Sentences with phrase «wry style»

His wry style soon caught the attention of Spike Jonze, who asked OReilly to be the animation director for his film Her.

The film is embellished in a charmingly wry style, with a lilting melodic wonder telling a bona fide fable of a working man's plight.

Like most theories about cognitive evolution, Changizi's is difficult to prove or disprove — behavior doesn't leave fossils, after all — but he builds a compelling case, and his wry style of storytelling makes for an entertaining read.

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They were pawed and backslapped to exhaustion, leading a local paper to run the headline CLUTCH - AND - GRAB FANS HAIL CANUCKS, in wry response to the media's endless references to the team's style of play.

His methods were fresh and his style of storytelling was wonderfully mad, punctuated with wry smiles and knowing winks.

The mix of genre thrills, slick style, great visuals and wry humour makes The Lost Boys an absolutely essential vampire film.

Written as a double narrative, Krester's hefty tome is ambitious in both scope and style; at times the passages are wry and beautifully rendered and at others they fall flat in a torrent of florid prose.

Y. Euny Hong's background as a journalist for such publications as The New York Times, Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal seems an odd preparation for this wry, clever debut novel, but perhaps it's her experience as one of the founders of Rumpus Magazine, the humorous, controversial Yale University tabloid, that gives real insight into her writing style.

Our reviewer writes, «Fuller's blend of wry honesty and heartfelt environmental consciousness will resonate with both new readers and longtime admirers of her distinctive style.»

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.

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.

The artist is internationally known for his wry, comic - style paintings of Japan's «latchkey» children, many of whom spend long evenings at home alone, inventing wacky ways to entertain themselves while their parents work late.

Thanks to restricted loans from local collectors, the Bay Area's view of Guston's wry, driven, confessional late style will be wider than anyone else's on the show's tour..

The mother and daughter on horseback, their quiet faces implacably black against the blue and white of the sky; the marchioness in her chair (the walls in the gallery have been painted the same rich red as the room in this painting); and Selective Histories, a wry close - up of a wall of heavily framed paintings, hung salon - style and surrounding a tribal mask.

Randy Barnett of The Volokh Conspiracy remembers the contracts scholar's exceptional style — generous mentor, dashing persona and wry responses to young academic book reviewers.

Wry humour and a whimsical style make this informative series lively and memorable.