Sentences with phrase «of lumpen»

«Profile (Heartbeat)» (2015) unites a lopsided ultramarine lozenge on the right with an equally awkward form in warm, tar - like black on the left: two halves of a lumpen heart - shape (that looks more like a pair of lungs).

Taking a cue from Donald Judd's «Specific Objects» but enlivened with a little bit of lumpen plasticity a là Claes Oldenburg's 1961 papier - machês, Stacy Fisher's sculptures show the rare combination of style and wit that is increasingly hard to find in today's sculptural climate of hyper - sterile commodity - object assemblage.

Devised by acting - writing comedy team Lowe and Oram and co-scripted by Amy Jump, director Ben Wheatley's professional and personal partner, the movie pokes fun at the social limitations of these lumpen Midlanders without sneering at or patronizing them.

It is a brave (or foolish) politician that voices opinions about either their constituents or constituency parties but many would find their inner thoughts played out in the numerous scenes that litter political fiction - of a lumpen, apathetic electorate or the zealous bores that attend the average party committee meeting.

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The result of such division was the development of two types of capitalism, and auto - centric dynamic capitalism in the West and a blocked, lumpen capitalism in the colonized nations.

The base music of rap, hip - hop, shares quite a bit with disco, indeed grew directly out of it, and the identity / rebel / heroism focus of rap is a very specific one — rock rages in a broadly indistinct or middle - class mode, often against modernity, but rap's poetic world is «lumpen - proletarian,» and its archetypes and formulas are all about expressing certain notions of blackness and manliness.

I personally believe that these half hearted lumpens with a manager that can not plan ahead of time for the team are the root of our issues.

His tactics were lumpen and reductive and his handling of the press was bizarre.

There were times this evening that the Chicago Fire - the no - longer - winless Chicago Fire, the no - longer - pitiable Chicago Fire - were absorbing punishment like the hero of a hackneyed action movie, taking punches that sounded like small explosions, blood, sweat, and gore streaking down their lumpen, stubborn faces.

Could Bruce deliver the goods and take on the role of shaking the lumpen bourgeoisie by the collar and reminding them of the reality of life?

I believe as socialists we need societies to be societies of givers and not takers but if it makes some people feel better the lumpen generally live crap, unfulfilling lives.

I've gone out of my way to argue that he is a Burkean Whig in the mould of Harold Macmillan, not a Thatcherite retread, and have been deluged with lumpen abuse for saying so.

As Anastasia and Christian argue back and forth with only minor variations over admittedly major points of contention — his possessive nature infringing on her charmed career, their disagreement over when to start a family, whether she should remove her bikini top on the beach or not — Leonard's lumpen script zeroes in on a tinny thriller subplot, centered on the violent, mysteriously vengeful stalking of Anastasia's smarmy ex-boss Hyde (Eric Johnson) as the main attraction.

In «Three Billboards,» the sage ignorance is provided by Sam Rockwell's Dixon, a lumpen - cop with a nasty swagger and a head full of just enough awareness to make him funny.

As Jerry on NBC's «Parks & Recreation,» Jim O'Heir was the butt of every joke, a lumpen Midwesterner who absorbed ridicule with a genial earnestness that only invited more of it.

The extremely likable Nick Frost is the driving force behind this rather lumpen British romcom about a one - time salsa champion slipping back into the alligator shoes in pursuit of love.

The way it excels on track yet copes so well with even the most lumpen roads reveals its true dynamic depth, and the way it wrings every last molecule of pace from a modestly powerful engine is magic.

There's enough connection to feel any changes in surface or grip levels, so you don't get any nasty surprises, but equally the «noise» of your average lumpen country road is nicely filtered out.

Issues we had with the F - Type V8S promise to be corrected by the following: Torque Vectoring by Braking to eliminate understeer, Jaguar Adaptive Dynamics with revised spring rates for progressive handling, carbon ceramic brakes (398 / 380 mm front and rear, reducing overall unsprung weight by 46 lbs) to handle that great lumpen mass of an engine, and the latest electric LSD to make the most of on - throttle rotation.

To our eyes it's also far from the most stylish compact hatchback, with a long bonnet and a lumpen rear end — a consequence of its rear - drive layout.

As a result, you tend to glide through combat by guzzling potions to compensate for the lumpen blocking mechanic, and even when you get to more challenging boss encounters where enemy healing and shielding threatens to become an issue, you can almost always progress through sheer gluttony and overkill rather than by having to think too deeply about what sort of combat approach to take.

The rest of «Soft Core» is anything but soft, even when Pinar Yolacan simulates prehistory again, with the lumpen white of a female totem.

First cast in bronze and subsequently chrome - plated, Sarah Staton's Post-Pop Hamburger is cartoon - like in its simplicity, at once an object of real desire whilst, being hollow and lumpen in its demeanour, simultaneously displaying its inherent obsolescence.

Some, like the massive Ultrasuede Wave, were pieces of cushy upholstered furniture crushed by lumpen ceramic boulders; others, like Third Eye, were abstract paintings that veered off into Rauschenbergian assemblage with folding chairs attached to their stretcher bars.

Her orchestrated assemblages tease out notions of function and display, as when she nestles awkward glazed vessels on worn readymade armchairs, couches, and tables, or props them up on lumpen or lean plinths of her own devising.

This year's line - up includes a creepily disorientating fake apartment from Gregor Schneider; a decaying former skating rink that Pierre Huyghe has transformed into an epic apocalyptic scenario inhabited by swarms of bees, mutating cancer cells and chimera peacocks; and Nicole Eisenman's wonderfully dysfunctional fountain, with its lumpen, slouching figures dribbling water from clutched beer cans and various bodyparts.

He is one of the few contemporary sculptors who is able to animate his essentially abstract work, as well as evoke the delightful wackiness and incipient violence of cartoons without directly quoting their lumpen heads, awkward figures and imaginary landscapes.

Organized by Peter Pakesch, chairman of the Maria Lassnig Foundation in Vienna, and Paul Schimmel, the former Museum of Contemporary Art chief curator and now a partner in the gallery, the survey shows Lassnig (1919 - 2014) dredging the best out of hard - edged abstraction, gestural expressionism, cartoon figuration and lumpen self - portraiture.

The eclectic range of works includes provocative lumpen - sculptures by Franz West and Rosemarie Trockel, a playfully tormented painting by Wols (Wolfgang Schulze) and a hilarious copy of Raphael's «The School of Athens» by Malcolm Morley, in which a pantheon of Greek philosophers is rendered in gooey globs of acrylic, like a thickly frosted cake.

For Georges Bataille, abjection's other philosophical touchstone, the lowest of social ejecta — the lumpen — was also a privileged revolutionary agent.

Guston's painting is lumpen, ugly, funny, full of pathos, and as full of doubt as Labille - Guiard's is full of confidence (and bravura painting technique) but is equally as chock full of information about the artist and their position in the world.

It's all angels dancing on the head of a pin, and complaining that NIC Card is redundant depends on a narrow lumpen version of the full story.

In our time, when the old «proletarians» are becoming petty bourgeois (and the lumpen are largely excluded from the political scene), the fascism of tomorrow will find its audience in this new majority.»