Sentences with phrase «on machismo»

Fishman's signature potpourri of tempestuous brushstrokes and unapologetic riffs on the machismo of Abstract Expressionism finds a glorious embodiment in the sensuality of red and formality of black.

The script has taken rather a trim in comparison, this film concentrating on machismo and gunplay rather than the more artful and character driven original; the result is that Eastwood's gunslinger comes across as more of a cynical operator than Mifune's aimless but moralistic samurai, and the build up has a brisk, almost rushed feel about it.

Long had also cultivated a public image that was built on his machismo.

Not exact matches

Canada tends to leave its machismo on the ice.

They just don't want to debase it by using it as a cheaper alternative to seeing a movie, or (for boys) as a way of asserting machismo in the absence of positive male role models, or (for girls) as a desperate ploy to hold on to a boyfriend — or any of the other sad, dead — end abuses of sex that become common whenever a society sheds its «repressed Victorianism.»

try to debate Conservapedians on the true definition of the word machismo despite the definitions the Merriam Webster dictionary offers

Those who founded our nation were pioneers who stressed self - reliance, the conquest of a new and virgin land, and a machismo based on force, power and schemes to outwit the opponent.

I've seen a lot of young men on dating sites, claiming to be atheists and I think there «s a certain machismo which they attach to the idea.

This book isCourson's reflection on a sporting life gone awry, a heartfelt, if you will, attempt by a former prince of machismo to figure out why he did so many crazythings to play the game of football.

It has nothing to do with boys - will - be-boys machismo in the name of our country either; the last time I looked, there were women putting their life on the line for all of us every day.

Reflecting on their unpublished results, Erdman and Alm think that the probiotic microbes in the yogurt help to make the animals leaner and healthier, which indirectly improves sexual machismo.

Not machismo and boasting, rather his focus is on character, honor, and courage.

Men do love to showcase their machismo especially on occasions when they get to don their rugged look.

On a South Dakota farm, he works for Wayne (Vince Vaughn), at once exhausted and energized by the physical labor, mostly bemused by Wayne's conventionally «outlaw» machismo.

Not the subtlest director working in Hollywood, Michael Bay brings his surging machismo to this retelling of the notorious attack on an American compound in Libya on the anniversary of 9/11 in 2012.

They were not, I suspect, prepared for a dark, cynical satire about American machismo and the country's absurd obsession with guns, violence, and, to put it bluntly, obtaining satisfaction off inflicting pain on others.

The book and the film on which it's based share a tone of hipster sexual frustration metaphor in the Jay McInerney mold, here caged, as it usually is, in pumped - up bodies trying not to seem gay so as to ease admittance into these exclusive cults of machismo and sadomasochism.

He'd better hope they're not the types who dig westerns (films about the law of the gun, machismo, etc), as his new one is a riff on this most American of genres.

Savalas, on the other hand, has an effortless machismo that could have easily been played straight.

Chandler plays against type with casual machismo as Brooks tries to outwit and outshine Max on every step.

Although Rick is the first to state his concern that he may have pushed Maggie to take drastic measures to save their marriage, pride and machismo inevitably get the better of him as he sets his sights on a young, Australian barista (Nicky Whelan).

Barry Forshaw has made a career out of studying the dames, pistols, machismo, and glistening city streets that define crime fiction; with previous books such as Death in a Cold Climate: A Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction and The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction seeking to provide a comprehensive survey of the genre, he's made himself, to quote the book jacket of British Crime Film: Subverting the Social Order, «the UK's principal expert on crime fiction.»

To be fair, McDonagh has plenty on his mind, from an anatomy of film violence (how much is too much is the implicit question) to an essay in machismo that deliberately places women at the margins.

Incidents of rabid machismo accumulate at the mine (as to be expected, though, the offenses detailed in the actual case are considerably more egregious), with the initial salvos against the women taken in stride until the writing - with - excrement on the wall and the tipping of portable toilets becomes epidemic, pushing noble Josie to the stand.

For the most part, Mackenzie lets the material speak for itself, capturing the fear, claustrophobia and machismo of prison with such staggering authenticity that it's like watching a fly - on - the - wall documentary.

For some more overt machismo — on an album largely geared to a female perspective — there's «The Wolf» by the Spencer Lee Band, with a riff vaguely hinting at Stevie Wonder's «Superstition» and a vocal that yowls like Mr. Wonder and hoots like Michael Jackson (and the Weeknd), leering, «Your body's sweating, dripping wet and I just can't control myself.»

On its 30th anniversary, Kenji Fujishima writes about James Cameron's «Aliens,» and its subversive approach to machismo in film.

Michaels» machismo, swagger, and self - cited sex addiction put him in stark contrast to Jimmy MacElroy (Jon Heder, Napoleon Dynamite), a blonde mop - topped skater known for his grace and elegance on the ice.

On the other hand, the company has a strong slew of first - party games, offering up a wide variety of titles compared to the more bro - heavy machismo of Microsoft's first - party games.

Within this series, titled Bubbleissimo, (perhaps making a play on the word «machismo»), the artist distorts the notion of masculinity through a comedic display of the growing obsession with groomed facial hair.

I mean, it was very clear to me that the people who had an articulate critique of painting were conscious of the traditions of machismo, and in a way I was aligned with those critics, but then on the other hand I do like an aspect of gestural painting, so there's something in it for me that that critique misses.

It is from these assorted elements that Rhoades at varying times produced meditations on the universe (Deviations in Space, Various Virgins), the machismo associated with sculpture, (Cherry Makita - Honest Engine Works) as well as van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece (Piece in Ghent).

The process and materials tap into Olivas» desires to inform himself on the history and tradition of the quinceañera process, how it speaks to the ongoing progression or regression of gender roles, and the myth of machismo.

When the August 1949 issue of LIFE magazine rhetorically asked the American public whether Jackson Pollock was «the greatest living painter in the United States,» simple, all - American machismo was the hook, selling the American public on the idea that Abstract Expressionism embodied the triumph of the individual male spirit.

On meeting, Goldberg revealed himself to be the quintessential mixture of machismo and sensitivity — the tough guy with a heart of gold, which was the signature style of artists of his generation.

The overall gesture is extravagant in its largesse and Serra-esque machismo; the branches morph into torches that, instead of painting with fire leave, their mark by dripping wax in circular patterns on the gallery floor.

They are of their period — heavy on the anxiety, brave in their machismo — but they also transcend it.

«These pieces and perspectives narrate several Ofilis: the colorist who works in restricted palettes, at times Garveyite red, black and green, at others blue monochromes or Favist ochres, purples and greens; the scatologist who uses shit as a sculptural base and pictorial ground, handling paint both to build up and denude his paintings surfaces; and the mime of machismo and voyeurism who draws on imagery from blaxploitation, Marvel comics, porn, and postcolonial African photography,» he writes.

The emotion, the materials, the grand scale... The stories of de Kooning, Pollock and Rothko hanging out at Cedar Tavern haunted me while I was studying at the New York Studio School on 8th St. Ultimately, though I think some of them took themselves too seriously and the massive scale was so tied up in machismo which was a turn - off.

Another doubtlessly controversial argument I've heard on several occasions is that of persistent machismo.

With just a few days to go before Prime Minister Tony Blair and Home Secretary John Reid step down, are there any signs that Gordon Brown may drop the political machismo that has characterised talk on terror?