Sentences with phrase «whose laconic»

«A Problem Has Occured» is a common retort of software programs, whose laconic persona uses the passive voice to mask intent.

ANDREW KREPS GALLERY The larger of this gallery's two spaces has been dimmed to screen four moving - image works by the Ohio - born artist Kevin Jerome Everson, whose laconic films explore the quotidian passages of African - American life and, more recently, the everyday consequences of the Midwest's economic downturn.

Another figure to wonder about is Mary Heilmann, the great California painter — a phenomenal colorist, whose laconic work fizzes with ideas.

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Like biblical Hebrew, Atwood's witty prose is thick with double entendre and allusion, including hidden puns whose meanings dawn on us only later, and outrageous jokes that don't so much dawn as «bomb» (one of the book's metaphors and an effect of Atwood's powerfully laconic style)

Joe is played by Matthew McConaughey, whose natural laconic, easy - going way is mutated into something snake - like and insidious here.

Both films use a laconic, unexpurgated voiceover to elucidate on the inner turmoil of a man whose well - being is eroding and whose disdain for the people around him grows with each passing day and toward a violent epiphany.

The boys also get help from Logan sister Mellie (Keough), whose distinct flavor of laconic warmth and an eagerness to get in the game proves to be an irresistible combination.

The new film from Martin McDonagh (In Bruges), in theatres nationwide on Dec. 1, roots itself in the fury of a mother, Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand), whose daughter has been raped and killed and seemingly forgotten by laconic local police.

So he belongs in the pool of postwar figurative painters whose works are, to one degree or another, conceptual or «abstract»: painters like Gerhard Richter and Malcolm Morley, who, like him, use photographs, or, among Americans, Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein and even Wayne Thiebaud, specialists at a certain laconic registration.

Campins» works, laconic in style, are similar to those of Polish artist Joseph Schulz, whose Form 14 (archetypal of Schulz's style) exhibits architecture without detail.