Sentences with phrase «wry view»

Despite suffering depression and experiencing years of financial hardship Rauschenberg retained his wry view of the world and remained charitable throughout his career.

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Actress Lily Tomlin and screenwriter Jane Wagener were in their 70s by the time gay marriage was legalized, so they viewed the idea of getting married with a wry sense of humor, quipping they may dress up like chickens on the big day.

«The World's End» is a proper climax, that's in equal parts a wry, hilarious love - letter to classic British science - fiction and a unique view on maturity and the value of moving forwards, not backwards.

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.

LUCKY features Harry Dean Stanton's final, and perhaps finest performance in a film that addresses the end of life issues for an atheist from a practical and philosophical point of view that is both wry and poignant..

In a film at least ancillary about evolution (the fifth this summer behind Evolution, A.I., Jurassic Park III, and, arguably, The Animal), it seems piquant that this Planet of the Apes is actually a good deal dumber (with the exception of a wry cameo by former NRA - head Charlton Heston) than the 1968 original, its stupefaction affected to accommodate, I suspect, Hollywood's prevailing view that the viewing public has gotten denser in the intervening years.

With wry insight, he views the Steins ensconced in rueful domesticity.

Written from Lucy's point of view, the narrative has excellent pacing, fine descriptive passages, and a wry sense of humor.

His wry, sometimes self - serving view of life, humans, dogs, and friendship is both hilarious and touching.

A warm, wry, sharply observed debut novel that portrays what happens when a family is quarantined together over the holidays — and... View Article

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.

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 Buddha meditating upon himself points to the self - reflexivity of the experience of the television viewer — a wry comment that equates the TV viewing experience to the practice of Zen meditation as means to achieve a higher level of consciousness.

And while the show isn't named with one of his wry monikers, it includes a tableau called Blue Backdrop for Minor Arts and the triptych, Ornament for Extraordinary Architecture, a reference to the Modern's building, designed by Tadao Ando, and to Mexican architect Luis Barragán's view that architecture should be emotional rather than the supposedly neutral space that contemporary museums have decided is their role.