Sentences with phrase «with wry humor»

They find her exposing chauvinism and clubbiness within this conceptual - art center, sometimes posing as a man in drag, and always with wry humor.

Small - scale and composed of humble materials like graph paper, colored paper, and pencil, Thomas's thought - provoking work exudes an understated anxiety tempered with wry humor.

Committed to figurative painting at a time when it was out of favor with critics and collectors, Steers nonetheless gained appreciation for his expressionist - realist narratives of a life shadowed by isolation and mortality, yet infused with wry humor, camp, and what Steers himself called, a «gorgeous bleakness.»

He packs them in and laces his PowerPoint slides with wry humor and a clear concern for what many authors are up against these days.

Tamaki's collection of short comics examines the strange, familiar corners of human nature with wry humor and affection.

Written by a geophysics professor, The Mathematician's Shiva is brilliantly written and infused with wry humor, quirky characters and an honest and insightful look at both the world of academia and the immigrant experience.

At first blush, a debut novel by comedian and BBC late - night host Graham Norton sounds like it would be rife with wry humor and witty antics in the vein of his TV show.

As good as the action looks it's Simon Pegg with his wry humor at all the wrong times that I'm looking forward to.

Harrowing, but with a wry humor, and utterly transporting, Paul Schrader has synthesized his complex religious upbringing with modern anxieties into a trenchant portrait of tormented souls in First Reformed.

Not exact matches

You can get away with a bit of humor when you're picking on your own community or culture, so long as it's gentle and wry.

Why The Parenting Jungle is a Top Parenting Blog: Parents looking for practical product reviews and parenting advice will find that on this blog, along with a healthy dose of wry humor.

Nathan is a warm young man with a love of writing and wry sense of humor.

With tenacity she pulled herself up, began to collect disability insurance, and settled down to a cloistered life, still possessing a wry sense of humor.

But when the day's over and the whistle blows, he gets into the gym and then comes and hangs out with his Peeps, dishing out his wry sense of humor on the rest of The Army.

Well traveled, well read, with a wry sense of humor (some call it sick, but that's just semantics).

With wry commentary and a striking sense of humor, Single Girl Blogging traces Naomi's thought experiments, bad dates, hot hookups, and other dating exploits.

Actress Lily Tomlin and screenwriter Jane Wagener were in their 70s by the time gay marriage was legalized, so they viewed the idea of getting married with a wry sense of humor, quipping they may dress up like chickens on the big day.

Joe Pytka does display an occasional nice touch with mood and atmosphere - at its infrequent best, the humor here is almost wry.

With a wry sense of humor firmly in place, Lanthimos» film subtly takes your breath away, casually ratcheting up the intensity until the film's jaw - dropping finale that could very well leave you more shaken than you could possibly imagine.

Even though «Defamation,» which is sprinkled with unexpected moments of wry humor, will be inescapably controversial, Yoav Shamir strives admirably to be evenhanded.

Kaurismaki proved himself a master of simple, affectionate, minimalist portraits with little dialogue and plenty of wry, dry humor with Shadows in Paradise (1986), a story of numb service industry survivors (Kaurismaki favorites Matti Pellonpää and Kati Outinen) who stumble through a relationship without ever losing their hang - dog expression.

The film indulges in the intellectual rap session with both fascinated attention and wry humor: it is, after all, the pretentious proclamations and justifications of two privileged men batting around the meaning of life in a restaurant where most folks couldn't afford to buy dessert.

This one features a plucky little girl with an epic mane of magic hair that glows when she sings (Mandy Moore), a dashing rogue of an outlaw who ends up a partner on her quest (Zachary Levi), a stepmom who walks all over her self - esteem (Donna Murphy), a chameleon with a wry sense of humor, a horse that thinks he's a dog and a rogues gallery of hard - bitten thugs with a dream in their hearts.

The movie tries earnestly to blend wry humor with a no - nonsense charm deemed appropriate for its working - class characters, but the acting and scripting are too uneven for either the drama or the comedy to gather much steam.

Writer - director Jason Reitman (Juno, Up in the Air) brings his quirky, subtle, wry sense of humor to the small screen with Casual, an immensely likable rom - com about dating and sex that's refreshingly frank and intelligent.

«What was apparent in the first meeting was that she was very smart, very strong, with a wry, sly sense of humor and built out of integrity,» he told The Post in December.

It's a powerful ensemble, all of them working perfectly with the movie's mixture of wry, grim humor and disquiet contemplation.

Although most real - life teenagers would never be as eloquent as Olive, she is, nonetheless, a reasonably realistic teen, who deals with the mundane with a wry sense of humor.

Colin Firth gives a riveting central performance as a noble underdog with a crippling handicap and a wry, self - effacing sense of humor.

The film drags a bit in the middle, but Levine's script is bursting with such wry, dark humor that it just barely tips the scales in its favor.

«In and out of class, Shawn has generously, though always humbly, shared the undeniable rigor of his thinking, the poetry of his language and images, and his wry sense of humor and pathos with all of us in AIE,» says Lecturer Steve Seidel, director of AIE, citing LaVoie's past training as a clown as one source of his depth and wisdom.

Employing tones of bemusement leavened with wry detachment, Graham delivers both humor and angst in his reading of this compelling first novel, set at a small Wisconsin college.

With wry candor and tender humor, Ayelet Waldman has crafted a strikingly beautiful novel for our time, tackling the absurdities of modern life and reminding us why we love some people no matter what.

Judge Anderson is a great character, strong and smart, with a wry sense of humor that irritates the other judges.

She's a spy and he's a thief, but they have a shared history — and she owes him a debt that he aims to claim in this delightful historical romp, narrated to perfection by Potter with sprightly dialogue, sparkling wit, and wry humor.

Casey, a suburban New Yorker with a wry sense of humor, braves the dating scene after losing her husband.

Stroud writes with a fine ear for dialogue, a wry sense of humor, and a knack for describing haunted places.

Capturing a vast swath of Londoners among the residents of the gentrified Pepys Road, Capital portrays an authentic slice of contemporary life on the eve of change in a way that recalls Franzen — with a welcome touch of wry humor.

It's a wonder how Lawless is able to reflect upon her truly horrific childhood with both keen insight and wry humor.

«It's light and humorous with a bit of a wink and a lot of wry puckish humor.»

Well - researched, filled with beautiful description and wry humor, the story is also highly suspenseful all the way to the Captain's terrible moral dilemma at the end (Dona H).

With wry candor and tender humor, acclaimed novelist Ayelet Waldman has crafted a strikingly beautiful novel for our time, tackling the absurdities of modern life and reminding us why we love some people no matter what.

He did this with a wry sense of humor that those who were privileged to know him personally will never forget.

It introduces a lengthy co-op mode with hours of the series's trademark puzzles and wry humor.

The ink drawings, watercolors and collages from this period combine Roth's awareness of Pop Art and wry humor with curiosity about the worlds of fashion, art and culture.

The lush, moody paintings of Sanya Kantarovsky (* 1982) combine wry humor and the silhouettes of contemporary characters with the acrid hues and stylistic inflections reminiscent of painter Paul Gauguin.

His wry sense of humor was out in full force in this homage to John Coltrane, an exquisite installation made with coal and grand - piano tops that featured a minia - ture train running along a circuitous track.

And when Herrera talks about this work, it's often with a little bit of a smile, a wry sense of humor that she's created a very simple geometric, clean, spare painting but that it's a barbecue, as she says.

An everyman's existentialist, Damien Hirst's focus on death and the grisly are always undertaken with a wry sense of humor.

The Surrealists, informed by the psychoanalytical work of Sigmund Freud, also believed in the efficacy of powerful subconscious associations with objects, which gave their assemblages an added level of theoretical obfuscation that often translates into wry humor.