Sentences with phrase «pithy lines»

So I put down some pithy lines and attempted to make them punchy.

En route to a surprising resolution, director Simien pulls a couple of rabbits out of his hat while lacing his dialogue with pithy lines («Learn to modulate your blackness up or down depending on the crowd and what you want from them.»)

That is, before the movie sinks due to a poorly - conceived ending, in which the makers strived for giving viewers what they expect: gross - out cannibalism and pithy lines to accompany it.

The kind of character who spouts pithy lines like, «when science shits the bed, I'm the one they call to change the sheets,» with a smile on his face, Morgan's Russell is a definite winner in a film that already has a lot going for it.

One day, as I swiped my way through Tinder, a pithy line on someone's profile gave me pause: «If I was looking for a relationship, I would be on OkCupid.»

That's complete dishonesty I know but it just feels more insulting now, as if they're slapping us all in the face with a glove while delivering some pithy line about how everyone else is wrong and how dare us for questioning them.

If such scenes were a vector for more than pithy line readings, this would probably be more forgivable, but the movie finds its best humor in the friction grinding out from the idiosyncratic relational three - way between Krystal, Donny and Andy.

You'll find a link to read or write reviews near the top of any blog's detail page, just below some pithy line such as: «The Kindling point for thousands of Amazon Kindle owners.»

Not exact matches

So forget pithy sayings such as, «Elementary, my dear Watson,» the new and improved Sherlock Holmes is more inclined to gloat as he doles out damage, spitting out lines like, «Weaken right jaw.

His pithy dialogue is laced with lots of memorable lines like, «May the light at the end of the tunnel is just you coming out of another vagina.»

John Carpenter's Escape From L.A. harks back to its 1981 prequel, Escape From New York, updated by the commercial gospel according to Schwarzenegger: assuming that pithy, bubblegum one - liners are what audiences expect to hear from macho desperado Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell), this film furnishes one or two per action sequence, honoring the contract even though Russell often makes the lines sound flat and obligatory.

The script of this dialogue - rich film sounds forced, with every second line intended as pithy high - brow banter, and many of the set - piece scenes are symmetrically framed to evoke the formalism of 19th century portraiture styles.

Our ostensible hero is Thomas (Callum Turner, «War & Peace»), a whiny post-adolescent who revels in supposedly pithy observations along the lines of «New York's most vibrant neighborhood is Philadelphia.»

«In reverse chronological order, Cline - Ransome's pithy, lyrical lines lay out the prolific achievements of Harriet Tubman, from her campaign for women's suffrage to her role as a spy during the civil war to her iconic work as a conductor on the underground railroad, all the way back to her childhood.

The short, pithy text is paired with beautifully composed illustrations in which clean lines, blocks of color, and effectively used textures create varied, evocative city scenes.

Bendis gives the character a dramatic introduction with a pithy cliffhanger line, and it's possible this is a character with whom readers are familiar, but under a different name.

Perhaps as a result of these influences, the best of Wilmarth's sculptures are more than just sculptures: they could be paintings, with their intuitive lines and handling; or poetry, pithy with light and dark passages.

Fluxus performances often had a pithy character, especially in contrast to Kaprow's «Happenings,» though both sought to blur the line between artist and audience.

I think a more effective method might be for a little call out box to appear where possible with a pithy one line refutation for each of the denial points when you place your mouse over the highlighted text... and that you can still follow the link by clicking on a link within the box.

The observation, pithy and direct to the point, evolved from William Ferguson's experience on the front lines.