Sentences with phrase «most irrepressible»

An innovator who both challenged and continued the grand European tradition celebrated at the Frick, Picasso belongs to the Collection as its most irrepressible offspring, although not actually represented in its holdings.

William McGann's I Like Your Nerve (1931) may run a short 62 minutes, but it is full of energy, humor, wit and a young Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in rare form giving one of his most irrepressible performances as a playboy who knows no bounds or borders (he keeps tormenting border guards with his fancy car) when he and a beautiful, looking real good Loretta Young shows up.

That these lighter textures of mischief and spiritiness can be found in a story that ultimately sees most of these young women bartered off into marriage like chattel or worse, is a testament to Erguven's sensitivity and intelligence behind the camera, and to the uniformly winning performances she elicits from her largely non-professional cast, especially Günes Sensoy as the youngest and most irrepressible of the sisters.

Now the players were being told that the most irrepressible person most of them had ever known almost hadn't made it through the night.

Liverpool, in theory one of the most irrepressible attacking forces in the league, managed three shots on target; United just the one.

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The desire to know the truth is for many the most intense and irrepressible of all human longings.

With the germ of consciousness hatched upon its surface, the Earth, our perishable earth that contemplates the final, absolute zero, has brought into the Universe a demand, henceforth irrepressible, not only that all things shall not die, but that what is best in the world, that which has become most complex, most highly centrated, shall be saved.

Hence the tendency (which is also as old as the world) of the defenders of the Spirit to regard as diabolical, and to reject as being among the most formidable manifestations of pride, the irrepressible desire for growth and conquest, the unshakeable sense of power and progress, which at present fills the human breast.

As well as being one of the most influential figures in Australian wine from the 1960s to his death in 2006, the irrepressible impresario, winery founder, show judge and writer was also a sculptor, and his chunky, Easter Island - like figures loomed out of the landscape of his Hunter property.

The founder and owner of the Barossa Valley's most unique winery, Rockford, is an irrepressible individualist, a creative spark, a mentor to ma...

So says Hans Feurer, the septuagenarian Swiss lensman, who has turned his admiration for beautiful women into a genre - defining career, all while embracing his irrepressible wanderlust and hunter's sense of adventure, living a life that is the stuff of literature: over the course of five decades, Feurer was almost crushed by a hippopotamus, spent time in a Malawi prison and lived a high - rolling life while working in advertising at the height of one of London's most fabled decades.

Based on true events, Decoding Annie Parker tells the life affirming story of two remarkable women; the irrepressible Annie Parker, a three time cancer survivor and the geneticist Mary - Claire King whose discovery of the breast cancer BRCA gene mutation is considered one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century.

But to complain that nothing much happens here or ponder the film's curiously tame view of university life (Rodney Dangerfield would most definitely get no respect here) is to miss the point of the movie, which is to serve as a vehicle for McCarthy, spotlighting her warm, screwball spirit and irrepressible physical comedy.

Marshall, like Mel Brooks, is irrepressible, and — also like Brooks — when he errs, it is most often in exhausting a good idea.

A senior at a Catholic all - girls school in 2002 — the same year Gerwig graduated from St. Francis — Lady Bird suffers from a chronic case of teenage boredom, exacerbated by such youthful ensnarements and pitfalls as an atypical first love, a disheartening first time (her first love not present), family money woes, a hypercritical mother and, most importantly, an irrepressible desire to see all of it grow smaller and smaller in the rearview mirror.

In Jean Renoir's satire of the bourgeoisie, Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and is rescued by a well - to - do bookseller, whose family decides to take in the irrepressible bum.

Mr. Cuarón, whose most recent film was the moving and irrepressible teenage sex comedy «Y Tu Mamá También,» may be the perfect man for the job, though parents worried about an unrated, sexually explicit «Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban» should remember that Mr. Cuarón also directed a superb adaptation of «The Little Princess.»

But once she encounters this grandfather she'd never heard about, and the black cowboy confined to the bunkhouse, with irrepressible courage and great spunk she attempts to turn grievous loss, wrath, and recrimination — to which she's naturally the most vulnerable — toward reconciliation and love.

Taylor, a New York magazine editor and regular Esquire contributor, tells the concurrent tales of basketball's most famous big men: Russell, who led the Boston Celtics to numerous championships, and the irrepressible and...

Tough, irrepressible, funny, and warm, Astrid is one of the most indelible characters in recent fiction.

At once improvisational and carefully carpentered, these paintings explode toward the eye, like nature on first sight, at it's most welcoming and irrepressible.»

There's a life - size, stone - carved petrol pump, a cycle of vibrant cosmological paintings by Beatriz Aurora and — this being the Americas, — several references to the European displacement of indigenous peoples, most notably the mismatched assemblages by the irrepressible Cherokee Jimmie Durham.

On view in this incandescent show are a number of Sargent's most famous paintings, including the irrepressible Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau), from the Met's collection, and Dr. Pozzi at Home, (1881), loaned by the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

Improvised yet carefully constructed, her paintings explode toward the eye, like nature on first sight, at its most welcoming and irrepressible.

Most news coverage dwells on seemingly irrepressible impacts — acidic oceans, floods, wildfires, and monster storms.

For much of its modern history, the timeless Klamath River has been threatened But this irrepressible coastal titan will soon be recognized for being the object of what promises to be one of the most successful river restorations ever undertaken.

Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh, faces an irrepressible demand for the yellow metal like most other states in India.