Sentences with phrase «pathos in»

The show embraces humour with the tongue - in - cheek pharmaceutical packets invented by Damien Hirst, and pathos in the heightened detail of Thomas Struth's photography for hospital rooms.

«I use dumb materials like hot dogs and lawn chairs because I believe there is pathos in those things,» Doyle says.

Like a slapstick comedian, he strikes emotional notes of humor and pathos in equal measures, alternating between moments of antic joy and Sisyphean futility.

The humorous pathos in the work is readily apparent, from the rabbits» curiosity exposing them to deadly exhaust to a car dying and ascending to heaven.

I notice things and I appreciate the humour and pathos in the everyday.

Wandering back through the galleries, I was struck by the the fact that there is more humor than pathos in the show, which in some ways seems like a send - up of many of the saccharine tropes one might associate with Valentine's Day: Flowers.

You make great use of humor as well as pathos in portraying Tanya's efforts — she applies every remedy she can think of to Mark's writer's block, from perfectly brewed coffee to submitting to sex that makes her cringe.

Before the beloved Marvel characters came to the big screen, there wasn't much in the way of pathos in superhero films.

There is considerable comedy and much pathos in the film, the comic turns finding him asking hotel manager Mary Sinclair (Annette Bening) for a dinner date so many times that the audience can not be blamed for joining with Mary in saying «Enough, already.»

Loads of priceless gags are mined from Tim and Daisy's marriage pretense and Marsha's failure to recognize it as a sham, and by the end of the series there's even some bittersweet pathos in regard to the situation.

Malkovich is only ever Malkovich in all his alien glory, neatly eclipsing his supporting cast, any momentum in the script or direction, and, ultimately, any pathos in Conway's sad need to be someone else.

As seen in this trailer, the film examines «both the humor and pathos in the turbulent bond between a mother and her teenage daughter.»

Elsewhere, Culkin injects some surprising pathos in the ever - terrible McCarthy, and his tearful exchange with his disabled brother Tommy (Connor Long) bruises in all the right ways.

And yet, somehow, it also produces its own kind of pathos in the form of Will Arnett's Batman's repressed longing for a family.

All that said, this is a satisfying film that takes its characters but not itself seriously, and mixes sequences of wonder, visual wit and pathos in with the world - building and dramatic housekeeping.

The writer - director continues to stick to his guns, giving us more understated humor, awkward pauses, pitch - perfect montage and pathos in another thoughtful story that revels in fractured characters.

There is this pathos in his eyes, as if something more is going on under the surface of his character.

For every new story idea or impressive blend of humor and pathos in its writing, Yo - kai Watch 2 fails to breathe life into the act of actually playing it, and until something's done about all the issues with combat, no amount of delicious doughnuts can cover up its problems.

Set in Sacramento, California in 2002, this brilliant drama portrays the humor and pathos in the turbulent but loving bond between a mother and her teenage daughter, Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson, and sharply observes the relationships and beliefs that shape and define us.

The recent Oscar nominee is given the weakest of the three female roles but still manages to find both some comedy and pathos in the delivery.

McDonagh continues his winning streak from Six Shooter and In Bruges here, with a film that has terrific humor and great pathos in equal measure.

An artistically inclined 17 - year - old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California in 2002 in a film that excavates both the humor and pathos in the turbulent bond between a mother and her teenage daughter.

I, Tonya: Craig Gillespie delivers a tonally brilliant mix of caustic comedy and genuine pathos in this uncompromising story of Tonya Harding, an Olympic skater implicated in a conspiracy to maim her chief rival.

It would be okay if The Man Who Invented Christmas was completely in on the joke, but there's a bit too much pathos in the script to allow it to play fast and loose with the potential humor of it all.

Lady Bird: An artistically inclined 17 - year - old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California, in a film that excavates both the humor and pathos in the turbulent bond between a mother and her teenage daughter.

When Leon's body is dumped in a back alley, then loaded into Mickey's meat truck after he comes up short of cash for the funeral, we see neither humor nor pathos in Mickey's predicament.

Tagar is howlingly funny from the first moment that we see her, an entirely complete comic creation, but what's truly impressive about the performance is how she gives it texture and nuance as it goes on: when she returns in the third segment, Daffi's gone through officer training and has a new - found responsibility, or at least the pressure to look responsible, and there's truth and pathos in the way it tests her friendship with Zohar.

He heads an ensemble of crack actors, each with a gift for finding pathos in comedy, and the absurd in the tragic, starting with Shirley Knight as Ned's equally compassionate, equally «idiot» mother, and working through Elizabeth Banks as the sister desperately trying to sell out to make good at the magazine where she toils while missing the cues from the neighbor (Adam Scott) who is willing to literally drop anything to do her household chores; Zooey Deschanel as the pan-sexual sister with truth issues that involve both her girlfriend (Rashida Jones) and the artist (Hugh Dancy) for whom she both poses and poses a problem; and Emily Mortimer, as the earth mother who lost track of what makes her happy and why she wanted to be married to a smug and profoundly disinterested husband (Steve Coogan).

Find reason there for the caricatured white trash pastiches serving as Maggie's family (and additional pathos in Maggie's need for a father figure), the boxing - trainer archetype, the old fighter Scrap (blind in one eye and living in a tiny room at the gym), the evil Drago Eastern Bloc nemesis, and the rags - to - riches sports story into noble - cripple tropes that worked in 1962 with Requiem for a Heavyweight.

Finding the right rhythm of pathos in the confusion of her relationship status with her trans ex-husband and comedy in the pathos, Light's submission, «Flicky - Flicky Thump - Thump,» also provides a sharp commentary on sexuality and sensuality in your 60s.

Crowe piles on the pathos in this tale of fallen shoe designer Drew (Orlando Bloom), who travels from the West Coast to the semi-Deep South (the titular Elizabethtown, KY) to collect the ashes of his freshly - dead father for the purposes of a maudlin (and interminable) eleventh - hour road trip.

The film manages a certain pathos in simply watching Maurice go about his life.

Anderson upped the pathos in Extinction and that is why the film works as well as it does.

Whatever the case, the ape in silly sunglasses and people clothes scores a surprising amount of pathos in this bizarre, improbably moving film from directors Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley.

I, Tonya Craig Gillespie delvers a tonally brilliant mix of caustic comedy and genuine pathos in this uncompromising story of Tonya Harding, an Olympic skater implicated in a conspiracy to maim her chief rival.

Valiantly holding the screen opposite an ensemble of noisy four - legged irritants, he finds the humor and pathos in his character's not - so - paranoid derangement.

(The makeshift - family pathos in some scenes rivals «The Fate of the Furious» for robotic sentiment.)

As entertaining as the crazy can be, there's an undercurrent of pathos in Celebrity Apprentice, hidden in the way these people bow to «Mr. Trump» and submit to the contrived challenges as if they're in rehab cleaning toilets.

In Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig reveals herself to be a bold new cinematic voice with her directorial debut, excavating both the humor and pathos in the turbulent bond between a mother and her teenage daughter.

There is, of course, much pathos in the abrupt reduction of a party of government to a feeble shadow of its previous parliamentary self, mercilessly squashed from 56 MPs to eight.

So, too, is derived the pathos in the portrayal of a lack of knowledge in 2: 5b and 8.

And indeed, when I confronted students I found that there was almost always a great deal of pathos in the background: psychological crises, terrible fears of failing, a consuming sense of hopelessness in the face of the assigned material.

In a similar manner, the nuances of revelation that are derived from the prescriptive force of instruction, the illuminating capacity of the wisdom saying, and the quality of lyrical pathos in the hymn, are connected to these forms of discourse.

There was pathos in the experience of the alcoholic interviewee who recalled: «When I reached a certain point in a drunk, I felt as though I were on the edge of a beautiful land.

There is risk, uncertainty, and a note of pathos in action, thus in part the I don't - want - to - get - involved syndrome in most of us.

(For example, Bach intuited the cosmic feeling of divine pathos in the key of B - minor, as exhibited in the «Mass in B Minor» and «St. Matthew's Passion.»)

The fact remains, however, that the Vichy leaders have enforced anti-Semitic laws in a more and more strict and iniquitous fashion, depriving French Jews of every governmental and cultural position, imposing upon them all kinds of restrictions with regard to liberal and commercial professions, mercilessly striking many of them who were wounded for their country during the present war, and hypocritically trying to hide a bad conscience under a pseudonational pathos in which religious and racial considerations are shamefully mixed.

From another angle, you could see pathos in him, heroism in his struggle, in his willingness to risk...» That project, of exploring the spirit and limits of being human, is, of course, a deeply characteristic quality of Western literature and philosophy, from St. Augustine to Thomas Merton, from Meister Eckhart to William James and Albert Camus.

There is pathos in this prayer of Jesus, where he thanks God that he has revealed the truth at least to this precious little band of people (Matt.

There seemed to be real pathos in the presentation by Alberta Federation of Labour president Gil McGowan at his Edmonton press conference Monday morning: the cri de couer of a spurned lover, perhaps,...