Sentences with phrase «of weary resignation»

The incongruity of the flawlessly cast classical bust with its expression of weary resignation and the sneaker delivers an effective jolt of awareness.

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Playing a Danish officer stationed in Argentina circa 1880, Viggo Mortensen has the perfect comportment of a civilized military man; as the film goes on and his character is forced to wander through the wilds in search of his disappeared daughter, this brilliant actor gets to shows off his vast vocabulary of body language, from urgent, purposeful striding to weary, wary resignation.
And he has a permanent air of world - weary resignation that suggests the good roles have deserted him rather than vice versa.
One waits with weary resignation for the next pothole they will dig in the path of science.
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