Sentences with phrase «of levity from»

Much of the story seems preoccupied with the base - level joys and torments of being a teenager, content to float along with occasional bursts of levity from some nonessential but fun minicomics by Bosma.

There's even a bit of levity from time to time that breaks up the dread.

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Death isn't a subject often associated with levity, but a Perth business is benefiting from taking a lighter approach to the end of life.

Meanwhile, researchers have also cast doubt on the long - term efficacy of «forced fun» at work, finding that required levity can lead to an array of bad outcomes such as burnout among employees, and that these cheerful work cultures often serve to distract workers from excessive control or poor conditions elsewhere in the business.

«From women let not evidence be accepted,» reads the Mishna, «because of the levity and temerity of their sex.»

The event was punctuated by moments of levity but mostly dominated by anger from residents who feel their elected representatives have sold out their interests to the real estate industry, with a focus on the proposed redevelopment of the vacant Bedford Union Armory.

The levity came from Sherman's comedic asides, delivered with the timing of someone who's been onstage before.

From here Katniss and Peeta are primped and prepped for The Hunger Games by a host of well - known actors (Woody Harrelson, Wes Bentley, Stanley Tucci, Lenny Kravitz and a scene - stealing Elizabeth Banks), all of whom help bring weight or levity when and where required.

Amid the apocalyptic overtones of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, a moment of real magic and rare levity occurs when Minerva McGonagall (Maggie Smith), after summoning an army of knight statues to protect Hogwarts from impending attack, excitedly admits, «I've always wanted to do that spell!»

Here, no such levity: Garland adapts «Annihilation» from the first in a 2014 trio of books by Jeff VanderMeer collectively known as the Southern Reach Trilogy.

So far, it's the children who best register the tension between levity and horror, as one moment the existence of the alters lets them get away with a scam, while the next moment it pulls the earth out from under them.

No amount of levity and directorial flair can divert notice from how dense this material is.

The film starts of with some levity at the wedding of Riker (Frakes, Star Trek: Generations) and Deanna Troi (Sirtis, Crash), but their honeymoon is cut short when they discover some unusual positronic emissions coming from an area of the neutral zone near the Romulan realm.

An emotionally sterile and self - serious terminal disease drama without a moment of levity to be found from first frame to last.

(It doesn't help, either, that there's an air of desperation to virtually all of the movie's attempts at levity, with Nimoy's increasingly frantic efforts to elicit laughs from the viewer growing more and more obnoxious as time progresses.)

Host Seth Meyers brought a mixture of levity and earnestness to his opening monologue, in which he took verbal jabs at Woody Allen, Spacey, and Weinstein, whose absence from the ceremony was glaring in the wake of over 70 allegations of sexual misconduct.

In this clip Academy Awards winners Nicole Kidman and Dianne Wiest bring a warm sense of humor and levity to an emotional scene from the film.

It's a subtle bit of levity, the kind only drawn from the cuteness of elderly people trying to be not quite so elderly, but Jenkins gives the entire performance with a natural, naïve - but - determined breeze.

When I spoke with Haggis and Phillippe on April 29, 2005, the serious issues brought up in the film were certainly prominent, but that didn't stop either of them from bringing some real levity to the mix.

But brothers Anthony and Joe Russo, who return as co-directors after «Civil War» and its predecessor, «Winter Soldier,» move the pace briskly and with frequent levity, as heroes from various Marvel franchises keep throwing things - sometimes literally - at Thanos, and as the scene of the action shifts from the «Guardians of the Galaxy» team's spaceship to Black Panther's African homeland of Wakanda to, at one point, Scotland.

A new Ant - Man and the Wasp trailer debuted today, and for those still reeling from the heavy events of Avengers: Infinity War, it appears this Marvel Studios sequel will do exactly what the first film did following Avengers: Age of Ultron: allow some levity and fun to permeate the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Freed from the dour weight of a post-apocalyptic genocidal bummer, McAvoy, Fassbender, Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult (returning as Beast from First Class) get the benefit of a little levity that lightens the mood and allows the film to breathe.

From Captain America recognizing a Wizard of Oz reference, to Black Widow's comments about the climactic battle, the smart script uses levity and humor to keep the story humming even when the action has slowed down.

Directed by Joe Johnston (Jumanji), Captain America proves to be a riveting roller coaster ride from beginning to end, basically because it relies on a winning recipe featuring all the fixins needed to hold an audience's undivided attention, from a compelling plot which ratchets up the tension all the way to the final showdown, to eye - popping action and special effects, to a sweet romance between likable leads exhibiting screen chemistry, to lots of unexpected moments of levity (with much of the hilarious comic relief arriving courtesy of Tommy Lee Jones).

Opposite legend Robert De Niro for much of the film, Jackson's Robbie is a buzz saw, spitting out Tarantino's dialogue like an AK - 47 and moving from levity to unbalanced aggression and the drop of a hat.

Tyler Bates» music choices are especially spot - on and function both as harbingers of dread and moments of levity — my personal favorites were the Latin versions of «I Will Survive» and «California Dreamin»» (I'll refrain from further detail as to not spoil their effective usage).

«Winter Sleep» contains a few surprising moments of levity, from scene of drunken men dueling with Shakespeare citations, to the peculiar nature of Aydin's relationship with a disadvantaged horse.

Downloading Nancy «s premise, in which a depressed housewife attempts to solicit murderers in online chat rooms to help her pull off a psycho - assisted suicide, seems ripe for execution in the vein of Neil LaBute's style of behind - closed - doors perversion, but director Johan Renck has something else in mind, delivering what's essentially an emotionally sterile and self - serious terminal disease drama without a moment of levity to be found from first frame to last.

Both hardly say any words but their non-verbals and chemistry is in full force, and the performance of Hawkins runs the gamut from loneliness to levity to pure bliss.

Even a fun cameo from Clark Gregg helps bring some levity to the harsh violence we witness in the Italian / Irish Mob war of the late 1910s.

It's not constant hilarity but the moments of levity do offer brief diversion, as we see Johnny Depp improvise when his large dog becomes uncooperative, a few wire - suspended giggles from Peter Pan, and some script departures from Dustin Hoffman.

In an effort to add a little levity to the seriousness of testing week we did a reading / writing innovation lesson that I got from Cristie F...

Momma Levity reigned as the undisputed queen at our numerous Meet and Greets until she passed away at the age of 13 1/2, sporting her fashionable donation vest which filled quickly with contributions from adults and children alike.

Sure, the combat is still brutal and players will die quite a few times, but there's a levity to Necropolis that keeps it from feeling like a cel - shaded clone of From Software's Souls serfrom feeling like a cel - shaded clone of From Software's Souls serFrom Software's Souls series.

Additional levity stems from the inclusion of Otton, a pink seal with a serious panty fetish.

Some of the saddest video games with highly depressing endings are still fun to play, and playing something with a little levity makes a nice change from the online FPS battlefield.

Remarkably she manages to take us from the Jurassic period (more than two hundred million years ago) to the future tense, from outer space with Meteorite Hanging to the rootedness of the earth's plant life with her brass and glass lichen wall reliefs (2012), accomplishing this with levity and a profound sense of awe.

Bruce Pollock's exhibition, Levity, of recent paintings will be on view at Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts from October 3 though November 16.

It seems symptomatic of a broader reorientation in the pop - cultural landscape of early»90s Britain, away from the plaid - shirt nihilism of Generation X, towards a confident levity and engagement with a more localized pop sensibility — a loss of interest in the US as locus of artistic innovation.

Taking its title from the dark 80s teen cult comedy by the same name, Heathers takes a look at pop culture's (and pop cinema's) co-option of contemporary art and its «impulse to vampirise levity as a cipher for criticality and de-subjectivisation».

The French author Tristan Klingsor wrote in his book from 1921 that Manguin's «search for bright vibrant colors, his outbursts of orange, his sumptuous reds... even the shadows contribute to the levity and gaiety, often taking on tones of green».

Viewers will be afforded the opportunity to connect with the humor and pathos that Handforth brings to vernacular urban materials — from lampposts and street signs to fluorescent light fixtures and metal trash cans — and to enjoy the romantic levity he so slyly smuggles into the formalism of abstract sculpture.

This group of works deals with different aspects of the titular words, «Levity / Gravity,» from multiple vantages — lightness against heaviness, mutability contrasting steadfastness, irreverence and seriousness, a lack of mooring or ease of movement versus the irrefutable force that binds us to the earth,» said Momin.

Two phrases stuck in my head over time — No Borders, No Fences, No Walls (from a Robbie Robertson song) and Bird Over America (a recurring image from observing migratory birds while walking along the shore of Lake Champlain) served to focus my attention on a limited number of formal concerns — line, color, movement, levity, and tactility.

«Both the Chief Scientist and the creator of the image told us it was meant to bring some levity to the constant criticism that they and their fellow climate scientists were facing at the time from climate skeptics.»

We're expecting a similar kind of serious tone from Red Dead Redemption 2 with rare, intermittent bouts of levity.