Sentences with phrase «pathos out»

Believe it or not, amidst all of the oversized collars and outlandish suits, Bale — who also added 50 pounds for the role — wrings real pathos out of Irving, making him a three - dimensional character.

Leigh's craft lies in his ability to draw delicate humor and pathos out of this situation, one that could have devolved into a standard awkward dinner set - up.

Girls wrings humor, beauty, and even pathos out of those old Betamax - cassette effects.

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When his death does come, and the pathos is the greatest imaginable, he cries out to his Father, saying, «Why have you forsaken me?»

It must be further pointed out that De Rougemont takes the most elaborately dramatized and perverse examples of romanticism such as the Tristan legend with its turgid morbidities, its pathos, and its obsession with adultery, and treats this as the essence of romantic love.

This ecology of the spirit is what informs and sings out of memorable utterances which are hauntingly compounded of gallantry and pathos, memorable in virtue of evocative powers that escape analysis.

Logos, ethos, pathos: Ryan won two out of three and that ain't bad.

The drawn - out death of Fiona's father, a royal frog voiced by John Cleese, is a minor tour de force of pathos and slapstick, and there are some angry trees that do justice to the venerable cinematic tradition of angry trees.

Purposely not operating by the rules of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, director David Leitch and crew up the ante for the second outing of the Merc with a mouth, and yet despite the complete inanity of the concept, there are surprisingly some moments of pathos and meaning to be found among the ballsy big budget antics.

Cloying fancy gives way to gross - out comedy, twisted social commentary, affecting pathos, and weirdly sexualized romance in this lurid live - action version of the classic children's book.

Framed with documentary film — like interviews with the key players in what remains the most infamous story to come out of Olympic figure skating, his Tonya Harding script straddles a tricky tone of pitch - black humor, affecting pathos, and winking self - awareness.

was surprised just how good this film is.The humour and pathos of this film is quite moving.There is no - one remotely attractive in the cast, it is full of strange looking redneck Americans living in semi wilderness.Everyone is poverty stricken.The sadness of old age is there, as is the regrets of past memories, and the desperation of the son to heal the wounds of his father's past life.The acting is brilliant even with the bit part actors with the sunburnt aged faces.The fathers grumpy reticence is counters by his truculent wife, who never has a good word for anybody with her vicious put downs, which is at times laugh out loud funny.A funny sad and moving film about the sheer desperate meanderings of life and old age.

Calvin is let off the hook far too many times and any pathos is put in the background to broader humour, such as when Calvin and Ruby visit Calvin's mother in a sequence that feels more like something out of Meet the Fockers (Jay Roach, 2004).

Chaplin's trademark combination of laugh - out - loud physical humor and pathos come together as well in this film as in any of his others.

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).

The role of Margaret, a shy and introverted woman who comes out of her shell to break free of her domineering husband, seems to be ripe with the pathos necessary for a Best Actress win, especially combined with the fact that it would be Adams» sixth nomination in the span of a decade.

Since the similar Yankee Doodle Dandy interspersed pathos with humor from start to finish, its emotional moments work fine; we've been set up for sentiment, so it doesn't come out of the blue.

The pathos of Rance's sadness now that he's out of the spotlight, and the similar threat looming over Burt — now that he and Anton have «broken up» and Steve Gray's newfangled schtick seems to be more enticing to audiences — works because the film doesn't belabor it.

Pathos Interactive are asking players to help them test out the Bannermen multiplayer alpha by registering their interest on Discord and following instructions that will be given to download the multiplayer mode and try it out.

by Walter Chaw Closer in spirit to Mystery, Alaska than to the similarly Olympics - inspired Cool Runnings, Men with Brooms is an underdog sports intrigue mashed together with a bedroom farce — and neither dog - eared formula is handled with very much originality, while uncomfortable subplots concerning adultery, alcoholism, and healing father / son rifts (see also Hoosiers) vie for a level of pathos that always feels out of place in what is essentially The Bad News Bears (or The Replacements, or Slap Shot) for curling.

When Amy, who bore the first of her two kids at 20, laments that she feels like she missed out on her 20s, Bad Moms briefly elicits pathos from that inevitable sense of loss that comes with becoming a full - time parent — the realization that your own life is, to some degree, over.

A high - school wrestling comedy with perennial indie schlub Paul Giamatti coaching sounds like it could be an unbearable retread of recent bombs like Mr. Woodcock or Drillbit Taylor, but with a surefire ensemble cast and a tricky balance of humor and pathos more in line with Little Miss Sunshine, Win Win turns out to be one of the early sleeper surprises of 2011.

«In and out of class, Shawn has generously, though always humbly, shared the undeniable rigor of his thinking, the poetry of his language and images, and his wry sense of humor and pathos with all of us in AIE,» says Lecturer Steve Seidel, director of AIE, citing LaVoie's past training as a clown as one source of his depth and wisdom.

- Kirkus «While characters aside from Gwen and Laurence never feel fully fleshed out, Jefferies makes up for this defect by offering suspense and pathos, and by resisting the temptation to gloss over true heartbreak and regret.»

Though Moyes writes books that are generally classified as women's fiction, she possesses the rare ability to inject life and pathos into the most clichéd or rote - sounding plotline, as well as a talent for digging out historical details that ground her stories.

Lucy Hughes - Hallett conjures an intricately structured, captivating story that explores the lives of game keepers and witches, agitators and aristocrats; the exuberance of young love and the pathos of aging; and the way those who try to wall others out risk finding themselves walled in.

Contents: Dialouge, by Elaine de Kooning with Rosalyn Drexler Moving Out, Moving Up, by Marjorie Strider Do Your Work, by Louise Nevelson Social Conditions Can Change, by Lynda Benglis The Double - Bind, by Suzi Gablik Women Without Pathos, by Eleanor Antin Artists Transgress All Boundaries, by Rosemarie Castoro

And the pathos of the reduction or fragility of the self within a culture that becomes increasingly organized through industry, economy and the state intensifies the desire of the artist to create forms that will manifest his liberty in this striking way — a liberty that, in the best works, is associated with a sentiment of harmony, and the opposite stability, and even impersonality through the power of painting to universalize itself in the perfection of its form and to reach out into common life.

Everything sounds phenomenal coming out of this phone, whether it's classical orchestra music, Ramin Djawadi movie soundtracks, 2Pac's pathos - laden lyrics, or the latest electronic productions from the likes of Nightmares on Wax.