Sentences with phrase «wry take»

Fox has a wry take on the decision.

Taken from Paul Gagner's titular work, A Series of Moves references the practicality of creating a composition, with all three of the artists using a table, most often the studio table, as the setting for their wry take on the long history of still - life.

I like the way Block writes and the way he reads; he has a wry take on the world that's enhanced by his New York tones and nonchalant delivery.

Sticker Star's lavish tapestry of neat touches keeps you pushing forwards in spite of the wonky puzzling and boring combat, and its vibrant, buoyant world marries so well with the script's deliciously wry take on Mario's classic tropes.

Not exact matches

I might hate my onesie Babywear maker Wry Baby took serious online heat for selling a onesie that reads «I hate my thighs.»

On Twitter, wry pundits are taking bets on how long it will be before Osborne mutters the classic lines - «this mess we've inherited» etc..

Occasionally wry but never mean - spirited, skeptics Loxton and Prothero press the field's proponents to approach their subjects with the scientific rigor necessary to be taken seriously.

By turns wry and giddy, Cormier teases out our uniquely human take on hedonism with tidbits as varied as the power of our orgasms (hint: no other creature on Earth can best us) and what the discovery of a 40,000 - year - old wooden flute reveals about music and our ancestors.

When I visit in early May, Hans Breeveld, a wry park ranger with a ruddy beard, takes me for a ride across the polder.

His voice is wry and reedy and takes getting used to.

Lustig's wry double - takes when his dates complain to him about rabbis allowing women to drive or his colleagues fret about selling lettuce that has not been rabbinically approved would do Buster Keaton proud, and his scenes with Ruben Niborski as his son have an unforced naturalness many actors would kill for.

Trank's take on the material, in sharp contrast, is dead serious, albeit in a way that allows for a surprising amount of wry, deadpan humor so understated it can be easily overlooked or missed altogether.

His delivery beneath more layers of latex than any actor should have to endure, is funny and sweet, taking his solid - stone status and adjusting it to a world too fragile, not to mention dainty, for his hefty self with a wry sense of self - deprecation.

If your work entails programming or anything related to the nuts and bolts of digital technology, you're unlikely to encounter anything in this brisk feature that you haven't contemplated at length; but if you spend a good portion of your waking life online, as increasing numbers of viewers do, but take it for granted, you may appreciate the way Herzog comes into the the subject: from a borderline - layman's perspective, wry and curious.

The raucous, raunchy Deadpool 2, which opens in wide release Friday, is a fitting sequel to the wry and self - referential original, a superhero film billed as a new frontier in superhero cinema that took the box office by storm in 2016.

With a wry sense of humor firmly in place, Lanthimos» film subtly takes your breath away, casually ratcheting up the intensity until the film's jaw - dropping finale that could very well leave you more shaken than you could possibly imagine.

John Cena has none of the cheeseball, over-the-top acting nor the wry humor — he took lessons at the Christian Bale acting school and only learned one thing: the deep raspy voice.

Based on one of the early cases taken up by future Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall when he was working for the NAACP, the film proceeds without much subtlety, though with a filigree of witty dialogue and Chadwick Boseman's panache as the wry, natty young attorney.

Taking its title from the prediction fortune tellers use to beguile their marks, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, illustrates with wry humour how easy it is for our illusions to make fools of us all.

The Coen brothers have a wry twinkle in their eyes as they take us on a lyrical journey with a hugely likeable musician for whom success is only barely out of reach.

Paul Dano's dramatic outburst after taking a lengthy vow of silence, Steve Carrell as the poetically insecure gay uncle, and Alan Arkin as the wry, drug - addicted grandfather account for much of the hilarity of the story.

Corruption in the police force, long an undercurrent in classic noir, takes center stage in «L.A. Confidential,» a wry, stylish and devastating police drama directed by Curtis Hanson.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

If, like me, you know both of the documentaries well, have read some of the legends, seen him in concert and have been colonized by some of his songs, you are likely to respond with a wry admiration for the enormous risks Todd Haynes has taken here.

While that makes for a wide divide in audience reaction (something less reflected in critics» views), it is still easy to take Anderson objectively as a serious maker of wry films.

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.

As the scene between the antagonists escalates in what seems to be toward an ugly outcome, Willoughby, who's got cancer, coughs up blood, splattering Mildred's face, which quickly turns from wry defiance to shock to compassion to understanding to the realization that she must take charge of his medical emergency.

Things acclaimed British director Mike Leigh is known for: wry comedy - drama poking at ordinary lives and the class system, a compassionate yet sharp take on the human condition, his almost unique working method that involves workshopping and improvising for months with his cast before a frame of film is shot.

Although the film lacks an engaging narrative or structure and has none of the stunningly composed long takes and bravura performances found in 0.5 mm, Han Han's trademark scepticism and wry reserve still shine through in his first directorial effort.

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).

We care about Jean - Do, but his wry voice - over (taken mostly from the book written by the real - life inspiration for the story) and the caring but never maudlin camera allows a dark humor that keeps the film from becoming yet another heroism - in - the - face - of - adversity stories.

The story ostensibly follows Carmine's sudden rise in respect when he finally purchases his beautiful new coat but it takes some unexpected turns (don't read the description on the back of the DVD case if you want the surprises preserved) and observes fragments of stories playing out in the periphery, all of which add both tender grace notes and wry satirical asides to the film.

It took the book culture by storm in 1996, turning critics apoplectic with praise while requiring some readers to make multiple attempts at hacking through its thicket of wry footnotes and serpentine, beautifully constructed sentences.

A wry, delicate take on first love and awakening sexuality from a young man's perspective, THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE is written and performed by Kim Ho, under the mentorship of leading Australian playwright Tommy Murphy, and directed by Laura Scrivano, for The Voices Project from the Australian Theatre for Young People (atyp).

Readers and critics alike adore J. Maarten Troost for his signature wry and witty take on the adventure memoir.

For Rebecca, the wry and observant narrator of The Family Tree, simple things said over breakfast take on greater meaning: a home - improvement project foreshadows darker things to come; the color of one's eyes, the slope of a forehead are all missing pieces to the truth behind the family tree.

Seamlessly integrating classic Wonder Woman lore with her own updated take, Bardugo fleshes out Diana's backstory and the mythology of Themyscira, adds in sly commentary on feminism and equality, and leavens the package with wry comedy — Diana's dour obliviousness to contemporary culture will make readers guffaw.

Wry humor, lively dialogue, and a compassionate take on being a single woman under a traditional mother's matchmaking thumb enliven this insightful debut.

In this extraordinary novel, Anne Enright explores the momentous drama of everyday life; the volatile connections between people; the wry, accurate take on families, marriage, and brittle middle age.

Here again is the momentous drama of everyday life; the volatile connections between people; the wry, accurate take on families, marriage, and brittle middle age.

Cotterill's wry, irreverent sense of humor is a drone missile that quietly cruises from page to page, taking no prisoners.

The game has a playful sense of humour, and whilst the writing is unlikely to have your sides splitting, it'll certainly raise a wry smile from time to time such as when your troops can't join you for the next battle because they're queuing for the toilet due to a lack of latrines, or upon completing a level to be told «They took some arrows to the knees!».

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.

Taking on the giants of Abstract Expressionism — Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell — Bradley de-constructs abstractionism in contemporary practice, building his own language of art historical reference, wry appropriation and past formulas.

In the section UIA: (Unlikely Iterations of the Abstract) the works are more planned and delivered with wry while taking on paintings interpretive possibilities.

Beyond what each artist possesses in their innate mastery of the craft of drawing, these artists» work exhibits an ability to take the simplest of materials — pencil, ink, and paper — to create singular instances of human presence, with a strong sense of beauty, wry humor, and emotional depth.

Michael Craig Martin first met him at this time and remembers him as serious, shy and quiet - «although his essential shyness is often taken for coldness, when in fact he has a very wry humour» - but always very well informed.

With his anxieties laid bare and his wry brand of melancholy, Evans presents us with a veritable laundry list of drawings that take the form of diagrams, charts, maps, lexicons, diary entries, inventories, cosmologies and epistolary entreaties that plunge the viewer into alternate states of pathos and hope.

With this take on his own technique, Bradford is showing the public an aspect of himself in the form of bright color, wry wit, and his personal gift for maintaining grace and humor in his engagement with the full range of social discourse.