Sentences with phrase «wry look at»

Glasgow, Scotland, UK About Blog A new blog post issued every Saturday, which will take a wry look at (Mid) Life.

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

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

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.

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

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).

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

This work is a wry look at this attitude.

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).

Not exact matches

Oliver Stone brewed paranoid tempests out of Nixon and JFK, and made wry fun of Dubya in W. Steven Spielberg, with his long - mooted look at the 16th and most hallowed of American Presidents, shows us the instinctive showman and restrained thinker.

As good as the action looks it's Simon Pegg with his wry humor at all the wrong times that I'm looking forward to.

Rochelle and Lee look back at some of the key films from this month, including Steven Spielberg's pop culture paean Ready Player One (00:46), Aki Kaurismäki's wry Finnish comedy - drama The Other Side of Hope (05:49), Ruben Östlund's wry Swedish comedy - drama The Square (08:08), Armando Iannucci's wry Russian comedy - satire The Death of Stalin (11:51), and Garth Davis's non-wry Biblical drama Mary Magdalene (14:32).

Rochelle and Lee look back at some of this month's new releases, as they debate Steven Spielberg's pop culture paean Ready Player One, Aki Kaurismäki's wry Finnish comedy - drama The Other Side of Hope, Ruben Östlund's wry Swedish comedy - drama The Square, Armando Iannucci's wry Russian comedy - satire The Death of Stalin, and Garth Davis's non-wry Biblical drama Mary Magdalene.

For proof that the Coens» masterpiece of black comedy has stood the test of time just look at the fact that nearly 20 years since its release we've had two seasons of a new TV series based on this wry story of small - town crime.

Looking back at the early days of Noah Baumbach, you'd have difficulty coupling wry dark dramas like The Squid and the Whale with the bouncy playfulness of a film like Mistress America.

The five - part drama is based on the semi-autobiographical novels of Edward St Aubyn as it takes a wry, satirical look at its lead character's life, including his traumatic childhood, adult substance abuse and recovery.

Shot in strikingly handsome black and white, this is a wry, jaded look at groupthink and individual folly.

Köhler, who shares a certain wry perceptiveness and slow - burn storytelling sensibility with his co-producer (and other half) Maren Ade, directs with the same measured, flash - free conviction he brought to «Sleeping Sickness,» sidelining the wilder genre possibilities of his out - there premise to look long and hard at its spiraling psychological realities.

With a wry smile, I look at Elliot who shares my expression.

Written by a geophysics professor, The Mathematician's Shiva is brilliantly written and infused with wry humor, quirky characters and an honest and insightful look at both the world of academia and the immigrant experience.

«Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet, and Contemporary Art» may have one expecting a wry or subversive look at how magazines shape both people and appearances.

When reading, hearing or looking at a joke there is the expectation of a certain rhythm of build up and release, when a wry truth is revealed.

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.

Selbstporträt mit Gurkenglas (1971) shows a middle - aged Lassnig holding a jar of pickles, defiantly looking at the viewer, the greenish tint of the work reflecting the contents of the jar; a wry commentary on the tumultuous workings of the artist's inner self.

& made — pronounced; «and made» — are two designers who have a wry and ecological way of looking at the world.

I'm sorry, but they just don't have any Privates for you; and if ask for some Privates, they may look at you sorta funny (wry grin).

The response: a long pause as the engineers in the room looked at each other with wry grins on their faces.

But hopefully having picked a few out and poked fun at them, the next time you see one you will adopt a wry smile, look knowingly at the person or text using it, and see beyond the cliché to the important points of what they are saying.