Sentences with phrase «more pathos»

In other words, we're looking at a «poor man's Cookie Monster,» with more pathos than the original.

Not only that, XIII - 2's story had more pathos because they had cutesy and emotional moments that weren't as tacked on (Hello heel face turn Fang and Vanille / Hope Eidolon battles).

That measured attitude leads to less histrionics and more pathos, as his black, male characters grapple with the complexities of navigating everyday life in the United States where the chips are mostly stacked against them.

Just to top off the paternalistic righteousness jug, they also import more pathos into Ramón's apparently insufficiently pitiable plight, as do an Alzheimer's - afflicted father (Joan Dalmau), a simpleton nephew (Tamar Novas, playing a pastiche of several characters as the, sniff, son Ramón never had), and a degenerative disease for Julia (Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Sub-cortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy), thus allowing her to have a tear - jerking coda of her very own.

Playing with more pathos than expected, the film shows Coogan to be a man unhappy with his lot, unsure of how to balance his personal life and his ambitions.

Segel plays characters like this a lot, but he gives this particular man - child character more pathos than usual.

He illuminates whole timelines of Ballinger's life with more pathos than the film really knows what to do with — he (like the film) is most insightful when no one's talking.

The Queer Eye reboot finds perhaps even more pathos than the original one.

On the other hand, his narrative of Louverture's tragic end — lured across the Atlantic by Napoleon and then locked away to die in a stone fortress in the Jura without so much as a trial — is told with more pathos than the average academic historian could manage.

Not exact matches

Even more vital to persuasion than Logos, says Aristotle, is Pathos, which includes the right - brain activities of emotions, images, stories, examples, empathy, humor, imagination, color, sounds, touch, and rapport, Price says.

We know more about (logos) God and we know more of God (pathos) than Job ever did, namely through the revelation of God in Jesus Christ.

Urizen is a peculiarly Blakean creation, and while he may initially have been little more than a parody of the Christian God, he gradually but surely brings to expression much of the fullness of Blake's pathos.

The fact remains, however, that the Vichy leaders have enforced anti-Semitic laws in a more and more strict and iniquitous fashion, depriving French Jews of every governmental and cultural position, imposing upon them all kinds of restrictions with regard to liberal and commercial professions, mercilessly striking many of them who were wounded for their country during the present war, and hypocritically trying to hide a bad conscience under a pseudonational pathos in which religious and racial considerations are shamefully mixed.

In the Romantic Age, he became more glamorous, was invested with deeper pathos, and was finally burdened with profundity.

A more lofty and idealistic one is that most of us, as Jews, hardly know ourselves or have a sense of Judaism that is not in some way tied up with our experience as cultured members of Western Civilization, which is Christianized not only in an explicit religious sense but also in the pathos and longing of its secular consciousness, as exemplified in its literature and art.

However, I think, by the end of the film, the balance tips in favor of pathos arguments, as the film attempts to get us more outraged.

It's giddier in its mayhem, more gratuitous in its splatter, more confident in its mixing comedy and superhero pathos.

For my part, I missed the sense of real pathos the trio managed in Shaun of the Dead — even the new film's father / son dynamic seems played more for the gag Point Break connection than for any real emotion.

Calvin is let off the hook far too many times and any pathos is put in the background to broader humour, such as when Calvin and Ruby visit Calvin's mother in a sequence that feels more like something out of Meet the Fockers (Jay Roach, 2004).

Helgeland's version does also work very well, and it is a good film, but the theatrical cut also has its strengths as well, playing up more laughs and adding an interesting pathos to the mix.

And in a film full of dick jokes and drug humour, it takes quite the stretch to make any of the more serious moments with any real pathos or poignancy.

No Hughes - directed film is without some pathos, but The Breakfast Club skews more towards drama and realism than Hughes» typically more escapist fare.

What is more, once Vera has been arrested, her mute victimhood borders on catatonia — and even if this is supposed to reflect the powerlessness of women, or of the «lower orders», before the legal apparatuses of the Establishment, it makes the film's second half seem to drag, carried as it is purely by pathos without the accompanying support of drama.

But this one spends more time than its predecessors in a comic sweet spot, thanks to a gifted cast that milks moments of inspired slapstick, goofiness, and pathos from a script whose thin, generic arc seems engineered to encourage improv.

It is ultimately little more than an episodic patchwork of over-burdened vignettes that among them share only a desire to manufacture unearned pathos and manipulate events towards the most expedient solution.

There are surprises along the way and while there is little respite from the action, there is plenty of engaging banter between the protagonists and even genuine pathos as the heroes journey into ever more challenging situations.

There is this pathos in his eyes, as if something more is going on under the surface of his character.

The writer - director continues to stick to his guns, giving us more understated humor, awkward pauses, pitch - perfect montage and pathos in another thoughtful story that revels in fractured characters.

The second (and sadly final) season of Starz's Party Down fit that description even more fully than its first, throwing the failed Hollywood dreams of the waiters and bartenders at the Party Down Catering Company into even starker relief via a blend of pathos and cringe - inducing comedy.

The pathos of Rance's sadness now that he's out of the spotlight, and the similar threat looming over Burt — now that he and Anton have «broken up» and Steve Gray's newfangled schtick seems to be more enticing to audiences — works because the film doesn't belabor it.

But if the drama had been as edgy as the choreography, if the lead performances had matched Moreno's fierce concentration, if the gangs had been more dangerous and less like bad - boy Archies and Jugheads, if the ending had delivered on the pathos and tragedy of the original, there's no telling what might have resulted.

Nowhere is this more frustrating than the times when it undercuts the film's sincere, if frequently mishandled, attempts at genuine pathos.

In less than three minutes of screen time, she delivers a performance with more complexity, pathos, sheer guts and naked truth than everyone else in the cast put together.

And, on top of that, he layers on some exhausted sense of pathos: «The captain's job is a lonely one,» he sighs during a more paternal moment with the new ensign (young would - be star Robert Francis).

Occasionally these vignettes strike a topic of wounding pathos or charming humour, but more often than not they veer towards asking questions that the film has no desire to answer.

More crucially, he makes the error of assuming that the perspectives of Poppy and Leigh himself are interchangeable — an interpretation that, in my view, ignores a considerable portion of the film's irony and pathos.

A brilliant blend of exhilarating action, psychological pathos, and dead - on funny satire makes for one of the more adrenaline - pumping action vehicles of the 1980s.

But Clowes, who wrote the screenplay, and director Craig Johnson, as director (following his success with The Skeleton Twins) show more affinity for anarchic humor than pathos.

Deftly handling the demanding material and giving it a certain something more is the amazing cast; Cusack, Diaz, and Keener are not only funny, but they lend a real pathos to their characters that lends some genuine emotional involvement to the story.

A high - school wrestling comedy with perennial indie schlub Paul Giamatti coaching sounds like it could be an unbearable retread of recent bombs like Mr. Woodcock or Drillbit Taylor, but with a surefire ensemble cast and a tricky balance of humor and pathos more in line with Little Miss Sunshine, Win Win turns out to be one of the early sleeper surprises of 2011.

- Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand «With a deft, sure touch, Ann Leary moves easily and confidently between comedy and pathos, painting a rich portrait of a wealthy, eccentric Connecticut family whose conflicts and loyalties are far more complex than they first appear.

Pathos certainly has its place in videogames, and it's certainly something we need more of.

Wandering back through the galleries, I was struck by the the fact that there is more humor than pathos in the show, which in some ways seems like a send - up of many of the saccharine tropes one might associate with Valentine's Day: Flowers.

His works bar pathos of any kind and his rejection of the notion of the canvas as a holy place could not be more resolute.

The temptation to read Marshall's work art historically is inescapable — you encounter the mirrored service economy of Édouard Manet's A Bar at the Folies — Bergère, vernacular riffs on the elite confections of Florine Stettheimer, and the pathos of Cy Twombly's roses — but these grand citations can sometimes blind audiences to more subtle operations.

The brothers argue that by «rectifying» works by such a revered artist they also «convert the pathos of Goya into something much more pessimistic and cynical, and much more brutally undermining.»

The central theme becomes less about the immediate subject at hand; instead resonating more in the relationship between object and viewer, highlighting the pathos and inevitability of forces that are greater than both.

He is a totally secular, un-fundamentalist good ol' boy from an oil port in Texas - Port Arthur, also the home of the late Janis Joplin, with whose randy generosity, narrative howl and sense of pathos Rauschenberg has more than a little in common.

Dandies are a recurring theme in Bas» oftentimes pathos - infused works, and when his protagonists aren't bare - chested, they're donning spiffy blazers, Victorian ruffs, sweater vests and harlequin bodysuits as they explore caves (the Hardy Boys inspired one series of paintings) or romantically row boats — although the artist says this is more about costume than fashion.

Perhaps the most famous work in this vein, More Love Hours Than Can Ever Be Repaid and The Wages of Sin from 1987, featured a mess of used rag dolls, animals and blankets strewn across a canvas, a way of investing a fictional childhood scene with some visceral pathos which was first shown at Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Los Angeles.