Ruth Rendell at her best, but with a mordant hipness.

But the story isn't as thin as it seems; Jang deftly illuminates the alienated tone of our times through the hero and his animal companion, balancing hipness and heartbreak.

In any other game, this sort of dad - hipness might doom it to condescension, but Splatoon's earnestness and absurdity takes it so far it almost comes back around to being cool again.

His realist portraits of friends and associates in the 1960s and 70s conveyed a certain hipness and attitude defined by cool authenticity and self - possessed style.

The Independent, a little younger than NADA, has matured the most while still maintaining an inscrutable hipness.

Neel sliced away the facade of hipness from her subject, depicting a man who is aging and who seems profoundly isolated.

In «LA POST-COOL» at the San Jose Museum of Art, guest curator Michael Duncan tries to turn this assertion into a critical wedge dividing a new strain of sensibility in Southern California art from a lineage of artistic hipness personified by people such as Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, John McCracken, Robert Irwin and James Hayward.

Komakino struck me as balancing precariously between formally interesting and — in the context of a show whose principal enterprise seemed to involve negotiating tensions between masculinity and bourgeois hipness — glibly fashionable, and I wondered

Indeed, Kalman and his clients, David Byrne, Anderson, Mizrahi, Demme, Sayles, Haring, and his collaborators, Sischy, Jenny Holzer and Willner, help define»80s - and»90s - style American hipness with its political and cultural content unbowdlerized.

Inured to all the buzz surrounding Young British Art, the Turner Prize, Tate Modern, etc., one could easily wonder whether Conceptualism itself was being retrofitted as yet another manifestation of British hipness.

Though Colorado and Washington are months ahead of Oregon in allowing people to purchase pot for «recreational» use, Portland as the epicenter of hippy grunge or grungy hipness put on a party to welcome weed.

Today kicked off Fashion Week in Berlin, meaning that this city that already oozes hipness is swarming with the well - heeled fashion crowd.

Many of its models have a modern hipness and can sit directly on the floor, atop a low console, or in a wall.

This charming new property blends West Coast cool with Austin hipness.

Once again, we can award points for hipness and tech savvy: Nearly 30 percent of you reanointed last year's winner, the flash drive (a.k.a. jump drive or thumb drive), a highly portable chunk of digital storage that leaves CDs in the dust.

Based on the Mercedes» GLC compact luxury crossover, the GLC coupe turns up the style and hipness factor while attempting to adhere to its core utility mission.

This lighthearted made - for - TV movie plays like a feature - length version of Michael Jackson's «Thriller» video without the red leather or the burdensome insistence on hipness.

Now give me that same bakery with beautiful design with hipness to spare and I might just never leave.

There's nothing wrong with looking more current and adding a bit of hipness to your style.

In addition to YouJoon, an inflight streaming system that passengers can access on their smartphones, laptops or tablets, Joon's hopes to signal it hipness with a visual identity that has at its core an electric blue color featured in crew uniforms and in the airline's livery.

In fact, businesses that clutter their offices with redundant, new technologies and loud wall art are only hurting their bottom lines, sacrificing work quality and resources for a skin - deep veneer of hipness.

With the strength and hipness of the missional church movement, I wonder «How far is too far?»

It doesn't know about the NBA's hipness; there hasn't been an NBA franchise in the city since 1968.

Now give me that same bakery with beautiful design with hipness to spare and I might just never leave.

The shoes gives a hipness to the outfit and the layering of the vest adds a bit more interest.

Do you agree with me or do you just prefer the hipness and comfort of capris and don't care about the silhouette or shortening effect?

I actually really love them — they bring a hipness to an outfit.

But LIKING a look does not inherently endue upon it the title of «flattering,» nor does «trendiness» or «hipness» necessarily equal true style.

Whatever your pleasure, worn with a bootie showing some leg, as I did or layered with bottoms or a little vest layered on top for some hipness, or with a tall boot in a contrasting color, this is a sassy, classy little number you can't go wrong with, wherever and however you choose to swing.