Sentences with phrase «much blankness»

In both the Earthlings and the aliens, there's just too much blankness.

Not exact matches

Anyway, suffice it to say that Sacks is not only no Frank Sinatra or John Wayne, he's not even much of a Billy Pilgrim, and while his blankness complements the passivity of the character (and Vonnegut's essentially fatalistic view of life), it creates a serious charisma vacuum that, in the novel, is filled by the narrator's generous philosophical digressions.

Reviewing the latter exhibition in Artforum's October 2003 issue, art historian Michael Lobel noted that «the large scale of much of Rosenquist's work was initially intended to offer the viewer some critical perspective on commercial imagery by calling attention to its numbing blankness,» and that «the hallmarks of Rosenquist's mature style — the slick rendering, the vibrant Pop colors, the sustained attention to the surfaces of commodity objects ---- are brought together to imbue [his smaller] works with an uncanny psychological resonance.»