Sentences with phrase «like bombasts»

But big painting in the present art context tends to look like bombast, not grandeur, no matter how well - adjusted a picture's internal relations.

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Apart from its smug villain (Alex Veadov)-- another Russian sociopath who hisses things to underlings like «You talk to the police and I rape and disembowel your mother» — We Own the Night has none of the usual genre bombast.

Ditching the high - budget bombast of his previous work, director Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow, Mr. and Mrs. Smith) has put together a minimalist production that would make early work like Swingers look well funded.

Like Game of Thrones crossed with Braveheart but stripped of most of the budget, this scrappy film tells an intriguing story without the usual Hollywood bombast.

While it may promise some action bombast and movie stars, Greg Mottola's Keeping Up with the Joneses basically operates at the level of a network sitcom, and not a critically acclaimed one like Black - ish or Fresh Off the Boat.

And even though I did really like most of it, Super 8 disappointed me a bit toward the end, when it eschewed wonder in favor of bombast.

In an age where character and stakes take a further backseat to increasingly absurd, conxtext - free bombast (for which the Star Wars prequels take massive flak, with current examples like Jurassic World even more guilty than those lackluster films), Abrams» film feels almost subversive in its steadfast focus on character to get us cheering.

Part of this may be due to director Taika Waititi, who is a newbie in the world of big - budget blockbusters, but like many other directors tapped to helm Marvel movies (including Gunn and Watts) has an intriguing background in indie cinema that would seem to have little to do with IMAX - worthy digital bombast.

Watch and marvel as Ceylan's film deflates all that bombast like air from a tyre.

Rather, it was Justin Lin's Star Trek Beyond that delivered franchise - movie goods with a minimum of bombast, plus nods to its series» past that felt elegant or clever, rather than like the missing first 20 pages of some overwritten instruction manual.

The bombast of these pronouncements couldn't be further from the world of a non-studio, intensely personal artist like Terence Davies, but the British filmmaker nevertheless begins the narrative proper of his 1992 masterpiece The Long Day Closes with the blazing brass pomp of Twentieth Century Fox's iconic fanfare, written by Alfred Newman.

Amidst Trump's bombast and the «hell - with -»em - all» frustration that has propelled outsiders, measured talk about education improvement can seem out of touch, like the candidate is missing the big picture.

But when they get irritated too much by the mosquito, the music changes from a mysterious espionage soundtrack or elevator - grade easy listening to bombast fight tunes, and they engage in some of the weirdest battles with the mosquito: While they stomp around like Godzilla trying to squash it.

I like the attitude, the bombast, the click of her heels.

That unabashed bombast has made Wiley a walking superlative: the most successful black artist since Basquiat, possibly the wealthiest painter of his generation, certainly the one who made his name earliest (he was 26 for his first major solo show), a gay man who has become the great painter of machismo for the swag era, a bootstrapper from South Central who talks like a Yale professor (much of the time), a genius self - promoter who's managed to have it both ways in an art world that loves having its critical cake and eating the spectacle of it, too, and a crossover phenomenon who is at once the hip - hop world's favorite fine artist (Spike Lee and LL Cool J own pieces) and the gallery world's most popular hip - hop ambassador.

BRUCE HIGH QUALITY FOUNDATION We like a little hyperbolic bombast to get us in the spirit of the event.

Establishments like Wall Street and Main Street may be astonished by the success of XRP, but they may be put - off by the anti-banking bombast.