Sentences with word «lumpen»

As we watch this safely - under - the - speed - limit parade of lumpen suburban regularness, though, we begin to wonder if director Greg Berlanti (TV's Arrow and Riverdale) has emphasized sexuality at the expense of personality.

I've gone out of my way to argue that he is a Burkean Whig in the mould of Harold Macmillan, not a Thatcherite retread, and have been deluged with lumpen abuse for saying so.

beautiful Mila Kunis falling for lumpen everyman Jason Segel.

The result of such division was the development of two types of capitalism, and auto - centric dynamic capitalism in the West and a blocked, lumpen capitalism in the colonized nations.

America's radical welfare policy in the 1930s, as Hutton's piece reminds us, did not just use people cynically as lumpen manual labour.

In Comfort mode the ride is optimised, but spirited driving is discouraged by lumpen body movement.

Issues we had with the F - Type V8S promise to be corrected by the following: Torque Vectoring by Braking to eliminate understeer, Jaguar Adaptive Dynamics with revised spring rates for progressive handling, carbon ceramic brakes (398 / 380 mm front and rear, reducing overall unsprung weight by 46 lbs) to handle that great lumpen mass of an engine, and the latest electric LSD to make the most of on - throttle rotation.

The broken, lumpen B - roads around evo's Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire homes have exposed many an oversprung performance car over the years, but the S1 absorbs the endless bumps sweetly and without deflection, keeping its four contact patches firmly in touch with the tarmac.

Her orchestrated assemblages tease out notions of function and display, as when she nestles awkward glazed vessels on worn readymade armchairs, couches, and tables, or props them up on lumpen or lean plinths of her own devising.

Rather than blocky corners and a thick, almost lumpen body, the Fire HD is all curves and carefully molded plastic and metal.

There, he combines his signature material with popcorn, dyes, and enamel to form richly textured paintings (sometimes drawing over them with a sharpie) and lumpen objects on smooth walnut pedestals.

The way it excels on track yet copes so well with even the most lumpen roads reveals its true dynamic depth, and the way it wrings every last molecule of pace from a modestly powerful engine is magic.

We are as lumpen frogs to the sporting gods.

The welfare debate will be an unsolvable dead - end until lumpen - unemployment is eradicated.

As Anastasia and Christian argue back and forth with only minor variations over admittedly major points of contention — his possessive nature infringing on her charmed career, their disagreement over when to start a family, whether she should remove her bikini top on the beach or not — Leonard's lumpen script zeroes in on a tinny thriller subplot, centered on the violent, mysteriously vengeful stalking of Anastasia's smarmy ex-boss Hyde (Eric Johnson) as the main attraction.

Directed, written by Alicia Scherson, based on the novel «Una novelita lumpen» by Roberto Bolano.

When you hire capable pros like Jude Law and David Thewlis to be villains in your movie, in the tradition of plummy British villains going back to Basil Rathbone, you're paying them for their continental air of contempt, their aristocratic, arrogant disregard for lumpen humanity.

The extremely likable Nick Frost is the driving force behind this rather lumpen British romcom about a one - time salsa champion slipping back into the alligator shoes in pursuit of love.

Charging over the same lumpen surfaces that agitated the M Roadster's chassis results in a more extreme reaction from the Alpina as it struggles to maintain control of vertical wheel movement, getting crashy where the M merely bobbles.

You expect the Subaru to show the Golf to have nose - heavy, lumpen handling.

There's enough connection to feel any changes in surface or grip levels, so you don't get any nasty surprises, but equally the «noise» of your average lumpen country road is nicely filtered out.

Lumpy can also mean lumpen, as with Matthew Monahan's Nation Builder.

Some, like the massive Ultrasuede Wave, were pieces of cushy upholstered furniture crushed by lumpen ceramic boulders; others, like Third Eye, were abstract paintings that veered off into Rauschenbergian assemblage with folding chairs attached to their stretcher bars.

Creed's pieces, if you can call them anything so lumpen, are often described by their titles.

Faces melt into torn and lumpen clay; marks and scrawls are isolated, then mutate; ticks and traits are foregrounded; personality is evidence left behind.

Organized by Peter Pakesch, chairman of the Maria Lassnig Foundation in Vienna, and Paul Schimmel, the former Museum of Contemporary Art chief curator and now a partner in the gallery, the survey shows Lassnig (1919 - 2014) dredging the best out of hard - edged abstraction, gestural expressionism, cartoon figuration and lumpen self - portraiture.

The eclectic range of works includes provocative lumpen - sculptures by Franz West and Rosemarie Trockel, a playfully tormented painting by Wols (Wolfgang Schulze) and a hilarious copy of Raphael's «The School of Athens» by Malcolm Morley, in which a pantheon of Greek philosophers is rendered in gooey globs of acrylic, like a thickly frosted cake.

Taking a cue from Donald Judd's «Specific Objects» but enlivened with a little bit of lumpen plasticity a là Claes Oldenburg's 1961 papier - machês, Stacy Fisher's sculptures show the rare combination of style and wit that is increasingly hard to find in today's sculptural climate of hyper - sterile commodity - object assemblage.

A sparingly hung exhibition of portraits has lumpen duds among the star turns — for comparison, or because that's all the RA could get hold of?

(Also on hand is a larger, horizontal, far less interesting canvas from 2005 in which two or three lumpen objects, roughly brushed and dimly seen, hunker down on an expansive tabletop busy with wood grain.

Completely static figures, almost primitive in their lumpen realism, and rather dwarf - like in the sense of scale they communicate, they are deeply unworthy of this building.

While the auto - centric capitalism had the possibility to grow faster and extend its area of operation, the lumpen capitalism was stagnant or otherwise declined in generating capital and resources.

The base music of rap, hip - hop, shares quite a bit with disco, indeed grew directly out of it, and the identity / rebel / heroism focus of rap is a very specific one — rock rages in a broadly indistinct or middle - class mode, often against modernity, but rap's poetic world is «lumpen - proletarian,» and its archetypes and formulas are all about expressing certain notions of blackness and manliness.

His tactics were lumpen and reductive and his handling of the press was bizarre.

There were times this evening that the Chicago Fire - the no - longer - winless Chicago Fire, the no - longer - pitiable Chicago Fire - were absorbing punishment like the hero of a hackneyed action movie, taking punches that sounded like small explosions, blood, sweat, and gore streaking down their lumpen, stubborn faces.

Could Bruce deliver the goods and take on the role of shaking the lumpen bourgeoisie by the collar and reminding them of the reality of life?

And then the reward mechanisms kick in - the confirmation bias, the feeling of vindication that greets every purported factlet that reinforces your view against the lumpen masses who refuse to see.

The script is lumpen and prosaic, the performances so - so, and the passage of the years deeply unconvincing.

Menashe Lustig brings warmth and a lumpen charisma to Menashe's lead role, giving life to a film based in part on his own experiences.