Sentences with word «subversiveness»

There's little here to match the playful subversiveness of The Long Kiss Goodnight and it's no surprise to learn that Russell Crowe was no fan of the superior Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, which he apparently found «too aware of itself... not funny for me».

As extravagant as his designs tend to be, they also have a sense of fun, youthful subversiveness.

The geniuses behind the new film just don't understand the difference between genuine subversiveness and pointless vulgarity.

More guts, more cameos, more gags that aim for subversiveness but are so repetitive that they loop back around to being obligatory and self - defeating.

When it first ran, in the late 1960s, it was considered somewhat edgy, and though it never laid claim to the satirical territory mapped out by M.A.S.H. it had a gentle subversiveness to it....

Although «Sausage Party» feigns subversiveness on the surface, it's actually quite formulaic underneath all that foul - mouthed depravity, and kind of boring too.

Horror cinema subversiveness need not preclude actual horror, a fact that's unfortunately lost on The Cabin in the Woods, a brainchild of writer turned director Drew Goddard (Cloverfield, Lost) and co-writer Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) that sets aside actual scares for what's - going - on suspense and diminishing - returns cleverness.

A screwball comedy it may be, but director Harold Ramis and writer John Hughes also inject a little subversiveness into proceedings.

Hell, Get Out is probably the most perfectly crafted horror film I've seen in a couple of decades, and its genius - level subversiveness and political savvy also makes it a blistering social critique.

The other is Cecily von Ziegesar, whose Gossip Girl series for teens this highbrow critic embraces for its comic subversiveness.

Miller, like his classmates and longtime friends Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw, discovers in the objects and images of middlebrow America a disconcerting yet liberating subversiveness.

In Mnuchin's selective reprise, Mr. Hammons repeatedly demonstrates a wicked subversiveness that's as sharp as one of those Miyabi knives that you don't know has cut you until you see the blood on your hand.

And finally, is there still a subculture or subversiveness in art at all?

At the same time, The New Barbarians is tinged with the conceptual subversiveness that the yBas deliberately exploited: by transplanting their own faces onto the work, the couple align their practice and artistic personae with grandiose narratives of creation and evolution.

If you can get past its flaws, especially its stereotype characterization of the hillbillies, there's a subversiveness to it that is pleasantly intoxicating.

«We wanted to make her his equal both in her wit and her subversiveness.

The Shape of Water is one of the most romantic films in the race this year, but it's romance comes from its subversiveness — both in how it depicts the well of desire within most women, how unquenchable it can sometimes be, and how it depicts an America that did not allow for different kinds of people.

Green Room continues the vein of comically inept people in violent situations, but it's too crowded and lacks the subversiveness that made Blue Ruin so riveting.

The first game was a ton of fun, and high school is the perfect setting for that classic Rockstar sense of humor and subversiveness.

But even this room isn't without hints of subversiveness: Nina Chanel Abney's Si, Mister deftly addresses the politics of race and gender, two vintage Kenny Scharf paintings subtly mock the empty promises of 1950s suburbia, and Haring's Mickey — well, he just so happens to be holding his own mickey, a fact that has occasionally proven tricky to navigate for visiting school groups.

Subversiveness is explored through an exhibition of photography, collage, drawings, paintings and installation of work by Billy Sullivan and Kathy Rudin.

The formal concerns present in her work evolved from Manceaux's personal interest into the history of satire, comics and narrative humor — tracing dichotomous relations between the concepts of progress and synthesis, information and deformation, drawing and subversiveness, as the underlining scope for the way she treats the subjects of her pictures.

Soak it up while you can — Davis is an accomplished artist with a powerful presence, and even after all these years she's managed to maintain her subversiveness.

Catherine Edeleman explained their work presents the subversiveness of people wanting to the do the right thing for the earth but end up causing more harm than good.

Important reference points were subversiveness, alternative lifestyles (for example Monte Verità), and the Gesamtkunstwerk («total artwork», Wagner's concept of a work which spans all the arts, to which his own exhibitions were also indebted).