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" Susan Sontag's early diaries are "filled with winningly odd insights. from The New York Times
As such, all the archive footage has a winningly observational quality. from Hyperallergic
Actor Spencer Tracy smiles winningly while his body confesses a resentful acquiescence. from Hyperallergic
And so Bird delves in, teasing at this familiar stuff winningly and squarely. from Mashable
Spaghetti incorporated murex, a type of sea snail; dessert winningly paired chocolate and kelp. from The New York Times
The show is winningly theatrical in its use of the Whitney's majestic new spaces. from New Yorker
In her own novel, Ms O'Shaughnessy brings this mix of intensity and playfulness winningly to life. ■ from Economist
And where the suspended mobiles undulate with preternatural elegance, the motorized works can look winningly wobbly. from The New York Times
Winningly, Kantor and Twohey walk a perfect line between detailing their hard work without lionizing themselves. from CNN
There's also one track billed winningly as a "re-freak," care of Dam-Funk, debuting here today. from Vice
Mr. Groff is winningly neurotic as a cranky composer facing mortality when hit by a brain malfunction. from The New York Times
" As Mr. Trump put it winningly: "I want our youth to grow up to achieve great things. from The New York Times
You just have to bask in your own desirability as an image winningly reflected back at yourself. from Hyperallergic
At times she wallows in broken connections and writer's block (winningly, though: "Something, something / No, never mind, nothing"). from Vice
In its understated, winningly modest way, Carlson's project participates in this quirky practice of pushing past painting's inherent limitations. from Hyperallergic
Camilla, who doesn't like "hot countries," according to Bower, also has her moments, but she is a winningly frowsy inamorata. from New Yorker
Alongside these young singers, two stage veterans, Franz Hawlata and Anne Sofie von Otter, are winningly sardonic as Voltaire/Dr. from The New York Times
Donnetta Lavinia Grays is winningly uninhibited in her fable-like solo show about a community seduced by a mysterious benefactor. from The New York Times
But the anchor is Mr. Levine (Captain Stottlemeyer in the TV series "Monk"), winningly combining paternal concern and flinty resolve. from The New York Times
"You have not heard the number yet," Collins said, as winningly as he could, an amateur imitating a television negotiation. from Vice
Terry's impairments (derived from a bunk-bed accident) seem like a writerly convenience, but Mr. Isola winningly communicates sweetness and perplexity. from The New York Times
The band unveiled a few of those compositions, winningly, at the NYC Winter Jazzfest last month; more of those should be forthcoming. from The New York Times
The bizarre premise of Dogtooth director Yorgos Lanthimos's near-future comedy has serious intentions that are winningly offset by a cheeky execution. from New Republic
His winningly low-tech clips take aim at pop culture, with others contrasting growing up in the Arab world versus the West. from CNN
They sway in unison, so does the crowd, everyone claps winningly off-beat setting a tradition for the ten seasons that'd follow. from Vice
In a winningly unscripted move, he persuaded Mr Moon to re-cross the line into the North with him, before heading south again. from Economist
It inhabits its own winningly intimate, hushed, balmy aural space, and it corrects several tendencies that befall artists who address similar subject matter. from Hyperallergic
They're a natural pair: Yachty is the more outwardly animated one, while Perry is quieter and more sardonic, but both are winningly genuine. from Vice
But this is not that eerie, half-mad novel; it's too nerdily good-natured, and too nerdily (and winningly) in love with Shakespeare. from The New York Times
"I need those singing creatures kept away from my door," he complains, rather winningly, to his clerk, Bob Cratchit (the amiable Dashiell Eaves). from The New York Times
This first half hour of "The Florida Project" is winningly episodic, chronicling the semi-functional ecosystem at the Magic Castle with a naturalistic, observational style. from Economist
And he also, though it is less well known, made an important contribution to chemistry with a paper winningly entitled "The chemical basis of morphogenesis". from Economist
A model of style, a tower of strength, he's the artist who most winningly embodies the virtues of American Ballet Theater at its most terrific. from The New York Times
Stephen Ross, the seventy-seven-year-old billionaire property developer and the owner of the Miami Dolphins, has a winningly informal, old-school conversational style. from New Yorker
And "Wrong" is a winningly sensual duet with the rising American R&B singer Kehlani that recalls the crackle of Justin Timberlake's early solo recordings. from The New York Times
He knew how to talk to reporters, so they would hang on his every word, how to be funny, witty, poetic, unpredictable, and winningly braggadocious. from Vice
It's a shame it didn't get wider distribution: it's exactly the kind of diversity-minded, educational, and winningly entertaining documentary streaming outlets should be fighting for. from The Verge
And if becoming Europe's Trump whisperer has to be a part of it, he seems willing to grit his teeth, smile winningly, and pitch right in. from CNN
But watching the show, all you're really conscious of is the repetitive thrust and parry of formal arguments, dressed up with winningly Stoppardesque turns of phrase. from The New York Times
Mr. Lutken's Guthrie avoids aw-shucks sentimentality; Mr. Teirstein demonstrates remarkable instrumental versatility; and the sparkling Ms. Loomis mugs winningly as she takes a fiddle solo. from The New York Times
It's joy unrestrained, expressed in dreamy vocal samples, creaky drum breaks and dizzy ambience (as on the winningly titled standout, "No More Pain (Promises to a Younger Self"). from Vice
Nice Try released a self-titled tape back in 2016, full of songs of romantic and existential anxiety and a careful self-possession, alongside the winningly ramshackle instrumentation. from Vice
His first DJ gig, he winningly recounts in an email interview, was at a midtown Manhattan sports bar, where he was jeered for mixing 90s rap and blog house. from Vice
So consider holding up a series of written placards bearing well your wishes, like Bob Dylan in the "Subterranean Homesick Blues" video, while you smile winningly into the camera. from The Verge
Its winningly campy music video was released last Friday and has already racked up 39 million views on YouTube, which should help the song's chances on next week's chart. from The New York Times
A winningly over-the-top recent special was a custard-soaked pain perdu under bacon jus, pickled cabbage and speck, like some kind of demented Reuben-croque monsieur hybrid. from The New York Times
Clara, "a misunderstood girl," is played a man: Leonardo Sandoval, who's both winningly girlish and able to bust out a killer tap break when the story liberates his character. from The New York Times
Fingers crossed that new installments of The Flash will move away from the doom and gloom of season two and recapture the winningly sunny tone of the show's early episodes. from Vox
" Reviewing Mr. Corey's performance in a 2004 revival of "Sly Fox," Ben Brantley wrote in The Times, "The nonagenarian Professor Irwin Corey makes a winningly precise art of being addled. from The New York Times
For one thing, Raza, who's winningly played by Nabhaan Rizwan in his screen debut, is not just the center of the story but its sharpest, wittiest and most appealing character. from The New York Times
His investigations, which he performs winningly but without any extraordinary ability or expertise, are mostly just pretexts for exhuming and solving the "mystery" of the ordinary women's lives at their heart. from New Yorker
But Alice's mission feels as manufactured as the story's whatsits and doodads, as Bobin struggles to infuse make-believe with emotion (something he managed winningly within the comic realm of The Muppets). from CNN
In the course of winning so winningly, Pokemon Go has also achieved – almost as a side-effect – the kind of success some celebrated (but ultimately shuttered) startups have pursued in the past. from TechCrunch
It's a clash of culture, personality, class and race, but it is also, more winningly, a portrayal of male friendship, a topic more commonly found in Judd Apatow and buddy cop films. from The New York Times
This latest adaptation of Roald Dahl's winningly sinister children's story from 1964 is — thank heaven — no sweeter than the two film adaptations it inspired, starring Gene Wilder (1971) and Johnny Depp (2005). from The New York Times
But the narrator, Kim — a morose romantic who has a rocky home life, practices Wicca, avoids gym class and falls in love with her English teacher, Ms. Archer — keeps the tone winningly adolescent. from The New York Times
DAVID KORDANSKY Ruby Neri's over-the-top ceramic sex dreams are two- to three-foot-high sculpted and glazed vases that would look like blonde blowup dolls if they weren't so winningly innocent. from The New York Times
Nate meets a fellow midlife-crisis sufferer, Allison, a thin role played winningly by the singer Ingrid Michaelson, and agrees to stage a production of Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado" with older women. from The New York Times
"Lexus Riddim" plays with dancehall naming conventions, but its acoustic guitar meanderings and openhearted synth work feels as winningly harmonious as International Feel's nods to balearic or any of Four Tet's recent sunrise mantras. from Vice
She keeps things winningly lecherous, but all that energy is channeled into a larger project of fulfilment—self-love being ultimately more important, this record seems to argue, than whatever other people can offer. from Vice
For stretches of the show, you are transported via a video backdrop that is inventively deployed — to convey fire, war, the crash, nightmares, and most winningly, the "dance" of an economy at full throttle. from The New York Times
Based on three linked stories by John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle, this winningly sweet-tempered movie is about what happens when teenagers trying to play it cool finally let down their guard. from The New York Times
The best way into the winningly sordid group show that Taylor Trabulus, associate director at Gavin Brown, put together for Karma's new West Adams location is through Reba Maybury's black-and-white cardboard cutout. from The New York Times
Her video "Storytelling" sees Ms. Grullón winningly narrate their histories and dreams, in both English and Spanish, against a digital backdrop of Hollywood clips, Billie Holiday concerts and documentary video of the old-age home. from The New York Times
In George Bernard Shaw's "Caesar & Cleopatra," adapted and directed by David Staller in a briskly entertaining, winningly down-to-earth revival for Gingold Theatrical Group, the young queen of Egypt is charming in her naïveté. from The New York Times
These include minimal scenery and costumes, spirited musical interludes (with cast members doubling as musicians) and a winningly prosaic way of delivering thickly poetic dialogue, as if that were the way everybody talked these days. from The New York Times
But he was early to see the potential of YouTube, and there he was able to build a sizable fan base and eventually earn a living—thanks to videos marked by SEO savvy and winningly homemade aesthetics. from Wired
But Elizabeth Cappuccino as Allison is a winningly familiar character too, a cool girl in flannel and plastic chokers who has no way of knowing that the object of her affection is floating around in a nightmare world. from The Verge
Two nights before our trip to the Flame, Lorde performed "Green Light" on "Saturday Night Live," and when she broke into a suite of winningly uninhibited dance moves, her sequined top shuddered and sparkled like a disco ball. from The New York Times
Silly me — when last year's winningly direct, agile, sublime mixtape If You're Reading This It's Too Late came out, I went around telling my friends that Drake had finally become a real rapper, finally made a good album, etc. from Hyperallergic
As the winningly awful Matilda, Markey, a rising star of the avant-garde, has the tossed-off braininess and comic polish of a Julia Louis-Dreyfus, bending phrases into philosophical riddles, and not just for the fun of it. from The New York Times
Here's a look at the Vermont folk musician who created "Hadestown" more than a decade ago; a profile of the show's tattoo-covered director; and an interview with André De Shields, one of its flamboyant (and winningly spacy) stars. from The New York Times
This was partly because of its inherent diversity of expression, and partly because of its eventual openness to humor, most winningly in a sly setting of "Their Bodies," an enumeration of the physical and emotional qualities of different penises. from The New York Times
Logan Huntzberger may have become a London-dwelling maybe-baby-daddy at the end of the Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life, but Matt Czuchry, the actor who so winningly embodied our favorite little rich boy, is becoming a doctor. from Refinery 29
Then came "Unzipped," a winningly candid 1995 documentary about the production of a fashion show, in which he's seen working and horsing around with Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford and other models, and comically effusing and fretting about the new collection's progress. from The New York Times
This is evident in his tortured relationships with Ed; with the woman Ed marries, Laurel (Roxanna Hope Radja, who winningly brings out the character's wry masochism); and with the handsome, much younger Alan, the model (a likable Michael Hsu Rosen). from The New York Times
There's a scene late in the movie where the king (Dominic Cooper) is riding off into battle, and he tells his tiny son to guard his mother and sister, smiles winningly at his wife (the great Ruth Negga), then completely snubs his daughter. from Vox
Mr. Rudd could have coasted on his cutie-pie smile and natural appeal, but he fills in the character winningly, imbuing Scott with an easygoing looseness — and a deadpan that teasingly teeters between innocence and stupidity — that keeps his heroics grounded and human. from The New York Times
Major Lazer—which started out in the late 00s as a sincere attempt to bridge Caribbean dancehall with American electronic pop—has since metastasized into a winningly goofy brand that provides a tongue-in-cheek Twerking Experience at festivals and undergrad Spring Formals. from Vice
Miriam Toews sets her witty coming-of-age story "A Complicated Kindness" in a southern Manitoba Mennonite community — "the most embarrassing sub-sect of people to belong to if you're a teenager," says Nomi Nickel, the book's winningly sharp, 16-year-old narrator. from The New York Times
As such, Groff is of a piece with a production, which also features a winningly cast Tammy Blanchard and Christian Borle, that understands that camp is most successful when it's played with straight-faced sincerity, instead of a wink and a smirk. from The New York Times
Using the role of the referee as a jumping-off point to explore "all the poorly refereed corners of life," like the financial industry and the justice system, Lewis mounts a defense of the adjudicator that is both thought-provoking and winningly wry. from The New York Times
It returns to Broadway 26 years after it didn't win (but should have) the Tony Award for best play, with a cast that includes Allison Janney (back onstage after many Emmy-collecting years of being winningly waspish on television) and John Benjamin Hickey. from The New York Times
The title character (winningly played by Kate Mara) is a restless young woman who enlists as the Iraq war is starting, mostly to escape small-town nowheresville, and then by happenstance finds herself doing kennel-cleaning duty for the bomb-sniffing dogs at Camp Pendleton. from The New York Times
In his memoir, Ben Bradlee, The Post's longtime editor — winningly played by Tom Hanks with macho suavity and an on-and-off Boston accent — devotes four times as much space to Watergate (a story that his paper did break) as to the Pentagon Papers. from The New York Times
Having embraced the heritage of Half-Hanged Mary—and having, at seventy-seven, reached an age at which sardonic independent-mindedness is permissible, and even expected—Atwood is winningly game to play the role of the wise elder who might have a spell up her sleeve. from New Yorker
Marigold Daisy Green, the smart, winningly awkward, motherless adolescent narrator of Jane Gardam's 1976 novel "Bilgewater," isn't a student at St. Wilfrid's, the boys' school where her father is a housemaster, but the boys who are — with their beery parties and questionable romantic judgments — hulk around her. from The New York Times
Even "getting away" from our digital devices, as Goldsmith suggests in his winningly cheeky manifesto Wasting Time on the Internet—an outgrowth of his University of Pennsylvania creative writing class, where all communication took place in chat rooms and on social media—we are often just thinking about them, the ghostly phantom limbs of consciousness. from New Republic
The Fate of the Furious, the eighth film in the series (now just four behind the Friday the 13th films), doesn't have the energy of the previous two, and it doesn't have the emotional thrust of the last one, which shamelessly but still somehow winningly milked the untimely death of co-lead Paul Walker. from New Republic
Owen Gleiberman, Variety Ally, makes no mistake, has sass to spare (later that evening, when Jackson is confronted at his favorite cop bar by a man he cuckolded, she gives him a punch), but Gaga, in an ebullient and winningly direct performance, never lets her own star quality get in the way of the character. from Mashable
It's the do-gooding, often hapless English who become surrogates for much of the audience, and they are given winningly ardent and angry life by, among others, Jo McInnes and, as a precocious city planner fresh out of Eton, Alex Lawther (the teen psychopath from the Netflix series "The End of the ___ing World"). from The New York Times
The tale is really a poem told through text and pictures, and it is winningly contemporary, uniting a grandmother's domestic chores with a song and prayer about a granddaughter who is flying a fighter plane during World War II. Sorell's poem and Alvitre's illustrations are marvelously integrated: Words and paintings each take up a part of the story in a very beautiful dance. from The New York Times
In a city where the average citizen seems to accept Avengers as a fact of daily life as common as a rat on the subway or a Starbucks on the corner, Homecoming's Parker is still consistently, winningly wowed by his own capabilities; he can't stop saying "Gross" or "Awesome" at the things that shoot out of his body (which, to be fair, is also just basic adolescence). from People
Still, those three are exhibiting some stellar natives: David Castillo will feature the winningly playful assemblages of Pepe Mar; Central Fine is showing paintings by Tomm El-Saieh, whose hypnotic brushwork fuses Haitian folkloric traditions with classic Abstract Expressionism; while Fredric Snitzer's booth is devoted to paintings by Hernan Bas, whose beguiling, homoerotically charged portraits of dandies and waifs remain some of the strongest work to emerge from Miami over the past two decades. from The New York Times
Evening Standard Roses Review , London Evening Standard The Telegraph in its brief review described Rose as a "well-crafted, relevant, winningly performed new play."Dominic Cavendish, "Edinburgh Festival 2011: Edinburgh in brief", The Telegraph, 25 August 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
At each of their > residences they entertained select parties of guests, and in no sphere did > the Countess of Seafield more winningly display her gracious gifts of manner > than as the bright, polished and vivacious hostess of guests who were under > the roof-tree of the Chieftain of the Clan Grant.
The Irish Independent's review of the album included, "Forsaken is unambiguously from the heart" and the "unremitting bleakness is curiously endearing." Dublin Concerts described the album as an "Impossibly beautiful album". The Sunday Times referred to Hail The Ghost as "A winningly downbeat ensemble."The Sunday Times Culture Magazine, 29 March 2015, p. 12.
Keane had a limited theatrical release and grossed only $394,390 worldwide but it received positive reviews and Breslin's performance was praised by critics. Meghan Keane of The New York Sun wrote that "the scenes between Mr. Lewis and the charmingly fragile Kira, winningly played by Ms. Breslin, bring a captivating humanity to the film".
The timbre of her high mezzo-soprano voice was ideally suited to Zerlina. And she sang "expertly and elegantly" in her two excerpts from La clemenza di Tito. In her Rossini selections, she performed "winningly" both in Desdemona's sorrowful music and in Angelina'a and Rosina's pyrotechnic bel canto showpieces. But her technique was not altogether beyond reproach.
Howard Thompson of The New York Times wrote that "the picture is a showcase for the guitar-playing Campbell. And it is an entirely shapeless affair that simply bumps him around the country. A pity, too, for he is a pleasant, natural actor — 'True Grit' proved that — and he sings a clutch of guitar ballads easily and winningly."Thompson, Howard (November 26, 1970).
Next, he booked roles in the feature film The Guardian and a series regular role in Saved. For the role, he spent two years training as a fireman and a paramedic. In 2002, Hardwick had a quick scene as an extra in Floetry's "Say Yes" music video. In 2003 and 2004, he participated award-winningly in the National Poetry Slam.
The novel is set in the United States, England, and India in 1867 and 1870.Mundow, Anna. "A Tale of Three Continents, Winningly Traversed." Washington Post. April 4, 2009 When news of Charles Dickens’s untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James R. Osgood sends his trusted clerk Daniel Sand to await Dickens's unfinished last novel – The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
May 21, 2000. Metro Silicon Valley analysed the music in great depth, concluding that "[T]he technique is adroit, fluid and winningly integrated. Ching speaks music so well that he accommodates the text without a stumble.... [T]he music stands remarkably well on its own – rather like a string of pearls.... Ching might well be tempted to craft a concert suite without the transitional material."MacClelland, Scott.
" Next, he reunited with Cronenberg in Maps to the Stars, a satirical drama described as a darkly comic look at Hollywood excess. The film competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. In the film, he played the role of Jerome Fontana, a limo driver and struggling actor, who wants to be a successful screenwriter. Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph summed up his performance as "winningly played.
" Charlie Ritchie at Bloggerhythms said in 2011 that the song's "centerpiece was an almost schmaltzy spoken passage in the middle that was very much not the kind of thing Browne normally put on vinyl."Ritchie, Charlie. Bloggerhythms,"Forgotten Music Thursday: Jackson Browne - Hold Out (1980)" March 31, 2011. William Ruhlmann at Allmusic said that "'Hold on Hold Out,' the traditional big, long, last song on the album, was awkwardly, not winningly, intimate.
In a review of Tank Battles at AllMusic, John Dougan called it "[a] worthy follow up" to Krause's previous album, Supply and Demand. He said her vocals here are "stunning" and the instrumental backing is "impeccable". Writing in The Wire, Philip Clark called Tank Battles a "laudable attempt" by Krause to present a modern interpretation of songs by Eisler-Brecht. He said producer Greg Cohen's "sensitive arrangements" of the album's material "winningly evokes 1920s Berlin".
", as did Chaney. Slezak also said Will, as evidenced by his "La Cucaracha" rendition for his class, was "suddenly dumb as the cardboard box that Finn winningly turned into a robot head", and Chaney commented, "Mr. Schuester always seemed a bit more sensitive than this." VanDerWerff wrote of "the weird, dark despair at the heart of Will's plight: He's a high school Spanish teacher, and he mostly is that because he doesn't know what else to do.
" Simon Abrams of RogerEbert.com praised the film for its "involving plot"; calling the cast, especially Uwais, "charming" and dialogue "winningly precise" while noting that the sequel is "a great step up after the already- impressive The Raid." Glenn Kenny of RogerEbert.com gave the film 2 out of 4 stars, and wrote "The action stuff in The Raid 2, while likely to alienate the squeamish and summon dark thoughts of cinematic nihilism amongst overthinking highbrows, really IS like nothing else out there.
Critics generally responded well to the first performance. The Daily Telegraph critic described it as a "succession of vivid tableaux" and "liked the way it mixed pictorialism with broader expressions of mood and emotional states.". The Guardian critic described it as a "vivid score", saying that the partnership between composer and orchestra was "clearly bearing fruit" and noting the way that Puw used the huge orchestra with restraint. The Times said that Puw had a "knack for drama", "an orchestral ear" and "a winningly flexible technique".
The Bare-Footed Kid received generally positive reviews. Ard Vijn of Twitch Film writes "it's not a classic by any means but it's a fun movie that definitely has its moments. Fans of either Aaron Kwok, Ti Lung or Maggie Cheung won't be disappointed." Mark Polland of Kung Fu Cinema rated it 4 out of 5 stars and writes The Bare-Footed Kid is a thoughtful kung fu film with an unusually strong story that winningly delivers a message that strength and fighting ability are useless without morality and sound judgment.
Eric Henderson of Slant Magazine also gave "Love on Top" a positive review, favoring its "infectious upbeat spirit" and comparing it to the styling of Stevie Wonder, Anita Baker and Whitney Houston. He also complimented the fact that the various key changes throughout the song "force Beyoncé out of her scold range and into some winningly girlish soprano whoops." Similarly, Joey Guerra of the Houston Chronicle commented that "Love on Top" is a "bouncy jam" which finds Beyoncé in "feel-good diva mode". He added that it might have turned up on early albums from Natalie Cole, Whitney Houston or Mariah Carey.
Here, the Copland-like simplicity of the opening gestures forms a platform for successive processes of variation, development and contrast that eventually return to their starting point." Joshua Kosman of the San Francisco Chronicle called it "a vividly evocative musical-visual creation" and wrote, "Thursday's performance by the San Francisco Symphony [...] came as yet another demonstration of the sheer breadth and grandeur of Adès' creative gift. In Seven Days is both dramatic and reflective, by turns ingratiatingly accessible and dauntingly abstruse. It seems to want to embrace the whole world — a fitting goal for the creation story — and yet it remains winningly approachable.
Days Are Gone is as convincing as any major-label rock album this year, especially its first half, which is slick, confident and winningly breezy." Jody Rosen of Vulture praised the album's fusion of "everything from the Doobie Brothers to Janet Jackson to third-wave feminism" combined with "catchy four-minute-long songs." Jon Dolan of Rolling Stone wrote that it "recalls the dancy side of Eighties Top 40 radio as an AstroTurf Eden of chewy synths, neon-cheese guitar quake and slick, airy melodies." In a less enthusiastic review, Andy Gill of The Independent felt that the band has an "insubstantiality at their core.
Anna Smith, writing for Time Out, gave I Am Not a Witch four out of five stars, calling it a "impressively, debut writer-director Rungano Nyoni makes this heady mix work". Stephen Dalton from The Hollywood Reporter called the film "A winningly original and stylistically fresh debut feature from the young Zambia-born Welsh director Rungano Nyoni, I Am Not a Witch is one of the more buzzy premieres screening in the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes. A fable- like story about a young African girl banished from her village for alleged witchcraft, it blends deadpan humor with light surrealism, vivid visuals and left-field musical choices".
Given Affleck's growing reputation as a filmmaker, his decision to star as Batman in the 2016 superhero film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was regarded by Dave Itzkoff of The New York Times as "a somewhat bewildering choice". Although the casting choice was met with intense fan backlash, Affleck's performance ultimately earned a positive reception. Andrew Barker of Variety found him "a winningly cranky, charismatic presence," while Brian Truitt of USA Today enjoyed his "strong" and "surprisingly emotional" take on the character. Affleck reprised his role as Batman twice, making a cameo appearance in Suicide Squad (2016) and starring in Justice League (2017).
"4x4" received generally favorable reviews from contemporary music critics. Writing for AllMusic, Heather Phares described the track as an "improbable but entertaining piece of country-rap", and distinguished it as a stand-out track from Bangerz. Marah Eakin from The A.V. Club opined that its "progressive" production was similar to a "Scale-era Matthew Herbert", and commented that its lyrical content "[takes] the song in a silly Bonnie and Clyde direction". Nick Catucci from Entertainment Weekly was complimentary towards the "winningly nutty Pharrell production", while Kyle Fowle from Slant Magazine commented that Cyrus "explores ideas of femininity with a sinister, determined edge" by assuming the position of the "other woman" mentioned in "Before He Cheats" by Carrie Underwood.
" Mojo said that Skinner "favours a winningly downbeat brand of urban realism, set to minimal, pounding drums ... A lot of his urban vignettes fall somewhere between "The Message" and The Specials' "Ghost Town". But their very ordinariness and the brutish, unadorned simplicity of the music is part of their appeal, evoking the everyday tedium of real 'youth culture' ... A uniquely British voice." Spin said, "Mike Skinner ... could be the most gifted rapper London has ever produced, except that he doesn't really rap – he pontificates, spins spoken-word yarns, and kicks running commentary. Hip-hop – and Britain's equally bling-fixated 2-step-garage scene – has shaped Skinner's sound, but he's too earnest to reproduce their bluster.
Keely Quinlan of Stereogum called it a "bopping strut of a pop song", saying it "opens up a little slower and quieter than the others with a leading synth melody", but builds into having "a dance floor ready feel, which is what Jepsen always does best". Claire Shaffer of Rolling Stone wrote that the song is a "steamy dance track over a single electronic beat, and deals with a classic CRJ theme". Writing for Time, Raisa Bruner described it as "[b]ubbly, breathy and winningly honest", and ranked it as one of the contenders for the Song of Summer 2019. "Too Much" was named the best song on Dedicated by Sam Van Pykeren of Mother Jones.
Dunst and Danson were terrific but outshone by Wilson, who was winningly phlegmatic and wearily wise." Brittany Volk of the Tampa Bay Times commented that "Noah Hawley delivered a fantastic first episode that sets a warm tone, with a bite of darkness. Okay, a whole mouthful." Scott Tobis of ArtsBeat gave a positive review, stating "'Waiting for Dutch' proves thrillingly adept at establishing the players in its byzantine plot [...] We get a sense of all the major players as individuals, but there are larger forces at play, too, particularly in the dust-up between the Gerhardts and the Kansas City mob, which Mr. Hawley stages as something like a corporate behemoth encroaching on a locally owned business.
Their be-yourself anthem, 'It Ain't No Thing,' sung by La Cienega, Nautica and Bridget, is the show's best number." -David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter "Her fellow redistrictee, the chubby Bridget (an endearing Ryann Redmond), finds the outré fashion sense that qualified her as a freak at Truman gives her some street cachet at Jackson. Both girls acquire adoring, cute boyfriends with skin tones a few shades darker than theirs." -Charles Isherwood, The New York Times "But things start cooking at the black school, with help from characters like chubby white girl, winningly played by Ryann Redmond, who's got pipes, charm, and a future that should take her beyond just Hairspray revivals.
While a student at the Guildhall School, played Wally Watkins in a production of Lady Be Good, which caused the Opera critic to note "one of two potential stars in the cast" who "sang the title song most winningly and rattled off the acres of daffy dialogue with the aplomb and timing of a Durante".Milnes, Rodney. Review of Lady Be Good, July 8, 1987. Opera, Vol. 38, No. 9, September 1987, p. 1094. In 1992, Rowe was nominated for an Olivier Award for his performance as Enoch Snow in the London revival of Carousel. In 1994, he appeared in Once on This Island.Butler, Robert. "Show People: A star waiting to happen: Clive Rowe", The Independent, 25 September 1994.
Making love to him, she says, "was my way of paying a premium on my job insurance." By the time the great man's portrait is filled in by his pressagent ("I was paid to work for him, not to like him"), and by a simple, slightly ridiculous man who gave him his start—winningly played by Ed Wynn ("He was not a nice person")—what emerges is "a glorified con man with his voice amplified." The dramatic question: Now that Commentator Ferrer knows what a monumental heel the great man was, will he turn the memorial show into a farce by doing a tearjerker or into a scandal by telling the truth? What he does is an improbable surprise, but well worth seeing.
During the 1960s, jet transport of people and goods became commonplace, with ALPA addressing the new safety issues that came with this type of travel. In 1961, ALPA’s second president, Clarence N. Sayen, directly asked new U.S. President John F. Kennedy to make hijacking a federal crime, which subsequently became the law of the land in September of that year. The Southern Airways strike of 1960-62, a conflict that ALPA winningly took on in a dispute over pilot wages, is the longest walkout in the union’s history. For years, ALPA had lobbied hard for the creation of an independent government agency that would investigate accidents, and in 1967, the National Transportation Safety Board was established to conduct such investigations.
The Washington Post said the characters were "winningly rebellious...brimming with life", while the Seattle Post-Intelligencer said "Spanbauer has populated his pages with characters so colorfully drawn they practically pop off the page and start dancing, egged on by mass consumption of whiskey, locoweed and opium stardust." Reviewers compared Spanbauer to Mark Twain, D. H. Lawrence, Gabriel García Márquez, Garrison Keillor, Thomas Berger, Walt Whitman, William H. Gass, Molly Gloss, and Russell Hoban. The novel received some critical comments as well. The Oregonian's reviewer thought the characters were too "extreme," felt that the narrative took too long to get going, and concluded that Shed's method of communicating in sentence fragments (often missing a verb or subject) difficult to comprehend.
" Pitchforks Ian Cohen described Gossamer as "an overwhelming album about being overwhelmed, a bold and ultimately stunning torrent of maximalist musical ideas, repressed anger, and unchecked anxiety." The A.V. Clubs Ryan Reed found Gossamer to be "more elegant than its predecessor" and concluded, "Throughout Gossamer, Angelakos sounds broken and confused, wrestling with his demons, cage match-style, on an oversized stage [...] But despite the emphasis on struggle, Gossamer couldn't sound more assured." James Christopher Monger of AllMusic stated, "Though the environment that birthed the appropriately titled Gossamer may be a bummer, the end product is winningly majestic as it is obviously spun by the most malevolent of spiders." John Calvert of NME wrote that "one quibble is that Gossamer never really comes down off its Haribo rush, which gets exhausting.
David Sims of The Atlantic noted her roles and voice work as having themes of "serial passivity" stemming from her "polite upbringing and own internal anxieties". Film producer Judd Apatow has described her comedic style as "complex" and "bizarre", later calling her "the funniest woman in the world". Variety described Bamford's comedic performance in her show, Lady Dynamite, saying that "the actress and comedian, whose presence has rarely been used as well as it is here, manages the neat trick of being both believably guileless and winningly sharp." A 2014 New York Times profile of Bamford noted her comedic style by saying: > Much of Bamford’s work examines the relationship between “people” — > generally well-intentioned friends and family — and those who grapple with > depression or anxiety or any other challenge to the psyche.
There are also discrete songs such as the humorous The Bath, and song-cycles such as Flower of Cities which takes London as its unifying theme. Among his orchestral works are Symphony No. 1 (2009) which evokes "a journey from darkness to light"Programme note by Ronald Corp for the recording on Dutton Epoch CDLX 7233. Full text at and the programmatic triptych Guernsey Postcards (2004) with its depictions of a local fair, Pembroke Bay and St. Peter Port, commissioned by the Guernsey Camerata. Another large-scale work is the Piano Concerto No.1 (1997) which has received three performances by pianists Julian Evans and Leon McCawley and was described by one critic as, > ... possibly the most winningly successful British Piano Concerto of the > last forty years or so.
Manohla Dargis of the Los Angeles Times found her "startling": "Whenever she's on screen you don't want to look anywhere else." Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly praised an "utterly beguiling" performance: "You can pinpoint the moment in it when Garner becomes a star." Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post remarked: "Garner is clearly cut out to be America's next Sweetheart; she has the same magic mix of allure and accessibility that the job calls for." 13 Going on 30 grossed US$96million worldwide. Garner reprised the character of Elektra in the 2005 Daredevil spin-off Elektra; it was a box office and critical failure. Claudia Puig of USA Today concluded that Garner "is far more appealing when she's playing charming and adorable, as she did so winningly in 13 Going on 30". Garner next starred in the romantic drama Catch and Release.
A review in the Booklist of The Imaginary wrote "Though not quite as innovative as it might be, this is nevertheless a winningly whimsical celebration of the imagination, beautifully enhanced by both black-and-white and full-color illustrations by Kate Greenaway Medal-winning Gravett." and, in a starred review, Kirkus Reviews found it "Wonderfully entertaining." The Imaginary has also been reviewed by The New York Times, the School Library Journal, The Horn Book Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Library Media Connection, Common Sense Media, Reading Time, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, the Financial Times, and The Guardian (child review). It was nominated for the 2016 Carnegie Medal, the 2016 Kate Greenaway Medal, and won the 2015 British Book Design and Production Awards Children's Trade Book Award, and the 2015 British Book Design and Production Awards Book of the Year Award.
Rolling Stone critic Peter Travers gave Begin Again three out of four stars, praising the "subtle magic" of the lead actors' performances and Carney's creation of "surreal, enchanting loveliness" without being overly sentimental. Ian Freer of Empire awarded the film four out of five stars, describing it as "lovely stuff, winningly played, open-hearted and guaranteed to slap on a smile on a balmy summer night." In a review for Variety, Peter Debruge wrote that "Gregg Alexander's music is undeniably the best thing" about the film, which "lays emotions on the line and then drives them home with music." The Hollywood Reporters David Rooney praised the "disarming emotional candor and intimacy" of Carney's script and the chemistry between Knightley and Ruffalo, while David Edelstein of New York enjoyed Ruffalo's "very funny" performance and Knightley's "surprisingly sweet singing voice".
Andrew Barker of Variety magazine wrote that "Gimme What I Don't Know (I Want)" opens the album effectively while being its "most winningly silly sexual imagery". On the other side, In a review of The 20/20 Experience - 2 of 2, Mesfin Fekadu of The Huffington Post stated that the album starts on the wrong note by using "Gimme What I Don't Know (I Want)" as its opener. Idolator's Carl Williott wrote that the song is a "clunky jungle-as-sex metaphor" that should have been erased when Bruno Mars's 2013 single "Gorilla" was released. Opposite, Melinda Newman of HitFix gave the song a grade A while describing it as a "sultry, sexy funky number" that introduces what is yet to come on the album. Chris Bosman of Time magazine cited “Gimme What I Don’t Know (I Want)” as one of the album's best tracks. He, however, was critical of the song's extended outro, calling it an "awkward spoken word moment" that "slams the song’s already obvious metaphor of the bedroom as jungle into the beaten ground." David Meller of MusicOMH wrote that "there’s nothing particularly striking" about the song, but that it's "competent enough".
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 54% based on reviews from 13 critics. Though reviewers generally criticize the sports story within the film, its slum insights, young actors, and cinematography have been commended, leading to mixed reviews. Referring to the sports metaphor used in the film, Scott Tobias of The A.V. Club criticizes the use of football games as an expression of drama because of "predictable last-second goals and miraculous comebacks", Ron Wilkinson of Monsters and Critics agrees that it has "a thin script and sport drama predictability"; Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times acknowledges that "[t]he sports-as-savior theme is an old one," but adds that the film "coats its clichés in winningly natural performances", which redeems it. Las Vegas CityLife reviewer Matt Kelemen is quick to point out that the film, which he writes is successful, is "part sports film, part neorealist drama", with it also having focus on social issues that aren't expressed through sport; from the same city, Josh Bell of Las Vegas Weekly says the same, but cites this as a negative, saying that the film only "piles on both sports-drama and up-from-poverty clichés" to tell its story.