Sentences with phrase «of slyness»

Marlene Dumas's devastating portrait of Wilde, beautiful and mournful, hangs in a cell a few feet from her equally powerful image of Bosie, his pretty face a mask of slyness.

Not exact matches

That narrative slyness is especially welcome in Friedkin, acting as a palliative to the sensory overdose in which he habitually deals; such a contrast was nowhere to be seen in «Bug» (2006), a film that sent me straight from the cinema to the pharmacy in search of anti-itch cream, but we find it in the first half of «Killer Joe,» thanks to the title character.

While it isn't as touching or as exuberantly funny as the original, it's a cute summer diversion for kids with just enough wink - wink slyness and cheeky cinematic asides to hold the interests of older teens and adults.

What vibrancy there is comes not from the script but from Posey's crackling slyness, Phoenix's lunkish solemnity as Abe (he puts a muscular spin on that perennial Allen figure, the clueless intellectual), the tender glow of Darius Khondji's photography, and the Ramsey Trio Lewis instrumental of «The In Crowd,» which runs throughout, pepping things up nicely.

Maybe he caught the younger man's mix of flamboyance, slyness, and naiveté, so much like himself.

Out of ignorance or slyness, an interviewer might try to get information out of you that the company is not allowed to factor into their hiring decisions.