Sentences with phrase «slickness in»

The exhibition Fuel to the fire forms a bridge between the two figures Ricardo Brey unites within himself: on the one hand the historical artist at a crucial time in the history of Cuban art, and on the other the artist who lives and works in Flanders, and makes work that is highly contemporary, critical to the consumption of images and the slickness in which they now tend to dress themselves.

There's less slickness in a car chase scene, however, a messy moment of CGI and studio work — this sequence should have at least rolled over and played full phony, instead of looking like an unnatural piece of botched reality.

Not exact matches

Although the lather feels very slick in my hands, after every pass I perform, I feel like not too much slickness is left on my face.

In this case there was very little slickness on my skin.

Grace is explicitly reacting against the slickness of the megachurch style and against the theological smugness that it detects in much of the evangelical world.

I used to think Golovkin sleeps Billy Joe, but even considering how god - awfully limited Lemieux is as a boxer, Saunders showed a level of maturity and concentration I'd never seen before, mixed in with the speed and slickness that's always been there.

As Arthur also points out, this all means that MLB's home run surge can end in an instant: once the baseballs are changed again in a way that reduces the slickness of the balls once more.

Unlike his Dutch adversary, Klopp may not be a manager who seeks victory through smothering opponents with possession but he too requires a certain level of slickness from his players on the ball and coherency from his team as a group in order for his own tactics to be effective rather than wasteful and chaotic.

Pettit's words speak to the slickness of the SpaceX craft — which was, after all, created by a man who has form in making cars.

The fabric itself is a little fussy, heavy and stretchy with a slight slickness, and the gathering detail in the front also feels fancy to me.

It might drift out of the memory just as easily as it drifted in, but there's a goofy likability to Pacific Rim: Uprising, a primal thrill to be had, and a confident slickness behind it that means, despite a nearly two - hour running time, it doesn't outstay its welcome.

This lack of showbiz slickness came in handy for the «everyman» roles assigned him.

Showtime has found its niche in original programming — sex with style and a little wit — and «Secret Diary of a Call Girl» captures that balance with a lightness and slickness, if not quite ambition.

He's lucky to have Miracle Mile DP Theo Van De Sande, who gives everything a daunting slickness, and production designer Greg Berry, who subtly mirrors the accoutrements of the meth lab in the coloured bottles dangling from trees on Broker's property, showing how corruptible is this pretense of Americana.

Writer - director Paul Greengrass's frenetic handheld camerawork, aspiring in its blue / green - tinged slickness to doc - like immediacy, and the faceless cast of unknowns, all of whom appear to be attending an actors seminar held on a Universal Studios theme park roller coaster, are in service of an ideologically muddled house of cards, which crashes to earth long before the plane does.

by Walter Chaw Casting about wildly for that elusive «Lubitsch Touch» so prized by his hero Billy Wilder, underdog - uplift auteur Cameron Crowe has patched together Elizabethtown: an awkward, shambling, Frankenstein's monster of a romantic screwball farce that, for all its slickness, shows off every one of its bolts and stitches in monstrous bas relief.

Director Michôd avoids Tarantino / Guy Ritchie slickness here, and instead goes for a kind of gritty 1970s - era directness, without specifically wallowing in it, or showing off with it.

Patti Cakes A canny mix of slickness and grit, this exuberant hip - hop fairy tale from first - time writer - director Geremy Jasper stars Australian actress Danielle Macdonald in a sensational performance as a twentysomething aspiring rapper from New Jersey.

Similarly, slickness oozes from Anna Foerster's (Anonymous) slow motion - heavy visuals, mania manifests in Adam Wolfe's (TV's Criminal Minds) frantic editing, and manufactured emotions swell in the recognisable notes of frequent Emmerich collaborators Harald Kloser and Thomas Wander's score.

His boyish handsomeness undergoes a transformation into ferrety slickness, the actor hammering home Louis's mania in ferocious, near - OCD monologues — one of which will bring your audience to stupefied applause — that reveal a truly dangerous operator.

But Julian Fellowes's very British symphony of «sorry «s is extraordinarily familiar — an Adrian Lyne film without slickness or sex about what happens when a desperate housewife dabbles in the dangerous and the commensurate desperation with which her stiff - upper - lip husband scrambles to keep his dignity and status intact.

Though occasionally marred by slickness, Five Came Back builds to an emotional wallop, especially in its final third when the movies make a comeback.

However, with a little time you appreciate the 997's more detailed commentary through the steering wheel, the slickness and precision of its gearshift and the fact you don't need to try so hard to feel like you're in control.

On cold, damp tarmac it has some traction issues in the first two gears, but the poise of the chassis and a slickness to the controls makes you feel much more inclined to drive it hard.

Its rakish windshield and doors that wrap into the roof give it a 33 percent improvement in drag coefficient a measure of aerodynamic slickness over the 1987 version.

The iDrive menu screen also operates with a little more slickness and is packed with higher - quality graphics than what I noticed in the 428i Coupe from a few months ago, perhaps made possible thanks to this display's greater surface area.

Thanks to Google's new «Butter UI», the OS is now more than a match for iOS in terms of slickness and speed.

With the slickness of advertising, Abeles's dense, colorful photographs explore the nature of images in a digital era — no picture remains truly stable, thanks to Photoshop.

The other show, «Alex Katz in Maine,» at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, presents 23 works from 1958 to 2004, many in Mr. Katz's more familiar movie - screen size, some great, some watered down by a certain illustrational slickness.

Taken separately, there's a slickness about these photographs that is not unpleasant — Richard Avedon made work in the same vein — but nevertheless reads as vaguely commercial.

Both essays identified what Rubinstein called «provisionality» in painting: «a sense of casualness and unfinished - ness in painting» which «was one way to reconnect with the foundational doubt of modern art that really had been lost in the marketing and professionalizing, in the technical slickness of the booming art market.»

Immersed in the nifty slickness of «environmentalism 2.0» it's sometimes easy to forget about the patient progress of the groups like The Nature Conservancy.

There's a serene slickness to the Galaxy S8 + in operation.

Add contemporary slickness to the Country Club vibe in a fuss - free and refined bedroom.