Sentences with word «wryness»

It's part of a celebrated series of photo - based works that address, with wryness, precision, and visual panache, the implications of stereotypes pushed by commercial sport.

Her father, Edward, portrayed with solemnity and an unavoidable touch of wryness by Keith Carradine, is a lawyer with liberal proclivities and possessed of some religious skepticism, not exactly an au courant view in Amherst polite society.

he asked in his once - charming, now cringe - worthy wryness.

That gentle wryness, coupled with an ensemble heavy on French A-listers, should make this one of her more commercially viable outings following its premiere as the opening film of the Directors» Fortnight at Cannes.

There's a certain wryness that comes with putting Sean Connery in a spy film, let alone Connery agreeing to be in one, anytime post his James Bond career.

His wry observations and interactions with his flummoxed father and over-confident older brother offer a Catcher in the Rye wryness that all but vanishes when Jonah's story stymies the plot.

Fonda, as she noted with wintry wryness on her blog this weekend, is now 80, six years older than Katharine Hepburn was in On Golden Pond.

The appearance of two random X-Men, Colossus (mo - capped by Andre Ticotin with voicework by Stefan Kapičić) and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (cleverly named after a Monster Magnet song and played with wonderfully disaffected wryness by Brianna Hildebrand) rounds things out, as they try to repeatedly convince Deadpool to go on the straight and narrow and join the X-Men.

Their quest winds through a distinctly Andersonian panorama of understated oddness, with the animation medium spinning his signature wryness into full - blown whimsy.

In its man - against - impersonal - authority theme, its mild surrealism, its rat - a-tat scripting, and its razored wryness, «Arrested Development» is the inheritor of the postwar Ealing Comedies (whereas «Grey's Anatomy» is more foul excretia in the «Sex and the City» mode).

Barker is mostly reverent with the soldiers she encounters, reflecting on the lives of those on the front lines with none of her usual wryness.

If at all, it's handled cautiously, with distance and irony, or as guilty pleasure, with wryness or embarrassment.

The wryness of the remark, spoken by the same man who once said «If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me,» is the first indication that beneath all of the gelatinous conceit there lies more than just a ham.

Suddenly, Clinton's wryness was gone and she was high - pitched and effusive.

Pick it apart, and The Guard is a fairly slight construction, but it's handled with enough wit, wryness and wisdom to make it an almost unalloyed delight.