But then, that kind
of grandiloquence is usually a way for filmmakers to spray a shiny coat of metal over the same old lie: You're gonna be held in high regard again.
On a recent morning at the Metropolitan Detention Center, sitting in a plastic chair in an airless, glassed - in booth in what resembled a large hospital waiting room — minus the televisions, the pastel watercolor paintings, the magazines and the windows — Mr. Espada seemed shorn
of the grandiloquence that those in Albany had come to know so well over the two decades of his singularly unruly political career.
Not exact matches
Squirming between wet - cat disdain and an unshakable
grandiloquence, Cate Blanchett's performance instantly vaults her into the company
of the great film neurotics.
This would seem a small thing, the elision
of four words, except that Howard's eloquence (some would say
grandiloquence) is lost in that simplification.
Day - Lewis» Lincoln also tends to
grandiloquence even in private speech; when he utters the line «time is the great thickener
of all things,» Secretary
of State George Seward (David Strathairn) first nods in agreement, then quips, «Actually, I have no idea what you meant by that.»
Some
of them, including Haneke and Denis, are shown visiting Bergman's house — a secluded humble dwelling in the woods; Alejandro González Iñárritu, with his habitual
grandiloquence, proclaims the place a Mecca and a Vatican simultaneously.
The flipside
of that coin, though, are the times when the ponderous pacing and over-the-top
grandiloquence of the film actually work really well.
By casting everyday objects in bronze the artist demonstrated his insistence that his work must engage with something real and recognisable — «free
of tricks or
grandiloquence, a direct art».
Her paintings convey a profound sense
of history, recalling figures such as Mary Heilmann and stalwarts
of Modernism, but they shy away from
grandiloquence.
Tyson is one
of those artists who can speak about his work with a sort
of analytical
grandiloquence, as if he's solving a theorem: «I am always trying to find some way in a solid and static artwork to show something dynamic.»
It's true that Rothko and Newman have accustomed us to the fact that a very simple form on a large field can be as dramatic and eventful as any baroque
grandiloquence, but extreme simplicity can have its own rhetorical hollowness, and it's this inflation
of less into less that Hoyland neatly avoids.
In a 1990 review
of the Frankenthaler survey at LACMA, Times critic Christopher Knight wrote that Frankenthaler's later works devolved into «decorative
grandiloquence.»