Sentences with phrase «makes abject»

A lot of that can be credited to director Francis Lawrence, who keeps the sometimes strange and gaudy visual aesthetics of the previous movie (Those costume, hair, and makeup designs alone easily slip into self - parody) and somehow makes them seem like a completely natural manifestation of runaway affluence, but cinematographer Jo Willems» murky lighting also helps tremendously, making the abject poverty of the districts and the turpitude of the Capitol all the more constricting.

The promise inherent in a chop - socky wuxia opus concerning a quintet of fearless vampire hunters and a cadre of zombies is almost infinite, making the abject failure of the piece something almost awe - inspiring.

Not exact matches

The abject poverty in the third world makes the US poor seem wealthy in comparison.

You don't know what theories are in a scientific context, you make an argument equivalent to «people can't take strides greater than ten feet, therefore it's impossible to run a marathon,» and you think that the lack of a full understanding about a particular hypothetical explanation is some kind of demonstration that science is an abject failure.

The long and eagerly anticipated Saviour now made his appearance in abject poverty.

Yes, Dean made a howler at WBA but that howler does not explain the teams abject display as we all know.

The Hurricanes appeared primed to make a leap forward this season, but Francis» choice of Scott Darling as the Hurricanes» new No. 1 goaltender has been an abject disaster and two of his other offseason acquisitions — Marcus Krueger and Josh Jooris — were waived last month.

The team's defensive performance was abject — inadequate CDMs may make a difference in tight games but they are never solely accountable for 0 - 6 and 1 - 5 score lines.

No amount of positive thinking from fans will change that state of affairs and to think otherwise just allows the delusional one to make endless excuses for his own abject failure... And it's not all abou the money there is not one player I can honestly say has improved under wenger in the last 10 years... Fabregas was the last and he joined us 15 years ago!!!

Moreover in the interests of dismissing potential criticism that this article is, no matter how much I may deny it, merely a backlash from the Swansea defeat, I will finally make the point that the premise of the article was conceived in early January and thus can not be considered an immediate response to Liverpool's abject display at Swansea.

Disorganised, dazed and confused, their abject performance in Sunday's 2 - 0 home loss to Darmstadt had relegation running through it and for all the bullish noises continuing to be made by irascible Dutch coach, Huub Stevens, the air of resignation is palpable at the Rhein - Neckar - Arena.

In spite of all these wealth and resources, Africa is wallowing in abject poverty, and as much as I agree that some of the causes of this unfortunate situation is the making of Africans themselves, much of the blame must be put at the doorsteps of some western countries, and I will explain.

The Government has made these proposals in abject disregard for public opinion on the issue.

If this is already bad enough, what makes the debacle additionally troubling is the abject willingness of men like Craig to take in broken women in the mould of Tania Georgelas and try to wife or girlfriend them up.

The effrontery outrages Marion; she and her husband, Larry (Tracy Letts), soon to be sacked from his computer - programming job, are already making enormous sacrifices to send their daughter to that private Catholic institution (not so much for religious reasons but owing to Mom's abject terror of public high school).

And there's something unsavoury about simply being a viewer who makes it all the way to the end - credits scroll, having consumed so much abject horror as an evening's entertainment.

sequel, and will not be involved in the second LEGO movie, but something about Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill must have made them come back for one more round of abject silliness.

Lord and Miller already walked away from a Meatballs sequel, and will not be involved in the second LEGO movie, but something about Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill must have made them come back for one more round of abject silliness.

Sutherland's abject naïveté is never quite convincing, but scenes of his whiter - than - white suburban family make for a biting contrast with the lives of their tormented black neighbors.

As much as I loved many of the films that came out in 2014, none actually made me jump in my seat in terror and abject fascination.

«I know kids can overcome poverty, but when students are living in abject poverty in segregated communities with poor health care and housing, that makes the work for our teachers all the more challenging.»

Ms. WIlliams was responding to a comment Rubin made to a reporter: «people in abject poverty,» said Rubin, «don't have the bandwidth to even evaluate charter schools... It's just not going to be high on their list.»

What I'm fighting is the 350 lb orangutan about to enter the oval office's bullying, lying and abject 4th grade rhetoric in his vain attempt to make America 1950's early 60's Great Again..

And finally... saying this is the best Alfa in years in reality isn't saying much at all considering everything Alfa's made since the 70's and before has been abject garbage

To yet another pathetic attempt on behalf of the ver descending FCA to revive the Dead Man Walking brand of Alfa Romeo with their half baked efforts at badge engineering» & «And finally... saying this is the best Alfa in years in reality isn't saying much at all considering everything Alfa's made since the 70's and before has been abject garbage»

If Part III is the better book because it's a more accurate portrayal of the Bush administration's abject failures and inadequacies, doesn't that make the author look worse?

FACT: Trap, Neuter, & Release (TNR) is an even bigger abject failure because these man - made ecological disasters can not be trapped faster than they exponentially breed out of control, and they also continue the cruelly annihilate all native wildlife (from the smallest of prey up to the top predators that are starved to death), and the cats continue to spread many deadly diseases that they carry today — FOR WHICH THERE ARE NO VACCINES AGAINST THEM.

FACT: Trap, Neuter, & Re-Abandon (TNR) is an even bigger abject failure because these man - made ecological disasters can not be trapped faster than they exponentially breed out of control, and they also continue to cruelly annihilate all native wildlife (from the smallest of prey up to the top predators that are starved to death), and the cats continue to spread many deadly diseases that they carry today — FOR WHICH THERE ARE NO VACCINES AGAINST THEM.

«Making penises abject and silly works well because masculinity is so often portrayed as powerful and successful,» he said.

Altmejd's work makes evident how growth and transformation is only possible from decay and how a sense of a work being alive is perceived most fully when beauty is contrasted with the abject.

Alongside a series of abject ink - jet prints that looked as if they were plastered in bumper stickers purchased from an early 2000s Spencer Gifts and his 2012 video Raspberry Poser, in which animated renderings of a condom and the HIV virus dance through the streets of New York City while Beyoncé and Mazzy Star play at an intoxicating volume, he showed the animatronic sculpture (Female figure), a scuffed - up woman impaled on a stripper pole who speaks in Wolfson's voice and makes eye contact with viewers.

Avoid the former show if you want to keep away from abject, base subject matter — McCarthy has made his career our exposing erotic, profane and damn dirty desires, and his new paintings push all boundaries of taste imaginable... I wonder what image our picture editor is going to choose for this page?

Some of the strongest paintings at the New Museum are in Guston's late mode, enlisting his one - eyed roundheads in depictions of the abject moments of art - making or of youth.

By making use of strategies such as exaggeration, abstraction, abject form, and humor, these works subvert ideals of strength and aesthetic purity, thereby illustrating their permeability.

Make sure to come out to the live Humor and the Abject event with Street Fight Radio on Sunday, October 22nd at Throne Watches in Bushwick.

Humor and the Abject is made possible, in part, by funds from Rhizome.

2012 LA Raw: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles, 1945 - 1980: From Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthy, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from The David C. Driskell Center, organized by Smithsonian Institute of Traveling Exhibition Services (SITES), The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA; The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African - American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC; Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH Breaking in Two: Provocative Visions of Motherhood, Santa Monica Art Center, Santa Monica, CA Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC; Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, FL Successions: Prints by African American Artists from the Jean & Robert Steele Collection, David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD Regarding Warhol: Fifty Artists, Fifty Years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY From Nothing to SOMEthing: Assemblage, Collage and Sculpture, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA To be a Lady: Forty - five Women in the Arts, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery, New York, NY Full Spectrum: Prints from the Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center, David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD African American Visions: Selections from the Samella Lewis Collection, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA Baila Con Duende: Group Art Exhibition, Watts Towers Art Center, Watts, CA We the People, Robert Rauschenberg Project Space, New York, NY The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA INsite / INchelsea: The Inaugural Exhibition, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

In her fresh and airy 3 - D works, she combines found objects, often abject detritus, with carefully constructed forms made of tinted glass and steel.

The abject is also in abundance, none better to corner this market than Thomas Schütte's brilliant and grotesque bronze busts, their features gnarled and powerful, the epitome of ugly made beautiful.

The legacy of conceptual art practices permeates the exhibition, revealing layers of narrative in both the finished work and through the process of making, in some works abject materials such as car parts, wax, expanding foam and plywood, as well as methods of production such as crochet and embroidery are used to question the value of labour and social hierarchies.

She has sought out lowly objects and abject creatures from the natural world, and made carriers of meaning of them on the fault - line between nature and culture.

He's often been characterized as a leading figure in so - called abject art — work that plumbs the depths of mortification and abasement, made by artists as diverse as Paul McCarthy, Annette Messager, John Miller and Tony Oursler.

The raggedy talismans, made from canvas and nails and shirts and hair, resemble the abject cousins of the traditional totems, not so much imparting moral lessons but busking through gritty New York streets imparting frenzied and sometimes wildly intuitive tidbits.

But Minter's dash of the abject that makes it all so real.

In «Traces of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the LA River» Calame has made a conceptual shift from the abject and everyday to the mechanical spectacle of the Speedway.

One day, they (or some other as yet unimaginable energy source) may replace the fossil fuels that still account for 81 % of the energy that makes U.S. livelihoods, living standards, and life spans possible — and is lifting billions out of abject poverty, malnutrition, and disease.

It's more often the beneficiary of implicit or explicit government subsidies to make it more affordable for the coal industry to operate (the land is practically given to them for free, they get tax expenditures hand over fist, their roads are most often built for them by the state, they're exempted from waste - disposal regulations, allowed to dump and run, and use some of the most tyrannical and abject labor standards in the world).

This abject failure of the greenhouse theory is made plain to all by the existence of the hiatus today.

This a global conspiracy of smart issue based lobbyists making a fast regressive buck, based on the guesses of climate scientists, fraudulently linked to a regressive set of over subsidised solutions that actually make net grid sourced ACO2 emissions worse, exploiting the abject ignorance of the public and their politicians for a faster buck than doing the right thing.

More than two years later, however, the Nest acquisition is looking like an abject disaster for Google, as a new report from The Information makes clear.