Sentences with phrase «sly critique»

It's possible to read it as a sly critique of the Manhattan real estate market and the complex alchemy that transforms a particular plot of land into a generator of wealth.

The Grayson Perry show that just opened at the Serpentine Gallery offers both a very new version of now - obligatory populism in the promotion of contemporary visual art and at the same time, a sly critique of it.

Ms. Rajaratnam, a partner at the Mnuchin Gallery, recalled her first encounter with El Anatusi's sly critique of Africa's liquor industry, composed of discarded liquor bottle tops, at the 2007 Venice Biennale.

And if this dystopia seems like your typical videogame world, well there's some sly critique for you.

Along the way she sneaks in sly critiques of bureaucracy, bigotry, animal cruelty and other less - than - noble human behavior.

Not exact matches

Clint Eastwood has directed a sly war film that, on the surface, is a laudatory biography of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in American history, but is, in fact, a shrewd critique of the warrior mentality.

But, fascinatingly, Catch Me If You Can resembles Hitchcock's pictures in general in its self - mocking self - awareness: Spielberg's film is a canny satire of American culture and cinema, and, shockingly, a sly auto - critique of his decades - long pandering to the lowest common denominator; to the blinding flash of materialism; and to his almost pathological desire to restore nuclear order at the cost of any faithfulness to theme and mood.

American Sniper Clint Eastwood has directed a sly war film that, on the surface, is a laudatory biography of Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in American history, but is, in fact, a shrewd critique of the warrior mentality.

Functioning as a social critique but operating first and foremost as the driest, bleakest type of comedy, the film seeks not chuckles but gasps of amused horror, a goal most ably and hauntingly achieved during a sick - joke finale in which the bubble is finally burst thanks to a sly bit of pop - culture infiltration.

Our reviewer writes, «Along with his pointed cultural critique are stark, electrifying pieces like «Ode to a Drone» and inventive, playful poems like his celebratory ode to grammar in the sly «His Love of Semicolons» («The comma is comely, the period, peerless, / but stack them one atop / the other, and I am in love»).

This injection of «naked» urbanism into the not - so - naked frame of the gallery suggested the stripped - down figure of the artist - as - flaneur - in - the - buff parading another form of sly institutional critique.

Verabioff's explicit references to land artist Robert Smithson are tongue - in - cheek and mount a sly back - door critique, perverting his titles and hijacking his term «cultural confinement» to expose the gender inequality and power structures ingrained in contemporary art and popular culture.