Sentences with phrase «wry look»

But they're all highly controlled in a style that recalls Willem de Kooning's gestures, Robert Rauschenberg's reprocessing of images, and Richard Prince's wry look at particular aspects of the world we now know and seek to come to terms with.

With wry looks and evasive gazes, they appear thoughtful and pre-occupied with fully formed interior lives.

Marc Simont, who modestly illustrates Russell Baker's wry look at the Washington Senators (page 40), has appeared in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED»S pages 66 times in the last decade.

Switching to pro football from the college game he has covered so long is Dan Jenkins, whose first story on his new beat is a wry look at the 26 National Football League coaches (page 82).

This work is a wry look at this attitude.

Written by Nick Schenk, Clint Eastwood's latest directorial effort is a wry look at gang violence, racism and the long - lasting effects of war.

The filmmakers can't decide if they're making a teen romance, a wry look at suburbia, or a broad farce.

Hugh Dancy and Maggie Gyllenhaal star in «Hysteria» (Sony), a wry look at the invention of the vibrator (yes, * that * kind of vibrator)(Blu - ray, DVD, On Demand and at Redbox) and Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas are in the psychological thriller «The Woman in the Fifth» (New Video), a British film in Paris (DVD only).

Meanwhile, Eric Fischl's «Art Fair Paintings» take a wry look at the Frieze week circus.

With «documenta 97» etched into the steel underneath, the artist was taking a wry look at his own legacy.

His work presents a wry look at the world around him — focusing on complex web of information carried by everyday materials and objects.

That this might involve wrong turns and different types of waste, is an intrinsic part of her wry look at how ideas of both newness and a certain ancient authenticity are readily co-opted, packaged and consumed.