Sentences with phrase «lampooning on»

Developer Xatrix didn't hold back from lampooning on redneck culture, with pork rinds and Googoo clusters providing our hillbilly heroes with health - restoring sustenance.

The challenger later claimed to «have great knowledge of foreign affairs» based on his overseas vacations and his operation of a foreign exchange student program in Japan at a Brooklyn high school — which culminated in a vicious national lampooning on the Daily Show.

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

Yet all three disavowed partisan agendas, often welcoming as guests the same public figures — from Bill Clinton to Donald Trump — whom they lampooned on other nights.

McMillan came to national attention as a political novelty for his performance in a 2010 gubernatorial debate, which was subsequently lampooned on Saturday Night Live.

Not exact matches

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.

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.»

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.

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.

In the traditional tongue - in - cheek address to the Washington press corps on Saturday night, the president lampooned the Republican frontrunner's foreign policy and business credentials while also mercilessly mocking the efforts of his fellow Democrat to appeal to younger voters.

On the other hand, he romanticises territorial fissures that Gen. Yakubu Gowon started, as a «process of national integration and cohesion», which nevertheless folks elsewhere would lampoon as military era «unitary federalism», which Gowon started with 12 states but which, at the last count, was 36.

The topsy - turvy race between Republican U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm and his Democratic opponent, Domenic Recchia, which has seen everything from a 20 - count federal indictment against the incumbent to the challenger being lampooned by Jon Stewart on «The Daily Show,» was hit with another bombshell on Friday when the results of the latest

Mr. Schneiderman's reputation for propriety was so entrenched in Albany that he was meant to be lampooned at a legislative correspondents» variety show on Monday night — before the story broke — for being «so lame,» and unscathed by the scandals that have often waylaid Albany politicians.

He dodged interviews, boasted of his fealty to the party machine, gave conflicting answers to basic questions on candidate questionnaires and was lampooned for publishing a newspaper of his own when none of the real ones endorsed him.

The much - lampooned principal of PS 24, a K through 5th grade school on West 236th Street, has been reassigned.

One notorious line in the film Cruel Intentions refers to the email format as the last bastion of «social recluses,» and numerous other media have lampooned the process of online dating at one time or another.Needless to say, times have changed, and opinions on this subject have shifted dramatically.

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.

Some of the lampooning is tacked - on like the non-idyllic portrayals of LA and NY, but «Mother's Day» is first and foremost a rabid exploitation movie and it drips an unbearably sickening atmosphere (the supernatural Queenie freeze - frame is a pulpy jump scare) which is the purpose of these films.

It is also an interesting political take on the chain of command in the military, lampooning the superior officers as incompetent fools, despite having their hearts in the right place, the film manages to successfully create sympathy for Col. Berman (Ed Harris) in that despite his general inability to do the job, he is actually well liked.

Enter Franz Liebkind (Will Ferrell), clearly a Nazi sympathizer, but in the tradition of «The Great Dictator,» «To Be or Not to Be» and the like, Brooks relies on Ferrell's mastery of the absurd to lampoon Nazisâ $» to hilarious effect.

Blind faith, virgin birth, crucifixion — nothing is sacred in this epic send - up of ancient times, which draws on the cornball biblical blockbusters of the 1950s to lampoon celebrity culture in any era.

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.

«Shrek 2» sends Shrek, Donkey and Princess Fiona on a whirlwind of new adventures with more fairy - tale favorites to lampoon along the way.

But true to Franco, who exists on the fringes of mainstream (and has now come under fire over allegations of sexual misconduct), his take on Wiseau is a stark lampoon that defies every imaginable convention.

In fact, after «Walk the Line» and «Ray,» people were so done with biopics that most people passed on arguably the best biopic of that era, even though it expertly lampooned the biopic structure and had a damned good soundtrack to boot («Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story,» we still love ya, baby).

Everything takes on a new meaning when there are zombies lumbering around outside, and writer / director Burr Steers» script does a good job of lampooning the manners and customs of the period by drawing attention to how ridiculous it all sounds.

Brooks is a genuinely awful director when he lacks a template to lampoon, thus here we get medium shots filmed on echoing soundstages that nonetheless manage, somehow, to convey suffocating claustrophobia.

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.

While the original movie was (depending on who you believe) an examination of either McCarthyist conformity or encroaching communism, the remake takes things into weirder, more oblique territory, lampooning the fallout from the»60s ideal with its lentils - and - beansprouts nature freaks and its bandwagon - jumping psychotherapy converts.

The performances range from terrible - on - purpose (Fiennes, Close, and Jason Isaacs, whose first line as Pucci's father --»... You let your grades go now, maybe you don't get into a top - tier school» — hastily but explicitly lampoons the genre's default father - son conflict, thus throwing The Chumscrubber's true target of ridicule (movies about the middle - class rather than the middle - class itself) into sharp relief) to oblivious (Camilla Belle).

The (anti--RRB- heroes face plenty of wayward friendly fire before Colt comically mistakes them for actual heroes advancing the front into enemy territory, and a late scene lampoons Eastwood's spaghetti westerns, as our boys face off — on a war - torn French lane — with the Nazi enemy.

And, impressively, Deadpool 2 ends up being funnier than the original, assaulting its audience with a consistent stream of wickedly insightful jokes that lampoon everything from the current landscape of comic - book properties to Reynolds» own roller coaster ride as a celebrity, both on the screen and off.

Brilliant on the level of pure entertainment, and smart - and still consistently funny - in terms of the treatment of its source material, by lampooning with such insightful wit, The Lego Batman Movie, ironically, also ends up being a great Batman movie in its own right.

The R8 Spider is pretty bad ass after all... However there's so much to like about this car and so few things to lampoon, it's difficult to think of another European car, let alone an Audi, that delivers such compelling value on so many levels.

Disclosure: I need to get around to commenting on / lampooning the FTC's vague requirement that bloggers disclose commercial relationships, but in the meantime I hold no stocks of any of the companies mentioned in this post.

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.

The old Mae West — I quickly drifted... My commentaries began to include anything & everything that took my fancy: Stocks, dumb celebrities, current affairs, political lampoons, hangover cures, primers on technical analysis, etc..

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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.

In one unruly, titillating performance, Smith flipped the good ol' boys» fraternity of rock and roll on its ear by lampooning the muffled sexism of -LSB-.....]

60 Minutes are keen to promote their report this Sunday on Contemporary Art with Morley Safer visiting Art Basel Miami Beach and, in this clip above, taking a little beating from Jeffrey Deitch over the rise in value of art Safer heartily lampooned.

Executed on distressed unprimed linen, they were dominated by giant penis forms doubling variously as military tanks and despotic heads of state — as in Cockman # 1 (1966) in which Bernstein lampooned Governor George Wallace of Alabama, depicting the face of the southern segregationist as a pink hairy testicle sack with a flaccid member for a nose.

As consumers, we're often told that the perfect handyman tool, business plan, or instructional manual can guide you towards your best self; Okay Mountain riffs on these distorted perceptions, and lampoons their fallacies with a shrewd wit.

Rocking on his sculpture Charger, Böröcz's performance will lampoon the creative studio process, as well as our endless material consumption.

Banksy opened Dismaland, a large scale group show lampooning Disneyland on 21 August 2015 and permanently closed on 27 September 2015.

So all I'll say on the subject now is to discreetly note that there appears to be a certain, Pentagon - bound, Klingon element in the Navy, of the sort lampooned in H. M. S. Pinafore, that, metaphorically, needs a spell in the dry - dock where its hull can be scraped clean of encrusted «Beltway Barnacles».

The organization's climate programs include the school curriculum questioning widely accepted climate science and its annual International Conference on Climate Change, an event many scientists lampoon as «Denialpalooza.»

Inhofe wasn't mindlessly saying a brief cold spell meant the collective whole of global warming was a hoax, he was lampooning the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and their predictions of warmer snowless winters (full text here).

During the 2008 federal election campaign, then - prime minister Stephen Harper took particular delight in lampooning Liberal leader Stephane Dion's green shift plan as a tax on everything.

Now Carter has another legal humor site, In Loco Veritas, where he lampoons the legal news in much the same style as the popular parody site The Onion takes on more general news.