Sentences with phrase «macho posturing for»

And so I was surprised to be relatively impressed at the subtlety of Jason Hall's approach here in this quiet, character - driven film that eschews macho posturing for stories that feel true.

Not exact matches

That should not be on the basis of macho posturing or an instinctive desire for easy solutions, but on an anti-war basis.

For all their macho posturing, you've got to wonder sometimes whether Leary and Tolan didn't spend their younger days watching soaps.

For Fast & Furious 6, director Justin Lin puts the same elements that made Fast Five successful (fast cars, macho posturing, thrilling fight scenes, larger - than - life action, and his main characters» «code of honor») in the juicer and mixes it all up.

Sadly, for all its macho posturing and gun - toting promise, The Town turns out to be as clean - cut as its hero, and about as convincing.

By contrast, Pretty Raw positions Frankenthaler as central to an alternative account of second - generation artists figured as more «feminine,» not only for the contributions of Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Jane Freilicher, and other women, but also for the gay artists who presented a counterpoint to the previous generation's macho posturing.

In the 1970s, for instance, female artists like Elizabeth Murray, Mary Kelly, and Ree Morton countered the macho posturing of the minimalists by working from an intimate point of view that embraced messy everyday detail.