Sentences with phrase «more affectation»

The themes and settings are classic Williams, almost a pastiche, but the characters lack the full - blooded passion and depth of the great Williams characters and the film compounds the weaknesses with a recreation that feels more affectation than lived life.

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Interestingly, the study also shows that while vocal fry is perceived negatively in both male and female speakers, women who use the affectation are perceived more negatively than men who use it.

But even after the documentary affectation gives way to a more conventional narrative, the film has trouble ringing true.

His arrogance is more of an inheritance than a warranted affectation.

Plaza doesn't stray too far from her brand — Tatiana is unsurprisingly droll and cutthroat — but the actress continues to prove that she's more than just her affectations, and her performance is backboned by a heartfelt riot of inner chaos and an uproarious talent for pratfalls (seriously, she has a gift).

Propped up by class and affectation — he wears a bow tie, attends Princeton reunions to bellow «Old Nassau» with other middle - aged inebriates, and competes with his wife to see who can more fully drop the «r «s in French words such as «chevre» and «memoir» — he's spent a lifetime imagining himself a success, only to discover abruptly that he is in fact a failure at both work and marriage and had simply never noticed.

Nominated for Best U.S. Narrative Feature and Winner of Best Actor (Alessandro Nivola) in a U.S. Narrative Feature at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, One Percent More Humid explores such themes of heartache, love, and retribution via the bold affectations of two young women trying to make sense of themselves and their circumstances.

Come to think of it, I've gotten more pleasure from a slice then this over-ripe, and rancid, exercise in cinematic affectation.

This is a paint - by - numbers thriller that remains too slight and toothless, more concerned with affectation than authenticity, to make its protagonist feel heroic or its villains threatening.

As Mary's increasingly severe depression causes a polite chill in her relationship with Tom and Gerri, Manville gradually strips the character of her more appealing affectations, leaving little more than a shivering shell of woman.

Poppy may be permanently sunny, but Hawkins subtly sheds the character's more pronounced tics and affectations as the film progresses, gradually revealing a surprisingly steely self - assurance beneath a kooky artifice.

«He spoke of distances in meters and kilometers and it took me a while to understand that this was not an affectation so much as a driving need to convert units of measurement more or less instantaneously.»

Taken from the celebrated S.O.S. Series, S.O.S. Starification Object Series (Veil)(1974 - 75) sees Wilke striking a revealing yet enigmatic attitude, an affectation owing much to a stereotyped glamour pose, but which is transformed into something more powerful and unsettling by the presence of small chewing gum sculptures stuck to Wilke's flesh.

Broodthaers's bourgeois affectations became a bit showier and more expansive as he took on the roles of party planner and interior decorator.

No one likes to be preached at or lectured to, even though Campbell wants the meaning of his works to be open ended, It for Others can seem more like an academic Powerpoint lecture than an artwork, even though I take its tone as an almost poetic conceit, an almost theatrical affectation.

After the success of his more austere food and shop window paintings of the early 1960s, Thiebaud began portraying figures in a similarly unsentimental manner, eschewing affectation or idealization.

Anybody dropping by CA will notice frequent references to this cultish affectation, often embellished to be the more creepy - sounding «citizen auditor.»

YMMV, but it seems to me that the climateering proclamations of ATTP — aka astronomer, Ken Rice — are nothing more than the effusions, delusions and affectations of an ineffective, but oh - so - dutiful, third - rate little lemming!

More than any lawyer I've encountered, he debunked the profession's affectation that successful senior lawyers have to be severe and obsessive.