Sentences with phrase «increasing absurdity»

Most of the dynamic choices — suspension, throttle, steering, transmission — offer three levels of increasing absurdity.

It reads a bit like if Devo went through a funk phase, but the increasing absurdity of the duplicating band visual gags matches the fever pitch of the song, with an epic concluding scene.

The manner in which Connie knocks across Ray is genuinely hilarious and the increasing absurdity and surrealism of the night's events sometimes call to mind Scorsese's After Hours.

Ever since The Bird with the Crystal Plumage in 1970, Dario Argento's thrillers have been moving away from conventional narrative into plots of increasing absurdity, often full of red herrings, that gratify the director's delight in stylistic excess.

Classic narcissist at work — if no one is listening then up the ante by increasing the absurdity levels.

Not exact matches

Happenstance co-stars like Tracy's crush (nicely underplayed by Matthew Shear), his super-jealous girlfriend (Jasmine Cephas - Jones), Brooke's ex-best friend (Heather Lind), and her ex-fiancee (Michael Chernus) all add to the harried absurdity of Tracy and Brooke's increasing predicaments.

Can someone call a psychiatrist: I'm about to go stark raving mad, as my mind gets lost in ever - increasing levels of absurdity....

During the past decade, humor has turned up with increasing frequency in galleries and museums, perhaps as an acknowledgment of the urgent need among artists and audiences alike to laugh at the absurdity of daily existence — and the art world itself.