Sentences with phrase «soap operatic»

This exhibit will feature video artists such as Kalup Linzy, of the squeaky - voiced soap operatic set - ups, and Dario Robleto, a Texas - based conceptual artist whose cut - paper pieces often reference music and dance.

Embodying the Braswell cousins and others from the tree, I perform original songs and soap operatic narratives investigating love, loss and the challenges of artistic and sexual self - realization.

It's what should have been on television, but was forced out into the open market to fend for itself, and it has mutated into this hybrid B - movie / soap operatic form where the films are often 3 - 4 hours long, hyperbolic, melodramatic but made for TV.

In 2005, he presented Soap Operatic, a solo exhibition at The Moore Space, Miami.

After a series opener in which Sherlock traded its mystery status for soap, the second episode of series four, «The Lying Detective», doubles down on the new soap operatic direction of the show and delivers even more antics and heavy - handed emotional beats.

But if you relish a mindless soap operatic story that leans into the silliness of the genre, Fifty Shades Freed might do the trick.

Not exact matches

Among the lowlights of the retailer's continuing, soap - operatic slide in 2013: CEO Ron Johnson resigned in April after all of 16 months on the job; the company had to apologize to customers for alienating them with new store concepts; and activist investor Bill Ackman, who stepped down from the board in August, swallowed a $ 470 million loss upon selling his Penney's stake.

That's the story of paleoanthropology, at least according to Ann Gibbons's book The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors (Doubleday, $ 26), a deliciously soap - operatic account of efforts to trace human ancestry through the study of fossils.

The film is an interminable saga full of soap - operatic plot twists involving quickly broken marriages, sexual assault, a secret porn career, terminal illness, and a quasi lesbian love affair.

The last twenty minutes of Breaking Dawn are so harrowing that it's possible to forget that most of the acting is soap - operatic (the guy who plays Carlisle is aging to look like Liberace) and the dialogue from hunger.

As its seasons have worn on and its universe of beasties and beastly acts has expanded, True Blood has become less interested in revising or adapting the soap - operatic tropes that made it such campy fun to begin with.

At home, Jane (Kim Cattrall) complains about feeling like one of Liam's acquisitions, and when her husband's long - lost twin successfully (and incredulously) infiltrates her bed, sending Liam to the loony bin, the film collapses under the dual weight of its soap - operatic premise and ugly - looking aesthetic.

This season's earlier, recurring and grisly theme that life - is - cheap below the border has been replaced by the soap - operatic lightness displayed in the first seasons.

And like a latter - day Douglas Sirk, Almodóvar loves stories about gorgeous, creamily photographed people who commit soap - operatic acts in picturesque settings.

The exceedingly awkward situation of a full - grown man - wolf being in everlasting, inexplicable love with a child is handled with some actual wit, allowing Stewart and Lautner to flex their comedic muscles as they engage with the soap - operatics.

Working from a script he and four fellow writers originally conceived for the stage, Plotnick establishes a tone of seriocomic soap - operatics in the early scenes while introducing the diversely dysfunctional crew of the Omega 76 Space Station.

For Soap - Operatic he borrows from Choose Your Own Adventure children's books, in which readers are given choices to how a story unfolds.

Organized by Silvia Karman Cubiñá, director of The Moore Space, Soap - Operatic will be on view through March 31, 2005.

HAVE YOU SEEN «The Californians,» the Saturday Night Live sketch in which Fred Armisen, Kristen Wiig, and Co. play bleached, surf - drawling dimwits whose soap - operatic interactions always lead to discussions about the best way through the traffic - clogged thoroughfares of Los Angeles?