Sentences with phrase «ironic distance»

These qualities can be viewed for their own sake, or taken with a certain amount of ironic distance.

I doubt, too, that she has abandoned the promise of safely ironic distance.

Weber (Annabelle & Bear) makes smart choices here, not least of which is to frame A Girl Like Her as a faux documentary, injecting a much - needed ironic distance between the action and the viewer.

For Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Halil Altındere developed the Space Refugee Project that with ironic distance suggests outer space as the ideal place...

Unlike their competition, white and black, from the States, the Beatles and Stones were apparently educated enough, and in any case taken seriously enough by the media, that they were both able to cultivate a more ironic distance from their fame, and pretty rapidly able to think about what to do with it besides making lots of money.

To flee institutions in search of something supposedly better elsewhere would be to simply replicate the modern tendency to favor a posture of ironic distance over one of dogged commitment.

«There's ironic distance in the way [Verhoeven] shows things,» she said.

Bob is a character whose ironic distance seems to render him inscrutable, but beneath the surface Bob reveals that he is vulnerable in compromising his ideals.

The plot to this point could be the stuff of soap opera, but there's always something askew in an Alan Rudolph film, unexpected notes and touches that maintain a certain ironic distance while permitting painful flashes of human nature to burst through.

While the character's values are old - fashioned, Evans resists any temptation to go for ironic distance.

His cockiness and humor — trademarks of David Addison (the character he played on «Moonlighting «-RRB--- made the extreme violence of Die Hard palatable, providing just enough ironic distance to keep us from being too horrified by the excessive body count.

I think it is this sort of high - wire act that got The Dark Knight such critical and audience love, although it was done without any sort of ironic distance by Christopher Nolan and company.

Most of the people at the Music Box that night watched the film from a healthy ironic distance, and as much as Tommy might try to be okay with that, I can understand why he'd love being the center of attention or occasionally come off as a diva.

One hopes in vain for Sutherland, who's turned in some madly fey performances in his time, to contribute some subversively ironic distance from the ongoing embarrassments of Lady Ice, but he manfully pretends to be titillated by O'Neill's nonexistent challenges and lopes gracelessly through his assigned paces as a Columbo of the insurance circuit.

«Well into the twenty - first century, artists use variations on the copy (as a strategy, process, or maneuver) to bestow ironic distance, nod in homage, or to furnish an indexical mark of reality.

[36] An acquaintance of Woodman wrote in 2000 that it «was a very peculiar little book indeed,» with «a strangely ironic distance between the soft intimacy of the bodies in the photographs and the angularity of the geometric rules that covered the pages.»

In two - dimensional works, as well as in performance and installation pieces, the artist has seemed to circle painting from a somewhat ironic distance; in this exhibition, she gets down to work.

Stewart and Colbert were groundbreakers, but even they tempered their political edge with ironic distance and a concern for balance.

In this age of ironic distance and daily outrage, can cinema still offer an authentically frightening experience?

It would, I believe, not fear secularity, hiddenness, ironic distance, and indirection in the experience of coming to belief.

He saw that an effective way of dealing with the «anxious self - scrutiny» so prevalent in modern life (and today infinitely heightened by social media) was to establish an ironic distance from «the deadly routine of everyday life.»

I would point out that Wiltshire is dependent upon a worldwide imaginative struggle to gain an ironic distance upon traditional assertions about life and cosmos.

The ironic distance derived from the film's framing device and fourth wall — breaking helps emphasizes the drab ordinariness and the utter acceptability of such cruelty.

The ironic distancing makes it hard to get emotionally caught up in the sad story of Kenney's self - destruction when the film enters «Leaving Las Vegas» territory.

She knows from sex and violence, how to make things real, and how to retain an ironic distance.

For director Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses) and the team of writers charged with bringing the lifeguard soap into a new era, a self - referencing humour would have to be woven throughout the screenplay to put some ironic distance between the viewer and the shameless display of dangerous curves and chiselled abs.

He keeps everything at an annoying hipster's ironic distance, valuing aesthetics over meaning and context.

That ironic distance is absent from Saulnier's much more accomplished second feature, one that never leaves Dwight's perspective, and therefore his broken prioritization of what will keep him out of danger.

This meta game might work if the tone remained farcical, but the ironic distancing makes it hard to get emotionally caught up in the sad story of Kenney's self - destruction when the film enters Leaving Las Vegas territory.

It's the ultimate expression of the ironic distance of Chase as a performer — Fletch is buried under several layers of personalities, so we never really get to know him.

In this age of torture porn, ironic distance and daily real - world outrage, can cinema still offer up an authentically frightening experience?

When rumors swirl around the camp, she responds with a cranky and ironic distance that rises like a wall of barbed wire.

Halil Altındere developed the Space Refugee project for Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, which in the light of European fears of foreign infiltration and at some ironic distance proposes to use the cosmic space as a haven for refugees.

Lush and realistic, Peter Rostovsky's canvases operate between the realms of pure painterly experience and a mediated, ironic distance.

Halil Altındere developed the Space Refugee project for Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, which in the light of European fears of foreign infiltration and at some ironic distance proposes to use the...

Situated on the convergence of ironic distance, serious homage and play, Graham inserts painting into the context of a post-medium practice: the works are an extension of his artistic persona undertaking the act of painting and are inconceivable as separate from it.