Sentences with phrase «in ribald»

Her series, Before and After Frankenstein: The Woman Who Knew Too Much, reworks our assumptions of relationships and myths in ribald and collaged imagery.

What's lost is the flair, that hint of an ultimate concern that renders Chaucer, for example, all the merrier in his ribald tales, with a merriment that the secular scholar can not share.

Not exact matches

This is a yell in itself and even the quietest of women has been known to complete the most ribald of feedback.

The jokes, in places offensive, are relentless and ribald.

However, does anyone really want sticky sentimentality, authentic or not, in the middle of their ribald comedy?

In terms of Avery's career, it's sweeter and not quite as pomo as his later work — but it's still leagues more ribald than anything that was then coming out of Disney.

A ribald but bumpy road - trip comedy that wants to be more than just a slapstick retread of «National Lampoon's Vacation» (which already got a retread last year in theaters).

There is a potentially ribald scene in which the duo try to bond with their 21 - year - old teammates by taking them to a strip club (one in which no clothing is taken off, and, oddly, one in which z recurring Flashdance gag neglects to capitalize on), which leads to some fairly tepid gags such as one of them (Brener, «Glory Daze») trying to pick up a stripper who is also one of the dance instructors (Szohr, Piranha) at Google, and another involving one of the young men (Raphael) continuing to dry the ejaculation in his pants under a bathroom hand dryer before going out for more lap dances.

Smith is also a more seasoned director and editor, and even manages to put in a few poignant moments of drama within the framework of this otherwise ribald comedy.

It's a bit like the 40 - Year - Old Virgin with the characters more in the realm of plausibility and less of the ribald humor.

On the television side, which spanned 10 awards, «Justified» was a surprise winner for Best TV Drama Series, while the deliciously ribald «It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,» now entering its seventh season, was named Best TV Comedy Series, knocking off last year's winner, «The Big C.» Kate Winslet («Mildred Pierce») and Jason Isaacs (PBS» «Case Histories») were awarded Best Actress and Best Actor prizes in the Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television categories, while Vanessa Williams («Desperate Housewives») and Ryan Hurst («Sons of Anarchy») won supporting performance trophies, which span both TV movie and serial work.

The choice makes sense in theory — combining the dark thriller tones that made The Hangover a phenomenal success with the ribald stylings of Schumer and the empowerment fantasies which have made previous Feig films as popular as they are.

The comedian provocateur behind Borat, Ali G, and Bruno, is back in glorious ribald form.

Last Time We Left 007...: Bond (Pierce Brosnan) was in bed with improbable nuclear physicist Christmas Jones (the awful Denise Richards) and uttered a particularly ribald one - liner, which, along with a killer opening and a deliciously villainous turn by Sophie Marceau, was one of the very few memorable aspects of 1999's otherwise messy and disappointing The World Is Not Enough.

The 1980 Borg — McEnroe marathon — one set was decided by an 18 — 16 tiebreaker — previously supplied inspiration for a ribald spoof, 7 Days in Hell, a very funny 2015 HBO special, starring Andy Samberg, that via comic hyperbole had more to say about the era than this film does, with its timid peek inside Studio 54 and its inconclusive scene about Borg and his bride being urged to sell access to their wedding to the tabloids.

He shows he is definitely no Mel Brooks when it comes to ribald satires, as his attempt to stage the comedy is as futile as his previous effort, The Pineapple Express (which featured both Franco as and McBride in a supporting role), and the result appears ugly, with bright textures, phony - looking backdrops, and wounds that look every bit of the CG quality they are.

The upshot of this loopy masquerade is more predictable than it is progressive, but considerably pleasurable thanks to Morris's generous supply of pithy one - liners and the resourceful, ribald skills of Bell, as engaging and elastic a comic everywoman here as she was in her impressive directorial debut «In a World...» (Her styling, meanwhile, calls to mind Sally Hawkins, who could well have put a sweeter spin on the same rolein her impressive directorial debut «In a World...» (Her styling, meanwhile, calls to mind Sally Hawkins, who could well have put a sweeter spin on the same roleIn a World...» (Her styling, meanwhile, calls to mind Sally Hawkins, who could well have put a sweeter spin on the same role.)

Hall Pass reminds me of their past efforts: able to get a big laugh here, misfiring there, unsettling with some ribald and gross gags, and doing a decent job to ground the piece in thoughtful humanity.

It is narrated in proper English lit style by Fiona Shaw (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I), giving the feeling of one of those olden literary adaptations, promising happily - ever - after romance, ribald pith, and fairy - tale whimsy.

Sometimes Ritchie makes his simplistic points simplistically: past - it Barbie doll Feldon pushes her lonely, tendresse - starved husband away and we're left looking at the blue - green - lit TV dinners in her freezer (the word «frigid» is mercifully delayed till their next interview); Michael Kidd, as a gruffly sentimental directorial superstar engaged by the local Jaycees to stage the spectacular, watches the Antelope Valley girl turn an onstage fumble into a sympathy - inducing bonus and murmurs, «They learn fast» (a mere reaction - shot cut to him at this point would have verged on the excessive; the line kills any validity the moment might have had); a drummer (screenwriter Jerry Belson, no less) watches one contestant segue into a striptease whose impiications are hilariously ambivalent in the context of so much plastic puffery, then exchanges glances with the orchestra leader and gives his drumstick a ribald stroke.

Pitch black humor combusts like fireworks in this refreshing, ribald, raucous tale.

Basically, the script just wings it in the hope of some ribald and raunchy humor within the sheltered existence of a school for youth.

The rivalry between Reese Witherspoon's Madeline and Laura Dern's Renata in the first season of Big Little Lies can only be described as epic, resulting in rival birthday - party and ice - skating events and public debates over ribald puppetry.

It came boring out of the east like some ribald satellite of the coming sun howling and bellowing in the distance and the long light of the headlamp running through the tangled mesquite brakes and creating out of the night the endless fenceline down the dead straight right of way and sucking it back again wire and post mile on mile into the darkness after where the boilersmoke disbanded slowly along the faint new horizon and the sound came lagging and he stood still holding his hat in his hands in the passing ground - shudder watching it till it was gone.

In this uproariously funny debut, West, GQ writer and fat - acceptance activist, blends memoir, social commentary, and ribald comedy in a biting manifestIn this uproariously funny debut, West, GQ writer and fat - acceptance activist, blends memoir, social commentary, and ribald comedy in a biting manifestin a biting manifesto.

- Publishers Weekly «A mysterious collection of papers hidden in a historic London home sends two scholars of Jewish history on an unforgettable quest... Kadish's characters are memorable, and we're treated to a host of them: pious rabbis and ribald actors, socialites and troubled young men, Mossad agents and rule - worshipping archivists.

It came boring out of the east like some ribald satellite of the coming sun howling and bellowing in the distance and the long light of the headlamp running through the tangled mesquite brakes and creating out of the night the endless fenceline down the dead straight right of way and sucking it back again wire and post mile on mile into the darkness after where the boilersmoke disbanded slowly along the faint new horizon and the sound came lagging and he stood still holding his hat in his hands in the passing groundshudder watching it till it was gone.

A beguiling new novel, at once wistful and ribald, about a day in the life of two Indian men in London, each coping in his own way with alienation, solitariness, and the very art of living.

A shared interest in geometric forms — in all of their attenuated, ribald permutations — pervades the show, as does a garrulous palette ranging from treacle to acid rain.

The «ribald, pop - culture - obsessed provocateur» (The New York Times) Paul McCarthy (cover of Juxtapoz in Nov / Dec 1999) applies his signature, irreverent wit to take aim at American myths and icons in WS, his largest work to date and the pinnacle of his creative output.

The «ribald, pop - culture - obsessed provocateur» (The New York Times) Paul McCarthy (cover of Juxtapoz in Nov / Dec 1999) applies his signature, irreverent wit to take aim at American myths

The «ribald, pop - culture - obsessed provocateur» (The New York Times) Paul McCarthy applies his signature, irreverent wit to take aim at American myths and icons in WS, his largest work to date and the pinnacle of his creative output.

In Paris in the early 1950s, Copley developed a unique, ribald figurative style that bucked prevailing trends toward abstraction, taking inspiration from Surrealist painting, American, cartoon and silent - movie imagerIn Paris in the early 1950s, Copley developed a unique, ribald figurative style that bucked prevailing trends toward abstraction, taking inspiration from Surrealist painting, American, cartoon and silent - movie imagerin the early 1950s, Copley developed a unique, ribald figurative style that bucked prevailing trends toward abstraction, taking inspiration from Surrealist painting, American, cartoon and silent - movie imagery.

In these two works Heinecken's embrace of process, with its erotic eruptions and ribald humor gives the work an outré quality that still somehow manages to stun us.

Most seductive are the ribald, cartoonish, exquisitely colored paintings depicting shenanigans that frequently include women in bloomers, or less.

Raymond neatly sets up the «conflict» between abstraction and representationalism by juxtaposing 1950s and»60s abstractions by Robert Motherwell (collage), Lucio Fontana (slashed canvas, perforated paper) and Anthony Caro (sculpture), with a ribald drawing of a woman by Willem de Kooning, a crashed car re-created in fiberglass by Charles Ray, and Andro Wekua's wax sculpture of a spunky but mutilated child standing before a geometric canvas.

Kelley did use toy animals in some of his best known early works, and virtually all his art demonstrated a ribald sense of humor.

The Los Angeles artist — known for sprawling, ribald installations made with everything from neon to cardboard to peas — often touched on issues of religion, sex and commerce in his work.

Over the course of his long - career, the New York / Connecticut - based painter has been creating works that depict the human figure in ways that are poetic and ribald.

In June came «WS,» a ribald and explicit multimedia installation by the artist Paul McCarthy that met with a storm of outrage and praise.

★ William Baziotes: «A Centennial Exhibition: Surrealist Drawings of the 1930s» (through Dec. 29) More low than high, these raucous sometimes ribald figurative images in watercolor and gouache reveal quite a different side of the well - respected second - tier Abstract Expressionist painter best known for the tasteful restraint, diaphanous colors and blurry organic shapes of his mature style.

Look for paintings that filter Abstract Expressionism through SoCal atmospherics and for drawings in which ribald phantasmagorias emerge from the liveliest of lines.

Beneath the compulsive tinkerer's mentality and ribald wit that permeate SPACE PROGRAM: MARS, and Sachs» work at - large, is a conceptual underpinning that addresses serious and profound issues — namely the commodification of abstract concepts such as originality, shock, newness, and mystery — expressing them in the personal and physical terms of production and process.

Jean - Claude Lebensztejn's history of the urinating figure in art, Pissing Figures 1280 — 2014, is at once a scholarly inquiry into an important visual motif, and a ribald statement on >> more David Zwirner Books ISBN 9781941701546 US $ 14.95 CAN $ 21.00 TRADE Pbk, 4.25 x 7 in.

Their lunchtime repartee was executed in high - speed hilarity with no holds barred, and the range of subjects that they covered was vast and frequently more than a little bit ribald.

The Menil Collection is proud to present the first retrospective in any U.S. museum devoted to the work of the American artist William N. Copley (1919 - 1996), creator of madcap narrative paintings, drawings, and installations in playful, ribald styles of his own invention.

Touching, tender, ribald, raunchy, innovative, annoying: there are many pleasures in David Hockney's Tate Britain retrospective, but just as many exasperations.

A world - renowned printmaker and the inventor of fluorescent lithography, Walmsley became known for his use of «blatant irony, raucous humor and shameless punning» in his psychedelic and ribald art.

The court had to be cleared owing to the roars of ribald laughter which greeted the appearance in the witness - box of the twelve red - bearded dwarfs all in a heap.

It is some time since I have been on the internet in this alter ego, but there was a time when I was a regular poster on RollonFriday; wasting industrial amounts of time along with City lawyers, many of whom were senior associates (with a sprinkling of partners)-- and generally enjoying the pleasures of ribald commentary, drunken RoF drinks and meeting some very amusing people.