Sentences with phrase «sharp ear for»

Writer - director Justin Simien is an exciting new filmmaker with a fresh voice and a sharp ear for comedy.

The filmmaker's sharp ear for repartee nudges Aiyaary toward something resembling a big statement on bribery and fraud in the Army..

In this, her second novel, Coe demonstrates a keen eye for the intricate dynamics of family life and an even sharper ear for the language we use both to conceal and to wound.

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At the end, there's a section of unpedantic and very useful notes (Johnson, in the Poundian manner, has a sharp eye and ear for apt quotations to weave into his lines) and a bit of background on the figure of the Green Man.

Use a sharp knife with a thin blade to slice the corn kernels from the cob; for best results (and to prevent kernels from taking flight), slice a few rows off an ear, lay it flat on the cutting board, then slice off the remaining corn.

This familiar rise - and - fall tale is long on glamour and short on larger moralistic consequences, though it's told with sharp ears and eyes for the tenor of the times.

Written with a marvelous ear for language and a sharp sense of character, it makes full use of the no holds barred opportunities of cable with shocking violence, casual sex, and epithet laced gangster - speak.

Actually, thanks to a voice cast that includes Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Bob Balaban, Greta Gerwig, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Scarlett Johansson, Edward Norton and Frances McDormand, it literally sounds like a Wes Anderson movie during every moment — and, it proves a smart, sharp, glorious and gorgeous feast for both the ears and the eyes.

Using sharp reflexes and great powers of observation (that seem to slow his surroundings), this loner with an ear for street injustice is able to settle scores quickly, violently, and definitively.

Such touches aim for archetypal Americana, but wind up as secondhand mimicry of the same disembodied - ear - behind - the - picket - fence dichotomies wielded to much sharper effect in the work of Lynch and the Coens.

Sundance has an ear for sharp, racially charged comedies (Dear White People, Dope, a little sensation called Get Out) and we'd love to see that tradition continue.

Gerwig evidently shares Baumbach's ear for sharp, realistic dialogue that includes awkward interactions and misunderstood wit.

In the hands of a lesser filmmaker, that could come across like a tract; here, it surfaces in sharp observational moments, like Ines leaning over and whispering just the word «hair» into her female assistant's ear during a presentation, in response to which the assistant immediately lets her hair down, for the benefit of their all - male clients.

Besides the sharp, clean, warm picture, there is also satisfaction to be had in the default Dolby TrueHD 5.1 mix, which reveals that Turturro shares Allen's ear for jazz.

As a fast, accurate typist with strong grammar skills, a keen ear for detail, and a sharp eye for proofreading, I will gladly transcribe the following into a cleanly formatted Word document at an affordable price and in a timely manner:

There's no doubt that Ghettoside is impeccably researched, but what makes it a brilliant book is Leovy's ear for the human story behind the statistics and her sharp, intuitive understanding of the people she meets.

Most of them are hidden, so players should keep a sharp ear out for the faint buzz of electricity as they play.

The Foundation has a sharp, funny ear for mass culture and the art scene, as last summer on Governors Island.

I was sad when I had to take the Sharp SD - WH1000U WHRAP gear out of my system and return all of it to the case for transport across the country for other ears to enjoy.

One fan with a particularly sharp ear might have discovered who the composer for Red Dead Redemption 2 will be, based on the music heard in the reveal trailer and comparing it to another piece from the composer in question.