Sentences with phrase «less genial»

The underlying data, however, depict a somewhat less genial narrative.

I wish the film had been a little tougher and less genial — Lord knows he can handle it.

Paterson is evidently less genial toward another former state official, reportedly badmouthing former Gov. Mario Cuomo as Cuomo's son continues to mull a run against Paterson.

Not exact matches

Mainly, because in all the verbiage about freedoms of beliefs there is something so important, so blatantly acute yet everyone do not even mention it, except - oh genial me: Why would anyone in the whole world support any type of creed / belief / religion where a whole lot of humans — as in millions of human women — are not allowed to go to school, to even just read and write - less become a teacher, doctor, lawyer, president of their own companies, their own countries, mutilated by the millions when they reach puberty, WHY is this allowed?

These are actors after all, but they're genial performers, convincingly communicating a lifelong bond that permits such an accessible invasion of privacy, making the plot feel less like a crude sitcom and more like a bawdy home movie that's spun wildly out of control.

This year, with NBC's Jimmy Fallon anchoring the show (the same network that's airing the Globes) I expect a lot less of that biting commentary and more of Fallon's genial, inoffensive blandness.

Of the many thrills that come from interviewing creative people — variously, unknown, ascendant and at the top of their game — there's also the under - discussed flipside: talking with, 1) vapid young «actors» (line - reciters is more like it) who have neither a sense of film history nor an appreciation for their occupational good fortune and, 2) perfectly genial writers and directors who are nonetheless so relentlessly on script — occasionally reciting entire career - checking passages verbatim from press notes no doubt spit - polished into significance by some friendly faction in the dark wings — that you realize they actually have less summary insight or thoughts about several months or years of their own work than you do after 90 to 120 minutes with it.

(The late works — mostly genial variations on old themes — are often more refined as paintings while less disturbing than the early works.)