"Cruelty and Humour" never loses sight of the art's brutality, nor its wryness.
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The loudness isn't cut with toughness, or wryness, or nuance — it simply blares.
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The writer said she appreciated the "wryness" Craig brought to the franchise's titular character.
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Chuck opens the door with wryness, like he can't believe their relationship has ended up here.
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Most of all, though, the film never gets too melancholy, always opting for wryness over weepiness.
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She's a woman of strong convictions, her beliefs couched in the wryness and warmth that she radiates.
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In its perfectly balanced mix of celebration and wryness, that sentence captures much of the charm of "Improvement."
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As the book goes on, the wryness and poetry of her entries increases as she succumbs more and more to introspection.
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And many YouTubers have observed, with a mix of wryness and panic, that there's really nowhere else for them to go.
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But "Great Comet" had an intellectual wryness and an immersive, do-it-yourself presentation that made it both funky and thoroughly modern.
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And in "Looking Over From Your Side," Mr. Pretlow has a showcase for his extraordinary range, from joviality to wryness to anger.
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Instead, she approaches movies, even the ones she doesn't especially love, with a combination of scholarly rigor, film-history acumen, and reliable wryness.
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In his own prose Reid sounds like Wilson and Kazin, sharing their capacious curiosity and emulating their stylistic momentum, epigrammatic solemnity and wryness.
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Though Cicierega has stated that "[t]here's not a lot of intentional cynicism in my mashup choices," there's definitely a touch of wryness.
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As in her act, the authentic Wolf has a wryness to her, but she also allows herself to take genuine pleasure in things.
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Using case studies ranging from the Kardashians to Miley Cyrus to Paula Deen to Big Dick Energy, she explores and pinpoints the term with nuance, curiosity, and wryness.
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Wonder Woman has a lightness and wryness that none of its DC predecessors could claim, but it's still about philosophical crisis and a hero trying to find an identity.
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The liveliness and restraint of the prose, along with Mr. Trillin's characteristic wryness, suggest deep if narrow rivers of feeling; the reader may cross and cry without fear of drowning.
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Both writers, like Mostel himself, deliver deft insights with a twinkle as well as a sword, and this wryness has a power that is distinct from irony, sarcasm, or a late-night-show roast.
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Ayse Dudu Tepe, an archaeologist and radio host who was born in Denmark to Turkish parents, noted, with more than a hint of wryness, that she could understand those agitating on behalf of pigs.
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What the show completely lacks, however, is a sense of humor or any kind of clever wryness: I kept expecting a moment of filmic winking, and was amazed and relieved that it never came.
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In a Father's Day–themed ad Foot Locker released today, though, Lonzo reveals a decent deadpan and an authentically funny wryness that has otherwise been drowned out by his father's relentless, troll-hard mugging.
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Writer Mariko Tamaki and artist Joëlle Jones take on the Maid of Might with a sensitivity and wryness that makes their take on her origin story one of the strongest entries in the character's history.
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After years of being a wardrobe staple for the lockjaw set from Palm Beach to Newport, Stubbs & Wootton shoes are enjoying a surge in popularity among younger customers drawn to their old-money wryness and Instagram-bait imagery.
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But as Fisher would recall decades later with that wryness that was even more prominent in her off-screen persona, Lucas wanted to play down the sexual stuff to the point of wrapping Fisher's breasts with gaffer's tape during the filming.
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Among all the illustrations in the case, but in the pairing with McClure especially, we see an impishness unclouded by the "joyful-fearful" motifs underpinning his more well-known paste-ups, or the wryness and irony woven into his Translations.
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As the movie enters its second half, however, some of that repetitive wryness can lead to slow sections as the is-she-or-isn't-she-a-killer plot runs on, reaching for noir while relegating the wit to secondary status.
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Mio plays Chester with a fascinating mix of wryness and earnestness — you're never sure how real his caustic cynicism is when he's faced with situations like, for instance, the brutal murder of Japanese soldiers by Americans — and over the course of the series they distill into the two halves of his personality.
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The song takes war for its subject matter, with Rønnenfelt's lyrics wringing with his usual wryness ("Heading for last roundup / Hardware at hand / I was told to protect and serve / But I'm here to supply a demand"), and their resigned, nihilistic approach brings up some of the same feelings as Owen's sonnet "Anthem for Doomed Youth," wherein dead boys are compared to cattle, undignified and disposable.
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Prosodical and rhetorical choices in both poems combine to create an unusual balance between gravity and elegance, on the one hand, wryness and wit on the other.
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Reviewing the book for Vox, Alanna Okun wrote, "Using case studies ranging from the Kardashians to Miley Cyrus to Paula Deen to Big Dick Energy, she explores and pinpoints the term with nuance, curiosity, and wryness." She was named a contributing writer for The New Yorker in September 2020.
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Ryan Schreiber of Pitchfork compared his vocals on the album to Calvin Johnson. In the words of Mason, the phrasing of the album's lyrics "vacillates mostly between the poles of deadpan wryness and romantic longing" and, with their "striking imagery" and "Cole Porter-level rhymes," mix mordant wit with unabashed romanticism.
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There's a wryness to it. It's not a message song particularly." Of "Instinct" he said, "I did a demo of it at home. It's just built on a bass riff...I put down a drum track, put a bass track to it and had it around for about a month.
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American Theocracy was reviewed widely. The New York Times Book Review wrote "It is not without polemic, but unlike many of the more glib and strident political commentaries of recent years, it is extensively researched and frighteningly persuasive..."Alan Brinkley, The New York Times Book Review, March 19, 2006 The Chicago Sun-Times wrote "Overall, Phillips' book is a thoughtful and somber jeremiad, written throughout with a graceful wryness... a capstone to his life's work."William O'Rourke, The Chicago Sun-Times, March 12, 2006.
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Maybe it was a natural progression. But it was a funkier groove. It was a new tempo for people north of Watford to get into." In Christgau's Record Guide (1981), Robert Christgau described Brass Construction as a "black-identified" disco band "with lots of funk" and said the album "owes more lyrically to Gil Scott-Heron than to Barry White but evokes both and is candid to the point of wryness (and terseness) about using words primarily for musical color," giving praise to "the way the synthesized violins are timed.
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Billboard Magazine described "Hot Blooded" as " a high energy rocker that boils with a feverent energy." Billboard compared the "powerhouse" guitar playing and the vocals with Bad Company but said that it still retains Foreigner's own identifiable sound. Music critic Maury Dean stated that "Lou Gramm's craggy tenor spins around the note, rocking dynamite rhythms in note-bending ecstasy." Hilburn described '"Hot Blooded" as touching on "the snarl of Bad Company, the wryness of Rod Stewart and the sensualness of the Rolling Stones" but complains that song lacks authenticity.
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Novelist Nelson Algren argued that the novel was "a memorable American comedy by an original storyteller."In Chicago Tribune Book World, January 28, 1979. Estimable reviews by such noted writers and literary critics as Anatole Broyard,New York Times, January 20, 1979 Jerome Charyn,New York Times, February 18, 1979 Guy Davenport,National Review, March 16, 1979 and Shelby FooteMemphis Press-Scimitar, February 17, 1979 were followed by the Times Literary Supplement review which saw the novel as "Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair reminiscent of Flannery O'Connor."Hislop, Andrew, TLS, no.
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As Operation Bartowski is their only successful asset in this fight, she refuses to allow Chuck to have the Intersect removed and demands he become a spy. Beckman's wryness has led actress Bonita Friedericy to name her "Chuckles" Beckman. She frequently lies to or withholds information from members of Team Bartowski, mostly Chuck, in the interest of national security. When the Beta Intersect was completed, she and Graham released Chuck of his obligations to the CIA and NSA, but, immediately after, ordered Casey to eliminate him, an order that was hinted at several times in the first season.
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Some of the cast enjoyed working on The Shining. Mead "wasn't scared" as he had acted previously in horror films like Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996); John Durbin enjoyed the "madness" he got to portray with his character of Horace Derwent; and Stanley Anderson, who accepted the part of Delbert Grady based on his disappointment with the Kubrick version, tried to play the character "real" but with "a sense of distance to [his] view of the other and the world, so it comes out as irony or wryness." However, it was tough for Weber to play his character; because the scenes were not shot in chronological order, it was very difficult to master the character's mental state deterioration, due to it occurring gradually as the story progresses.
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She was taken to be trained as a Mord-Sith at a very young age, as was customary, and is still haunted by her fears of rats from early childhood training when they used to let the rats in the dungeons nibble on her and other girls' appendages every night. One of Cara's more characteristic functions is her comic relief, through her sharp wit and sense of humor, that manifests itself in quick-witted remarks of sarcasm and wryness. Cara is often quick to state the obvious nature of their predicament and lament the fact that if Richard had listened to her, "none of this would ever have happened." As with most Mord-Sith, Cara usually wears her red leather, as she seems to always be expecting trouble.
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The cast and crew, such as Cynthia Garris, Mick Garris' wife who plays the woman in Room 217; and Dawn Jeffrey-Nelson, Courtland Mead's acting coach claimed paranormal experiences occurring at the hotel during shooting. Some of the cast enjoyed working on The Shining. Mead "wasn't scared" as he had acted previously in horror films like Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996); John Durbin enjoyed the "madness" he got to portray with his character of Horace Derwent; and Stanley Anderson, who accepted the part of Delbert Grady based on his disappointment with the Kubrick version, tried to play the character "real" but with "a sense of distance to [his] view of the other and the world, so it comes out as irony or wryness." However, it was tough for Weber to play his character; because the scenes were not shot in chronological order, it was very difficult to master the character's mental state deterioration, due to it occurring gradually as the story progresses.
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" Jon M. Gilbertson reviewed the album favorably for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and praised Nelson's "tunefully dry delivery" that he said "gives a matter-of-fact wryness to the boisterous and dense indie-pop and indie-rock songs of the glorious first TPS album." In 2018, Robert Christgau gave the expanded re-issue of Rock and Roll Just Can't Recall an A grade, saying, "Beefed up to eight songs to mark its embrace by a venerable label of indie luminaries from They Might Be Giants to Ezra Furman, this digital-only reissue of a superb self-released 2015 EP is designed to make fresh converts as first responders download the three new ones." Christgau also gave the band's 2019 LP A Goddamn Impossible Way of Life an A, writing, "Squeezing 11 songs into half an hour, [Nelson's] voice relaxes enough to make them a pleasure. I don’t get all the jokes either—as a dual citizen, Nelson understands more about Irish history and politics than I ever will.
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