Sentences with phrase «irreverence into»

She's able to lace a barbed irreverence into the character's foibles without turning her into an empty camp caricature, which would be all too easy to do given the tabloid nature of Tonya's story.

In which David Wain, he of Wet Hot American Summer fame, takes on the life of Doug Kenney (played by Will Forte and, in his omniscient - narrator state, Martin Mull), a Harvard man who'd co-create the National Lampoon, co-write Animal House and inject much - needed vulgar irreverence into American comedy before mysteriously falling off a cliff in 1980.

Not exact matches

excuse my irreverence, pun intended, but religeon is the last flailing of an ignorant giant amoeba that, were it to have his way, would engulf all of humanity and suck it into a moldering morass of excrement and self - serving inane logic that proclaims the existence of Santa Claus for adults... G o d.

It was well - received until some guy felt the need to drop into the comments to correct my irreverence.

He disliked irreverence and «didn't want the risk of any off - color stories,» much to the dismay of the political dynasty he was marrying into.

While the studio's films demonstrated plenty of comic flair right from the start of its shared - universe experiment, with 2008's Iron Man, recent efforts have veered too far into bland, jokey listlessness; frivolity has trumped lightheartedness, pandering has replaced irreverence.

Cutting down to the chase, The Golden Child is one of those films that could have been respectable if they didn't stick in the world's hottest comedian into it, whose fans are going to expect constant wisecracks and irreverence, doing just what he did for another film originally meant to be serious, Murphy's superstar - making Beverly Hills Cop.

In the nearby Crystal Palace Museum, signs written in Comic Sans — not out of irreverence or neglect but the sheer opposite: volunteerist enthusiasm — describe the Palace's struggles with unprofitability; its degeneration into disrepute, and the fire that eventually destroyed it in 1936.

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.

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.

Classic miniature painting and Persian calligraphy were raw materials for a number of artists who, with a mixture of reverence and irreverence, transformed traditional, elegant letters into nonsensical writing.

Into this collection of trophies, hard won and at immense cost, Paine's «Bad Lawn» brought a contemporary - art sense of irreverence and provocation.

Even in its abstractness, it has a touch of chutzpah, a quality that subsequent generations of artists adopted and evolved into irreverence, self - awareness and topical meta - commentary on art and contemporary life.

Echoing this sentiment in a grand gesture, Reames has created a sculpture of a trampoline with an American flag jumping mat - an object intended for recreation or exercise transformed into a symbol of irreverence and futility.