Sentences with phrase «sketches of»

As a buddy comedy it is undernourished, making only feeble efforts to draw out the humour of the situation and allowing the characters to flounder as vague sketches of classically comic opposites — Alvin, somewhat repressed and uptight; Lance, libidinous and irresponsible.

Reminded me of some sketches of the show.

But the Groundlings vet impressed swiftly once he joined «Saturday Night Live» two years ago, thanks to dead on impressions of the likes of Brad Pitt, Michael Cera and Eminem, as well as being central to some of the more memorable recurring sketches of late, «Les Jeunes De Paris» and «J - Pop America Fun Time Now.»

This is surprising, given Leisen's skill with other comedies and Dietrich's superb parodic sketches of «silly» women for von Sternberg in parts of Dishonored and The Scarlet Empress.

View Mashiro Ito's (Monster Designer / Modeler) and Takayoshi Sato's (CG Artist / Art Director) early sketches of Silent Hill 2.

The film offers an opaque précis of the Americans» childhood friendship in Sacramento (you might hope Saoirse Ronan or Greta Gerwig will show up) before devolving into crayon sketches of their young adult lives and disintegrating into a travelogue of their reunion trip a decade later through Western Europe.

PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Peter Matthews, excerpts from Algeria's National Liberation Front leader Saadi Yacef's original account of his arrest, excerpts from the film's screenplay, a reprinted interview with cowriter Franco Solinas, and biographical sketches of key figures in the French - Algerian War

Just below are thumbnail sketches of the research; but this is only the beginning of what we've learned.

The presentation is dull, the plot is plodding, and the characters are sketches of people we've seen in better films.

With thoughts filled of other such verse, Alan invites his friend Ernest Sheppard to come for a visit and makes some sketches of the young lad playing with his toys.

Perhaps, because it was unwilling to risk becoming camp, this Flowers can't achieve the necessary passion, either — Corinne's viciousness is lost in the shuffle, and volatile Cathy and confused Christopher remain sketches of real characters, whose love never becomes the lifelong connection that takes them by surprise and desperately rushes them toward freedom.

Perhaps most outrageous of all is how McGregor neighbor Bea (Rose Byrne: X-Men: Apocalypse, Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising), a clear stand - in for Potter down to her Potter-esque watercolor sketches of Peter and his animal friends, is nothing but an insipid love interest for Thomas and a mother figure for Peter (because the damn movie has killed off Peter's own bunny mommy).

Women wereasked to look at a trio of sketches of men in various settings, and to say where they'd prefer to find their ideal man: in camp chopping wood, in a studio painting a canvas, or in a garage working a pillar drill.

We picked up this «Every Brother is a Super Hero» piece from Pottery Barn Kids and then are going to get some of cool sketches of Captain America, Superman and Ironman (maybe others) from an artist that Clint went to school with.

Exquisite sketches of Parisian landmarks on delicate sateen make for the perfect whimsical and ever - chic sleeping space.

It had inspired me to draw sketches of how he would have actually stood beside the lake and beneath the trees beside a host of golden daffodils wearing an authentic English man's coat and hat, totally mesmerized by the view!!!! Now, when I saw these daffodils, my mind started reciting the poem and I was mesmerized too...

For more information about the Crowne Plaza Accelerate plan, Timo Weiland and to view sketches of the new uniform design collection, visit www.crowneplaza.com/accelerate.

Drawn with fluid lines, the charcoal sketches of Le Vie Ballet impart a sense of movement caught in a moment in time.

Even though many outstanding research questions remain unanswered, we now have the outline sketches of what a successful, low - carbon biofuels industry should look like.

Challenge in hand, a few bold engineers dared to draw up the first sketches of a radical new approach to gathering light: tile together smaller hexagons, and control them so finely that they would act as a single, giant mirror.

Conceptual sketches of the Hyperloop released in August's white paper show a small passenger area inside a sleek, cigarette - like car with DeLorean-esque doors.

A side - roll is defined as a roll of between 45 and 135 degrees from a normal orientation along the seafloor — the most common version uses a 90 degree roll with a downward head pitch of about 30 degrees, which matches favorably with earlier speculative sketches of bottom feeding.

Biographical sketches of the people he has interviewed for the book get approximately equal airtime with their opinions about human extinction and transcendence.

Fortunately, though, a roving Maltese artist, Charles Brochtorff, made several sketches of the work while it was in progress.

The sketches of a pair of shoes or piece of furniture, for example, are drawn directly by hand on a touchscreen and recognized using a sophisticated image retrieval system, where the top 10 retrieval accuracy is close to 100 per cent on some object categories so that it always displays the desired product on the first page.

The book concludes with a series of sketches of Starck's most recent projects and, fittingly, a surprise — photographs of a house that can be built from a kit, designed for the furnishings company Trois Suisses.

This table provides thumbnail sketches of some the candidates and races that the research community is watching, arranged by the dates of their state primaries.

Without any training, she created from memory sketches of galloping horses that looked like the work of an adult.

Through this historical section, Stewart skillfully interweaves the math with colorful sketches of the lives of the mathematicians involved.

Sketches of skulls successfully balance the study of natural history.

Their sailing records consisted of nothing more than lists of ports in the order that ships would encounter them, along with annotations including estimated directions, sailing times between ports and perhaps some sketches of geographic contours visible from afar, such as headlands projecting into the sea.

Finley was in Albany when the scandal broke and afterward spent hours making a series of sketches of Spitzer's post-confession frowny face, concluding, according to City Room, that «the governor's head and mouth resembled, respectively, a phallus and a sexual orifice.»

You can view sketches of the upgraded airport, here.

Candidates, introduced to polite applause, offer their resumes and sketches of platforms, followed by questions from the audience.

Acclaimed courtroom artist Elizabeth Williams stopped by Room 9 in City Hall and did some sketches of the reporters who work there.

His sketches of the 1970s and 1980s appear to be about a Parliament and MPs more associated with a pre-war era than his sketches of the 21st century.

There are the same character sketches of his (named) bosses and colleagues, and of VIP visitors, frequently wounding and unkind, sometimes dwelling on physical characteristics («a plump, short man... smallish mouth... plummy tones»).

For the past 380 days in a row, Luke Pieczynski has been crafting personal sketches of inspiration and love using the humble post-it note.

Preliminary sketches of the plan show possible features like rain gardens, a pedestrian bridge, seating areas and informational signs.

Residents had a chance to view sketches of the proposed extension during an open house last winter at which time attendees in favor said they thought it would enhance the Riverwalk while some questioned whether there would really be a benefit.

She creates memorial sketches of babies lost to stillbirth and infant death and writes about life after loss at Little Winged Ones.

There were several photographs and sketches of «the Old Man,» as Crisler affectionately refers to Amos Alonzo Stagg, his patron at the University of Chicago, now in Stockton, Calif. in his 101st year.

Personality sketches of the racers were also included.

«One sight poignantly frequent at the show,» Eleanor Montville says, «is that of young Russian girls in the audience making rough sketches of the garments.

Wonder how many players have sketches of their coaches in their house?

When the new Ford GT was revealed in the Forza Motorsport 6 trailer, it didn't take long for some eagle - eyed internet folk to notice sketches of what looked like a Le Mans prototype version of the car.

Wapshott moves from biographical sketches of John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek to a detailed yet accessible account of their early academic debates on the causes of and remedies for the business cycle's boom and bust, the nature of money, inflation, unemployment, and more.

2 «Cellular Oscillations and Development» in Towards a Theoretical Biology 2: Sketches of a Symposium of the International Union of Biological Sciences, edited by C. H. Waddington (Edinburgh University Press, 1969).

I watched The Sketches of Frank Gehry, a documentary on one of the most radical and unconventional architects of our time.

But because our sketches of a future for humanity and the cosmos are usually too small and insufficiently inclusive, God's own vision of the future bursts them asunder and invites us continually to widen our sense of what is possible.