Sentences with phrase «whose penchant»

In 2015, Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow made a documentary about another titan of New Hollywood — De Palma, whose penchant for voyeurism and Alfred Hitchcock homages made him one of the most recognizable auteurs of the era.

On the face of it, Dickinson might seem well - matched to Davies, the English writer - director whose penchant for penetrating studies of anguished women (The Deep Blue Sea, Sunset Song) ought to place Cynthia Nixon's performance in a recognisable spectrum, of distant voices and still lives.Instead, Davies's screenplay is remarkable mostly for an archness and artifice only partially redeemed by several of the performances.

Avian affections and all, I, Tonya «s most colorful character comes in the form of Harding's abusive, foul - mouthed, booze - guzzling mother, LaVona Golden, whose penchant for fine fur and feathered friends comes to life with wicked conviction from a fearless Allison Janney.

In Ramsay's hands, Bond would go back to being more of an idea than a man, a haunted abstraction whose penchant for violence obscures a deep wound in his heart.

All this it achieves, helmed by Goichi «Suda 51» Suda, whose penchant for the bizarre oozes through the grim aesthetic.

Bille August is a photographer - turned - director whose penchant for weaving deeply personal stories eventually gave way to adapting seemingly impenetrable novels into moderately successful features.

We have reached a point in our history where we need to flash out the minority few whose penchant for corruption and self - enrichment at the expense of the state has stifled our resolve for growth, this creates the urgent demand for proven patriots to take up such critical positions.

In private conversations, Ryan called Trump «a joke» whose penchant for identity politics was dividing the country and dooming the Republican Party's future.

Jammeh only helped to remind the world that Africa is home to leaders whose penchant to sit tight know no limit.

Until a couple of years ago the player deemed the heir to Dobler was Wisniewski, whose penchant for sustaining blocks up to the whistle — or past it — made him extremely unpopular with opponents.

Both were populists whose penchant for an old - fashioned formality was foreign and yet paradoxically attractive to the multitudes who cheered them.

I don't normally frequent the anarcho - syndicalist enclaves of the blogosphere, but my curiosity was piqued by the ongoing saga of the «Tarnac 9», whose penchant for absurdism combined with neo-Benedictinism is at least somewhat endearing.

The completion gave Tebow, an outspoken evangelical Christian whose penchant for last - minute heroics have given him a reputation as a miracle worker, 316 passing yards for the game.

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Among them was a press darling — a man whose brash reputation and penchant for public tirades had made him one of the city's most recognizable figures.

But the softly - spoken Wollaston is battle weary after an election campaign whose highlights included her office building being defaced not once but twice by a masked man armed with a spray can and a penchant for anti-Tory slogans.

Investigative Post Editor Jim Heaney, whose reporting prompted federal investigators to launch the Buffalo Billion probe, says Cuomo's penchant for secrecy and misguided notion that the rules don't apply to him or his administration has fostered a culture that enables corruption.

«We never started and finished any one scene in any one day,» fumes Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, whose character continued Cameron's penchant for strong, resourceful women but also seemed to be an outlet for his collapsing marriage to Hurd — he made Lindsay a shrew willing to sacrifice her marriage to the noble Bud for her career.

Take a peek at Laura Harrier's Instagram feed and you'll see a globe - trotting 27 - year - old whose passions are many — from statements about social injustices (read: the Philando Castile acquittal) to links about the former model's penchant for fashion to...

Ryan Gosling is Holland March, a schlubby private investigator (and struggling single father) with a penchant for sleeping in the bath, whose client list includes bewildered old ladies worried about the whereabouts of their dead husbands.

His escape, aside from those elaborate daydreams, is Jordana, a girl with porcelain delicacy whose faults are limited to a penchant for bullying, a fondness for starting fires, and intermittent bouts of eczema, As he calculates it, she is just unpopular enough to be attainable, but just popular enough to make her desirable.

Square Enix has long shown a penchant for re-releases and ports, but Chrono Trigger is one game whose long absence from circulation has always been a bit of a mystery.

Cinematographer Danny Cohen (whose frequent Hooper collaboration has a penchant for pushing actors to the edge of the frame that isn't as pronounced here) and production designer Eve Stewart are constantly at odds, filling the frame with too much clutter that only distances us from Lili and Gerda's turmoil.

This time around, we have the folks over at Core Knowledge, whose otherwise laudable effort to improve the nation's woeful reading curricula is often overshadowed by the penchant of its advocates to dismiss other reforms.

Knowing Mrs. Gillespie's penchant for gossip, Hamish is sure she delighted in finding out her clients» secrets — which means that everyone whose home she cleaned is a suspect.

If I was lucky with Brownie, whose extensive pedigree included no information on his penchant for foot - warming, I was equally fortunate to have stumbled on to your practice when we moved to the area in 2000 — probably through the antediluvian technology of a yellow pages search.

I recently read an article about an owner whose cat was morbidly obese and had a «penchant for lunch meat and Doritos.»

I have a penchant for stealth games, there's something about being able to perfect a certain run or level whilst outsmarting the enemy AI whose main prerogative is to find you.

In DYSTORIA, you play as... well, yourself, presumably — an unnamed, ordinary human whose only defined trait is a penchant for videogames, abducted by aliens and placed into a special flight school called «DYSTORIA.»

The Japanese director whose CV includes Bloodborne as well as the original Dark Souls has a penchant for the disturbing, and Dark Souls III is no exception.

The artist incorporates news or historic references in his work - sometimes in the subject matter, sometimes in the stylistic result, but whose narrative maintains a penchant for the personal.

Pollock began to gain recognition under the advocacy of iconic critic Clement Greenburg, whose particular tastes and penchant for Formalism defined an entire generation of American art.