Sentences with phrase «nail wildness»

It shows the influence of Cassavetes in its comic dramatization of the trials of male bonding and the struggle for emotional integrity, but where Cassavetes captures the tooth - and - nail wildness of first - generation Americans clawing their way into the middle class, Anderson's film recalls an older, more disciplined, although no less self - excoriating, tradition — the WASP modernism exemplified by Ernest Hemingway and Howard Hawks.