Sentences with phrase «such levity»

I suggest this thread is unseemly, lampoonery directed at such an easy target is hardly admirable, surely this is far too serious a matter to be treated with such levity...

Here, no such levity: Garland adapts «Annihilation» from the first in a 2014 trio of books by Jeff VanderMeer collectively known as the Southern Reach Trilogy.

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Meanwhile, researchers have also cast doubt on the long - term efficacy of «forced fun» at work, finding that required levity can lead to an array of bad outcomes such as burnout among employees, and that these cheerful work cultures often serve to distract workers from excessive control or poor conditions elsewhere in the business.

I expressed my views in this regard on WhatsApp last weekend, «Any country in which its elites consider re-electing a president like Buhari just as thousands of citizens are murdered across the country with not a single person arrested; a president who can not make an intelligent conversation on any policy or global issue with other global leaders; a president whose EFCC and DSS engage in open confrontation; a regime which crippled the economy and relies on cyclical movements in oil prices as its sole economic lever; a regime under which 10 million jobs are lost; and key accusations against top officials are treated with levity; just as the regime appears complicit in the invasion of its senate by thugs and seizure of mace... such a country is in serious trouble, that is if it isn't doomed.

She's able to both convey the brutality of the games by making Katniss a more battle - hardened warrior this time out, which also finding moments of levity, such as her priceless reaction to an impromptu striptease by Malone in an elevator.

There are signs of Bond bloat within many of the action sequences - it must be hard to trim such extravagant footage - but they are at least partly overcome by an increase in levity.

The back and forth between the sheriff and the despondent mother are simultaneously heartbreaking, infuriating, and with his mastery of balance, a sense of levity despite such sadness.

The movie's tone is still way too brooding for something that has so much levity at its fingertips, but that brooding is what made Meyer's books such a hit.

Orphan Black was a consistently engaging piece of sci - fi storytelling that wasn't afraid of levity, and while the story itself got a little too tangled towards the end, Manson did a solid job of keeping such a unique concept together for as long as he did.

And the whole thing is executed with such a staggering over-seriousness that even when it attempts moments of levity, they almost always fall flat.

Mary - Louise Parker, in a «no such thing as small parts» sort of small part, brings great levity to the movie, but light popcorn fare this adaptation of author Jason Matthews «novel is not.

The trio's ensuing sojourn intermittently allows for lighthearted interludes of levity as a little comic relief, such as a tension - breaking spanking of Mattie's bottom.

The canvas was stretched and tied to the supports using strings, achieving a newfound tautness and levity such as that of a kite.

Aiming to embody such optimism as a proactive philosophical mode, she seeks to assert levity in painting through delicate abstractions that marry simple forms with complex color schemes.

A certain levity is quite typical of his work, for which he often makes use of intangible elements such as wind, air and transparency.