Sentences with phrase «into wry»

The curator of «Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926 — 1938,» opening September 28 at MoMA, explores how three photographs of the Belgian Surrealist provide insights into his wry humor and painting techniques Read More

The Surrealists, informed by the psychoanalytical work of Sigmund Freud, also believed in the efficacy of powerful subconscious associations with objects, which gave their assemblages an added level of theoretical obfuscation that often translates into wry humor.

Peter Greenaway comes on like Oliver Stone transformed into a wry art scholar in Rembrandt's J'Accuse, his self - described «investigation» of the Dutch master's 1642 painting The Night Watch, which he posits...

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On Saturday the world enjoyed the long anticipated March for Science, which transformed Earth Day into a global defense of STEM, led by quietly spirited people undaunted by weather, buoyed by conviction, and waving an unlimited supply of wry, funny signs.

The Sportswriter's cosmopolitan milieu of death - denying Jersey suburbs and wry commentary on New York magazine journalism has made its author more accessible to professors, who will start working him into their curriculum.

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.....

however, i have a wry smile on my face whenever i read fans agitating for theo to fit into that over size shoes and a huge vacuum which eclipse is natural ability to perform against a world class team.

Shaw aims to encourage aspiring SF authors but, unlike most «how to» books, which fall into the worthy but dull manuals and deal only with the nuts and bolts of a topic, this book is suffused with Shaw's characteristic wry Irish humour, and is inspiring.

But when the day's over and the whistle blows, he gets into the gym and then comes and hangs out with his Peeps, dishing out his wry sense of humor on the rest of The Army.

Harrowing, but with a wry humor, and utterly transporting, Paul Schrader has synthesized his complex religious upbringing with modern anxieties into a trenchant portrait of tormented souls in First Reformed.

Less than 24 hours into his parole from a New Jersey penitentiary, the wry, charismatic thi... [MORE]

It is perhaps even less shocking to find that he can weave wry humor into the most unexpected places, or that his insights are sharp and his material is smart.

Rafelson reclaims his comedic roots with a deceptively loose touch, casting so wry an eye on the order and discipline of the finale's Mr Universe competition that it can but explode into the streets.

If your work entails programming or anything related to the nuts and bolts of digital technology, you're unlikely to encounter anything in this brisk feature that you haven't contemplated at length; but if you spend a good portion of your waking life online, as increasing numbers of viewers do, but take it for granted, you may appreciate the way Herzog comes into the the subject: from a borderline - layman's perspective, wry and curious.

And though the German auteur claims to be a technophobe, «Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World» is just the kind of percolating, wry probe we need into this fast - moving, digitally monopolizing age.

Recognisable voices like Idris Elba & JK Simmons sound like they're having the best time, touches relating to particular species are simple but brilliant and the relationship between Ginnifer Goodwin's Judy and Nick — a wry & twinkly voiced Jason Bateman — is lovely as it meanders the path of a suspicious judgement that turns into a true friendship.

As Reynolds» sister, Cyril (Lesley Manville), watches with wry disdain, Alma becomes his lover and muse, eventually driving him to restrained, British torment as she flirts her way into high society and even starts having her own ideas about what sort of clothes she'd like to wear.

A defiantly Jewish bit of mishegoss that was conceived as a U.S. / Israeli co-production, the film is a wry, self - defeating response to the anti-Semitic tradition of stories about conniving «Court Jews» who talk their way into becoming one of the king's most trusted advisors.

In Nebraska, such things as an attempt by masked men to rob Woody of his precious prize notification, or of men who break into a barn to steal an air compressor, don't quite ring true to the more wry and simple tone of the rest of the film.

The standout of the group is also the one we see most rarely in movies these days: Bergen lays into her character's wry aperçus with the impeccable timing and deadpan facial expressions that made her a comedic star on the sitcom «Murphy Brown.»

Wry but not dry, its nimble use of archive footage and chewy interviews expands the film into a thoughtful examination of what (and who) cities are for.

Diana Sands, The Landlord (1970)-- Many actors play roles, but few ever truly inhabit them or let us peer into a solitary soul as Sands does here to wry, sultry, and sad effect.

An American Werewolf in London is a cult horror film that will most likely please those into horror movies on the irreverently funny side, especially ones that don't skimp out on gore or bits of wry humor.

His raffish good looks, velvety voice and wry warmth, which could just as easily flip into rascalry, made him a box office hit in roles such as an outrageous Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), the fearsome Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films and the late lamented lover in Anthony Minghella's amorous fantasy Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990).

When it really hits home, the director's quiet humanism and wry humor can yield perceptive insights, especially into certain trademark areas of expertise: family dynamics, the vanities and follies of aging men, the reluctance to let go of old dreams.

Winstead's shift into action mode works; her wry, affecting underplaying keeps the film companionable in its clammy way.

The film is played noticeably straighter in tone and humour than Anderson's previous deadpan efforts to the point of settling into an overtly laconic rut that struggles to extract even a titter, let alone a wry chuckle.

Then, as flames flicker against the night, the second act reveals a darker side of The Guard's wry wit and the film dives headlong into murk the previous film only hinted at.

Silly is about the kind of cars that, if they were people, would have a wry smile on their face as they fell backwards off a roof into Burt Reynolds» swimming pool while dressed as a duck.

He even offers a wry glimpse into the future to conclude this fantastically inventive, spirited, astute, and delectable update of One Thousand and One Nights.

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.

Thanks to her sharp, wry first - person narrative, readers will gain deep insight into her anxieties, choices, and aspirations.

Y. Euny Hong's background as a journalist for such publications as The New York Times, Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal seems an odd preparation for this wry, clever debut novel, but perhaps it's her experience as one of the founders of Rumpus Magazine, the humorous, controversial Yale University tabloid, that gives real insight into her writing style.

And about the highly efficient microbes that can turn a nice plateful of pasta into fat... Dunn's wry wit and his ability to relate potentially dry, if not downright boring scientific material in entertaining, non-clinical language makes me wish I could audit a few of his classes.

Every page is loaded with wit, wry criticism of society (both American and Russian), and the book gives a lot of insight into the burgeoning post-Soviet collapse crime scene, the status of immigrants in America and the strange underworld of American Russophile young people in the former Soviet Union.

He manages to weave bright, bold colours into banal situations and imbues almost everything he does with a wry sense of humour.

With a finely tuned balance of sharp wit, wry sympathy and sensitive insight, she layers unusual materials into a whole.

In Jose Lerma's most recent sculptural painting using the largest polo shirt you could possibly imagine, he combines his well - known paint blobs into a work full of fresh and cynically wry humor.

Also conceptually loaded yet formally beautiful is Houston artist Nathaniel Donnett's wry Hairline Fracture (2014), which uses African - American hair seemingly to etch a minimalist line drawing into the side of a free - standing wall.

With «documenta 97» etched into the steel underneath, the artist was taking a wry look at his own legacy.

Using simple materials, everyday objects, wry wit and written instructions that encourage people to interact with his sculptures, Erwin Wurm makes spectators into active participants and turns them into living, breathing works of art.»

Auerbach has co-opted the traditional female craft of knitting and transformed it into a tool for wry, pointed political messages.

Noguchi is present, as is Thomas Wolfe, who later incorporates a wry fictionalized account of the event into his novel, You Can't Go Home Again.

Isolating and disrupting these emblematic signs uncloaks a repertoire of signifiers of masculinity turned on their head, depraved of power, and transformed into curious, wry gestures.

De Kooning's expressionistic forays into sculpture are given a wry twist of stoned indelicacy courtesy of Robert Crumb.

With his anxieties laid bare and his wry brand of melancholy, Evans presents us with a veritable laundry list of drawings that take the form of diagrams, charts, maps, lexicons, diary entries, inventories, cosmologies and epistolary entreaties that plunge the viewer into alternate states of pathos and hope.

In a career spanning more than five decades, Ruscha has distilled the archetypal signs and symbols of the American vernacular into typographic and cinematic codes that are as accessible as they are profound.The wry choice of words and phrases that pervade his work draws upon the moments of incidental ambiguity implicit in the interplay between language and the concept that it signifies.

But as we have moved beyond that moment and into the 21st century and as we have moved into the era of post-modernism, particularly that category post-black, I really felt that it would be worth revisiting Archibald Motley to look more critically at his work, to investigate his wry sense of humor, his use of irony in his paintings, his interrogations of issues around race and identity.

Inquisitive, empathic, often wry but never judgmental, Steffens's work is diaristic, psychedelic, and documentary — impulses that would be discrete in another photographer's work, yet are here merged into photographs that, in the words of his son Devon, «imagine a different America, one of strange beauty and mystic truth.»

Known for his intelligent dismantling of cultural products and the wry and often humorous shifts and «misuses» to which he subjects his material, Bismuth's work constitutes a creative intervention into familiar codes, habits and objects.