Sentences with phrase «on ugliness»

You should watch the video above for yourself to get the full experience, but my first impression is that these scenes are the artist's view on the ugliness of consumer culture.

I overlooked my share of artists, but the Whitney thrives on ugliness at first glance and Latin American art on a fraught emotional and political history.

But Days of Heaven emphasized beauty and Gummo focuses on ugliness, while George Washington falls somewhere in between.

Ah, ugliness piled on ugliness!

Not exact matches

The findings showed that the theory there is a «ugliness penalty» on wages isn't that simple.

The Dow utility average plunged another 12 points, the Transports dropped by nearly 100, the Industrials failed their recent basing pattern, the number of stocks hitting new lows jumped above new highs on both the NYSE and the Nasdaq, decliners led advancers by more than 2 - to - 1, and the U.S. dollar weakened further, among other ugliness.

NEW YORK (TheStreet)-- Last week's ugliness on Wall Street continued into Monday after China's stock market collapsed into negative territory for the year.

I don't really care about the argument (which will inevitably go on forever); I just want to cut away the pretense and ugliness, exposing the argument for what it is.

But I also saw some of the same ugliness, particularly on the social networks, that many of you encountered.

Morality plays, based on scriptural themes and dramatized for the illiterate masses of the Middle Ages the struggle of good with evil, embodied in the various characters virtues such as innocence, beauty, kindness, and patriotism in their triumph over vices such as sloth, ugliness, gluttony, lying, and cheating.

She compels belief in the unbelievable, and she knows that thousands of people have reason to deny her version of the truth — about the abuse that she claims is part of her experience and the ugliness revealed by the light she shines on her Mormon upbringing.

Universities, corporations and governments spend similar sums daily on all manner of ugliness, In one corner of the world, a monastery is creating something of wondrous beauty meant to last, and worthy to last, for hundreds of years.

i absolutely love that you are taking this on, that you have the call and the courage to bring this ugliness into the light.

In a comment on some modern (or perhaps post-modern) art that seeks to shock and is graphic in its ugliness and violence, Hart says that «modern art's unwitting prophetic role has been to reveal to us man's loss of dignity».

First, you write on your own blog that you are disappointed in city of Bethlehem, «struck by the ugliness of the place... and the rudeness of the monks» and «resonate» with Bethlehem being called a «grand comedy» ``??? And then, you rush over here to discuss David's hyperbole and histrionics (that is, theatrical exaggeration)???

This does not mean, on the other hand, that one worships better in ugliness.

Really, the hatefulness on the board says much more about the ugliness of the current base voters of the Democratic Party than it does Mia Love.

And this means we should read Scripture with the awareness that God has always been willing to stoop to bear the sin of his people and take on appearances that reflect the ugliness of their sin.

The cross reveals God to us only when we look past the surface appearance that reflects the ugliness of our sin and discern in its depth our gracious God stooping to bear our sin and take on this ugly appearance for us.

I was just saying to someone that I was sad that I feel like thus hurricane has brought out a lot of ugliness in people (my rides on the 1 and N train mostly solidified that) and so it was so good and heart - warming to read this recipe.

In this order, I change all Gunners on the field to be guided by the rules and regulations of playing the game to avoid getting into any act of ugliness during the game.

I'm on the left, I support the Democratic party, I detest racism (particularly as someone who has experienced its ugliness), but I get some of the arguments made by the right when it comes to language vigilance and accusation, because I've seen far too many situations when people have tried their darndest to ally with identity positions they don't share or rally behind causes that don't necessarily reflect their own subject position, only to have it backfire spectacularly because they didn't do it right or say it right.

They often eliminate the ugliness that takes place on the playing field.

When the ugliness of our kitchen had taken its toll on both of us, we just decided to get one that day in IKEA.

«There has been a lot of ugliness and bullying to come out of this election and I think children pick up on that from TV or their parents,» Norrell said.

Paladino, of course, is doing just that today, trying to put the ugliness of last week's personal attacks behind him by refocusing on policy with a new Web video that talks about eliminating taxes that are onerous on businesses.

But on the campus of the LSE the true ugliness of the British class system is being played out for all to see.

I am not a fan of his programme because of the biases he openly display on his show and attempts by him to distort documented historical facts to decorate the ugliness of the tradition he has allied himself to.

The natural human response to such emotional ugliness is to switch it off and make it go away, to focus instead on the friends and family and colleagues around you who provide better emotional energy.

On the campaign trail with all three candidates, supporters universally expressed frustration with the ugliness of the race.

Thursday reality: I painted last coat on the bathroom door and started building the soffit around the plumbing and the shelf unit to cover up the ugliness that is the well, the well pump and the water heater in the bathroom, this takes all day and I managed to get it ALMOST all complete.

It was a negative comment on my blog, not aimed so much at age but ugliness, that kicked off the travelling yellow skirt freak show.

What the film is saying about goodness (or ugliness or badness) is unclear as the «good» is just as bad as the «ugly,» but I can imagine that it's attempting to show that morality is more contextual than absolute, creating, as it does, an environment in which everybody is immoral even the Union and Confederate troops, who seem to be passing through this film on their way to another.

Part Deer Hunter, part Winter's Bone, Scott Cooper's new film casts a haunted image of ugliness scarring natural beauty, whether it's the steel town petering out and leaving a rusted carcass in a Pennsylvania valley, or the human nastiness up in the hills on the Jersey border.

In images of gunmen appearing and disappearing out of tall grass as if part of a giant Whac - A-Mole game, and of Mendelsohn placidly standing amid these killers while wearing a giant bearskin coat and a look of let's - get - on - it - with - it viciousness on his face, Slow West's climactic shootout exudes a strange and haunting ugliness.

The camera lingers on the faces of Hall and Reilly as they stare at the shackled john, his bloody pillow and Paltrow huddled in a corner - the ugliness of it unseen until the camera moves into the room.

As Herzog muses on the depressing ugliness of institutional hallways in an academic building on campus, we see a trim older gentleman, computer science professor Leonard Kleinrock, leading the camera through a doorway that leads to the room where the Internet was born in 1969.

Turning its guns on social media critics and the «ugliness» of selfies, the Cannes Film Festival has changed its schedules this year to spare...

Turning its guns on social media critics and the «ugliness» of selfies, the Cannes Film Festival has changed its schedules this year to spare... Turning its guns on social media critics and the «ugliness» of selfies, the Cannes Film Festival has changed its schedules this year to spare... Turning its guns on social media critics and the «ugliness» of selfies, the Cannes Film Festival has changed its schedules this year to spare...

«In between Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street, there were so many slasher films where it was just some whacko with a knife, and in those films there's a kind of ugliness in a way.

Despite the film's ugliness it has gone on to influence countless other movies, in particular those in the subgenre that can now be defined as «outback survival», such as Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975), Mad Max (George Miller, 1979) and, more recently, Wolf Creek (Greg Mclean, 2005).

Observe and Report more often goes for laughs at the expense of its characters, merely using them as vessels in order to continue to pile on uncouth repartee and so - called shocking ugliness.

Ethan's Top 5 Favorite Films: # 5: Smashed - Many films chronicle the ugliness of alcoholism and the triumph of sobriety, but rarely does one focus on the consequences of both in such a practical way.

Noir detectives smoked and drank too much, were always unattached, and usually damaged in some way by the ugliness they encountered on a daily basis.

The film's moral ugliness (four teens — our heroes — drown the man they accidentally hit with their car on the eve of graduation and are stalked one year later by an unidentified witness) is meanwhile placidly circumvented by the smug glamour of cast members Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze, Jr., and Ryan Phillippe.

No, what I really don't like are movies like North Country that fudge humanity in all its ugliness and imperfection so tragically that the real issues of the picture end up looking like one of those glossy fashion mag covers Theron will grace as she embarks on her promotional turn.

The ugliness of some of the commentary on this movie needs to stop.

Yet on the inside, Ifans maintains that same ugliness, as he's used here to provide some difficult thoughts about the very frank «caveman» instincts within men, especially when someone like Emily Blunt is involved.

On the other, it's unfortunate that Weaver had to return to the defining role of her career amid a fangoria-fest of sheer ugliness I could have gladly done without.

You may not agree with some of the themes, and you may find the descent into ugliness to not be your cup of tea, but it will make you think, and to feel, and to reflect on what you saw, and to wonder why it rubs at that sore spot that other films are too timid ever to touch.