Sentences with phrase «outrageousness of»

On the other hand, I was giddy with the outrageousness of this story: Is it obscene to spend THIS much on a wedding?

The case is surprising both for the prominence of the lawyers and the outrageousness of their conduct.

As evidence of the outrageousness of the award, CubaDebate published a separate post highlighting Nye's comments.

Within reporting, even «honest» reporting seeking to make clear the #AlternativeFacts nature of Pruitt's comments, the framing is all too often «normalizing» and understating the outrageousness of the EPA directly holding such anti-science attitudes.

Anarchy Reigns is set to release next January at # 19.99 RRP, which is already a bargain considering the outrageous... outrageousness of the whole insane 16 - player package.

SN: Your book basically mocks the outrageousness of the financial world which, in other words, is laying bare the truth of how the system works.

The outrageousness of Charlotte's condition furnished more protection.

Director Stephen Frears (Florence Foster Jenkins, The Program) mines a lot of good - natured humor out of the outrageousness of royal existence, such as the absolute frenzy Windsor Castle is thrown into in preparation for the Queen's arrival for the banquet at which Abdul's coin will be presented.

Vaughn co-wrote and directed «Kick - Ass,» and perhaps the looseness and outrageousness of that earlier film — the way it satisfied genre conventions, even while tweaking and satirizing them — is what Vaughn was trying to do here.

As for the outrageousness of its presentation, there are other IPs that can match it, such as Guilty Gear and BlazBlue.

If Levring had embraced the limitations of his filmmaking a little more, embraced the inherent outrageousness of some of his material, it'd be a lot easier to enjoy The Salvation.

Directed by John Frankenheimer and written by San Francisco's Ehren Kruger, the film has some of the outrageousness of a Tarantino effort, but without the smirky nihilism and heartlessness.

Inspired by the true story of New York siblings Stewart and Cyril Marcus, who were found dead in the bachelor pad they shared on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, it's serious like a cancer diagnosis, but it's also quite funny, rich in wry detail, and brimming with the outrageousness of its premise.

The plot by the writer (who also wrote the similarly scattershot The Judge) makes no sense, particularly in its final third, where it drops not one, not two, but three insanely illogical twists — one of which had the audience I saw the film with guffawing at the outrageousness of it all.

While some criticize the absurdity and outrageousness of the filming, but I find it perfect.

It's hard to translate the madcap randomness and outrageousness of anime action into, well, real life, but Sori gives it a spirited go.

The sheer outrageousness of its attitude is enough to make Heathers a very welcome relief in a field dominated by sanctimonious and second - hand virtue.

They're what fuels the outrageousness of the scenarios (a «bottomless party» in Miami, Harris branding a prostitute, sky - diving to safety over Crawford, Texas), and otherwise allows Schlossberg and Hurwitz to tackle sacred cows and semi-topical socio - political humor.

Yet because none of them was a specialist in neuroimmunology, they didn't quite grasp the outrageousness of their finding.

All people possessed of an elementary sense of decency, however, should be able to agree on the outrageousness of the way protestors are being treated by police and courts around the country.

Not exact matches

As a subscriber to both First Things and New Oxford Review, I make a point of reading the New Oxford Review ads because I find them entertaining and enjoy their deliberate outrageousness, as Father Neuhaus obviously does not.

Worse, the «sellers» of these wares are now so many that buyers can dictate the terms of sale, «demanding ever more outrageousness in return for their limited attention,» as Bowman deftly puts it.

As a result of the media market for outrageousness, it has become harder and harder for truths, particularly unpalatable ones, to be heard at all.

Not only are they inherently hypocritical but they are arrogant to the point of outrageousness in their attempt to shove a belief down the throats of other people in the absence of credible evidence.

Some of the possibilities which he imagines are startling, to say the least (although it should be stressed that these speculations are put forward quite tentatively, and at times with a kind of playful and deliberate outrageousness).

For the almost eight years that the party held sway in Osun, the «nest of killers» was so obsessed with frivolities and flagrant outrageousness that dear state became a cataclysmic turf for incompetence, uncharitableness and backwardness.

Killer Joe throws down a dare by expecting its audience to be the cool connoisseurs of the story's «comic» outrageousness, then rubbing viewers» faces in close - up scenes of brutality that reasonable people ought not to be able to watch.

Almost nothing anyone does registers as recognizably human; it's all just a pretext for yet another round of envelope - pushing outrageousness.

Often reviled in his native United States but worshipped as a genius throughout much of Europe and especially France, Lewis took slapstick comedy to new realms of absurdity and outrageousness, his anarchic vision dividing audiences who found him infantile and witless from those who applauded the ambitions of his sight gags, his subversions of standard comedic patterns, and his films» acute criticisms of American values.

Fast and Furious 6 (or just «Furious 6» as shown in the film) continues in the vein of the previous film, but cranks up the outrageousness.

But Elaine's outrageousness was in the context of a circle of equally callous, self - involved, slightly amoral friends.

At its best, «Hall Pass» is a checklist of «outrageousness» including, but not limited to, public defecation, an enormous boner, a tiny boner, a massage parlor mishap, a catastrophic fart and frequent discussions about what one could and would do to various parts of the female anatomy.

CBR's Kristy Puchko branded the sequel a «Michael Bay clusterflick,» that boasts an absolutely, unapologetically insane opening» that's «awesome, alive with Bay's special brand of epic outrageousness.»

The comic highlights are punched across at regular intervals, but once the novelty wears off, the movie has trouble sustaining its length — or its level of outrageousness.

Stoller certainly has his hooky yet straightforward concept and loads it with jokes that are fairly unique in the scheme of R - rated outrageousness, even in the age of filmmakers just like him.

There isn't much in ways of middle ground with him — either both his lewdness and outrageousness is funny or it's not.

There's affection in its bland, bad taste - obscured tale of homogeneity overcoming difference, laughs to be found in its trying - too - hard outrageousness, and affability apparent in the immensely likeable cast.

Even Hamburg's non-scatological humor is uninspired, faux - Farrelly attempts at would - be outrageousness: broad sight (pun intended) gags with Polly's blind ferret; Reuben's ex-child star friend's (Philip Seymour Hoffman, whose pratfall of an entrance ominously foretells of the depths to which he's required to sink) desperate «comeback» bid in a community theater production of Jesus Christ Superstar.

If the screenplay didn't take itself so seriously and increased the level of outrageousness and cleverness, The Bad Batch could've been a guilty pleasure and perhaps even a cult classic.

But director Rawson Marshall Thurber's broad hijinks spin too easily off into a sort of perfunctory outrageousness which probably is inevitable from a story by the writers of Wedding Crashers that's been punched up by the writers of Hot Tub Time Machine.

The small miracle of First Reformed is that its outrageousness — which flirts with satire, symbolism, climate fears, and the stuff of cheap thrillers yet still finds room for a transcendently goofy psychedelic sequence — should come from a place of subtlety.

It begs for stylized, scenery - moving outrageousness — something along the lines of the late Ken Russell, or at least Darkest Hour's Joe Wright.

It's staked, as before, on the potty - mouth one - liners of Deadpool / Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds), delivering a snarky rapid - fire adolescent diatribe which is very hit and miss, but pretty good - natured underneath all the outrageousness... While Deadpool 2 delivers the gags and the gun - shot geeky Marvel insider references, the plot could have done with some more finesse.

Outrageousness isn't always funny in and of itself; it can feel a bit desperate, which is exactly what happens in this instance.

That's much less of a problem with its superior sequel, which is comfortable enough in its own outrageousness, and underlying substance, that it doesn't need to exert quite so much furious effort to be cool, and clever and subversive.

Written and directed by Patrick Brice (whose previous film, Creep, starring himself and Mark Duplass, makes its VOD debut June 23), it's an unusual but surprisingly effective mix of outrageousness and sincerity, in which the four anxious revelers somehow function both as broad caricatures and as real, complex human beings.

At least some of The Secret Service's outrageousness has carried over: Poppy Land, with its murderous android hairdresser and letter - jacket - clad goons; a grotesque Bond - style opening that pits Eggsy against Charlie (Edward Holcroft), a failed Kingsman recruit who sports a killer cybernetic arm, inside of a veering, bulletproof London minicab; the camera gliding through a pair of red panties mid-third-base to a gush of John Barry-esque brass.

With Ozon's imagination, visual flair, and an appealing ensemble of actors, Sitcom is a film for those who love comedies on the wild side, so if you aren't willing to accept the fact of its outrageousness beforehand, you may find it too extreme to bear.

Hannie Caulder, that bizarre European - based western of last year, included a wealth of outrageousness that seemed to presage a return to grace and a renewal of promise for Kennedy the director: Raquel Welch strutting around the desert naked under a poncho, Robert Culp prancing auspiciously out of the wilderness in El Topo hat and granny glasses to teach her how to shoot; brothers Ernest Borgnine, Strother Martin, and Jack Elam forming a manically inept criminal trio who nevertheless managed to be lethal for two of Hannie's menfolk; Christopher Lee as a gaunt and happy gunsmith and family man living on the seashore; and a never - identified stranger in elegant black who materialized wordlessly now and again to collaborate in Hannie's adventures.

A screechy, unfunny slab of uninspired outrageousness with two appealing stars circling each other for a showdown you couldn't care less about