Sentences with phrase «little pathos»

If you like stories about close knit friends & families with a little pathos & humor, you will love these books.

Huffman's performance being the sort of stunt in a minor independent film that plays fast and loose with smug liberal paternalism should guarantee her an Oscar nomination — and it can't hurt that another Leonardo DiCaprio doppelgänger arrives post-Michael Pitt in the form of Kevin Zegers, trailing a little pathos and a little inappropriate titillation on his thin shoulders.

It is brilliant typecasting and the play sparkles with wit and verve and even a little pathos for the do - gooder Kyra, who misses the good life of her former lover - employer Tom, since she's now living in a freezing flat and can't even afford to buy edible cheese on her school - teacher - to - the - poor salary.

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There is pathos in this prayer of Jesus, where he thanks God that he has revealed the truth at least to this precious little band of people (Matt.

Urizen is a peculiarly Blakean creation, and while he may initially have been little more than a parody of the Christian God, he gradually but surely brings to expression much of the fullness of Blake's pathos.

«Let the little children come to me» is Jesus» model of theological pathos; «I am the light of the world» His hermeneutic.

Whether through humor or pathos, he excelled at illuminating the struggles of average men against a callous world; as director Billy Wilder once noted, «There was a little bit of genius in everything he did.»

A little movie called Drive, wherein Isaac let Ryan Gosling take the glory, but brought pathos and zeal to his role as a jilted boyfriend.

Matthias Schoenaerts has not been unduly stretched since his previous detached lead role in Alan Rickman's recent costume drama, A Little Chaos, and again appears reluctant to navigate his character beyond specific emotional boundaries, but does inject just enough pathos into Gabriel Oak to consider him a plausible suitor for the headstrong but fragile Bathsheba.

If there's a drawback in the biopic department, it is that for all the pathos on show, we learn little about Turing's later accomplishments; also his imprisonment feels slightly glossed over in the final act.

Such a lovely little flick with both humour and pathos.

This is particularly true of the beautiful mo - cap and voice performance by Steve Zahn (The Good Dinosaur, Knights of Badassdom) that imbues Bad Ape, a solitary chimp zoo survivor whom Caesar encounters, with grand pathos and sweet eager humor: he is a creature — a person — who has been driven a little mad by loneliness and is now overenthusiastic in his enjoyment of new company.

It is ultimately little more than an episodic patchwork of over-burdened vignettes that among them share only a desire to manufacture unearned pathos and manipulate events towards the most expedient solution.

There are surprises along the way and while there is little respite from the action, there is plenty of engaging banter between the protagonists and even genuine pathos as the heroes journey into ever more challenging situations.

While Lady Bird never quite lives up to the comedic promise of that opening scene in the car, it does go on to deliver a steady stream of low - key humour, a little heart - break and some well timed pathos.

One does not often think of grown men as being «wistful» or full of «pathos»; only little plucky orphans in pig - tails and pinafores should be «wistful.»

No one can blame him for the path he's taken as one of the big screen's biggest comedy stars, but it is a little unfortunate for the pathos he provides here to have been kept in storage ever since (save for Greenberg).

A high - school wrestling comedy with perennial indie schlub Paul Giamatti coaching sounds like it could be an unbearable retread of recent bombs like Mr. Woodcock or Drillbit Taylor, but with a surefire ensemble cast and a tricky balance of humor and pathos more in line with Little Miss Sunshine, Win Win turns out to be one of the early sleeper surprises of 2011.

It may even gain a little added pathos along the way.

He is a totally secular, un-fundamentalist good ol' boy from an oil port in Texas - Port Arthur, also the home of the late Janis Joplin, with whose randy generosity, narrative howl and sense of pathos Rauschenberg has more than a little in common.