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«He has the same irreverence as Steve Jobs had,» Lopez told the E-Commerce Times.

The iconoclastic musician Captain Beefheart came along at the same time and performed with the same irreverence as his friend Frank Zappa.

After Wade Wilson's initial conception as yet another 1990s «extreme» antihero (and Deathstroke knockoff), Deadpool's popularity grew in proportion to his fourth - wall - breaking irreverence as the blade - bristling boob became a walking, talking, stabbing parody of every superhero cliché in existence.

Not exact matches

Nicknaming is just one example of how The Pink Ceiling's culture is defined by «a healthy irreverence,» as Whitehead puts it.

on the base of his atheism: «When I come to my own beliefs, I find myself quite unable to discern any purpose in the universe, and still more unable to wish to discern one» — as if that nondiscernment by his own sole self was sufficient for his sweeping, voluminous irreverence.

In this perspective, irreverence toward the rituals and symbols of established culture becomes (as it did for Twain's Satan, if not for Twain himself) the higher reverence.

Matt Armendariz is a man with a passion for good food and a wonderful life with a dash of irreverence, as evidenced by his entertaining food blog, mattbites.com.

But while the film does insist on its own irreverence a bit too much at the outset — it opens with a group of birds inspirationally singing, «You're only as small as your dreams,» before they get abruptly knocked out of the sky — it offers plenty of lively fun once it settles down, and wisely keeps the pandering to a minimum.

The film chronicles the manner in which Hope and her family handle the nightmarish situation, often with what Saget described as «irreverence and dark humor» (At one point, Hope's brother Alan — a comedy writer — quips that scleroderma sounds like «a deli entrée»).

It's a moment that by itself merits this made - for - TV holiday special a look, as it demonstrates a level of caustic irreverence missing from the Muppet franchise since the death of Jim Henson in 1990.

Known as an inventive poet of early sound cinema in France, thanks to such sharp, creative films as Under the Roofs of Paris (1930), Le million (1931), and À nous la liberté (1931), Clair had a reputation that preceded him to Hollywood, and I Married a Witch overflows with the same comic irreverence and fleet storytelling as his earlier films.

Featuring the best work from Carrey and McGregor in years (and a reminder of Carrey's phenomenal and chameleonic talents when given the right material), a smart and witty script adapted by the directors from McVicker's novel, and a cracking pace that neither hurries nor languishes, it combines the highlights of the heist and escape genres with dashes of dark humour and irreverence to create a film best described as a wicked delight.

However, while certainly sharing the biting humour and self - awareness of its predecessor, the irreverence here is aimed not so much towards tweaking the nose, as it is towards a close and often uncomfortable scrutiny of spirituality in the modern day.

The story of any «Zoolander» movie shouldn't matter as much as the goofy inanity of its leads, and the constant irreverence that surrounds them, but nearly everything that worked in that regard the first time around registers as a retread; inspired lunacy is in short supply.

As soon as the film started, it was clear that July's voice as a filmmaker hasn't changed that much in the past five years — the same irreverence, black humour and playful charm abounds — but the film lacks the bounce of her first featurAs soon as the film started, it was clear that July's voice as a filmmaker hasn't changed that much in the past five years — the same irreverence, black humour and playful charm abounds — but the film lacks the bounce of her first featuras the film started, it was clear that July's voice as a filmmaker hasn't changed that much in the past five years — the same irreverence, black humour and playful charm abounds — but the film lacks the bounce of her first featuras a filmmaker hasn't changed that much in the past five years — the same irreverence, black humour and playful charm abounds — but the film lacks the bounce of her first feature.

by Bryant Frazer Very early on in Blue Streak, as Miles Logan, the character portrayed by a fast - talking Martin Lawrence, co-opts Dr. Martin Luther King's famous «I Have a Dream» speech to describe his own civil rights movement upon getting released from the joint after serving time for his role in a botched jewel heist, it's clear the film is aiming for giddy irreverence.

Reynolds is a good enough actor that Wade Wilson's pain and despair and confusion register as strongly, and are as important to the character and his performance, as the fourth wall - shattering sassiness and boyish irreverence that hasn't just made ol' Pool a bona fide pop culture icon but have transcended the movie and bled all over pop culture.

As Ryan Reynolds explained, Deadpool's irreverence wouldn't fit well with Logan's mature tone.

While it's different from the Muppet movies I saw as a child, this film has the same charm and irreverence I've come to expect from these fuzzy little guys.

Shane Black has crafted an astonishing film from a block of hard - as - rock film noir, that has all the wit and irreverence of the modern era and yet still recalls the tough - guy films of Hollywood's golden age of Cagney and Bogart.

In the end, Danny Collins works best as a romantic comedy, written by Fogelman with cheeky irreverence and delivered with offhanded charm by two seasoned actors who clearly relish their improbable chemistry.

It would be easy to label it as nothing more than a track - day irreverence and suggest that the standard C63 AMG is all you need.

Lively sports commentators call out moves as players execute them, and darkly comical finishing moves add a level of irreverence that contributes to the game's unique tone.

Bradford performs a comedy routine, channeling the explicit irreverence of African American entertainers such as Blowfly (Clarence Henry Reid), Jackie «Moms» Mabley, and Richard Pryor.

For all his irreverence, Pasolini maintained a contentious relationship — both verbal and visual — with the avant - garde of his time, viewing their insistence upon innovation as an insidious extension of neo-capitalist development.

Controversial and wildly popular, his works lampooned icons and societal conventions, as serious in their implicit critiques as in their humorous irreverence.

With an irreverence for the normative nature of painting to find a definitive resolution, Evans tests the limits of a material and its spatial boundaries, as paintings merge with installation and the picture plane expands into sculptural form.

As well as pioneering the use of computers to design sculptures in the late 1960s, during the first part of his career Mallary produced grungy assemblage sculptures and expressionist paintings, which merged the nihilism of continental existentialist thinking with the irreverence of Neo-DadAs well as pioneering the use of computers to design sculptures in the late 1960s, during the first part of his career Mallary produced grungy assemblage sculptures and expressionist paintings, which merged the nihilism of continental existentialist thinking with the irreverence of Neo-Dadas pioneering the use of computers to design sculptures in the late 1960s, during the first part of his career Mallary produced grungy assemblage sculptures and expressionist paintings, which merged the nihilism of continental existentialist thinking with the irreverence of Neo-Dada.

Some writers have suggested that the lighthearted quality of Murray's work reflects her student days in Chicago and Northern California, regions notable for the irreverence and wit generated by such artists as Jim Nutt and Robert Arneson.

Uklanski suggests that the installation at Gagosian reveals an irreverence towards mainstream modernism that has emerged from his position as an immigrant in the city that gave rise to Abstract Expressionism.

The choice in title also attempts to suggest a conceptual curatorial style on the part of Gouzer, or an experimental irreverence toward his function at the auction house — an approach gleaned, we can imagine, as a winning stance from some of the artistic careers listed above.

And then there was the irreverence, the shared deployment of humor as a way of navigating the great cruelties of the world.

Few artists are as versatile or bring to their works such a sense of questioning playfulness as McLean and the exhibition at Bernard Jacobson is a masterclass of painterly light, colour and irreverence by the artist who likes to make «big art out of small details» Louisa Buck, 2012.

These artists, who rose to prominence through a series of group shows at the Hyde Park Art Center, approached figuration with wit and irreverence while drawing upon earlier art historical styles such as Surrealism, as well as self - taught art and popular forms such as comic book.

Not only will a poorly written statement make your ideas harder to understand, but grammatical errors could also come off as evidence of apathy and irreverence towards whatever opportunity you're vying for.

According to Van Gelder, Louise saw the photographs as an extension of her own work, and of course she did — despite its sensuous irreverence, her work has always been surprisingly holistic.

With a playful irreverence to the sanctity of a photograph as a mirror of reality, Shahbazi drains details out of images.

The paintings operate as perceptual palimpsests in which the artist overwrites modernist tropes with a playful irreverence.

As Paul Morrison wrote (in Contemporary Visual Arts) of an earlier phase of Stubbs's work,» the paintings operate as perceptual palimpsests in which the artist overwrites modernist tropes with playful irreverence»As Paul Morrison wrote (in Contemporary Visual Arts) of an earlier phase of Stubbs's work,» the paintings operate as perceptual palimpsests in which the artist overwrites modernist tropes with playful irreverence»as perceptual palimpsests in which the artist overwrites modernist tropes with playful irreverence».

By re-staging painterly craft as a playful irreverence between intractable materials and willful deliberation, the processes of abstraction, decoration and humour unfold into a heady mix of the serious and the sensual.

Described as a Neo-Dadaist for his energetic irreverence, Kippenberger worked freely in several mediums, including painting, sculpture, and poster and book arts.

Rivers experimented with three - dimensional relief paintings toward the end of his career alongside numerous other projects, handling hard hitting subjects such as politics, history, fashion, and sex with humor and irreverence.

His daughter Gabrielle says in a 2014 interview that while he «came out to Berkeley just as Pop and Conceptual Art were ascending on the East Coast,» Selz turned away from these popular movements and instead «identified with the irreverence of styles like Funk art,» seeking to highlight the work of «ceramic artists like Peter Voulkos [who] were barely considered fine artists then» or Nathan Oliveira, «a figurative artist who did not follow the prevailing east coast trends.»

We get a studio tour from the men behind Social Suicide as they use humor and irreverence to reinvent men's fashion, one suit at a time

According to Janet Davidson - Hues, «The words which I use in my work are structured as scripts of behavior, and confront irreverence, anonymity, contradiction, and misinterpretation.

Using the book as a symbol for knowledge, Benes conceals the information inherent to the object's purpose either as cheeky irreverence or as a commentary on American cultural values.

Eisenman freely references painters as varied as Giotto, Francisco de Goya, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, and Edvard Munch, but uses wit and irreverence to undermine historical hierarchies and to make her depictions of familiar events such as eating, sleeping, walking, or making love appear distinctly contemporary.