Sentences with phrase «of badinage»

Political and social commentary was a constant thread throughout Polke's oeuvre referencing Germany's Nazi era in his early career with a sense of badinage, and sly wit not matched by fellow artist Anselm Kiefer — through «abstract» swastika's and the haunting series of Watch Towers from the mid-80s which evoke the structures on the perimeters of concentration camps, with the juxtaposition of a drab Warhol-esque finish.

We learned, for instance, in a bit of badinage with the locals reeling in their nets that real fishermen never sit down in their boats — that's for old men or wimps.

Now that Po and the Furious Five (Angelina Jolie's tough Tigress, Jackie Chan's Monkey, Seth Rogen's Mantis, Lucy Liu's Viper and David Cross» Crane) are buddies in sync, there's a bit of badinage about the temple dojo but little time is wasted on auld lang syne.

Not exact matches

«Ha, so long as it wasn't all some illusion of the devil,» he said, with typical German badinage of the rather crude kind.

Oh I live the badinage back n forth of the blog based on your interaction with the sis even more than the cookies.

This go round, the intellectual badinage has been minimized to make way for a flurry of visually - captivating action sequences.

Far more memorable for its stomach - churning cinematography and the daring exploits of the risk - taking Hubers than for the boys» badinage, this is a film which might, in any other context, simply be dismissed as a case study in unresolved sibling rivalry.

Co-written by Wheatley with his wife, Amy Jump, «Free Fire» is full of stinging verbal parries and thrusts (at one point someone asks Ord to distract another character with his «badinage»), but eventually the dialogue gives way simply to the sound of bullets flying with deranged desperation.

This is all done to a soundtrack of lightning - fast badinage and a brilliant soundtrack straight from the era.

There are a couple of CGI shots that look a little plasticky, the director's TV background is noticeable in his occasionally mundane choice of camera angles and the action might be undercut with humour a little too often, but these minor niggles are more than countered with some first - rate fight dynamics, effortlessly pithy badinage and top - drawer performances.

- Publishers Weekly «To compensate for the absence of plot complications, realistic dialogue or suspense, the meals sound great, the ebullient badinage is genuinely witty and Mayle wears his considerable knowledge of the area lightly.»

If so, consider my correcting you as just a small needed adjustment to get things more accurate, my own sort of TOBS adjustment, (Totally Obscure Badinage Spelling)