Sentences with phrase «lampoon of»

Actress Julia Stiles, whose oeuvre runs the gamut from drippy rom - coms (Down to You, The Prince and Me) to blockbuster thrillers (the Bourne trilogy), busts out her comedic chops in an online lampoon of

Actress Julia Stiles, whose oeuvre runs the gamut from drippy rom - coms (Down to You, The Prince and Me) to blockbuster thrillers (the Bourne trilogy), busts out her comedic chops in an online lampoon of celebrities - turned - fashion - designers, specifically skewering stars who paint themselves as paragons of altruism and virtue.

Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust is a rollicking, innuendo - laden lampoon of Hollywood that features open world sand box game play that includes exploration, platforming, racing and puzzle - solving to complete missions.

The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence.In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life.

I never intended to have anyone like her in the book, but when Eragon and Brom got to Teirm, I decided to include a lampoon of my sister, who coincidentally is also named Angela.

From a writer who has been lauded as «an original — stylistically ingenious, savagely funny, always unpredictable» (Philadelphia Inquirer) and «unerring» (San Diego Union - Tribune), who has been compared to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, and John Updike, a writer whose pen has given us a devastating lampoon of the nuclear - arms race and an audacious answer to the outrageous question «What if God had a daughter?»

- School Library Journal» [A] unique, caustic, thought - provoking lampoon of America's obsession with wealth.»

A welter of motifs and clues (a sluggish psyche's gradually unclogged remembrances, tell - tale snapshots in a promiscuous high schooler's cellphone, a key scene played from different angles) fused by superb filmmaking, it at times suggests a dark - humored lampoon of one of Naruse's odes to maternal diligence, but with a tarantula sting of its own.

It holds an 84 % rating at Rotten Tomatoes with the consensus being, «Though it threatens to buckle under the weight of its meta gags, Deadpool 2 is a gory, gleeful lampoon of the superhero genre buoyed by Ryan Reynolds» undeniable charm.»

BULWORTH Warren Beatty directed, co - wrote and stars in this brilliant, outrageous lampoon of American politics and mediagenics.

What begins as a lampoon of bourgeois machismo and male anxiety develops into an incisive allegory for the state of contemporary Greece, and leaves a final impression as an empathetic, razor - sharp study of human nature itself.

Flashback release this week: «Tropic Thunder» (Dreamworks), Ben Stiller's lampoon of moviemaking madness with Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, and Tom Cruise.

The big difference is tone: Our Man in Havana is a lampoon of international espionage games and the gullible officers running Britain's MI6 like an old boy's club.

And poorer Penelope Cruz (G - Force, Vicky Cristina Barcelona), as Guido's mistress, Carla: she has to prance around in an unintentional lampoon of sexiness — it's kinda like that Victoria's Secret commercial that Michael Bay recently directed, in fact — in an attempt to convey how insanely devoted to Contini she is, to the point of... well, I won't spoil, in case you insist on seeing Nine, but women who do what Carla does are not devoted — they're mentally ill.

We see his reasons in a flashback which leads to a deliciously on - target lampoon of a James Bond opening musical number (song courtesy of Celine Dion) complete with Deadpool - inspired fake credits that act as a commentary on the prologue.

The title theme is a lampoon of Oklahoma's «Oh What a Beautiful Morning» and the score weaves throughout, though there is a hint of synth leftover from the eighties.

Their pastoral educations on death and bereavement began and, for many of them, ended with The American Way of Death — Jessica Mitford's 1983 best - selling lampoon of funerals and funeral directors.

When debate about an artist's merit no longer seems to have any point, one is left either with an icon of culture, too sacred to enjoy, or with a target of satire, brought down to our more humdrum level by a vaudeville lampooning of the unapproachable totem, as when graffiti artists paint a moustache on reproductions of the Mona Lisa.

Comic strips from the 1950s through the 1980s took an increasingly secular attitude toward religious symbols, Heeren said, whereas The Simpsons displays a «much greater freedom in the lampooning of these symbols.»

With their new classical names, and their insights into history and literature, their attitudes stretched all the way from a lampooning of the gullible piety of the masses to a more philosophical agnosticism or a mysticism, which stood apart from ecclesiastical authority.

Gingrich ends the latest clip with a lampooning of evolution — we're talking Bishop Wilberforce - type stuff.

If you're unfamiliar with the work of Tom Spears, a reporter at the Ottawa Citizen, you have missed some clever lampooning of fake journals.

The Cornetto Trilogy, as it has come to be known, works so well as comedy because of its caricatures and lampooning of traditional clichés; Cuban Fury on the other hand falls into these clichés almost consistently, playing out exactly as you'd expect.

Fortunately, Leigh's grubby humour (and lampooning of the upper class, including a hilariously lisping John Ruskin) makes Turner someone whose company remains a pleasure.

Though the lampooning of the «cabin» - type horror films is fully explored, for some reason, Goddard and Whedon decide to also spoof J - horror films like Ringu as well.

I Know... is a more conventional thriller than Scream, which mined a mother lode of satire with its lampooning of horror clichés.

Presaging Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley and exerting noticeable influence on artists such as Barry McGee and Ed Templeton, Saul's oeuvre is long overdue for deeper examination and this comprehensive publication provides the first complete overview of his work over the past five decades — from his epic historical canvases to his homage to Thomas Hart Benton, his lampoons of art world sacred cows and works evidencing his particular take on the existential dilemmas of the aging American male.

Artist Olivia Locher, who scoured the statute books of all 50 states in America, discovering these peculiar eccentricities and many others, doesn't have the answers to these questions, but has created a series of striking photographic images lampooning some of the hundreds of decisions, big and small, made every year by local and state lawmakers.

Colorful gesticulations conceal sections of rigid patterning, a tete - a-tete between abstract expressionism and hard - edge abstraction that implies a gentle lampooning of the taxonomic tradition.

Not exact matches

This setup is hilarious to me because, well, I am that dispassionate form of VC being lampooned on - screen.

The new Google Glass project lead — also the current Nest CEO and one of the founding fathers of the Apple iPod — plans to completely scrap the original and ridiculously lampooned product, The New York Times reports.

In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attack, publications in Russia, China and Malaysia — all of which have been criticised for suppressing free speech — said the magazine was wrong to lampoon Islam.

It was the out - of - touch PC maker that comedian John Hodgman lampooned in TV ads for Apple in the late 2000s as a hapless corporate stiff.

In honour of this latest bit of inter-brand lampooning, here are a few other mocking ads that hit home.

He was certainly one of the most lampooned, as evidenced by a recurring «Tonight Show» gag involving a dance troupe called «The Dancing Itos,» clad in glasses, beards and judicial robes.

The Netflix bashing had gone mainstream a week earlier when Saturday Night Live lampooned the company's YouTube video in a searing skit that mocked everything from the name of the spinoff to Hastings» goatee.

Among Mr. Gurley's main concerns are Silicon Valley's growing self - importance, which he has said is expertly captured in «Silicon Valley,» the HBO show that lampoons the misadventures of several entrepreneurs who hope to strike it rich.

I think also that because a good deal of it will be reactionary, it will for a time, be riding an undercurrent of disrespect, ego, a kind of self - righteousness (oddly enough), and an antagonistic — almost bullying — mentality lacking in grace or love, lampooning those thinking differently.

There is no reason why Jacobs should not lampoon a book after a brief glance rather than dignifying it with a review, but it is a bit much to accompany the caricature with advice to the author on the virtues of close reading.

I'd be fine if the cartoon was lampooning an actual conservative belief or pointing out a real logical fallacy of conservative thought; but this doesn't seem to be doing that.

It was frustrating to see an idea that was so obviously pro-life and pro-family get lampooned by the very people who say they want millions of low - income women to have millions more babies.

In «Mr. Bad Example,» he lampooned the greed of the eighties, and in «Boom Boom Mancini» and «The Hockey Song» he questioned the hidden violence which often drives American sports.

Galileo Galilei lampooned the misuse of Occam's Razor in his Dialogue.

All this can be brought under a more nuanced view of inspiration than the one that Eichenwald lampoons.

In «The Fightin» Side of Me,» he lampooned antiwar protesters: «I read about some squirrelly guy who claims he just don't believe in fightin» and I wonder just how long the rest of us can count on being free.»

That God, who rewards the wealthy landed aristocrats with riches and long lives and curses the poor, is the butt of a merciless lampoon that issues from the outraged sensitivities of a writer who has acutely observed how the oppressed and infirm suffer undeserved evil at the hands of the powerful and rich.

But I fear that Wilson is inclined to treat it as a lampoon for the sake of avoiding the argument it was bearing.

I see myself, however, as having depicted and lampooned «another Jesus» (2 Corinthians 11:4), the one made over in the image of those whose PC propaganda he is made to spout.

Sermons are cultural artifacts wherein structures of authority and symbol are revealed, subverted, lampooned, or refurbished.

With the publication of Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to A Meaningful Life, William Deresiewicz's sober assessment of contemporary higher education was both praised and lampooned by commentators across the spectrum.