Sentences with phrase «material is tongue»

Not exact matches

Normally, I wouldn't choose the book of Revelation as 2:00 a.m. reading material, but all night long I'd been chasing the broken pieces of a prophecy around my head — something about tribes and tongues and nations, verses I knew but couldn't quite remember, like a poem with missing syllables or a song with forgotten words.

KILLER JOE is just this side of tongue in cheek, and the writer and director openly invite you to mock these sleazy cretins, which puts the lewd material at an arm's length.

The only way to make this hard - to - swallow trash fly would be to play it up for some tongue - in - cheek laughs (like Mute Witness), but neither Waller nor Davies see the humor in such unrealistic material and they make the fatal mistake of going for serious drama and tension.

Gone are the clever, innovative action sequences, and practically gone is the tongue - in - cheek handling of the material.

Though it gets listed as a drama, there is a campy, tongue - in - cheek nature to the movie that suggests that we take what we see mostly as a fun genre exercise, and certainly the winking nature of the performances keeps the tone fairly light, despite some rather dark and dreary thematic material.

Although remakes are ten - a-penny these days, and mostly not a patch on the original, THN is excited about FRIGHT NIGHT — with a strong cast, great source material, and its tongue (and fangs) wedged firmly in the cheek, this could be the horror hit of the year.

An assemblage of documentary clips and off - cuts, Frieze: An Underground Film is a tongue - in - cheek riff on the experimental filmmaking mode — the material includes a point of view shot from the rollercoaster ride at Luna Park in St Kilda (another iconic Melbourne façade), a young boy bouncing on a bed, a snowy field, a woman in a bikini, a poster of Jean - Paul Belmondo, and some behind the scenes footage from Violence in the Cinema.

Titles for these sculptures have a tongue - in - cheek tone and are taken from literary and poetic sources such as Kate Tempest's lyrics, which further transform the figurines from their original material.

Like the works in silk, the material characteristics of the media are central to Mother's tongue.

Predictably winking but at times also unexpectedly personal and even wistful, Tom Sachs's recent solo show was figured as a kind of material autobiography: a trip down an artistic memory lane paved with a thousand different things, each subsumed within the systematizing logic of his famously relentless, tongue - in - cheek didacticism.

Her mother tongue is that of abstraction and her vocabulary comes from the domestic materials that are close at hand.

Maybe you are being tongue and cheek or reading published materials I've missed (or maybe depressed by the two studies!)

The comedian instructors in the comedy defensive driving class not only know the material very well, they also have a sense of humor about it, which is on the tip of everyone's tongue in class anyway.

Busuu is another online language course that prides itself on providing all the tools you'll need to start jabbering someone's ear off in a foreign tongue, while still being able to offer the lion's portion of its course materials on the web for no cost to the consumer.