Sentences with phrase «humdrum human»

Beneath the swirling chaos of Harare's markets, his work evokes humdrum human interactions.

Recommendation: Though it starts sluggish and takes its time to evolve from humdrum human drama into full - fledged, in - your - face bloody action, the back nine of this film is absolutely worth the wait.

We tune in to be reminded of what CSI, House, and the rest will never remind us: how easily and thoroughly any humdrum human existence can be transformed if you wrest your attention from the tawdry Technicolor scenery of life and train it instead upon the murk and gloom and the shadows that surround us.

Not exact matches

As many a TV situation comedy has demonstrated, human finitude can be very funny, and Auden heightens the humor by suggesting that the humdrum is caught up in salvation history.

A documentary about trans women in Puerto Rico, Mala Mala offers viewers both the glitz and the humdrum from a variety of colorful yet human characters, from Ivana Fred, a politically - minded woman who spends her evenings passing out condoms to sex workers, to Sandy Rivera, a sex worker with a loving cisgender boyfriend.

Johnson stars as the human astronaut, and he seems to be having a good time, but this harmless, humdrum animated comedy never demonstrates any imagination beyond its premise, and there's nary a laugh to be found.

Buscemi's sourpuss «full - on human rat mode,» as Variety put it recently, ratchets down mythic - sized characters to everyday guys working their humdrum psychopathic cons in plain sight.

It both parodies the human tendency to seek out conspiracies as an explanation for all that is off about the world and gives us a monkey - paw - like wish look at how distressing it would be for one to actually have their normal, humdrum life upended completely.

With a subtle sensibility and a strict economy of means that occasionally explodes into an obsessively rendered panoply of forms, the American artist Sarah Sze incorporates objects and materials into pseudo-taxonomic site - specific installations that point to the human impulse towards categorization even as they elude any easy placement within the humdrum categories of contemporary art.

The modern social sciences — sociology, psychology, political science, economics, history and, we may add, philosophy — rest on the assumption that the grand and the humdrum events of human life take place against a backdrop of an inert nature.