Sentences with phrase «in rumpled»

While fair director Paul Morris had stressed that a lot of 1970s aesthetic could be seen at the fair (perhaps thinking of the Happenings show at Pace in Chelsea), this was perhaps most true of the projects section in which a man, Eisenberg, sleeping on site in a rumpled bag, echoed Chris Burden in spirit if not letter (but was the Pommery bottle a mere bit of unintentional irony?).

Two wax women's heads — «death masks in wax with real hair,» Albright called them — lay in a rumpled bed, the detritus of somebody's life scattered around the dusty room: nail polish, books, reading glasses, Tampax, squished toothpaste tubes.

FASCINATED BY HIS BLACK - AND - WHITE IMAGES of a man in a rumpled shirt emerging from the subway seemingly propelled by an angle of light and Billie Holiday captured in soft focus, photographer Dawoud Bey discusses the style and composition of photographer Roy DeCarava (1919 - 2009).

If it's one of the younger ones, the guitar player with the brush of red hair and the peeling skin, say, or the movie executive in the rumpled jeans and the buttery leather coat, it's enough to muster a polite nod of the head.

Dressed alike in their rumpled black suits, carrying their great black - bound books, they pass through the crowd into the main sanctuary where the older men are arriving, businessmen coming from downtown, the storekeepers from the neighborhood, the retired grandfathers.

These are crusaders in rumpled suits with coffee cups instead of capes, plodding through the boring legwork that comprises so much of real journalism — making lists, finding almanacs in dusty rooms that stink of dead rat, filling out forms at the courthouse, eating leftover pizza in dismally unkempt apartments.

Odenkirk brings the newshound sensibility in sharp focus — even in rumpled clothes and fumbling for a pen — to Bagdikian, who obtained the Pentagon Papers for the Post and later became dean of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.

The Dude is a knight in rumpled PJ pants, a bathrobe his chainmail, a Ford Torino his white horse.

Both the stranded six and their quietly noble rescuers, whether chained to a desk at Langley or skulking around Tehran with a muted, saturnine sense of purpose, are regular people in rumpled clothing who are scared, confused, tired, and, again, scared.

Everyone can stay in rumpled pajamas, buckled safely in car seats.

But on a chilly November morning, with the thermometer at 10 °, Ransom Kelley, duck guide, in rumpled wool shirt and pants, tentlike camouflage parka and fur - lined hat, backs the Magnum II out of her slip at a time that he likes — 4:30 a.m. — and heads out of the harbor for the offshore ledges.

Not exact matches

When you're looking across a boardroom table at whatever collection of rumpled dreamers and smug hipsters made it this far, fall in love with who they are together, not what you think you as a business leader can make them do.

Dressed in his backwoods preppy uniform of a down vest over khakis and a rumpled shirt, he starts by wishing for «a tool that would exponentially increase my ability to sell.»

One night, he couldn't sleep and seemed very rumpled in his soul.

In her narrow rumpled bed again and again she flails against the white sheets that rush upon her with the sound of angels» wings, while the sharp songs of predatory night birds outside her window attack the ear, then change into sweeter, holier notes as dawn arrives.

By contrast, U.S. basketball players will look, in their dotage, like rumpled Rand McNally road maps.

Wearing a pale blue rumpled pullover sweater, Stevenson did not speak during his appearance in federal court Thursday afternoon.

«I would humbly tell you, Ulster and Dutchess are in play,» says Tyner, who is dressed in casual, rumpled clothes.

He became obsessed with unconformities in the rocks, where strata are distorted, rumpled or jumbled in composition, some layers of rock thrusting near vertically into those above or below.

Rumpled grain sacks, with that little bit of aged patina and old world charm, look just so right and cozy in a home by the sea.

Just the little things — like the rumpled runner or the one set diagonally in the DR — I notice all these little touches — they bring such life to the settings.

Made in the San Francisco Bay area using 100 % natural and sustainable linen, it can easily be tossed into the wash and then hung to dry for a rumpled effect.

It's so hard to see how you'd look in a dress when you're standing there with bare legs and rumpled socks around your ankles.

We used to store these dresses in a basket and every time they needed one they became rumpled on the floor.

How - To: The actress didn't try to fight her hair's natural wave in the Venice humidity; as a result, the fuzzy, flyaway texture of her rumpled twist looked so much more modern than a sleek and taut version.

We all gasped when we saw the Rumpled Moto Jacket ($ 398) in brown, which seems to be a store - only color as of now.

It is light and airy and one of those fabrics that, like linen, is wrinkle - prone, but that's part of what makes it so great — even the first time you wear it, double gauze feels soft and rumpled and worn in, and it only gets softer with repeated washes and wears.

Specializing in playing shambling, cantankerous cynics, Walter Matthau, with his jowly features, slightly stooped posture, and seedy, rumpled demeanor, looked as if he would be more at home as a laborer or small - time insurance salesman than as a popular movie star equally adept at drama and comedy.

His camera is always following the fat man, close in and discovering the imperfections on his skin and rumpled folds in his plain clothes.

You'd think Raymond would be relatively easy to spot, given his predilection for making all his phone calls from the same Redondo Beach pay phone; but lo, this particular pay phone has so many customers (in 2014) that it takes Roger an entire montage sequence (and a can of mace in the face) before he finally ferrets out his man (a nicely rumpled Tom Berenger, giving the only thing remotely close to a low - key performance here).

22 years later he's still hounding suspects in the same rumpled overcoat (does he have the dry cleaner wrinkle it special?).

At the end of the process there is of course the Big Contest where moral victories are won, if not actual ones, and there is the eleventh - hour crisis solved by an inspirational coming together (most often demonstrated in mass desk - standing), all capped by a heartfelt coda that shows a new direction for our rumpled hero and the little moppets who had the foresight to trust him with their lives and futures.

I would, however, recommend Passion Play to anyone that's interested in seeing Megan Fox struggle, Bill Murray do someone a favor, or Mickey Rourke being... burly and rumpled — all against a bizarre, sometimes - confusing backdrop of weird, dreamy imagery.

Set in 1964 Paris and based on the recollections of American expatriate art critic James Lord, Final Portrait depicts Giacometti as a rumpled curmudgeon.

(He was similarly brilliant as a rumpled detective in HBO's The Night Of.)

That's roughly the age of Winfried (Peter Simonischek), a rumpled, suburban music teacher and lifelong prankster, who, in short order, has lost his last student and his beloved dog.

It's been a long time since we trusted McConaughey to give us anything but crappy romantic comedies, but this looks like the kind of movie Paul Newman might have starred in during his rumpled «70s run.

So they assign the rumpled, frequently plastered ex-golden-boy a full - time babysitter in the form of the smartly dressed Crowder (Rosamund Pike, aptly cast in the Lauren Bacall role).

There's no moral stake in scrambling for scraps, just this Pyrrhic duty to compete, lust fast - cooling on the proverbial sheets, damp and rumpled as they are from a lot of impotent thrusting.

Easily the standout on this year's concept lawn display, the one - off Icona Volcano's brushed titanium finish is both strikingly elegant and curiously rumpled — like Columbo in a Zegna suit.

The shower had removed the musty odor of rumpled sheets and unwashed hair I'd wrapped myself in for the past several weeks since I'd taken to wearing my own stink as protection, as a way to mark the only territory I had left: myself.

I was with Peter Mayer, the president of the Overlook Press, a large, rumpled figure in a black corduroy suit who wanted to publish Said's small romantic novel Ali and Nino.

Whether he was discussing his philanthropic endeavors (where heâ $ ™ s teamed up with his good buddy Bill Gates) or how mortgage - backed securities poisoned the U.S. financial system (â $ œthe people that brewed this toxic Kool - Aid found themselves drinking a lot of it in the endâ $), the rumpled billionaire was as charismatic and as quotable as ever.

When you think of short - term borrowing, do you imagine going to a storefront office in a strip mall and filling out a long application while a fellow in a slightly rumpled suit waits, fidgeting, shuffling papers?

In a way, her work is the opposite of Alex Katz's — his art is angular, cool, lean, and lanky; Neel's is saggy, roiled, weird, and rumpled.

After all the years of videos, rumpled beds and elephant dung, a truly shocking contemporary artist emerged last night as the bookie's favourite to win the # 20,000 Turner Prize - Michael Raedecker, who creates delicately beautiful, eerie landscapes in the traditional materials of paint and embroidery on canvas.

There is a romantic element in the drawings of rumpled envelopes by Margot Glass and in Lily Prince's dreamlike landscapes.

A 1974 Artforum article by the critic Robert Pincus - Witten (who coined the term «Post-Minimalism»), employed Benglis» own notion of «The Frozen Gesture» to conceptualise her sculptures, particularly pieces included in the Hepworth show like Baby Contraband (1969) and Rumpled Painting (Caterpillar)(1968).

Both have a parallel in Sam Moyer, with her own illusion of rumpled canvas and photography, although in actual bleached and ironed fabric.

You could say that Tillmans, who won the Turner prize in 2000, swapped the telescope for the camera, one kind of eyepiece for another, turning from things that are very far away, like the craters of the moon, to things close to home - the skin of an orange, rolled socks on a sofa, friends and lovers, intimacies both human and inanimate: rumpled clothing, the clutter on a windowsill, the detritus of a party, a bowl of fruit.