Sentences with phrase «with absurdity»

Perhaps the best thing about this film is the pitch black humour that goes hand in hand brilliantly with the absurdity of the piece.

Teachers across this country have come to live everyday with this absurdity.

Often personal responses to everyday experiences embedded with absurdity and humor, the works span from 1994 to the present.

----- When faced with absurdity and even disappointment, humor is often the best coping mechanism.

The Birdcage deals with the absurdity of masking, an idea that everyone — gay or straight — can relate to.

I can see Elizabeth Banks and her team playing with the absurdity of the original show, but I'd expect the new movie's approach to have a little more nuance.

2 Days in New York is Julie Delpy's second foray into French family farce, tinged with absurdity, but grounded in the real comedy at which she's so adept.

The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood If you can't get enough Atwood, her most recent dystopian novel is filled with absurdity and dark humor.

In 2015, the attack mounted in the name of «marriage equality» ensured that the very definition of a family in Article 41 was torn apart and replaced with an absurdity beyond satire.

With a cast stocked with the likes of John C. Reilly, William H. Macy, and Don Cheadle, there's a lot you can do with the absurdity of living in a kind of closed - off porn kingdom.

The Book of Henry starts well, begins flirting with absurdity in the middle — and ends in crashing disaster.

He disagreed with the absurdity by which these tests were graded, but trusted that the elites who were in charge knew what they were doing — and thus spent his career not questioning them.

It is calling out absurdity with absurdity.

Like many great thinkers, he grappled with the absurdity and tragedy that are a part of the human situation.

It has come to our notice through VRA that Ameri served the Government with a notice of default which was also ignored with absurdity and the default continues.

Coping with the absurdities of online dating is a real part of digital dating.

By contrast, Stranger than Fiction isn't sure if it wants to be a comedy that relies on stereotypes in order to accentuate the humor, or a drama with the absurdities played as deadpan as possible.

The bride's brother, Alan Garner (Zach Galifianakis), is a certifiable pedophile — opening a door to unusual, if unsavory, jokes which, in a film replete with absurdity, stop oddly shy of pure evil.

It's unashamedly goofy, sincere with its absurdity and loaded with martian invasion B - movie elements on a champagne budget.

Yet rather than do anything with this absurdity, the rest of the scene just involves Amy «standing up» to Gwendolyn and telling her how bad her day has been, the other mothers gasping en masse off screen.

White's ability to keep a straight face and give a serious performance while the world around him is packed with absurdity and silliness is also a tenant more parodies need to follow.

Schools and classrooms are rife with absurdity.

Perhaps it's on account of my having been indoctrinated into the niche cult of folks who like Japanese games with their absurdity turned up to 11, or maybe it's the fact that I got into journalism in the first place because I find other people's interests and passions — no matter how bizarre, to include the aforementioned genre of games — absolutely fascinating.

He unapologetically embraces all the formal skills of object making that engages old - fashioned, soul - baring individuality with absurdity, acknowledging the pleasure, pain, and awkwardness of being human.

This information coupled with the absurdity of the performance itself marks the significance of the artist's presence in this work in addition to the importance of the documentation being in slide form rather than video.

He has the great ability to conspire with absurdity, collude with the poignant and make interesting the mundane.

The source she draws on, from Southern face jugs to Korean norigae are so diverse, allowing for work that is both humorously and seriously engaged in confrontations with the absurdity of our globalized, hyper - technologized society and the many cultural misunderstandings it nurtures.»

Delivered with absurdity, affection, and feminist vibrato, Dufresne presents figurative articulations that feverously emerge out of the paint.

The majority very pointedly decided not to deal with the absurdity criticized by Justice Moldaver — because it was not a question the Court was asked to decide.

But take a page from Bob Odenkirk — a Naperville hometown hero and co-creator of the 1990's sketch comedy TV smash hit Mr. Show — and try to roll with the absurdities.

While I'm sure there's a story - related reason for this display of strength, seeing a normal - looking man with a sword parry the hand of a several - thousand - ton Titan took me out of the experience with its absurdity.

2 Days in New York is a French family farce, tinged with absurdity, but grounded in the real comedy, according to Lauren Herstik.

''... filled with absurdity, fart jokes, and curious characters that will easily suck you into a colorful world.»

Director Pawlikowski makes no effort to universalize the experience, situating the action at a time and place in history in which Poland, having survived the horrors of Nazism, must know deal with the absurdities of Communism.

This action movie misses the two big chances here: to play with the absurdities of its premise and to make a comment on corporate greed.

I don't want to spray you with absurdity and meaningless jargon.

A worldling friend, Edmund Wilson, who had once hailed Waugh as the hope of the English novel, was disgusted: «The last scenes are extravagantly absurd, with an absurdity that would be worthy of Waugh at his best if it were not — painful to say — meant quite seriously.»

But it's chaos done crisply, with absurdity and terror parceled out in efficient dollops and with equally efficient aplomb, a style that finds its best expression in Laugher (Walton Goggins), a CIA assassin who really loves his lethal work.

And years later, John Irving's The World According to Garp was an object lesson in absolutely stuffing a book to bursting — with characters, with ideas, with absurdity — and yet making it all ring true.

BattleBlock Theater is filled with absurdity, fart jokes, and curious characters that will easily suck you into a colorful world.

«Through layering, collage and juxtaposition, I strive to make layered pieces that deal with the absurdity, poignancy and joy of our world,» she says.

Legs III's empty nylons, hung high on the wall, can be seen as shriveled stand - ins for the reduced human body, while in Window Piece, fluid - blurred kitchen knives are directed at a cut - out figure of an entertainer, suggesting violence, albeit one tinged with absurdity.

I deal with the absurdity and inexperience daily... and really feel sorry for many sellers and whom they've gotten involved with.