Sentences with phrase «used deadpan»

He has also used deadpan phrases to evoke life on the road, whether that's an endless stretch of barren highway or the tangle of urban sprawl.

The original Roseanne, one of Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, followed the working class Conner family, who used deadpan humor to counter the struggles of everyday life.

Governor Cuomo is now publicly on board, after his economic development commissioner, Howard Zemsky, brought up the lack of transportation options during a recent visit to the state's capitol, using deadpan humor to get his point across.

Using deadpan humor and savage charm belying deep empathy for her characters, Miller's debut captures the angst, sexual rivalry, and escalating self - doubt of teenage life in America while announcing Miller as a fierce new voice.

Not exact matches

«Hunt for the Wilderpeople» employs the same, supremely deadpan humor that director Taika Waititi used in «Eagle vs Shark.»

Armie Hammer has a gift for deadpan humor, and it's put to great use here.

For example, after Gerry (Sigourney Weaver) helps Nathan escape using balloons to cover security cameras (a la Ocean's Eleven) she releases them with the deadpan, utterly serious line of, «I hate balloons.»

The heightened atmosphere is used to justify some devilishly deadpan dialogue and situations — one of the siblings spends half the movie walking around with half an arrow in his back.

Reeves is using his stiff and forced expressionism, sometimes deadpanning, to heighten the comedy of the piece, making it one of his most enjoyable performances as he goes all in on the camp.

A woman of Hayes» fortitude is not necessarily going to be devoid of an admirer of her own, but in a backwater like Ebbing that turns out to be James (a deadpan Peter Dinklage), who says of himself, «I know I'm a midget who sells used cars and has a drinking problem, I know that.»

Unemployed art school graduates Mingming and Yue take turns filming each other with a small camera, exploring a range of issues rarely shown in any national cinema with such deadpan accuracy — from the complex waters of female friendship to «pussy» as a commodity, from the desire to use filmmaking as a weapon to the decision to make a baby — an up - in - your face, playful, sassy deconstruction of what it means to be a young woman now.

Having played the straight man for most of the sketch, he puts his comedic deadpan skills to good use as he reveals that Kendrick isn't the only one with a Hollywood dream that never came true.

In truth, Deapool 2 definitely could have used bit more of Negasonic's trademark deadpan one - liners and it would have been fantastic if Yukio was given more character development.

On top of the deadpan humour, there are purposely ugly, terrible images in the film involving drug use and mass sexual exploits openly conducted and celebrated in Belfort's firm.

Baz Luhrmann's Australian cult classic manages to be surprisingly touching and flat - out hilarious all at once, with wild costumes, farcical situations, and deadpan use of the mockumentary format hiding laughs behind laughs that you'll only find on a rewatch.

In one of the episode's funniest moments, Hader deadpans the camera directly, snapping his head in different directions — left - right - left - up - down — all while directors Alex Buono and Rhys Thomas use their cameras to over-exaggerate Gray's minimal, but theatrical movements in the film.

The actor has relied on his usual sarcastic shtick for many of his roles, so it's nice to see him deliver a slightly different, more nuanced performance that puts his deadpan comic delivery to pitch - perfect use.

Using a style that faintly echoes Hartley's, Shelly beautifully balances deadpan humor, pathos and heartbreakingly lovely moments of happy truth.

Speaking of Geralt it's easy to write him off as another typically gruff hero with a voice so gravelly it could be used for making driveways, but he's actually quite a fascinating character, exhibiting a far more complex personality that you'd initially give him credit for, including some deadpan humour, genuine caring, interesting insights and much more.

His figures always hinge on abstraction, while his use of color, composition, and deadpan humor balance the discomfort that comes from the voyeurism inherent in his gaze.

12, 1996, a deadpan video intervention that appeared to show Zobernig walking, in his birthday suit, through the streets of the Windy City (blue - screen technology was used to create the effect, as it was actually shot inside the building).

And only later did I learn enough art history to be able to place Johns's startlingly deadpan use of the American flag in the context of an issue that lies at the heart of what we call modernism — the relationship of art to reality, another kind of dance.

Isolating key sentences and phrases from the novel for his paintings and drawings such as «In California you chew the juice out of grapes and spit away the skin, a real luxury,» «the holy con man began to eat,» or «fit and slick as a fiddle,» Ruscha adds another layer of deadpan aesthetic analysis to Kerouac's original and radical use of language.

The London - based artist is known for his conceptual minimalism, using existing materials and situations to create logical, deadpan works that question the definition of art.

Samuel Rousseau's minimalist video installation, Un peu d' éternité (a little eternity), uses a candle and endless projection of a flame to convey an endlessness that our minds can grasp only speculatively; while Andy Warhol takes a characteristically deadpan approach with his film Empire, placing a camera in front of the Empire State Building and shooting it for 24 hours.

Conner's deadpan touch is seen in a photo of the Xerox machine used in the process, as if exacting revenge on the copier by copying it.

There were many times when dad would lose himself talking about how they met, or how awkward he was during their first dates, or how once he bought a bouquet to woo her and she deadpanned white flowers are used for funerals in Korea.

In addition to his own criticisms — e.g., that Truss uses nonwords and misuses other words; consistently uses en - dashes instead of em - dashes; opposes the serial comma; and misuses which for that in restrictive clauses — Garner also quotes other writing authorities who deadpanned the book: