Sentences with phrase «social observation»

I love meetings partly because they're little exercises in social observation.

An extraordinary fiction debut: a large, stirring novel of suspense that is, at the same time, a work of brilliantly astute social observation.

This study examined the validity of micro social observations and macro ratings of parent — child interaction in early to middle childhood.

Two other Turkish films from noted auteurs were in the retrospective section: Semih Kaplanoglu's Süt (Milk, 2008), a rich story of a young man's quest to become a poet, done with sharp social observation by the director, but degenerating into hazy symbolism by the end, a device that also marred the director's next film, Mal (Honey, 2010); and Kasaba (Small Town, 1997) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, the director's debut feature, already displaying his steady hand and broad compassion.

Through a strongly abstract vocabulary, he made a routine out of simultaneously channeling his own identity and objective social observations through his artwork.

No great talents of social observation are required to notice the continuing tension, anger, and fear that shroud our public discourse on matters concerning race.

Wang is well placed to make social observations about the concept, especially considering she is dividing her time between China, London and New York.

Tory Boyz is a one act play of subtlety, brilliance even, whose social observation and sense of political history transfixes the audience from start to finish.

Chib, who has studied what happens in the brain when people choke under pressure, originally launched this project to investigate how performance suffers under social observation.

OK Cupid has done a great job of dredging up some fascinating and super controversial social observations from their members stats.

«A Good Woman» is Oscar Wilde's «Lady Windermere's Fan» updated to the 1930s and minus the acute social observation.

Halfway through, however, Baumbach's world view turns oddly prescriptive, its loose - limbed social observation tethered by a snoozy inside - baseball subplot on documentary ethics.

There is a fine cast that includes two Mike Leigh regulars, Lesley Manville and Phil Davis, but the film completely lacks the irony, nuance, anger, compassion and biting social observation found in Leigh's work.

The news comes as the film from producer Scott Rudin, and his IACF partner Barry Diller, earned rave reviews at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, such as Scott Foundas» comments in Variety: «Rock has finally found a big - screen vehicle for himself that comes close to capturing the electric wit, shrewd social observations and deeply autobiographical vein of his standup comedy.»

I've already discussed how many critics seem to be misinterpreting Mike Leigh's «Happy - Go - Lucky» and its protagonist, Poppy, by interpreting it as a sheer feelgood work — and in doing so, missing much of the film's complex, subtle social observation.

His most celebrated feature, Yoyo (65), is a clever — at times brilliant — comingling of Keaton's physical comedy, Chaplin's pathos, Tati's gentle social observation, and the broader farce of Frank Tashlin.

The Land of Decoration is part social observation and part crazy mysticism, held together by a brutally real story of parent - child love.»

In his work, Moffett often amalgamates the traditional medium of oil on canvas with sculptural elements and, more recently, video projections, while his topics explore social observations and political landmarks.

The show features a range of practitioners such as Vonna - Michell who elaborately constructs narratives centred on historical research and social observation filtered through personal anecdotes.

Visit this exhibition to marvel at how Perry has managed to weave acerbic social observations into his gaudy creations.

More likeable than accomplished, pic's smart - ass puns and sardonic asides yield some witty repartee, and its relentless obsession with relationships includes occasional sharp social observations.

The buzz for his new novel, The Underground Railroad, was already intense after fans learned that it would be a sort of alternative history of slavery in America; a return to the kind of social observation and rich historical reimagining that first gained him critical acclaim in books like John Henry Days and The Intuitionist.

His highly intricate shot compositions (with the help of his longtime collaborator Emmanuel Lubezki) and infusion of muted but potent sexual, emotional and social observations through visuals have distinguished him greatly from the increasingly pedestrian eye of most American filmmakers.

It's deeper than simply picking up sinfulness along the way, learning it through social observation.

They already have an appreciation of culture in its broad sense and of the narrative link to social observation.

To help remedy that disparity, have made some social observations of their own and present their findings in their 2012 book «Fatherhood: Evolution and Human Paternal Behavior ``.

Payne has always walked a fine line between sharp social observation that occasionally edges into satire (a little less satire with each new film, I think) and a rich sense of character.

In Nebraska he borders dangerously close to mockery, while still maintaining his razor - sharp social observations.

Asghar Farhadi's Oscar - winning A Separation was a marriage of drama, melodrama and social observation that was beyond compare; it's expecting too much of his new film to equal it.

«Seigel's is an art of critical and social observation.

«Social Observations.»

With a degree in Art Education, he conducts his production between the topics of portrait, identity, marginalization and Amazônia, using as research source the social observation and police pages of newspapers printed in Belém.

Comprising work from the past ten years, the show is a bracing introduction to Weber's poppy, comic, and off - kilter geometric approach to abstraction, figuration, and social observation.

Portland About Blog Anthropologizing features a mixed - bag of posts on applied social research, business anthropology, design and user experience research, social observations, and other topics by Portland - based anthropologist and design researcher Amy L. Santee.