Sentences with phrase «naif as»

Flash is added by the established comics (Artie Lange, T.J. Miller, Sarah Silverman, and others) who counsel the lovelorn naif as he pursues his dream, but it's the star's John Ritter-esque appeal that elevates Crashing above its navel - gazing premise.

Not exact matches

Sergio Garcia, the kid golfer we like to think of as an irrepressible naif, had that conflicted expression he gets now after a good tournament round — the smile that says, «My game is back,» coupled with the darting eyes that ask where the next ambush is coming from.

Perhaps the best indication of the film's richness and maturity is that one's appreciation of it isn't predicated on whether McCandless is perceived as a holy naif or a callow backpacker.

Ringgold gives these 34 poems, originally published in 1956, an exuberant new flavor in naif - style art, envisioning the poems» protagonists as members of a contemporary, urban African American community.

The childlike quality of the markmaking is due to an expertise so superb that it is neither primitivistic, nor faux - naif but looks as if it just happened that way.

While the larger public latched on to the superficial exoticism of his work and were captivated by his overnight celebrity, his art, often described inaccurately as «Naif» and «Ethnically gritty», held important connections to expressive precursors, such as Jean Dubuffet and Cy Twombly.

It emerges, rather than returns to the vagina, as in Terribly wrong, which has its faux - naif print - reversed lettering reproduced here again here in thread, tied up on the back of the blanket, reinforcing its deliberateness.

These collage - style paintings and early «assemblages» (a term dating from the early 1950s, when the French faux naif artist Jean Dubuffet (1901 - 85) described his collages of butterfly wings, as «assemblages d'empreintes») were stepping - stones to Rauschenberg's famous «Combine» series.

Handler's faux naif style is in the tradition of 20th century artists such as Paul Klee, who reformed art's staid conventions of beauty by returning to supposed primal or elementary beginnings.

Just as reading Spencer Weart's «The Discovery of Global Warming» is a good choice before wading into discussion of a complicated topic when approaching it as a naif, so is doing a little reading on lying and ethics before forming and then broadcasting opinions on that topic.

I then decided you were either truly a naif, or were on a mission from RC as a shill.