Sentences with phrase «wry ways»

Rist's art imaginatively upends our relationship to spectatorship and the natural world in playful, witty, and wry ways.

The artist is scheduled to produce a new piece for MOCAD in February of 2016, and if he continues on this trajectory, one might expect an endurance piece that breaks down the conventions and myths of the artist and musician in gorgeous and wry ways.

It's a picture of refinement and a wry way of showing how we package our own taste.

Not exact matches

Where Summers is seen, even by some of his supporters, as arrogant and bull - headed, Fischer is a legendary nice guy, deploying a wry smile and persuasive arguments to get his way.

They tell their stories less by way of well - plotted action than by wry reflections on the meaning of their lives and times.

I found it funny in a wry sort of way, but maybe something like «The Comatose Solution Diet» or «The Coma Zone» would have been a little more tasteful.

Grist has been dishing out environmental news and commentary with a wry twist since 1999 — which, to be frank, was way before most people cared about such things.

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.

Living the life of a mercenary for gold with his loyal gang of offsiders — the aforementioned Iolaus, the wry Autolycus (Rufus Sewell, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter), all - seeing Amphiaraus (Ian McShane, Cuban Fury), blade - swinging Tydeus (Aksel Hennie, Headhunters) and archer Atalanta (Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters)-- everyone's favourite demigod is well on his way to amassing the sum needed to live out his days far away from Greece's widespread instability.

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.

In the same vein as 2007's «Juno» and 2011's «Young Adult,» «Tully» unearths uncomfortable truths in a wry, wise way.

Get Out is artful in a way a lot of studio films aren't, laden with dread and portent but still leavened by a light, wry touch.

Although you might want to escape the theater in the opening moments of these seemingly endless telethon planning sessions, a wry humor begins to weave its way through all the verbal meandering.

Traveling through the subterranean portals of Videodrome like an introverted wraith, Deborah Harry carries herself with the wry, burned - out, but still titillated instincts of a voyager buying a one - way ticket for the outer limits.

As Reynolds» sister, Cyril (Lesley Manville), watches with wry disdain, Alma becomes his lover and muse, eventually driving him to restrained, British torment as she flirts her way into high society and even starts having her own ideas about what sort of clothes she'd like to wear.

A defiantly Jewish bit of mishegoss that was conceived as a U.S. / Israeli co-production, the film is a wry, self - defeating response to the anti-Semitic tradition of stories about conniving «Court Jews» who talk their way into becoming one of the king's most trusted advisors.

A wry nod to the way that many films, not least his own, are seen in Iran, it's a point of grave concern, as well as vibrant humour; the apotheosis of another hallmark film in the career of a great filmmaker, and a resolute symbol of defiance.

This is no Get Out - there is no wry commentary here about the racial inequalities in US society or the subversive ways in which classes are kept in their place.

Carter (Adam Scott) is in many ways a model A.C.O.D., heroically tolerant of his warring parents Hugh (Richard Jenkins) and Melissa (Catherine O'Hara), wry and distanced but still open enough to try to love other people.

The episode of coitus interruptus that follows sets a wry pattern for all of Isabelle's interactions with her many suitors (played by Nicolas Duvauchelle, Bruno Podalydès and others), in which the thrill of initial interest soon gives way to hesitation, disappointment and lacerating self - critique.

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)».

Winstead's shift into action mode works; her wry, affecting underplaying keeps the film companionable in its clammy way.

As wry Greek hellraiser Yorgos Lanthimos has gotten settled in Hollywood, he's embraced genre in a way that his unclassifiable Dogtooth and Alps resisted.

The keen intelligence and wry wit he loved in her gave way to humorless hypervigilance.

Capturing a vast swath of Londoners among the residents of the gentrified Pepys Road, Capital portrays an authentic slice of contemporary life on the eve of change in a way that recalls Franzen — with a welcome touch of wry humor.

In some ways, this debut is a by - the - book bildungsroman, but Anna's wry, biting voice elevates it to something more.

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.

Well - researched, filled with beautiful description and wry humor, the story is also highly suspenseful all the way to the Captain's terrible moral dilemma at the end (Dona H).

Set in a gothic - noir universe that resembes 19th century Europe and filled with monsters, magic and strange technology, the game promises an engrossing storyline filled with wry humour and snappy dialogue as Van Helsing makes his way to Borgovia where he is to join forces with where former supernatural foes have enlisted his help to defeat a new evil.

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.

In this wry reworking of David Hockney's A Bigger Splash painting, four talented houseguests respond to the scorching Californian sun in their own way

In this it shares a lot of characteristics with some of the engineering and social sciences for example (as an aside I get a wry smile when I hear people say climate science is unique because we only have one experiment, and think about the way social scientists leap on those rare longitudinal studies to help them understand things like learning and criminal behaviour).

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

But most of all I shall remember Simon for his wry sense of humor, his total commitment to treating everyone in the same quiet, respectful way, and his steady goodness.

Grist has been dishing out environmental news and commentary with a wry twist since 1999 — which, to be frank, was way before most people cared about such things.

Grist has been dishing out environmental news and commentary with a wry twist since 1999 — which, to be frank, was way before most people cared about such things.

«One of the things I learned going through my divorce that way was that I needed to love my child more than I hated my husband,» said Robyn Ross with a wry laugh.