Sentences with phrase «witticism on»

This witticism on human futility is often attributed to Mark Twain but traces to Twain's friend and collaborator Charles Dudley Warner.

Screenplay that makes you want to jot down the clever dialogue and share the witticisms on social media?

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Instead, it's a neat 128 page hardback published by Aurum Press in the middle of last month which is full of Ferguson witticisms, easy on the eye and the sort of book one can pick up, put down and pick up again.

An exceptional script, full of violent witticisms and some of the most imaginative and wonderful instances of swearing ever put on celluloid, closes the deal.

From Mark Wahlberg's controlled verbal outbursts to Martin Sheen's earnestness to Alec Baldwin's schizoid vulgarities to Leonardo Di Caprio's compassionate toughness to Ray Winstone's quasi immobile fierceness to Jack Nicholson's beautifully pure excess, The Departed is indeed an performance - driven, fast - paced comedy of expertly timed thrills (or comedic thriller, depending on your point of view) peppered with several instances of acrobatic verbal witticisms, and topped with enough generic clichés and predictable screw - turns to make it palatable for all audiences (yes, even those who paid money to see Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Costner's The Guardian).

It's the most quotable film of the 2000s — by miles — and the cynical potty mouths on screen are so articulate and creative that, after the avalanche of witticisms, you're left with the lingering sense that you've seen not just a funny movie but also a wicked political satire of the highest order, the kind where the absurdity speaks for itself.

It's the most quotable film of the decade — by miles — and the cynical potty mouths on screen are so articulate and creative that, after the avalanche of witticisms, you're left with the lingering sense that you've seen not just a funny movie but also a wicked political satire of the highest order, the kind where the absurdity speaks for itself.

McCarten's Churchill is always «on», throwing witticisms about with abandon.

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld (Comedian, «Seinfeld»), who also contributes some of his trademark witticisms in the script, stars as Barry, a young bee on the verge of adulthood who leaves his Central Park hive because he can't quite see any value in working as a drone the rest of his days.

Star Wars was never a series to wear its heart on its sleeve, preferring instead to hide it in the earnest bumbling of Luke or the louche witticisms of Han.

Umbers comes across as a British version of young Christopher Reeve, and Moore briskly negotiates his motivations and witticisms («I find the best way to keep my word is never to give it»; «Modern marriage thrives on mutual deception»).

Still, one wishes at times that maybe Tarantino did rewrite chores on the script to inject some of his trademark pop cultural witticisms into the proceedings.

Assuredly excavating the chip from Chas Tenenbaum's shoulder, Stiller's schizophrenic performance rests heavily on a script laced with witticisms, wry humour and even a few momentary cries for tomfoolery.

Most of human history was book - free, yet our ancestors plodded on without the musings of Holden Caulfield or the witticisms of Elizabeth Bennet.

Before I went on my RTW travels, I could be often found stalking other travel blogs but what really interested me was the travel blogger behind the witticisms of their writing.

So much of the focus is on the bad - assery and witticisms of the protagonist and celebrating games in general that there need not be any emotional growth.

Does anyone not proudly come up with the witticism that the Whitney should have offered LSD on the way in?

Dropping the pictorial element of the cartoons to focus on the punch line, the young Prince realized that to pair it with the traditional medium and discipline of painting transmuted these banal, slightly out - dated witticisms into a provocative subject matter.

Comprised of three monumental bronze figures, the sculptures synthesize Ernst's iconic use of language and sharp witticism that in turn transcend personal significance and make pointed commentary on the modern social and political climate.

I got out an envelope and started doing my proverbial calculations on the back (figurative witticism — actually I worked in a spreadsheet).

Don't let the internet trolls and «Rick rolls» deceive you; these online communities are teeming with business professionals, industry experts and entrepreneurs who are exchanging ideas (and a few witticisms) on a daily basis.

One night we found the mother lode: the men's room at Moe's & Joe's, a 50 - year - old pub where they never painted over the witticisms scrawled on the walls.