Sentences with phrase «wry humor into»

It is perhaps even less shocking to find that he can weave wry humor into the most unexpected places, or that his insights are sharp and his material is smart.

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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.
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.
An American Werewolf in London is a cult horror film that will most likely please those into horror movies on the irreverently funny side, especially ones that don't skimp out on gore or bits of wry humor.
When it really hits home, the director's quiet humanism and wry humor can yield perceptive insights, especially into certain trademark areas of expertise: family dynamics, the vanities and follies of aging men, the reluctance to let go of old dreams.
In Jose Lerma's most recent sculptural painting using the largest polo shirt you could possibly imagine, he combines his well - known paint blobs into a work full of fresh and cynically wry 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.
The curator of «Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926 — 1938,» opening September 28 at MoMA, explores how three photographs of the Belgian Surrealist provide insights into his wry humor and painting techniques Read More
But as we have moved beyond that moment and into the 21st century and as we have moved into the era of post-modernism, particularly that category post-black, I really felt that it would be worth revisiting Archibald Motley to look more critically at his work, to investigate his wry sense of humor, his use of irony in his paintings, his interrogations of issues around race and identity.
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