Sentences with word «spectacles»

«Alexander» is an excessive, massive film, «spectacular» only in the sense that it features many actors making spectacles of themselves.

It's a manipulative, disingenuous gesture that displays a lack of self - reflexivity from Chevigny and Kauffman, who clearly view their documentation as separate and more noble than the cacophony of spectacles and violence propagated by Hollywood filmmakers.

(Although, the squeamish should be warned those spectacles range from mildly disturbing to gory and disgusting to absolutely terrifying.)

The noisy, bloated spectacles of combat were surely the most expensive parts of the movie, but the money seems less like an imaginative tool than a substitute for genuine imagination.

But to mistake Garland's succession of haunted - house - like spectacles as Acid: The Place would be missing out on so much emotional work that he's doing.

And speaking of the rest of the cast... Ving Rhames (in some slick spectacles), Don Cheadle (good funny / scary), Albert Brooks, Steve Zahn (very funny, here), Catherine Keener, Luis Guzman, Dennis Farina... and smaller appearances by Michael Keaton, Nancy Allen, Viola Davis, and Samuel L. Jackson.

To the extent that Blocker has been a soldier doing his job, the movie regards him with sympathy, and supplies an Eastern intellectual (Bill Camp, wearing round spectacles) to sneer and judge.

The film's director, Sebastian Lelio, is up to all kinds of mischief, the least of which is Gloria's abundant hairdo and outsized spectacles, which give her a slight but unmistakable resemblance to Dustin Hoffman in Sydney Pollack's beloved 1982 comedy, «Tootsie.»

It's frustrating that it's so difficult to fully appreciate the fantastic work that went into orchestrating these massive spectacles when we're constantly being jostled from place to place.

I'm sure he enjoys watching us howl in agony as another one of his brain - numbing spectacles thunders into theaters, destroying untold numbers of eardrums in the process.

That aside, it's a pleasure to see Gibson directing again as he often delivers big, entertaining spectacles and his latest certainly falls into line with that.

«Man of Steel,» which is more leaden than steely, is an example of everything that has gone wrong with so many big - budget spectacles.

One of the most fascinating spectacles to experience.

Richmond CA About Blog Hi - Fructose showcases an amalgamation of new contemporary, emerging as well distinguished artists, with a spotlight on awe inspiring spectacles from round the world.

Eye astrophysical spectacles, observe out - of - this - world exhibits, and interact with cosmic shows, all while sipping some pretty stellar drinks and defying gravity on the dance floor.

From the amusement parks of the Carousel Festival to the huge vegetable spectacles at the Giant Pumpkin Regatta, the city of Burlington encourages individuals to leave their dooryards and form close - knit community.

Well, the weather may not be the best, and most of the summer sporting spectacles are behind us for another year, but the air is definitely filled with love!

Men and women may use stylish sunglasses or even spectacles if they look cool.

You really rock well in those spectacles!

We shouldn't play favorites, but not only is the City of Light home to runway spectacles from Chanel and Louis Vuitton, it also attracts the type of elegant street style a girl just can't find in London, Milan, or even New York.

Wear a pair of thick black rimmed spectacles and accessorise this nerdy look with a black square dial watch.

Not everyone has the right facial profile to flaunt the nerdy look with spectacles.

Bloggers, consumer media, social media stars, celebrities — these constituents will likely attend consumer facing spectacles (it's what the people want to see, after all), but the industry will probably need its own format for seeing a collection.

See Facebook's Oculus Rift to Snapchat's Spectacles.

The Dolce & Gabbana Alta spectacles have become fun waystations for the brand's rich clientele, but the charm of these shows is that, for all the over-the-toppery, they are actually great levelers, fabulous, shameless entertainments.

You had me with the spectacles and the denim is a bonus!

Rena assured him that he looked quite handsome in his spectacles cause cute boys only look cuter in glasses and they proceeded to take a pic with with her Lomo Diana camera to mark the occasion.

Myntra has wonderful charms like classy pearl ones, or quirky charms like hearts, dragonflies, and spectacles.

And then look at my mom's spectacles!!

Every year, the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show is one of the biggest and buzziest spectacles on television.

I imagine spectacles at that time.

From last weekend's schedule there were many spectacles that had trend forecasters basically dribbling.

Plus to add a bit of more awesomeness, put on your swaggy shades / spectacles and give your hair a bit of a shake; you can either keep them open or them up in a bun.

If you're still putting your festival outfits together in time for Coachella or Stagecoach, don't forget to add a few of these trendy spectacles for elevated style and of course, sun protection.

In the days of old, lifters would act out spectacles of might.

Please don your spectacles.

She states the theory on the basis of three spectacles that formerly belonged to Austen.

We've put on scientific spectacles, and they had on utilitarian spectacles.

The movement is open to accusations of wearing rose - tinted spectacles, cherry - picking success stories and making mountains out of molehills.

I mean it brought us into modernity and made it worthwhile mass educating people and scientific spectacles go with formal education.

A polymer coating that transforms opaque water droplets into smooth transparent sheets could be used to keep car windows, bathroom mirrors and spectacles from fogging up.

A few days after he removed the special spectacles, his world returned to normal.

A pair of spectacles filter light to trick the eyes into seeing colour differently, letting people distinguish between hues that look the same but aren't

Spectacles which let the wearer watch TV while doing something else are on show at Olympia in London this week.

A lot of lecterns are fitted with plenty of drawers and cupboards, but a quick check of the one in our main science theatre last week revealed a jumble of forgotten handouts from a conference, an expensive but chalky calculator, several well chewed pens, some overhead projection transparencies with print so minute that I took one and frightened my students with it, a pair of prescription spectacles (abandoned, perhaps, because their owner couldn't read the words on the screen?)

A Sport headset costs about # 750 and consists of a pair of tinted spectacles like a skiing visor, connected to a battery - powered belt pack.

The pack feeds a video signal from a TV tuner, VCR or camcorder to a small colour LCD screen mounted inside the top of the spectacles, from where it is picked up by a prism and a lens.

Because of that, it also harbors some of the last great migratory spectacles of large mammals — over a million Mongolian gazelle as well as saiga antelope, Tibetan gazelle, Tibetan antelope, and giant argali sheep — a total of 15 large mammals under consideration in this Initiative.»

They are sporting things such as beards and spectacles and amusing novelty T - shirts.

«Specialised contact lenses and spectacles, which can be prescribed by eye care practitioners, have shown very promising results in controlling the progression of myopia.