Sentences with word «irresolution»

Alan J. Pakula's Rollover is a moody, evocative, wispy thriller that makes some intriguing moves before dissolving like a wet tissue in irresolution.

His recent work at the Drawing Center makes a stronger impression, partly because it takes irresolution as its premise and builds on it.

Don't be fooled by the slapstick comedy and the silly names, the labyrinthine plots that careen around and veer maddeningly toward irresolution and paranoia, the playful gags and the abundant nods to pop culture — or to stoner culture, for that matter.

More precisely, their felt irresolution may be the active sign of a God who continues to encounter us.

Contemptuous Irresolution 2 February 2007 After the Senate's failure to do its job threatened scientists with a very bleak year ahead, Congress comes through with a last - minute reprieve.

YASUJIRO OZU By Richard Combs This Japanese master's name has become synonymous with a transcendental vision of quietude and spiritual irresolution, in which daily life and domesticity occupy a central position.

As in her equally magnificent previous film, Everyone Else, Ade begins with a fairly simple dynamic and then proceeds to tease out every possible facet, taking her characters to truly unexpected places and ending on a note of disarming irresolution.

But Cholodenko carries irresolution a bit too far, so that one can't say that the film really ends, only that it stops.

This symbolic irresolution allows blotched daubs of deeply saturated hues to float freely over the dominant violet and light red - orange of the wall and table in the «interior» of the painting.

With the exception of the pieces by Gary Stephan [«Untitled (# 45418),» 1985 — 88], Stephen Mueller («Delphic Hymn,» 1989) and Terry Winters («Point,» 1985), which flirt with Provisional / Casual irresolution, the paintings in Reinventing Abstraction are all of a piece, though it is possible to detect here and there the threat of arbitrariness that hangs over much recent painting taking a a similar anti-formalist stance.

This collection, through its lively, intelligent and controversial papers, discloses both irresolution over every sort of Charter issue and a tremendous intellectualism directed to the Charter debates.

It is in the nature of big cliffhangers to be trapped in a state of irresolution, to be re-judged after their resolutions arrive.

The homeless offer a strong visual contrast to the sumptuous banquets and high life of the art swells, but they are discarded as the movie wanders on to irresolution.

Most people ask the big questions in times of irresolution, times when satisfying answers are scarce.

But he also accused former President Barack Obama of enabling such violence with «weakness and irresolution.»

Perry spins tragedies in comic clothing, embracing misdirection and irresolution that allows the films to breathe with spontaneity.

Zodiac may be the perfect meeting of filmmaker and subject --- an obsessive's portrait of obsession that is, finally, a monument to irresolution.

The conflict might be heavy - handed without Phoenix's face — his irresolution somehow more powerful than other actors» resolve.

The irresolution and anxiety is right there in Baumbach's filmmaking — in how he still can't shake his angry, competitive father from the frame.

The actors are game, but invariably the scenes trail off into ambiguity and irresolution.

The HBO series has made compelling drama from ambiguity and irresolution.

At its best, «Laurel Canyon» has the irresolution and delicacy of truth, as when in the middle of a difficult discussion, Sam touches his mother's toes, and we understand, without getting hit over the head, that there's a bond here,

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty is conclusive in its irresolution.

«One of the most compelling aspects of Math's work is the tension it evokes between directness and illegibility, how it reminds us about the power and the pleasure in that vacillation or irresolution,» remarks former MoMA PS1 curator Mia Locks.

«So Pasmore, in spite of his abortive pursuit of pure abstraction, joined the ranks of the British semi abstract painters, Lanyon, Hilton, Scott, Hodgkin, and others, who can not commit to a full hearted abstraction, but in their irresolution on the question offer succour to all those who hold on to that naturalistic spatial illusion, or hints of such, that keeps their work linked to the old English traditions of poeticised landscape reference»

Bringing her paintings to this point of irresolution and wanting more, she allows us, as viewers, to be part of each work.

But the tension does not emerge as irresolution; on the contrary, Anderson foregrounds his process of working between seemingly antithetical genres — the toggle between rendering nature and freeing a mark from the burden of mimesis; the clash of the landscapist's mandate to limn deep space with the abstractionist's to invert or annul figure - ground relationships — lending conceptual consequence to what is undeniably prepossessing work.

Challenging the boundaries between fiction and reality, The Unplayed Notes Museum exists in a state of irresolution.

But despite its narrow focus and absence of timely work by contemporary artists, the show speaks articulately both to the process of making art and to the question of irresolution that artists are wrestling with today.

22) Reed, Middle English Debate Poetry and the Aesthetics of Irresolution, 103 — 104.