Sentences with phrase «wry comments»

Margaret Atwood has a few wry comments about being a PEN Center USA lifetime achievement honoree

Their kinship is perhaps best captured by their own wry comments on their process, which Reinhardt described as «boring, drudging,» and Baer as «idiot work.»

The film is peppered by Berkowitz's own narration, in which he makes wry comments and observations on the events in retrospect, and, I suspect, he's also taken certain dramatic liberties with some situations (most notably, the downward fortunes of his producer, Elie Samaha).

She described her life in Indiana in poetic terms, hilarious anecdotes, and wry comments.

I HEARD some wry comments about the choice of Wellington as the site for the conference.

Not every humor instance need be joy inducing; a wry comment can be sufficient to seed the ground and make it possible for other moments to follow.

And in 2009, a longtime missionary couple were sentenced by a Gambian court to a year of hard labor for sending a wry comment in an email to their prayer list.

Longtime missionaries David and Fiona Fulton were sentenced by a Gambian court to a year of hard labor last December after pleading guilty — in hopes of a lenient sentence — to sedition charges stemming from a wry comment e-mailed to a prayer list.

[72] On occasions when Blunkett was guided by then Prime Minister Tony Blair the wry comment has been made: «who is guiding whom?»

I made a wry comment that they seemed not to appreciate, and then went right to work.

We're to simply trust the gasps and awestruck looks of those surrounding him of the genius of Turing, watching the gears turn away on his big mechanism while needless movie obstacles are brought up in order to create narrative tension, only to be (inevitably) resolved by some wry comment and a stiff upper lip.

In an article in Fortune magazine last year, Warren Buffett has this to say about bonds: Today, a wry comment that Wall Streeter Shelby Cullom Davis made long ago seems apt: «Bonds promoted as offering risk - free returns are now priced to deliver return - free risk.»

His Cardboards 1971 - 2 — a wry comment on the forces of globalisation — and his sumptuous fabric works such as the Jammers 1975 - 6 — inspired by his visit to the Indian textile centre of Ahmedabad — demonstrate his skilful play with unconventional materials.

Growth curves, derived from corporate culture, echoed in the forms of the worms and cables, offer a wry comment on humanity's drive towards advancement in the name of profit.

Because of the multiplicity of objects in her work, it is sometimes interpreted as a wry comment on consumerism.

Lichtenstein therefore makes a wry comment on issues of morality and censorship in this painting.

His Cardboards from the early 1970s, a wry comment on the forces of globalization, and his sumptuous fabric works such as The Jammers, inspired by his visit to the Indian textile centre of Ahmedabad will be included in the show.

Dan Ford's lush romantic paintings are both an homage to the 19th century painter Joseph Mallord William Turner and a wry comment on our contemporary conflicted relationship to oil dependency.

The Buddha meditating upon himself points to the self - reflexivity of the experience of the television viewer — a wry comment that equates the TV viewing experience to the practice of Zen meditation as means to achieve a higher level of consciousness.

Hans Haacke's Gift Horse depicts a skeletal, riderless horse - a wry comment on the equestrian statue of William IV originally planned for the plinth.

Nearby is the cartoony Malevich Looks Down on Pollock, a ballpoint - pen sketch of a plain square above a bunch of squiggles on the floor beneath it that offers a wry comment about Polke's preference for Constructivism over Abstract Expressionism.

The scene comes off as satire, a wry comment on high culture's role in rebranding the emirates as teetotaling Xanadus.

The work Looms like a dinosaur — «Gift Horse» portrays a skeletal, riderless horse — a wry comment on the equestrian statue of William IV originally planned for the plinth.

A wry comment on this.

Not exact matches

«I think that was the first comment I made in the first round I played with Jordan: «I could be your dad,»» the 40 - year - old Swede with the dry wit added with a wry smile.

I think I was laughing at my husband and his cheeky comments, more of a wry smile:oP.

Meanwhile, Jason Bateman does what he does best as the straight man who makes wry, sarcastic comments from the side.

Goldblum talked about the return of Ian Malcolm in another recent interview, teasing that his character would be commenting on the action with his signature «wry irony» and «deep, wise, passionate conviction.»

Recently, Lawrence shared that she is as infatuated with Chalamet as the rest of the universe has become, commenting — in typical wry, J. Law fashion, «[I'm] buttering him up like a pig for slaughter... I'm going to swing right in there as soon as he's, like, 30.»

Although the paintings are certainly not a political manifesto (though they may, in their variety and style be an artistic one), the paintings are comments, and wry ones at that, on the world which Warhol has always seen so unblinkingly around him.

In the Center a large sculpture by Mark Handforth offers directions to nowhere, a wry political comment.