Sentences with phrase «of ironic distance»

Situated on the convergence of ironic distance, serious homage and play, Graham inserts painting into the context of a post-medium practice: the works are an extension of his artistic persona undertaking the act of painting and are inconceivable as separate from it.

These qualities can be viewed for their own sake, or taken with a certain amount of ironic distance.

As we saw in the last chapter, popular poetry juxtaposes Christian language with contemporary analogues and contrasts and does thereby achieve a kind of ironic distance from that language; but direct contact with traditional language and symbols — what Donne, Herbert, and Hopkins achieved — is not easy, if it is even possible in our time.

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One such ironic effect of microphones in preaching is the increased distance between preacher and congregation.

He saw that an effective way of dealing with the «anxious self - scrutiny» so prevalent in modern life (and today infinitely heightened by social media) was to establish an ironic distance from «the deadly routine of everyday life.»

It's ironic when you don't believe that you can really find love in an online Asian dating site or even long distance relationships wouldn't last but then out of nowhere, Mike is now in love with a woman he met on an Asian dating site who lives halfway across the world.

ironic, sarcastic, genius evil mastermind, and ruler of the universe as well as several other minor universes within walking distance

The ironic distance derived from the film's framing device and fourth wall — breaking helps emphasizes the drab ordinariness and the utter acceptability of such cruelty.

The ironic distancing makes it hard to get emotionally caught up in the sad story of Kenney's self - destruction when the film enters «Leaving Las Vegas» territory.

Weber (Annabelle & Bear) makes smart choices here, not least of which is to frame A Girl Like Her as a faux documentary, injecting a much - needed ironic distance between the action and the viewer.

That ironic undercutting of expectations is a good place to start as Barry introduces us to Josh, a college Everyman fretting over his long - distance relationship with long - term girlfriend Tiffany (Rachel Blanchard), a veterinary student in Austin, Texas.

That ironic distance is absent from Saulnier's much more accomplished second feature, one that never leaves Dwight's perspective, and therefore his broken prioritization of what will keep him out of danger.

It would be easy to remain at a distance, criticizing everything underneath a guard of ironic cool (just ask Stewart's predecessor, Craig Kilborn).

One hopes in vain for Sutherland, who's turned in some madly fey performances in his time, to contribute some subversively ironic distance from the ongoing embarrassments of Lady Ice, but he manfully pretends to be titillated by O'Neill's nonexistent challenges and lopes gracelessly through his assigned paces as a Columbo of the insurance circuit.

In this age of torture porn, ironic distance and daily real - world outrage, can cinema still offer up an authentically frightening experience?

I doubt, too, that she has abandoned the promise of safely ironic distance.

«The evolution of his direct, subjective engagement with the aesthetic of the sublime — conducted without the fear of stereotypical taboos — oscillates between appropriation and homage, yet Förg does so without ironic quotations or other such cheap distancing techniques.

Halil Altındere developed the Space Refugee project for Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, which in the light of European fears of foreign infiltration and at some ironic distance proposes to use the cosmic space as a haven for refugees.

In 2007, film critic Jonathan Romney described Starr's new silent film Theda: «In a 40 - minute black - and - white film Theda British artist Georgina Starr, best known for her series of works inspired by the 1965 thriller Bunny Lake is Missing, pays tribute to this stormiest of divas and undertakes an archeology of gestural art of the silent - era actress (Theda Bara), drawing on the styles of several other now forgotten grande - dames, such as Barbara La Marr and Maud Allan... the film is divided into three parts «prelude», «act» and «epilogue»... but «prelude» is the real coup: in a long single take, Starr runs through the codified expressive repertoire of the Theda - era performer with such precision that any ironic distance evaporate.

Lush and realistic, Peter Rostovsky's canvases operate between the realms of pure painterly experience and a mediated, ironic distance.

Increasingly, the art world is in thrall to the triumph of art direction, something which places art in the service of the ironic presentation of forms, our distance from which is the art's message.