Sentences with phrase «with lumpen»

This year's line - up includes a creepily disorientating fake apartment from Gregor Schneider; a decaying former skating rink that Pierre Huyghe has transformed into an epic apocalyptic scenario inhabited by swarms of bees, mutating cancer cells and chimera peacocks; and Nicole Eisenman's wonderfully dysfunctional fountain, with its lumpen, slouching figures dribbling water from clutched beer cans and various bodyparts.

The rest of «Soft Core» is anything but soft, even when Pinar Yolacan simulates prehistory again, with the lumpen white of a female totem.

I've gone out of my way to argue that he is a Burkean Whig in the mould of Harold Macmillan, not a Thatcherite retread, and have been deluged with lumpen abuse for saying so.

Not exact matches

The base music of rap, hip - hop, shares quite a bit with disco, indeed grew directly out of it, and the identity / rebel / heroism focus of rap is a very specific one — rock rages in a broadly indistinct or middle - class mode, often against modernity, but rap's poetic world is «lumpen - proletarian,» and its archetypes and formulas are all about expressing certain notions of blackness and manliness.

I personally believe that these half hearted lumpens with a manager that can not plan ahead of time for the team are the root of our issues.

As Anastasia and Christian argue back and forth with only minor variations over admittedly major points of contention — his possessive nature infringing on her charmed career, their disagreement over when to start a family, whether she should remove her bikini top on the beach or not — Leonard's lumpen script zeroes in on a tinny thriller subplot, centered on the violent, mysteriously vengeful stalking of Anastasia's smarmy ex-boss Hyde (Eric Johnson) as the main attraction.

In «Three Billboards,» the sage ignorance is provided by Sam Rockwell's Dixon, a lumpen - cop with a nasty swagger and a head full of just enough awareness to make him funny.

As Jerry on NBC's «Parks & Recreation,» Jim O'Heir was the butt of every joke, a lumpen Midwesterner who absorbed ridicule with a genial earnestness that only invited more of it.

The broken, lumpen B - roads around evo's Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire homes have exposed many an oversprung performance car over the years, but the S1 absorbs the endless bumps sweetly and without deflection, keeping its four contact patches firmly in touch with the tarmac.

The way it excels on track yet copes so well with even the most lumpen roads reveals its true dynamic depth, and the way it wrings every last molecule of pace from a modestly powerful engine is magic.

Issues we had with the F - Type V8S promise to be corrected by the following: Torque Vectoring by Braking to eliminate understeer, Jaguar Adaptive Dynamics with revised spring rates for progressive handling, carbon ceramic brakes (398 / 380 mm front and rear, reducing overall unsprung weight by 46 lbs) to handle that great lumpen mass of an engine, and the latest electric LSD to make the most of on - throttle rotation.

To our eyes it's also far from the most stylish compact hatchback, with a long bonnet and a lumpen rear end — a consequence of its rear - drive layout.

Lumpy can also mean lumpen, as with Matthew Monahan's Nation Builder.

(Also on hand is a larger, horizontal, far less interesting canvas from 2005 in which two or three lumpen objects, roughly brushed and dimly seen, hunker down on an expansive tabletop busy with wood grain.

Some, like the massive Ultrasuede Wave, were pieces of cushy upholstered furniture crushed by lumpen ceramic boulders; others, like Third Eye, were abstract paintings that veered off into Rauschenbergian assemblage with folding chairs attached to their stretcher bars.

Taking a cue from Donald Judd's «Specific Objects» but enlivened with a little bit of lumpen plasticity a là Claes Oldenburg's 1961 papier - machês, Stacy Fisher's sculptures show the rare combination of style and wit that is increasingly hard to find in today's sculptural climate of hyper - sterile commodity - object assemblage.

«Profile (Heartbeat)» (2015) unites a lopsided ultramarine lozenge on the right with an equally awkward form in warm, tar - like black on the left: two halves of a lumpen heart - shape (that looks more like a pair of lungs).