Sentences with word «jauntiness»

The smug voice - over introduction, the overbearing jauntiness of Alexandre Desplat's score, the sitcom - ready shell shock we see in the Suburbicon residents» faces: It's all grotesquely unsubtle filmmaking in a picture whose takedown of Eisenhower - era white supremacy isn't exactly the stuff of nuance to begin with.

«Shrek,» based on a well - loved children's book by William Steig, has plenty going for it: The story of a fat, cranky, green ogre with no social skills, it has a rough - and - tumble jauntiness that's often hard to resist.

There's a somewhat contrived jauntiness to this blending of fact and fiction that may leave cynical audiences annoyed.

It's a premise that calls for pitch - dark satire to have a prayer of succeeding, but instead has a disastrous tone of sunny sitcom jauntiness.

Looking on through door panel windows, they notice, now diminishing rapidly, a distinct absence of jauntiness in the body language of their AO.

The upper is lighter in tone than the lower and the sculpture seems to bounce with an angular jauntiness.

Leckey's multimedia work is certainly appealing in its breezy jauntiness.

Because the brilliant part of adding «with no loss of enthusiasm» is that it intimates a certain level of jauntiness.

Wes finds her stillness, at odds with the tetchy movements of her red - tracksuit wearing brother, Chas (Ben Stiller) and the jauntiness of the head of the family, Royal (Gene Hackman).