Sentences with phrase «wry title»

The exhibition's wry title, «Daddy, I want to be a black artist», can be seen as a playful call to action for young people to find inspiration in the works of black British artists and become the artists of tomorrow.

That wry title is only a glimmer of the wonderful sense of humor that permeates the second novel from Satyal.

Dan Byrd, a supporting character there and a regular on TV's «Cougar Town,» plays the wry title teen who starts a rumor about his tumor and fakes a chemo side effect.

• «From the Camp of the Incendiaries» is the wry title of a reflection by Hadley Arkes on why some friends reacted so negatively to the FT symposium on the judicial usurpation of politics.

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Tattersall makes it clear that he's arguing his interpretation of the fossil record, but even his opponents will find themselves chuckling at many of his wry, sometimes withering critiques, from the near - comical initial interpretation of the first Neanderthal skeleton to be unearthed (referenced in the book's title) to ongoing debate on whether our family tree is actually a bush.

It's a wry in - joke to have a villain worried about the hazards of overpopulation in a film that features nineteen movie stars billed above the title, and I've seen Infinity War lauded in certain circles for «unprecedented ambition» simply because it's so damn crowded.

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.

Anderson's wry sense of humor shows through in the most subtle of ways; title cards stating dates are frequently posted onscreen, the last of which drolly reads «one last thing (long way down)».

As the title of her new collection suggests, essayist (Bad Feminist, 2014) and novelist (An Untamed State, 2014) Gay tells intimate, deep, wry tales of jaggedly dimensional women.

The reworked surfaces suggest a wry, hard - fought romanticism, less about singular expressions than about the sheer eternal struggle with material paint — an impression confirmed by his titles: «Pie Chart Fanfare,» «Wheel of Misfortune,» «Distraction Machine.»

Its title, from a 1951 Robert Frost skit about the discovery of the New World, partly feels like a wry reflection on the museum's own mandate: an institution that has a duty to map American art, however provisionally, but is ever reluctant, and commendably so, to circumscribe what might constitute that tradition.

There were accomplished riffs on master paintings (Jean - François Rauzier on da Vinci; Robert Wilson on Dürer, photographer Chan - Hyo BAE on Elizabeth I, Masami Teraoka on Renaissance altarpieces), and an ubiquitous shorthand commentary of words, snide, wry, or provocative — «For Sale», «Exit», «Heroes», «Not Yet Titled» — that were painted or scribbled, but predominantly drawn, in neon.

The irony of some of the photographic titles — Excess Baggage, Diamonds are Forever — suggests a wry but compassionate interpretation of some of the continent's challenges.

Its title comes from a wry poem in which Robert Frost considers Columbus and his failure to discover the continental New World:

The piece, crookedly titled Ground Potential (all works 2013), is a wry opening note for the seventeen works on view; a collection strongest in sculptures that are judiciously composed and surprisingly economical in form and origin.

All the art has a wry, almost abject humor to it — a reference Jonathan Swift's satirical essay «A Modest Proposal» and the show title.

Her 48 embroidered cotton squares titled «Lessons From My Mother,» for example, present bits of Eastern European folk wisdom accompanied by equally wry illustrations.

Titled, «Notating Hi Pops,» the exhibition casts a wry and languid glance at appropriation, and picking up where the «Pictures» generation left off.