Sentences with phrase «much pathos»

There is considerable comedy and much pathos in the film, the comic turns finding him asking hotel manager Mary Sinclair (Annette Bening) for a dinner date so many times that the audience can not be blamed for joining with Mary in saying «Enough, already.»

It would be okay if The Man Who Invented Christmas was completely in on the joke, but there's a bit too much pathos in the script to allow it to play fast and loose with the potential humor of it all.

John Early and Meredith Hagner as Elliott and Portia are marvels in roles that should be written off as second comings of Will & Grace's Jack and Karen, but are imbued with so much pathos and nuance that you're no longer merely infatuated with them as second - banana comedic relief, but instead endeared to their worst tendencies.

There is, of course, much pathos in the abrupt reduction of a party of government to a feeble shadow of its previous parliamentary self, mercilessly squashed from 56 MPs to eight.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Reading his lively account of the scholars who excavate and display the Middle Ages, an account replete with cultural history, moral judgment, psychological speculation, gossip, and no small amount of romantic idealism and fin - de-siecle pathos, the reader can reflect as much upon his own world, and about the character of Cantor himself, as he does about the painstaking task of historical reconstruction that absorbed the lives of such as Theodor Mommsen, Marc Bloch, or David Knowles.

It reaches such lofty status on the back of its pathos, as much as its comedy.

There is also much prom queen pathos when Rose confronts the low - key disdain of her former classmates.

Much of the film takes place throughout India, and while it's lovingly shot, it's hard to escape the fact that the exoticism that it presents is for novelty, not for pathos or exploration.

Willis and Norton also shine, mixing some pathos with pure hilarity, while Murray (who worked with Anderson in «The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou») and McDormant as feuding married lawyers are not on screen long enough to really make much of a difference, but are effective in their small roles.

Justin Simien's film has a surprising amount of heart, and so much of that is down to Thompson, who finds the real pathos and pain of the character, while still being an eminently likable, warm and winning presence.

Captain America: The First Avenger could've done without its Howling Commandos or Thor it's Warriors Three, but without these two trios, Ant - Man would be a dry movie without much comedy or pathos.

But Gerwig rests much of the humor and the pathos on her star's shoulders.

Deaths are quick and arbitrary, so much so that the pathos the filmmakers try to milk from them never accrues much emotional weight.

Not only is Lance Daly's newest feature a rollicking western with fantastic action and excellent performances, it also demonstrates how a film's subject matter can add much - needed pathos and nuance to a genre.

He and Fiennes's sometimes contentious but always respectful mentor - mentee relationship is the source of much of the movie's humor and pathos.

Olsen's (somewhat) duel role bring so much sympathy and pathos that it's almost palpable.

At - risk children running wild and having too much fun to know why they're hurting inside; a poverty - line motel named the Magic Castle, a cruelly short distance from Orlando's Walt Disney World, run by a kindly, big - hearted manager; a pace of perpetual motion set by the 6 - year - old with the reckless mother at the narrative center: It sounds like the stuff of vicious pathos.

But for all of those problems with translating the film to a modern, and presumably newer, audience, not much else would actually need to change to retain the impact of the humor and what pathos the film tries to create.

by Walter Chaw Closer in spirit to Mystery, Alaska than to the similarly Olympics - inspired Cool Runnings, Men with Brooms is an underdog sports intrigue mashed together with a bedroom farce — and neither dog - eared formula is handled with very much originality, while uncomfortable subplots concerning adultery, alcoholism, and healing father / son rifts (see also Hoosiers) vie for a level of pathos that always feels out of place in what is essentially The Bad News Bears (or The Replacements, or Slap Shot) for curling.

Before the beloved Marvel characters came to the big screen, there wasn't much in the way of pathos in superhero films.

Anaya gives the brunt on the pathos of this film, never giving away too much no matter how over-the-top or exaggerated the story gets.

Vice President of X means nothing to this crowd, and these guys» marketing - mantra personas don't generate much traction in the Pathos department either.

Maybe so, but here McEwan's description of Prince's «pathos and loss» sounds much less ironic, while Sugimoto's found image looks as sentimental as its source.

Situating Rothko's work of this period in relation to his later work — the luminous floating blocks of painted colors for which he is best known — Kertess remarks: «The work he created in the 1930s is filled with an intensity, pathos, and brooding light that embody not only his personal sense of dislocation, but that of much of the population at large during the decade of the Depression.

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.»

Painting them, however, fuses a much denser form of time into the surface and generates pathos from my inevitable failure to function as a printer.

Aristotle's influential division of effective rhetoric into logos, ethos, and pathos is overtly acknowledged in many legal writing scholars» works about advocacy, 6 and implicitly underlies much if not most of the rest.