Sentences with phrase «little riffs»

It was a soup I make quite often this time of year - with little riffs or tweaks each time.

This particular recipe is a little riff on a popular Persian dish called borani - e-bademjaan that I grew up eating.

Before I get to today's recipe, I wanted to do a little riff on something that's been on my mind lately.

The Christmas table leads to a little riff on Christmas trees that includes a famous photograph of a dead tree in the studio of Joseph Beuys, a picture of Beuys» sculpture «Snowfall» (1965), which has three stripped sapling trunks blanketed with felt, and a photo of Bay Area artist Jay DeFeo (1929 - 1989) under a Christmas tree.

I had a little riff I had prepared about the carbon tax, and he gave me the big «Ix - nay» on that.

That's what that little riff about the horse manure was about.

Not exact matches

The royal family have faced many scandals and other public scrutiny over the years, and they most certainly don't want another riff in the family due to a silly little board game.

The firm said it kept open the RIFF fund, launched in 2007, to accommodate investors who wanted a pure futures portfolio, but that there was little demand for such an offering.

I sometimes use different chili powders or add a little cayenne and maybe a little smoked paprika, but this is the base I riff off of.

I made a few little airport snacks to bring along including these peanut butter crispy treats, a riff on the version I made for Super Natural Cooking.

With this recipe, I see an opportunity to riff on saag paneer — maybe swap out the swiss for some paneer and add a pinch of garam masala and ground nutmeg for a little indian flair just to see what happens...

Because of my inability to follow a recipe with any level of commitment, I riffed a little.

Will make this again and riff on it - mushrooms, maybe a little wild rice...

A riff on the classic pecan pie, this dessert is rich, chocolaty, and a little fancier with its freestanding fluted sides.

The Little Donkey riff is raw chocolate chip cookie dough (also with pasteurized eggs) served with milk foam made from condensed milk, whole milk, and sea salt.

Professional comedians Vanessa Hollingshead and A. Whitney Brown opened the night by riffing on drugs and religion, which prompted little more than nervous laughter from the audience.

I feel very French in them and they make me want to dance like Anna Kendrick in a recent SNL sketch that was riffing on something French (I know very little about France).

Aside from a few crunching riffs and a smattering of neat melodies, there's very little to recommend within Drones.

Its absurdist scenarios serve as little more than a ramshackle frame for bizarre non sequiturs, stoned pop - culture riffing, and some of the weirdest gags ever to make it into a studio - released film.

And part of the problem with this sequel is how little it lets its star just riff with silly abandon, as he did throughout the original, rather than advance the serious themes set out by Yuh Nelson and her crew.

Of course, if you're not a Northern Californian, these insignificant amusements will be lost on you completely — in which case the movie has even less to offer, save this one piece of trivia: Heather Donahue, in her first film role since «The Blair Witch Project,» shows a little range in a small part, doing a tittering Annette Bening riff as a pretty blonde preppy Prinze dates while he and Forlani are in mutual denial.

If you root around on YouTube a little bit, you can find the outtakes from «This Is 40,» in which Melissa McCarthy works out various riffs insulting Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann, and it is flat - out brilliant.

Riffing off: Disney's numerous animated adventures featuring AA Milne's bear of very little brain, beginning with 1966's Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree.

Though plenty of the film's scenes possess an honed improv feel much like the extemporaneous riffing of Anchorman, they are also usually more focused — in terms of plotting, there's so little time to waste when the end is nigh.

At heart, Tusk is really little more than a jokey riff on The Human Centipede, its mad - scientist character obsessed with creating not a surgical conga line, but a kind of shrieking man - walrus.

There, she's mooned over by a fellow burger - flipper (Paul Dano, riffing on the sullen rebel he played in Little Miss Sunshine) and regarded as managerial material by her boss (Esai Morales).

This weak riff on Sergio Leone's classic western — just a little too pathetic to be endearing — sets the general tone for the film's dialogue and humour, which runs the gamut from «that's what she said» to «your mum».

The duo recreate their favorite cinema classics as puny and humorous little shorts: «Eyes Wide Butt,» «Senior Citizen Kane,» a riff on Jean - Luc Godard's «Breathless» called «Breath Less» (about guy who has to use an inhaler), and «Pooping Tom» (a play on Powell & Pressburger's «Peeping Tom»).

However, his wickedly funny, acerbic, well - shot anthology film «Wild Tales,» made up of six unconnected segments, each playing as a sort of dark - hearted riff on the absurdities of modern life (a little like a present - day take on Roald Dahl «s «Tales of the Unexpected «-RRB-, was his biggest hit to date, becoming the highest grossing film of all time in Argentina.

We had so much fun just letting him riff with that little boy, Alkoya [Brunson], who played his son.

The camera, the design (Gerald Sullivan), the editing (David Trachtenberg) are always doing stuff — there are always oddball flourishes like sudden camera tilts or exaggerated symmetries (it's almost superfluous these days comparing such effects to Wes Anderson, they're so much part of the landscape) and little comic riffs, like the photo of Hugh Jackman on Rachel's wall, which suddenly lectures Greg in the actual voice of Hugh Jackman.

For a riff on the Diner Dash - Cake Mania formula, Ratatouille is actually a fairly entertaining little game.

«Disaster Movie» does little more than congratulate its audience on recognizing the source of its riffs.

treats it as little more than a riff or a goof — a premise to hang gags on.

Finally, someone let him direct his own script, and the result was Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, a riotous riff on the hard - boiled works of Raymond Chandler (chapter titles are all from Philip Marlowe novels: Lady in the Lake, The Simple Art of Murder, The Little Sister, etc), that nimbly satirizes the movie business, detective - movie plotting (there are always two cases that implausibly tie up together), the action hero as idiot and the conventions of the film noir voiceover («Oh shit, back up, back up, I forgot to mention — Jesus, this is terrible narration, it's like my dad telling a joke and saying, oh, I should have told you the cowboy's horse is blue...»).

Basically a riff on Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians template, Five Dolls exploits the mounting paranoia as a group of emotionally and morally promiscuous rich folks are trapped on an island with a killer (with various red herrings tossed in for protracted plots twisting).

Well, it's actually four minutes, but you imagine an incessantly repeating little guitar riff over a synthesised banjo and drum machines and you can easily see how time could seem to stand still.

Reynolds winds up romancing Arterton's co-accountant Anna Kendrick, after he makes a grave error with Arterton, and while Michael R. Perry's script occasionally feels a little like a talking - animal comedy riff on some of the plot elements in Thomas Harris» novel «Red Dragon,» you might as well steal from the best.

Thelma (Thunderbird, 15) Now available to stream on Mubi, Joachim Trier's queer Nordic riff on Carrie got too little attention in cinemas: it's cool and delicate and brittle as frost on a windowpane.

In fact, this definitive shoot «em up, which tested just how long you can riff on little but bullets and banter during a protracted massacre in a Boston warehouse, was shot on the edge of its makers» Brighton hometown, just as their no - budget debut Down Terrace had been six films (and only eight years) ago.

The class clown can ruin the mood to learn, but with a little understanding and a riff of your own, you can stop these jokesters from bouncing off the walls.

Ritchie Blackmore's Smoke on the Water riff comes through so clearly that one is almost transported back to that famous fire in Montreux, the requisite volume required for any proper listening of Deep Purple's anthem accompanied by precious little distortion.

Her second novel, March, a riff on Little Women, won the Pulitzer for fiction [read our interview with Brooks about March] and her two other novels were also BookPage favorites.

And to riff a little on your title — Politicians soon will hang from trees, you got to shoot a shyster or two boys

Even the traditional Rockstar satire was a little weaker than before, riffing on familiar stuff.

These little irritating things like the music score playing over and over (the same guitar riffs on a loop will eventually drive you insane), characters repeating themselves, and saying things like: «My role is to see the hidden truth that lies beneath each battle» just seem a little bit silly to me and decrease the overall experience of the game, unless you turn the music off and skip most of the dialogue.

At times it even feels a little too on the nose when it comes to riffing directly from the Blizzard classic, but with a unique art style and a fascinating blend between tower defense and real time strategy mechanics, Iron Marines manages to feel distinctly different even if it is giving a unbelievably massive hat tip towards the StarCraft universe...

I very much agree with that philosophy, but little about Dangerous Golf's trick shots or secrets or cheesy guitar riffs is much fun, and even its destruction is disappointing.

Kinda a little disappointed the music in between riffs has changed into a bass sound, but it still great

Punctuating the moment - to - moment mayhem is a riff - laden, guitar - rock soundtrack that can, unfortunately, get a little on the repetitive side.