Sentences with phrase «of human comedy»

As Sidney Offit concludes, «Few writers in the history of literature have achieved such a fusion of the human comedy with the tragedies of human folly in their fiction.»

Lady Bird is an absolute gem of human comedy and personal drama, a coming - of - age story turned on its ear by virtue of its intense female gaze and crushing human subtlety.

Ithaca (PG for mature themes, smoking and a violent image) Meg Ryan makes her directorial debut with this adaptation of The Human Comedy, William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize - winning novel, set in 1942, revolving around a 14 year - old's (Alex Neustaedter) attempt to provide for his widowed mother (Ryan) and siblings (Spencer Howell and Christine Nelson) after his older brother (Jack Quaid) goes off to fight in World War II.

He is, simply put, one of our great contemporary observers of the human comedy.

As the TV evangelist repeats pious Amens, many of us in the viewing audience are likely to look upon the «cure» as a part of the human comedy that we don't understand.

For Bob Sutton, leadership is not a set of abstract principles and behaviors but an expression of human comedy and tragedy.

Not exact matches

The bad news is that human society is a never - ending comedy of errors in which our hopes and dreams play out as farce.

With Falstaff, however, lies all that tremendous weight of the comedy and the tragedy of being human.

The difference is that he never forgot that politics is one way in which very imperfect human beings can enact projects based on moral reasoning; that politics is a theater of both comedy and tragedy, relentless in the teaching of humility.

Queen Christina is now an A-III, as are Of Human Bondage and Gay Divorcee, described as «dated musical fluff» and «a lighthearted musical comedy with no real substance beyond its charming songs and dances.»

«the whole human comedy wrapped in a single, frail envelope of flesh.»

The rituals of comedy deal with more than the superficial arenas of human conflict.

Cringe comedies can be some of the hardest formats to tackle, but the best ones identify real human experiences and take them to absurd extremes.

Makes me think of the Rat Race movie where that guy is transporting a live human heart for a transplant and it accidentally gets tossed into some weeds and a dog finally ends up chewing on it... That has got to be the funniest comedy movie of all time!

If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.

Not only its aesthetic value, which is apparent in the power of its expression, in the depth of its sensitivity, and in its monumental structure; but also its content — the bold and colossal struggle with the ancient, and at the same time always new, human problem of the meaning of suffering — all this puts the work, in its universal significance, in a class with Dante's Divine Comedy and Goethe's Faust.8

Yeah, vulgarity for the sake of vulgarity strikes me as uninteresting, but raunchy comedies are compelling when they treat their flawed characters like human beings we can observe and understand.

Jon Negroni: Yeah, vulgarity for the sake of vulgarity strikes me as uninteresting, but raunchy comedies are compelling when they treat their flawed characters like human beings we can observe and understand.

The bathetic pomp of the heavy, tasseled brocades, the marble, the censers hanging from chains, the embroidered antependium, the aspergillum, the crosiers the ornate lamps — some human's idea of elegance — bespoke grand comedy, too, that God put with it.

Invention Ambassador Luis Almodovar, who is currently working on an advanced tool that can suture within the human heart via a catheter without opening the chest, gave a presentation at AAAS with the entertainment value of a standup comedy routine.

For example, he says, Honoré de Balzac's The Human Comedy was released in serial form as a work of «popular» fiction, but has since attained the status of a classic.

It's a Boy Girl Thing is a 2006 romantic comedy film directed by Nick Hurran and written by Geoff Deane, starring Kevin Zegers and Samaire Armstrong and Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a

Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a This hit comedy chronicles the foibles of disgruntled office workers — led by deluded boss Michael Scott — at the Dunder Mifflin paper company.

Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a An index page listing Comedy Tropes content.

What Netflix's Autism Comedy Atypical Gets Right About Dating While on the Spectrum Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a

But where Sightseers was merely incompetent, We're The Millers seems to take delight in human misery as an end or source of humour in itself; it doesn't use pain or suffering to deepen the characters, it simply offers it as a benchmark of modern comedy.

part horror part comedy is what The Cabin in the wood tries to be.the horror was an emotion of fearing the unknown that lies beyond human knowledge while the comedy is a satire on the young generation that was depicted with the killing of

By focusing on the volatile relationship between brothers Micky and Dicky, Russell finds a wealth of emotional material, not to mention human comedy.

Many would say that World's Greatest Dad has quite a misleading title, but this couldn't be further from the truth, perfectly summing up a dangerously funny film that pushes the boundaries of comedy, but also how us human beings may deal when tragedy strikes under the most unexplainable of

Suddenly, this lightweight comedy is tackling a tantalizing — if completely hypothetical — question: which is more important, a work of art or a human life?

part horror part comedy is what The Cabin in the wood tries to be.the horror was an emotion of fearing the unknown that lies beyond human knowledge while the comedy is a satire on the young generation that was depicted with the killing of typical american teenager.

A savage comedy that rips away the veneer of civility camouflaging base human instinct.

Luckily, it remains so by the end of this exquisitely judged romantic comedy, which maps out the transient pleasures, pitfalls and emotional culs - de-sac of mid-life dating with all the close human scrutiny and hot - blooded sensual detail of her sterner dramatic work.

With movies experiencing a glaring dearth in quietly human, perceptively satirical comedy, the appearance of Brad's Status is something of a breath of fresh air.

Following an unlikely appearance as a football player in The Replacements (2000) and a turn as the son of Old Scratch in Little Nicky (2000), Ifans» role as a socially challenged forest dweller turned opera - loving socialite in the eccentric Human Nature provided audiences with abundant laughs and a further glimpse into the quirkiness of a truly unique actor.Of course the ever - eccentric Ifans was only warming up, and after supporting roles in such efforts as The 51st State, The Shipping News and Once Upon a Time in the Midlands Ifans once again took the lead in the 2003 comedy Donnie Deckchair.

The Happytime Murders is a filthy comedy set in the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles where puppets and humans coexist.

As an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himself.

Disturbing and interesting at the same time, it's a brilliant comedy that shows many human interactions from every perspective, not all of them are equally interesting and characterized.

The intent regarding this humble human comedy is clear: to represent a community (the Hasidic culture of New York) and its language (Yiddish) in an unfiltered yet fictionalized fashion.

Some of the biggest and brightest stars in British comedy appear in this performance film, which documents a revue staged by John Cleese of Monty Python as a benefit for the human rights group Amnesty International.

I get that it's supposed to be a black comedy; I get that it's Eisner's characters and situations as filtered Miller's sensibilities; I even get that The Octopus [Samuel L. Jackson] is supposed to an evil, human version of Wile E. Coyote / Yosemite Sam, while The Spirit is The Roadrunner / Bugs Bunny.

Aside from these momentary lapses and some third - act stuff that wants us to take the characters far more seriously as human beings than we're capable of doing, «The Campaign» is an effective vulgar comedy about two idiots competing with each other.

A comedy - drama with a study of the human condition, throw in a potential alien attack that's literally loitering overhead and this is an impressive piece of work.

Deceptively clever and possessing an innate understanding for the follies of human nature, the film is a romantic comedy that offers up more thoughtful questions than one with pre-conceived judgments may expect.

SHOW DOGS is a family comedy about the unlikely pairing of a human detective (Arnett) and his canine partner (voice of Chris «Ludacris» Bridges), who has to go undercover at the world's most exclusive dog show to solve his biggest case yet.

And the marvel is that she never loses her innate femininity, even when performing some very outlandish physical comedy — like turning her Lily Garland character into a human barbell so lover boy Bruce Granit (Andy Karl being absurdly macho) can do his bicep curls as the 20th Century carries the two of them from Chicago to New York City in 16 hours.

Of Human Hearts and No time For Comedy are available as manufacture on demand (MOD) DVDs through Warner Archive.

Displaying his protean talents, Stoppard adapted Vladimir Nabokov for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's English language black comedy Despair (1978), Graham Greene's spy novel The Human Factor (1979) for Otto Preminger, J.G. Ballard's World War II story Empire of the Sun (1987) for Steven Spielberg, and E.L. Doctorow's gangster saga Billy Bathgate for Robert Benton.

Similar to the terrific 2006 comedy / drama Stranger Than Fiction (Marc Forster), Ruby Sparks explores the idea of freewill through the intriguing concept that a real human could be the creation of a novelist.

It kind of reminded me of Porco Rosso in a way - a comedy with anthropomorphic animals / human merging in together in unusual ways.