Sentences with phrase «own grace notes»

Moreover, Grace notes, «The Girl Scout's cookie sale is the largest entrepreneurial program for girls in the world.

Halldórsdóttir, a consummate guide, conducted the tour with humor and charm, even bringing along a bag of kleiner, Icelandic pastries, as a grace note.

In five reflective chapters he offers the fruits of his reading of the New Testament, Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine, John Donne, and Jeremy Taylor, with poems by George Herbert, Thomas Traherne, and T. S. Eliot added as grace notes.

His speech Tuesday, about the release of renderings for a new train station, included some nationally tuned grace notes.

The movie ends on a grace note that doesn't quite answer the question, but gives us plenty to think about as we mosey home afterward.

Ramin Bahrani's talent for orchestrating sequences of tightly wound tension is in full bloom here, as is his complementary knack for quieter grace notes.

Popping up throughout is a piquant group of slugs who act as surreal grace notes by way of impromptu doo - wop, sound effects, or oddly evocative emotional outbursts that are as much commentary on the action as a glimpse into what seems to be their complex inner lives.

It's not often you see two people relishing sparring together and pulling off such expertly - executed grace notes.

It's just all so sad, but never actually rings true, a movie about grace in defeat that showcases few discernible grace notes.

If the sum of Enough Said is less than its parts — and really, the midlife challenges here are pretty small potatoes — the movie does have some lovely grace notes that add up to an astute observation of the symbiosis of single mothers and their daughters.

«Landline» might not bring back Dustbusters or revive Lorena Bobbitt as a go - to reference for stand - ups, but it leaves behind a lingering grace note about family matters that befits any era.

Slant notes the film is a «canny balance of nostalgia with hindsight» and «ends on a beautifully melancholic grace note.»

A French import that's long on grace notes and wry humor, it eschews flash and opts for heart to great effect.

This uneven but ultimately sweet comedy - drama takes full advantage of Pacino's larger - than - life persona (think «Glengarry Glen Ross,» «Donnie Brasco,» «The Insider») and his ability to add in lovely grace notes.

Unusually for Spielberg, the emotional grace notes that elevate his best genre work — Elliott's flying bicycle in E.T. or that first dinosaur reveal in Jurassic Park — are substituted with the sugar rush of endless cyberscapes.

It's brimming with imaginative grace notes — a horse that curtsies when it's introduced; a francophile who doesn't know any French — and freewheeling performances, not to mention a killer soundtrack that, like the movie itself, blends retro with modern.

And while the supporting cast gets the chance to add in grace notes — big up Sienna Miller, Analeigh Tipton and Deadwood's Calamity Jane herself, Robin Weigert — Mississippi Grind belongs to the bruised - by - life duo at the center of it.

They are grace notes and embellishments, and about midway through, «The Beguiled» loses the illusion of urgency.

There are grace notes.

A word for the grace notes, too: Bruno's manicure from his mother; his hound at the top of the stairs, his nail - biting grope for the lighter dropped down a drain, spliced with Guy's epic, against - the - clock tennis match, which must be completed before Bruno plants it as incriminating evidence.

Sayombhu Mukdeeprom's striking cinematography adds a grace note to the proceedings, as well as showing off this Italian paradise that surely will have tourists overrunning it as soon as they see the movie and can book a flight.

But the movie leaves little time for grace notes in its delivery of plot information.

On top of some of the most exquisite character design, facial expressions and body language you'll see in an animated film, several jaw - dropping flight and fight sequences and John Powell's majestic score are the grace notes that take it from great to wondrous.

And there are sequences early on in the movie, such as her tentative confab with a fellow bewigged student, a shy widower (Kôji Yakusho), that bring out the grace notes in their shared loneliness.

Call asks, in a final grace note that gives nothing away in the enjoyment of the film.

It's hard to build a movie entirely on grace notes, but Stéphane Lafleur's gorgeous black - and - white reverie about youths in summer comes awfully close.

There are some grace notes as well.

And indeed, the film spends quite a bit of time serving up scenes and grace notes that seem designed to call back specific moments of the past 50 years.

Gone is the first film's svelte singularity of purpose, where world - building served up grace notes that accentuated or relieved narrative and emotional drive.

The most one can say in defense of this mirthlessness is that the film settles into a mildly pleasant melancholy in the last act, as Alan, always the purest character and lone source of grace notes, finally gets to come of age.

Pan's Labyrinth's protracted fascist metaphors and its ghoulish grace notes are nearly as blunt and horrifying as anything in Crash, and the film may even register as realism to the same group of voters who actually bought Sandra Bullock embracing her Hispanic maid.

Good grace notes for any period piece.

Hopkins directs with warmth, affection and a simple respect for all the characters, and he adds touching grace notes to their story.

Each time I get something more out of it — a revelatory bit of business, an emotional grace note, an inflection from one of the many wonderful performers.

Carell has at least three grace notes in the picture, real hints that he's got a serious movie in him.

But there are some saving grace notes throughout.

The rest are of the supplements are just grace notes: a relaxed interview with actor Rod Taylor, a tribute to «The Original Inglorious Bastards» with director Enzo Castellari and actor Bo Svenson (who both make cameo's in QT's film), a mock - featurette on «The Making of Nation's Pride» (with the performers all in character — Eli Roth has a blast playing the sneering autocratic German auteur of this «lost» classic of Nazi propaganda cinema) and montages showing the playfulness of QT and his cast and crew on the set.

He's among the finest explanations we've had thus far of why the Left can't seem to muster a compelling resistance: in the face of all this outrage and insult, under the weight of almost four decades of poisoned passion, the voices of our best intentions find themselves tongue - tied and thunderstruck, sick on smack with their heads against a toilet — as slow in coming to our defense as the punchline that serves as this picture's surprisingly understated grace note.

Among the restored sequences is a legendary scene with Louise Fletcher as a cemetery director, previously only glimpsed in publicity stills, as well as numerous moments that add lovely grace notes to the characters and add dimension to certain relationships.

One of the comic grace notes in this feud involves Max's friendship with Dirk Calloway (Mason Gamble), a much younger classmate at Rushmore, who spies Herman emerging from Rosemary's house, blocks his car when he's leaving, announces, «I know about you and the teacher,» and spits with fury on the hood of Herman's car.

In Manchester By The Sea, he makes emotional numbness compelling, revealing grace notes of humor and compassion in a character who hides his heart behind a wall.

King Cobra isn't always the subtlest film — why should it be, it's about a world in which subtlety's usually considered superfluous — but it has grace notes like this that make it distinctive, and distinctively touching.

That Nolan wrenches grace notes out of such fleeting bits of horror is a testament to his intermittent skills as an image - maker.

With light - hearted awareness of the cinematic magic conjured by displays of solidarity, director Lawrence shows that he knows in theory how to provide emotional grace notes.

And in an unusual grace note typical of his slightly skewed take on the material, Cuaron gives the enchanted Hogwarts, where living paintings line the walls and ghosts caper in the public spaces, a grittier, more conventionally realistic texture than the Dursleys» perfectly manicured suburban home.

The delightful details are merely that, grace notes to the culture around our characters.

Though the film's overarching narrative travels a well - tread road, it strikes a few potent grace notes along the way.

West's grasp of the rhythms and the grace notes of the Western idiom is undeniable, but he never seems to find a film worth telling within it.

An ornate, bittersweet slice of life that hits a few grace notes but meanders too much to reach greatness.

Chaplin proves to be a strong actor with the material, and hits some lovely grace notes, but the whole package comes off as a deep tissue massage for the genius.