Sentences with phrase «humdrum scenes»

A similar mood of playful melancholy permeates a painting of a couple on a sofa in a grey - tinted interior, whose bulbous heads and noses sharpen both the humour and poignancy of the humdrum scene.

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But beware, this film starts really slowly, and in the first 15 minutes you wonder whether this was a good choice of movie - but the scene is being set for Wilf Ferrell's geeky / seemingly humdrum life.

Ripping off scenes entire from sources as varied though familiar as Scream, Pet Sematary, and Tenebre, The Pool is teeth - setting in its humdrum prudishness and narrative predictability.

Most of the extras on Fox's DVD of the Fat Albert film are fairly standard issue for wide studio releases: supplements include humdrum commentary by Zwick and producer John Davis, two very brief «extended scenes,» and the theatrical trailer.

Arranged in domestic scenes stocked with old toys, towels, and clotheslines, her uncanny characters transmute the humdrum tasks of caretaking into mysterious rituals.

In a New York art scene dominated by Abstract Expressionism, with its emphasis on ineffable, sublime themes and maximum emotion, to depict something as humdrum as a flag was a radical gesture.

Still, one is never quite sure where to stand or, more precisely, where one stands in an encounter with Murphy's close - cropped, meticulously realist, bigger - than - life renderings of humdrum things and scenes.