Sentences with phrase «pathos which»

Perhaps the most famous work in this vein, More Love Hours Than Can Ever Be Repaid and The Wages of Sin from 1987, featured a mess of used rag dolls, animals and blankets strewn across a canvas, a way of investing a fictional childhood scene with some visceral pathos which was first shown at Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Los Angeles.

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Even more vital to persuasion than Logos, says Aristotle, is Pathos, which includes the right - brain activities of emotions, images, stories, examples, empathy, humor, imagination, color, sounds, touch, and rapport, Price says.

gave him depth and pathos, which I wasn't really expecting.

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.

It not only helps them to come to terms with their historical consciousness, which is submerged in pathos and protest, but also to comprehend a God who in Jesus restores «humanness» to Dalits.

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.

In both texts, after all, we are dealing with uncompromising ideals, presented with intense fervor and great pathos, against which any reality would come up short.

Righteousness becomes the means by which the two polarities of divine action, those of sovereignty and pathos, are united: the sovereign God intervenes in situations of trouble and acts justly and decisively to address their challenges.

A more lofty and idealistic one is that most of us, as Jews, hardly know ourselves or have a sense of Judaism that is not in some way tied up with our experience as cultured members of Western Civilization, which is Christianized not only in an explicit religious sense but also in the pathos and longing of its secular consciousness, as exemplified in its literature and art.

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.

O'Shea works hard to find a denouement which will tie up all the loose ends and lend The Transfiguration suitable pathos.

As Wiseau, Franco expertly mimics the wannabe filmmaker's many tics and unplaceable accent — Wiseau has never divulged his age, background or anything other than his name, which might not even be Tommy Wiseau — but also imbues him with a genuine sense of pathos.

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.

When he is the one that gets ensnared in marriage unexpectedly, he continues to be the forthright truth - teller, which adds to his pathos and comedy.

Quirky but traditional, good characters and characterisations, family, bit of humour, bit of pathos, bit of redemption, which actually makes it right up my street as well and I liked this a lot.

It is steeped in the same sort of bourgeois mindfullness skewered by the likes of the Los Feliz Daycare Twitter feed or tackled with a deeper sense of pathos by Jill Soloway's 2013 film «Afternoon Delight,» which not coincidentally starred Hahn and featured Mumolo in a supporting role.

A scene in which crewman on the Nimitz clasp their hands to their heads as they travel through a wormhole, juxtaposed with newsreel footage of the attack on Pearl Harbor, elicits genuine pathos, however intentional, at opportunities squandered and historical tragedies re-experienced.

The movie, which Nanjiani wrote with Gordon, alternates seamlessly between gentle pathos and wry comedy, then back again.

But the movie is worth its sloggiest moments — and its frequently off - putting title character — for Hüller's fearless performance, which is a revelation of pathos, humor and keen, sharp - eyed focus.

All of that would have been good enough, fueled by Pegg's keen understanding of his character's pathos and the pinpoint accuracy with which he and Wright nail the experiences of forty - somethings bidding sad farewell to their youth.

The pathos behind these indiscriminate acts of generosity are transparent from the start (making the scenes in which Marnie visits a shrink a bit redundant), but Sarandon's exuberant performance is delivered with care and conviction.

In addition to the beauty of the visual effects, James McAvoy has called Dark Phoenix, «the most emotional X-Men we've done and the most pathos - driven,» which makes for an interesting balance and may ease the minds of fans who worry about tackling the Dark Phoenix on the big screen.

The horror and ultimate pathos audiences felt for Kong in the original 1933 production of King Kong still resonates in Max Steiner's ground - breaking score, and the composer gets some decent attention in the length making - of documentary on Warner Bros.» 2 - disc edition of King Kong, which arrived just in time for Christmas.

What flickers on the screen now seems to have been whittled down to just the «essentials,» which in Crowe terms are the pathos, high - pitched character interplay, sweeping emotional flourishes, and broad thematic romanticism.

Although said elisions are titled with a smut - peddler's desperation (e.g., «Lindsey on Toilet,» «Lindsey Takes a Bath»), there's some noteworthy material here, such as a longer version of the prologue — which veers closer to Farrelly pathos than anything that reached the final cut — and a scene set in a sports bar heretofore glimpsed only in the trailer.

This misses the heroine's monstrousness, which is the key to her pathos.

Safety Not Guaranteed has real pathos, which is always a lovely counterbalance to comedy.

On second thought, the single best film from the Bromance Era, for both dick jokes and genuine pathos, is 2007's Superbad, which brings us back to Seth Rogen, as actor, coscreenwriter (alongside Evan Goldberg), and thus coarchitect of the «Jonah Hill can't stop drawing dicks» scene, which nowadays has a whole lot to answer for.

The human condition in all its pathos, misery and beauty — youth and maturity, love, loss and lust, intimacy, shame, guilt, grief, crisis and death — is the driving force of her art, which is tantamount to a visible manifestation of different existential states.

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.

Focusing on his «imaginary portraits», which conjure varied mental states with a mixture of comic absurdity and the heart - rending pathos, and incorporating sculpture as well painting, the exhibition offers a comprehensive survey of three decades of his art.

Situating Rothko's work of this period in relation to his later work — the luminous floating blocks of painted colors for which he is best known — Kertess remarks: «The work he created in the 1930s is filled with an intensity, pathos, and brooding light that embody not only his personal sense of dislocation, but that of much of the population at large during the decade of the Depression.

Other highlights include Edgar Arceneaux's nine - channel video installation «The Alchemy of Comedy... Stupid» (2006), featuring a performance by comedian David Alan Grier; Tammy Rae Carland's «I'm Dying Up Here» (2011), a series of large - scale color photographs of female stand - up comedians captured mid-act, emphasizing the vulnerability of performance; Stanya Kahn's absurdist, pathos - filled video «Lookin Good, Feelin» Good» (2012), shown alongside a selection of her humorous line drawings; and an installation of Sara Greenberger Rafferty's visceral photographic works, for which she manipulates images from the history of late 20th century comedy.

At the core of his work, which seeks to animate the inanimate and elevate the ordinary to the revered, is a deep pathos that examines the arbitrariness of existence through both an expanded understanding of sculptural form and a nuanced reflection on the artistic process.

In this body of new work, which includes three groups of photographs and a large - scale film installation, Taylor - Wood continues to explore the themes of absence and mortality that gives her work such strength, pathos and resonance.

Drawing inspiration from comedy and popular entertainment, Sara Greenberger Rafferty produces performances, videos, installations, mixed - media paintings, and manipulated photographs, through which she explores the violence, pathos, and vulnerability of the art of entertainment.

Block encompasses the same pathos and intimacy which these boxes at the Tate came to represent.

These lithographs contain a mixture of reality, fantasy, caricature and naturalistic observation which characterises all of Guston's late work and which endows a biomorphic celebration of life with both pathos and humour.

Humour, sadness, elation, depression; pathos, ebullience, turbulence; love, hate, attraction, revulsion; pointing, pushing, pulling, cavorting; turning, tossing, tumbling, twisting; rock and roll, victory and defeat; all the elements, in fact, of intense human interaction and drama that were once the province of figurative art, particularly figurative painting — where they formed the pretext upon which was built a profound diversity of imaginative visual constructs — are seemingly no longer at the behest of figurative art, which languishes in states of mock - academia or faux - avant - gardism, by turns bathetic, mundane or grotesque... all that human content is now, surprisingly but necessarily, the prerogative of the abstract artist.