Sentences with phrase «with wryness»
If at all, it's handled cautiously, with distance and irony, or as guilty pleasure, with wryness or embarrassment.
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That gentle wryness, coupled with an ensemble heavy on French A-listers, should make this one of her more commercially viable outings following its premiere as the opening film of the Directors» Fortnight at Cannes.
Her father, Edward, portrayed with solemnity and an unavoidable touch of wryness by Keith Carradine, is a lawyer with liberal proclivities and possessed of some religious skepticism, not exactly an au courant view in Amherst polite society.
Fonda, as she noted with wintry wryness on her blog this weekend, is now 80, six years older than Katharine Hepburn was in On Golden Pond.
Their quest winds through a distinctly Andersonian panorama of understated oddness, with the animation medium spinning his signature wryness into full - blown whimsy.
Pick it apart, and The Guard is a fairly slight construction, but it's handled with enough wit, wryness and wisdom to make it an almost unalloyed delight.
Barker is mostly reverent with the soldiers she encounters, reflecting on the lives of those on the front lines with none of her usual wryness.