Sentences with phrase «in wry»

Within the cropped frame, Orion captures the lower half of a man's torso juxtaposed with a similar piece of street art, in a wry commentary on urban speed in his native Brazil.

In her wry work, Moon combines visual references from East and West, challenging the notion of a static cultural identity.

FILM REVIEW: My Art Written, directed by and starring Laurie Simmons Opens in LA January 19 Laemmle Ahyra Fine Arts Theatre, Beverly Hills By Shana Nys Dambrot Laurie Simmons basically plays herself in this wry, pensive narrative about a woman artist in her 60s who is moved to confront metrics of success, agencies of authorship,...

In her video piece, The Unknown Series (1994 — 96), Baldino implicates a medley of mundane objects in a wry investigation of their possible uses and uselessness.

Framed and interrupted by the ironic observations of two parodic «public television» commenta - tors, the dancers play fictionalized versions of themselves in a wry tale of contemporary romance, in which the dance literally and metaphorically advances the narrative.

In this wry reworking of David Hockney's A Bigger Splash painting, four talented houseguests respond to the scorching Californian sun in their own way

On closer inspection it is easy to identify his allusion to various YBAs in the works of art he illustrates, in his wry homage to a Saatchi Gallery show.

The writing and voice acting are pitch - perfect in the wry, self - deprecating, vaguely cheesy fashion appropriate for a pulp adventure.

There are many, many moments in Hag - Seed when the reader — who will get more out of the novel if she has seen or read the original play though it's not necessary to enjoy the book — will no doubt smile in wry recognition as Atwood appropriates Shakespeare's plot twists and characters for her contemporary story.

Some stories are dreams, some nightmares, most slide into grotesque and melancholy, and all are simple, down - to - earth, intellectual fun told in a wry, fast moving ahead voice.

The old saying meant what's done is done but was turned upside down in his wry mouth: here it was the living who would never come back to these graves at the far end of Milner Gass, near the spring and Yoffe's mill, flashes of the lake silver...

It reflects on many adult situations in a wry sense of humor.

Written in a wry, first - person voice realistically peppered with occasional slang and slurs, this ambitious first novel from a Hollywood producer doesn't entirely cohere.

But as he reveals in his wry account of a recent battery of cognitive tests, his decline, however measured, is perceptible.

Inspired by the true story of New York siblings Stewart and Cyril Marcus, who were found dead in the bachelor pad they shared on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, it's serious like a cancer diagnosis, but it's also quite funny, rich in wry detail, and brimming with the outrageousness of its premise.

At the same time, he pauses to chuckle at gaffes and botched stunts, and sprinkle in some wry humor.

With her means of support rapidly dwindling, marriage is clearly the endgame for Lady Susan — as it is for all of Austen's leading ladies — but the romantic emotion that's supposed to go along with it proves to be little more than a social affect in this wry comedy of manners.

In the same vein as 2007's «Juno» and 2011's «Young Adult,» «Tully» unearths uncomfortable truths in a wry, wise way.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Amnesiac Adjusts to Soulless Utopia in Wry Social Satire Suppose you were suffering from amnesia and suddenly found yourself inexplicably welcomed to an unfamiliar city you don't recognize by soulless strangers who inform you that you're an accountant before escorting you to your new home.

The result is a lot more moronics than demonics in the wry comedy - horror IDLE HANDS.

I found it funny in a wry sort of way, but maybe something like «The Comatose Solution Diet» or «The Coma Zone» would have been a little more tasteful.

The joke above is usually told as a commentary on how the ideas of science are far removed from the concerns of ordinary people, but I see a more encouraging lesson embedded in this wry little observation.

-- Boston Globe «If there is a message in this wry and honest parenting memoir, it's to toss unrealistic hopes, to stop parenting with such intention, or, as Lauren puts it: «Sometimes, you have to be content.»

If there is a message in this wry and honest parenting memoir, it's to toss unrealistic hopes, to stop parenting with such intention, or, as Lauren puts it: «Sometimes, you have to be content.»

The profession abounds in wry jokes directed against itself to the general point that the freshmen are getting younger every year.

They were pawed and backslapped to exhaustion, leading a local paper to run the headline CLUTCH - AND - GRAB FANS HAIL CANUCKS, in wry response to the media's endless references to the team's style of play.

Its experience of the extent to which human brutality can go, of the fury that can be unleashed when the human animal is attacked, its acceptance in wry cynicism of the venality of great and small; its acceptance, too, of a psychological analysis that tends to show how slight the power of reason, how great the strength of obscure passions; how corrupting of children the possible love of mothers and the wrath of fathers; its portrayal of men and mankind in bitterly disillusioned novels and in shuddering chronicles of man's inhumanity to man — in all this the 20th century has perhaps gone beyond anything that Edwards said in dispraise of men, individually and in the collective.

Not exact matches

Rooney's classic wry, tell - it - how - he - sees - it approach earned him a loyal following and a very specific place in pop culture history.

Published in 1844 and recounting a journey in the Middle East made a decade before, it is a masterpiece of the wry and elliptically self - mocking English travel memoir; only Eric Newby improved on the model in any respect.

Her words are emblematic of so many of the posts in the synchroblog, sure, but it's also beautifully written, wise, wry, deep, beautiful, and honest about the mess and uncertainty that often accompanies our shifts.

The editor of Forum Letter, who brought the ELCA release to my attention, adds a wry observation on the claim of Guinness World Records: How many people, do you suppose, stood up that Sunday to profess the Creed in the cause of the faith?

«I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel,» says Adichie with a wry smile, «I told him that I had just read a novel called «American Psycho» and that it was such a shame that young Americans were murderers.»

I am that rare soul who can remember his First Confession, at age eight, very nearly word - for - word — I think because I was terrified, and hyper - alert, and intent on remembering everything that Father Newman said, mostly because it was my First Confession and I was afraid I would be sent to prison or farmed out to the Lutherans for the many times I had committed fisticuffs with my brothers and failed to honor my mother and father — but also because Father Newman was wry and funny and fond of reminding everyone that he was, as far as he knew, the only Jewish Catholic priest in the diocese.

And there are other passages that might perhaps — and then only if one were desperate to justify their inclusion in this volume — be described as «wry,» such as one long and splendid (though not really humorous) portrayal of the boredom that afflicts the ironist.

to be the only moment of actual nobility in the New Testament, the wry taunt of an acerbic ironist unimpressed by the pathetic fantasies of a deranged peasant.

Well - chosen New Yorker cartoons are used in the book to temper the argument with wry and gentle wit.

While building up a fearsome reputation for name - dropping and snobbery, with a special penchant for royalty and a passion for genealogy witnessed in the elaborate family trees at the end of his Crusades trilogy, Runciman nonetheless retained a wry detachment that wrong - footed many observers and critics.

And in 2009, a longtime missionary couple were sentenced by a Gambian court to a year of hard labor for sending a wry comment in an email to their prayer list.

Longtime missionaries David and Fiona Fulton were sentenced by a Gambian court to a year of hard labor last December after pleading guilty — in hopes of a lenient sentence — to sedition charges stemming from a wry comment e-mailed to a prayer list.

It is with a certain wry amusement that we note how many of the staunchest supporters of «women's rights» in the American establishment do not question the US support of the Taliban even though the latter's behaviour in this area is well known!

The complaint may be that the curriculum is too «academic» and insufficiently «Professional»; too «theoretical» and insufficiently «practical»; or, conversely, that it is too single - mindedly focused on producing «Professional ministers» in a certain model and too inflexible to allow individual students to pursue their own intellectual interests; and, above all, that the curriculum consists of too many small pieces of information that are not adequately «integrated,» that it provides not so much a course of study as — in H. Richard Niebuhr's wonderfully wry phrase - «a series of studious jumps in various directions.»

Tuesday then delivered the Canadians a wry gamekeeper turned poacher moment with revelations by the ACCC that CBH had offered court - enforceable undertakings that aim to promote contestability in WA's grains logistics business.

Rachel Eats Rachel Roddy, a wry British writer living in Rome, pairs Italian recipes with conversational, engaging narratives that make you feel like you're cooking with a friend.

(imagine said in a pompous French accent with a wry smile)

I'm getting excited Wenger has that wry smile and glint in his eyes Puma money may come into play here in the last few days.....

He gave me a wry smile, slapped my hand in the highest of fives, and disappeared.

«I think that was the first comment I made in the first round I played with Jordan: «I could be your dad,»» the 40 - year - old Swede with the dry wit added with a wry smile.

I think we area wry close to where most fans wants us to bee, challenging for the PL, sign Schneidelin experience and quality 25m Sign Stones a good upcoming CB and home grown 20m Sign Lacazette as a second striker who will mature 25m We will be sorted for years to come Will be hard to replace Corzola though in a couple of years

When he isn't competing, Glasson is a personable, wry fellow who delights in wordplay.

In light of Leicester City «s recent sacking of Craig Shakespeare, the man he replaced at the King Power Stadium, Claudio Ranieri, could be forgiven for allowing a wry smile to creep across his face.