Sentences with phrase «in mundanity»

Yet, unlike the series» heyday, Payback's arcade sensibilities aren't enough to save the game surrounding it from wallowing in mundanity.

These were regular folks called upon to be symbols for equality because their union was as mundane as anyone else's; the power of Loving is precisely in that mundanity.

If they name it «Beetlejuice 2» instead of «Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice» I will be disappointed in their mundanity.

Only The Brave sidesteps pretty much every convention of Real Life Tragedy filmmaking, avoiding cheesiness and subject - worship by grounding the story in the mundanity of life between infernos.

Are you unhappy because you feel trapped in mundanity?

Successfully absorbing yourself in the mundanities of everyday life may eventually lead to the deepest fulfillment.

Not exact matches

It is also, of course, what we have called the metaphorical method, taking the human in all its particularity and mundanity as one partner in associations to move beyond the human — but in such a way that that human is never left behind.

Obviously, one has to press on with the mundanity of daily existence but always with an awareness that if that news is unfavourable, then the time doing those routine things would have been infinitely better spent running up a spectacular bar tab in Tijuana and going out in style.

With the Albany legislative session ending in three weeks, Uber no longer expects the state to approve some sort of statewide regulatory system, one that would allow a driver to move seamlessly between jurisdictions, without having to consider those jurisdictions» distinct rules on everything from fingerprinting and wheelchair accessibility to the mundanities of reporting requirements.

It's the faithful companion in the corner of the room, always there to comfort us when needed and provide a distraction from the mundanities of life.

There's nothing wrong with history, in fact this film is a celebration of its nuances, of the occasional mundanity of big things, but we're too often left intellectually stirred but emotionally cold.

It may maintain an unsettling tendency to shift from mundanity to extremely mature subject matter in the same breath, but with two lovable performances from both Jones and Streep, «Hope Springs» narrowly pulls ahead of its own inconsistencies.

However, this is not the case and while the game is definitely played for laughs, these soon run out when mundanity sets in.

But in terms of realism, closely observed mundanity helps counter the idea that black lives in Trump - era America should be neatly categorized as either simply a case or a cause.

A large part of what makes this vampire mockumentary from Jermaine Clement and Taika Waititi so hilarious is the duo's ability to find humor in both over-the-top situations and small mundanities.

Steve Buscemi is largely wasted in an episode that deals more with a standard midlife crisis than any existential quandary; day - to - day mundanities were never Dick's strong suit, an idiosyncratic crafter of everyday conversations if ever there was one.

Director Terry Zwigoff's take on Daniel Clowes's book balances all the mundanity with quirky character run - ins and an awesome, all - over-the-map soundtrack.

From this source text, Drew Goddard (Buffy, Cabin in the Woods, Daredevil) fashioned one of the year's best screenplays, brilliantly balancing the day - to - day mundanity of Watney's solitary Martian existence, with the managerie of boffins dealing with the PR disaster back home, and the remainder of Watney's crew caught halfway between a red rock and a hard place.

But that same keen ability to get at the soul of his characters by watching them struggle with the mundanities and cruelties of daily life informs everything, and everyone, in Mr. Turner.

Last Flag Flying is a movie about grief in all its mundanity — an intimate, intentionally drab portrait of a man wrestling with the loss of his son.

What makes Midnight Special so authentically special is the way that, like Spielberg in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Nichols contrasts his story's cosmic dimension with gritty - realist mundanity — all those grim motel rooms, gas station forecourts and back roads, their drabness vividly captured in Adam Stone's widescreen photography.

Aided by Yorick Le Saux's stark but dreamlike cinematography and an enjoyable supporting turn from Chloe Grace Moretz, Clouds of Sils Maria is the sort of film that sneaks up on you, its quality unfolding in a stately manner within the perceived mundanity of its early movements.

The 2018 Toyota Prius c technology will help you leave behind the mundanity of sitting in traffic and start enjoying your drives a lot more.

Don't waste space on mundanities or the things that all books have in common.

I travelled to Bangkok first in 2003 to escape mundanity and bad weather in the UK.

The distinctive cutesy Animal Crossing aesthetic is suited perfectly to a mobile game, allowing you to pull out your phone and escape to another more adorable world during those brief periods of time when the dreary mundanity of life seeps in.

Barrada's work explores the different strategies of resistance we employ to deal with everything from the mundanities of everyday life to shifts in power and migration.

The 11 - minute Nature Morte (2008), wordless save for the call of the adhān some way off, again evokes the mundanity of conflict in its portrayal of two men working side by side at their respective tasks: the older making a bomb, the younger mending a jacket.

Perhaps I'm being petty, but having read many press releases like this one, for abstract work not too dissimilar in its «variety of approaches», often a bit of hardness, with a bit of contrived brushiness, masked off, contrasted with a thin pink line or some nice drips on the edges, you start to wonder to what extent the familiarity and mundanity in the writing and the work are inextricable from each other.

It's the exactitude (in routine and approach) and juxtaposition of the sublimity of the sky as infinite canopy, with the mundanity of his chosen discourse that makes this series compelling.

The objects and media works in the gallery exhibition — featuring «light circumferences» (frameless circular light boxes), light boxes, illuminated sculpture, prints, and video — evoke both the mundanity and allure of catastrophe.

Carol Bove, like Koons, introduces a bit of commercial mundanity in her Third White Sweater Painting (2016) by recasting the repetitive monochrome structure favored by Minimalist icons Agnes Martin and Robert Ryman, both of whom appear here, as the design of a cheap sweater.

Themes of macabre mundanity continue in David's Living Room Revisited, 2014, a black - and - scarlet muraled room designed by Kuitca inspired by a drawing David Lynch made for «The Air Is on Fire,» a retrospective of the auteur's paintings, drawings, and photographs organized at the Fondation Cartier in 2007.

Still, in retrospect the thing I appreciate most about boarding school wasn't so much a decent education (I wasn't much of a student, to be honest), or the day - to - day mundanity of Latin, Shakespeare, Rugby, «Jerusalem», fist fights, ink - stained hankies, cold showers and horrible food, but the horizons.

Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Eggleston photographs everyday mundanity with a cinematic eye, producing deeply human images.

The exhibition focuses on the mundanity of Chardin's paintings, his honest and deliberate focus on every day objects, and is sparingly filled with modest artworks by those keenly interested in the inverse proportions between captivation and pageantry — those that know and share the intense integrity of the common and remind us of the potent unknown.

Wolfgang Tillman's iconic image of a Concorde plane hurtling skywards with all the promise of human advancement, technology and power - contrasted with the mundanity of some sad looking, grim nondescript building in the foreground, is the perfect example of his genius.

The daily mundanity of Los Angeles (or any other city) can not be appreciated while riding in a car.

In characteristic revelatory fashion, Kuchar's Hi - 8 films document the mundanity and anticipation of his yearly trips to the El Reno motel in «tornado - alley» OklahomIn characteristic revelatory fashion, Kuchar's Hi - 8 films document the mundanity and anticipation of his yearly trips to the El Reno motel in «tornado - alley» Oklahomin «tornado - alley» Oklahoma.

Even if self - help materials are available a person may fail to take action due to anxiety (leading to paralysis), a feeling of being overwhelmed («overtaxed bandwidth») or an unfamiliarity with «legal mundanity» (what we insiders know instinctively but are foreign and intimidating to outsiders, such as when to stand up and when to sit in a courtroom).