Sentences with phrase «pathos while»

Both characters wander through their own worlds, allowing Smith to create an unsettling mixture of humor and pathos while commenting on discrepancies and absurdities in our culture.

Not exact matches

Such are the everyday horrors lurking at SadDeskLunch.com, a Tumblr blog dedicated to unflinchingly documenting in photos the pathos of the millions of white - collar workers who eat lunch while sitting at their desks.

Urizen is a peculiarly Blakean creation, and while he may initially have been little more than a parody of the Christian God, he gradually but surely brings to expression much of the fullness of Blake's pathos.

While pathos, suffering and pain have found a place in Dalit theology, the rich Dalit traditions of celebrating life in the context of communitarian values seem to have been completely forgotten by Dalit theologians with few exceptions.

While then the pathos of the Greek consciousness concentrates itself upon Recollection, the pathos of our project is concentrated upon the Moment.

While the director's handling of humour (clumsy) and pathos (heavily milked) demands some generosity from the audience, the eternal radiance of Lillian Gish shines through everything.

Complete, in a rather contrived fashion, with his trademark quirks, Isle of Dogs is style over substance, just lacking somewhat in pathos and heart, and while featuring the occasional hilarious moment, they remain few and far between.

Isle of Dogs is style over substance, just lacking somewhat in pathos and heart, and while featuring the occasional hilarious moment, they remain few and far between.

Much of the film takes place throughout India, and while it's lovingly shot, it's hard to escape the fact that the exoticism that it presents is for novelty, not for pathos or exploration.

Craig Wasson, an awful actor, plays an awful actor inhabiting a persona in Body Double while Melanie Griffith, whose early career was mottled with drug addiction, brought genuine pathos to the role of a porn star being used by malicious men.

While there's humor in the performance, Murray also generates a surprising amount of pathos.

John Goodman brings great life to low - budget movie producer Frank King, while Michael Stuhlbarg inhabits Edward G. Robinson with tremendous pathos.

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).

Willis and Norton also shine, mixing some pathos with pure hilarity, while Murray (who worked with Anderson in «The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou») and McDormant as feuding married lawyers are not on screen long enough to really make much of a difference, but are effective in their small roles.

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 film's real pleasure lies in McDonagh's verbal felicity — the naturalistic dialogue is a breath of fresh air — and while Farrell struggles to juggle his humorous «thick» persona with romantic pathos, Gleeson excels in his role as the weary gangster pondering the possibilities for his own shot at redemption.

Clarke is outstanding, able to wring both pathos and pity from the character while never absolving him of his behavior.

This is a new advance for Ceylan, whose semiautobiographical earlier films, while confessional and intimate, evoked a Chekhovian sense of social pathos through his characters» entrapment in the tedium and melancholy of the world around them.

Chris Pine is perfectly broody as Captain Kirk, while Zachary Quinto adds an added layer of pathos to his interpretation of Spock.

Director Michael Showalter nimbly summons humor and pathos, while Ray Romano and Holly Hunter score major points in supporting parts.

: Variety and Indiewire both giving the film passing grades while the Tribeca jury claimed «it manages the near impossible task of breathing new life into a well - worn genre, balancing humor and pathos with an incredibly deft touch, and offering a unique perspective on the way we process loss,» we're curious enough to give this a shot.

There are surprises along the way and while there is little respite from the action, there is plenty of engaging banter between the protagonists and even genuine pathos as the heroes journey into ever more challenging situations.

While Lady Bird never quite lives up to the comedic promise of that opening scene in the car, it does go on to deliver a steady stream of low - key humour, a little heart - break and some well timed pathos.

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.

Too, despite a nicely underplayed turn by Kinnear that triangulates the character's intelligence, sadness, and overall creepiness, Caliban's overly familiar existential predicament (loneliness, basically, plus the pain of rejection) takes up plenty of screentime while failing to generate the pathos Logan seems to expect.

- 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.»

The Invisible Ones by Stef Penney «While the novel's rich subplots are brimming with romance, family pathos and details of Romany culture, The Invisible Ones remains a mystery at heart.»

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.

While Andy Warhol supplies another starting point, she does not share the pathos of Warhol's obsession with surface.

Using a mixture of humour and pathos, the artist creates post-modern canvases that reflect on the history of painting while exploring the flattening of artistic hierarchies in an age where technology provides a constant stream of unmediated imagery.