Sentences with phrase «pathos so»

In recent years Harrelson has made a habit of making unpleasant characters charming, and he gives Wilson enough charm to sell his rambling speeches as funny (to us) rather than annoying, and enough pathos so that his sorrows are soulful instead of saccharine.

This family drama is balanced between equal measures of dark humor and pathos so that Red Doors floats gently between sentimentality and cynicism.

Not exact matches

In so far as Marx is seeking to bring the idea of «real distress» (as understood by religion) into relation with their human condition of distress (as understood by human beings) so as to transform the human condition, his critique of religion reveals an existential pathos», and it is religiously edifying.

Like Elizabethan drama, they are so heterogeneous in form as practically to constitute a rebellion against classical restraints; they simply can not resist mixing intense pathos with high comedy, stateliness with farce, heroic magnificence with nursery fantasy.

On the other hand, his narrative of Louverture's tragic end — lured across the Atlantic by Napoleon and then locked away to die in a stone fortress in the Jura without so much as a trial — is told with more pathos than the average academic historian could manage.

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

In this context the pathos of a November 2009 Catholic Education Service (CESEW) comment is unmistakeable: «CESEW does not have authority over pupils at non-Catholic schools, so queries relating to any such schools ought to be directed to» the government (cf John Smeaton's blog, 22 March).

Students of human pathos may one day cherish the 16 - minute recording of me, with my 100 percent positive - feedback rating as an eBay purchaser, failing to make renowned physicist Steven Weinberg, who won a Nobel for unifying electromagnetism with the so - called weak force, admit that he can't explain how a magnet holds a dry - cleaning ticket to the door of a refrigerator.

Ask your friends to make a list of all of your positive aspects and write a profile which injects some humour and pathos — you are making an emotional as well as a physical connection with potential partners, so personality goes a long way.

Jordan infuses his character with pathos, electricity, defiance and empathy, so it's hard not to be moved by his journey.

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.

Counterposed scenes of Cornelia fleeing a ghastly Wiggles - style mother - and - baby music session (all her contemporaries have kids, so this is a rare social interaction) and grinding her way through a mofo - ing dance workout identify her as belonging in neither environment, Watts mining both comedy and pathos from her character's inability to move forward or backward; clowns to the left, jokers to the right, stuck in the middle with Josh.

Wallis here retains all the unaffected charm that she showcased in Beasts, skipping nimbly between comedy, pathos and show - stopping song and dance, lending credible heart and soul to a production that so often fails to find its feet.

John Early and Meredith Hagner as Elliott and Portia are marvels in roles that should be written off as second comings of Will & Grace's Jack and Karen, but are imbued with so much pathos and nuance that you're no longer merely infatuated with them as second - banana comedic relief, but instead endeared to their worst tendencies.

According to McAvoy, Dark Phoenix is «probably the most emotional X-Men we've done and the most pathos - driven,» so get ready to catch some intense feels.

Justin Simien's film has a surprising amount of heart, and so much of that is down to Thompson, who finds the real pathos and pain of the character, while still being an eminently likable, warm and winning presence.

But the director John Hillcoat, working from a screenplay by Nick Cave, has made a movie you can not turn away from; it is so pitiless and uncompromising, so filled with pathos and disregarded innocence, that it is a record of those things we pray to be delivered from.

(Walsh's ex-husband is played for laughs, deservedly so, but when Deanna is first greeted with a divorce, the gut - punch is sincere and full of pathos.)

Deaths are quick and arbitrary, so much so that the pathos the filmmakers try to milk from them never accrues much emotional weight.

The film is so lackadaisical about telling a story and milking the deaths for pathos that a funny thing happens: the stock characters are allowed some space and room to breathe and they come alive.

Directed by Tomas Alfredson, the Swedish filmmaker who so effectively brought a tangible sense of horror and pathos to the terrific vampire thriller Let the Right One In, the film is set in the early 1970s in an England still wrestling its way through the Cold War.

Olsen's (somewhat) duel role bring so much sympathy and pathos that it's almost palpable.

No comic filmmaker in America today works so hard to stay on the knife's edge between humor and pathos or is so eager to challenge his viewers emotionally.

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.

Bertram eventually learns that the niggling, inconsequential details of other people's lives — the minutia he once found so annoying — are filled with pathos, and that no one's story is insignificant.

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.»

It would have been so easy to make a mess of Nelle Harper Lee's slender novel based on her Alabama childhood, but Robert Mulligan's film got the balance between sweetness and pathos exactly right.

The story stops dead on several occasions so we can check in on him being a figure of pathos.

De Niro has proven to have both pathos and adept comic timing, so this look at an aging insult comic could provide both laughs and some tears.

So pathos here doesn't mean being sappy — that's not very likely to boost online course sales.

Like Senna, however, the pathos of a brilliant life cut so wretchedly short makes for nostalgic affair laced with glory.

«If you think, why did God create the world, how does he love the world, what in the world, if you imagine him through the lens of Christ, what in the world breaks his heart, it seems to me it's the irreducible beauty and pathos of human beings and their capacity for love and their capacity for loyalty and all the rest that is simply beautiful, even though in many forms it is in error, it is possibly destructive, and so on....

, It is a wonderful story filled with so many interesting elements: humor, pathos, a small English village, petty jealousy, discrimination in many forms.

Maybe so, but here McEwan's description of Prince's «pathos and loss» sounds much less ironic, while Sugimoto's found image looks as sentimental as its source.

Every work is so quietly full of pathos that one might imagine having stumbled across each kitchen, bedroom or backyard in a familiar and personal setting.

Viewers will be afforded the opportunity to connect with the humor and pathos that Handforth brings to vernacular urban materials — from lampposts and street signs to fluorescent light fixtures and metal trash cans — and to enjoy the romantic levity he so slyly smuggles into the formalism of abstract sculpture.

With the hashtag #BlackWomenAtWork trending and race at the center of so many national conversations, this show foregrounding the beauty, creativity, pathos and defiance of black women is a must - see.

The wit is here, and so are the pathos and preoccupations, but giving it all three dimensions adds visceral depth.