And yet they are too wittily handled for easy moralising.
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" Casey then wittily followed up with "spooky action at a distance.
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Kleberg's paintings open portals, alchemizing oil stick abstractions into wittily mystic moments.
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He wittily skewered acquaintances and seemed always conscious of his physical allure.
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All informed and funny and painful and complex, all intricately and wittily orchestrated.
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Yet the wittily named "Pepperland" is not just about the way it sounds.
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And [Woolf] deals with it so beautifully and wittily and playfully and profoundly.
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It's eight short, acerbic, wittily profound episodes with a richly satisfying ending(s).
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The lines of dialogue, precisely and wittily written and delivered, come fast and furious.
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The performances are wittily sharp and, in a sense, wittily self-reflective: The Simpson case immediately presented itself as a showcase for everyone involved, a golden opportunity to seize the moment and (better yet) the spotlight – these were the roles of a lifetime.
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"He does everything with those drums except play them," he remarked of Tony, rather wittily.
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He can be wittily combative, most memorably in a brilliantly staged restaurant scene with Jerry.
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Applicants should combine a knowledge of finance with the ability to write informatively, succinctly and wittily.
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Its ruler, King Abdullah, wittily describes Jordan as being stuck "between Iraq and a hard place".
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DRINKS They are wittily named and expertly made, with as many ingredients as a topical ointment.
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THE THREAT OF EXTINCTION, however wittily parried by the Parsis who face it, is no exaggeration.
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Slyly and wittily, he analyzes political events in Shakespeare's world in terms of our own experience.
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Examples in the exhibition play wittily on Cubist sculpture and formalist photography of the early 20th century.
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Research and analytical skills, an ability to write informatively, succinctly and wittily, and insatiable curiosity are essential.
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My body practically quivers with wondering, while the guys from "SportsCenter" chat wittily away on the television.
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Here she wittily recast it as a song mocking a certain presidential candidate who loves the spotlight.
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For a song written about his fifth year, he wittily channeled the literalism of a child's perception.
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Rather than protesting disorder, Douglas has embraced it, wittily transforming our concerns into cathartic sources of levity.
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Almost instantly, I felt like I could be fully myself, and he responded casually, wittily, and without hesitation.
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Nora Ephron's " I Feel Bad About My Neck " tries, but is too wittily mournful to have real angst.
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"Anybody accidentally kills anybody in a fight they go to jail, it's called manslaughter," Pitt's Cliff wittily replies.
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The ideal candidate will combine the ability to write informatively, succinctly and wittily with a knowledge of finance.
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An ability to write informatively, succinctly and wittily, combined with numeracy and curiosity, matter more than prior experience.
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Emma, though several years his junior, bats back wittily every time, and ignores his -- not always perfect -- advice.
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"Folk music," he wittily captioned it, making sure to leave the capital 'M' off music to seem more nonchalant.
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It remains that, of course, and the trends Ms. Mode was wittily skewering have only increased over the years.
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DS: In wittily translating often complex and fraught topics, are you optimistic about the art world and its trajectory?
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Images from the libretto, like horses for chase music, appear wittily, but nothing approaching tragedy or conflict ever intrudes.
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" Beckinsale wittily wrote back to the fan, "fairly let down by your wonky beard but thought possibly rude to say.
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It's also not "Shakespeare in Love"; it won't dazzle you with quick references, wittily deployed Shakespearean lines and so on.
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The slight and kinetic 30-year-old creates embroidered tableaus that are simultaneously naïve and knowing, primitive and wittily sophisticated.
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After all, you want your sign to be more or less aesthetically pleasing while containing a powerful but wittily conveyed message.
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With the authors' permission, he has cut the boffo "Chrysanthemum Tea," a number in which the shogun's mother wittily poisons him.
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The nation could hope for no one better to sit at its bedside, soothingly and wittily lulling it into purring contentment.
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On the Palestinian side, there's Hassan Asfour (Dariush Kashani), a blustery delegate who wittily finds a Communist aperçu for every occasion.
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Candidates should have a boundless curiosity about the world and the ability to write about it concisely, wittily and with analytical rigour.
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Mr. Sommer's wittily appalled Bradley needs to be a shade more menacing for the second act curtain scene to unsettle as it should.
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Recently Walter Knoll rereleased the pair's Chesterfield armchair, an arch take on the cozily traditional shape, outfitted with wittily incongruous tubular steel legs.
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Enter Dr. Little Bo Peep — played wittily by Kerri Kenney — who shows up at the Klein household to figure out what's troubling Amabella.
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Snider wittily writes in the upper left hand corner of one work: Jenny Snider/presents/Sergei Eisenstein's/An American Tragedy/by/Theodore/Dreiser.
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He wittily addressed his wide circle of friends that year with verse that tell how times were tough and still convey resilience and joy.
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Knowledge of the field, an ability to write informatively, succinctly and wittily, and an insatiable curiosity are more important attributes than prior journalistic experience.
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Each page wittily catalogs a subject of interest: "Nicknames" ("Every granny has a nickname") features a Bubbe, a Nonna, a Gran and so on.
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Their youth made the work's wittily developed vision of romance as a matter of somersaults and cartwheels feel fresh and childlike, rather than gymnastic.
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The flimsiness of protections for historic interiors was wittily underscored when drilling from an upper floor of the Seagram Building briefly interrupted the proceedings.
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This is a memoir of a fashion designer in the 1930s and Hawes's critique of the fashion industry is blunt, sharp and wittily observed.
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The choreographer Pam Tanowitz is like an author who uses rigorous grammar to write nonsense verse; she's orthodox and unorthodox, eccentrically pleasing and wittily obscure.
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A recent song, "Married in London," wittily describes the absurdity of traveling from a place where gay marriage was legal to another where it was not.
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Her feminism — wittily evident in her emphasis on pink — is most succinct in "Ever Is Over All" (1997), a two-channel work projected into a corner.
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You know how these things go: Senators grandstand and nominees display their superior intellects while politely (and often wittily) refusing to disclose anything even faintly controversial.
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The problem with most alternate-history stories is their complacency—they presume that we understand a history, so that we can intelligibly and wittily rework it.
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As the cutoff point approaches and the nonessential prose systems shut down, I write — not more wildly or sloppily or out-there wittily, but more sententiously.
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" And if you missed them the first time, catch Jaamil Olawale Kosoko's stirring "Séancers"; Mariana Valencia's wittily introspective "Album"; and Nora Chipaumire's Patti Smith-inspired "#Punk.
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Or: an invention, a fiction, mysteriously became "true," and did so because Øyehaug wittily decided to disable the car and thus spare her characters the divorce furnace.
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Sensitively and even wittily translated by Miranda Richmond Mouillot, it begins in a detached, lightly ironic tone that recalls French film comedies of the thirties and forties.
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In the show, we hear a recording of him singing a wittily phrased Dylan emulation, "Mama and Papa Have the Shiprock Blues," in a fine, laconic tenor.
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Mr. Penone again registered his touch literally, and wittily, in a paper relief featuring dozens of 3-D fingerprints, each marking a tear made by that finger.
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Peter York, an author and cultural commentator, noted that the pineapple display, consciously or not, wittily reflected Duchamp's notion that if you declare something art, it becomes art.
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Ms. Gaignard's approach is not narrative, didactic or overtly political; she wittily employs symbols a viewer understands on a visceral level, even as a more explicit meaning remains elusive.
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"Glacial Decoy" was Ms. Brown's first piece for the proscenium, and it was wittily designed so that its dancers feed in from the wings to blur the stage's borders.
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The world had been playing Pokémon Go for nearly a week now, and every posting of a wittily named Rattata or rare Articuno sighting on Reddit had become torturous.
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While "Ipsa Dixit" is precisely crafted, it wittily and poignantly evokes the process of creation: flickering with ideas; moving in halting steps forward and back; seeming improvisatory, jotted, sketched.
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As is usually true of Clubbed Thumb, the production has been expertly and attractively mounted, with a wittily anachronistic set (Carolyn Mraz) and costumes to match (by Melissa Ng).
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There's a clip in this documentary, about the Texas-based columnist Molly Ivins famous for wittily skewering politicians, in which she tells a story about writing for this newspaper.
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What also registers quite wittily in this production is that the exaggerated shape of its title character was exactly what fashionable European women once aspired to in their dress.
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But instead of H.R.C.-ers wittily sharing chardonnay, canapés and hip Colbert skits about Melania's plagiarization, these were grim meetings with harsh lighting where we watched Tim Kaine snap.
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The middle word of the title is wittily crossed out on the book's cover and opening page, as if to imply that the gender of those included is irrelevant.
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An assortment of wittily filmed group scenes function as social satire of New York culture among recent college graduates eager to convince one another that they've made it as adults.
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Directed by Lila Neugebauer, with a tightly interdependent ensemble, this portrait of a quorum of high school teachers, planning a charity telethon, wittily plumbs the dysfunction in group dynamics (247:2888).
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Directed by Lila Neugebauer, with a tightly interdependent ensemble, this portrait of a quorum of high school teachers, planning a charity telethon, wittily plumbs the dysfunction in group dynamics (26200:21987).
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Directed by Lila Neugebauer, with a tightly interdependent ensemble, this portrait of a quorum of high school teachers, planning a charity telethon, wittily plumbs the dysfunction in group dynamics (1:45).
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Directed by Lila Neugebauer, with a tightly interdependent ensemble, this portrait of a quorum of high school teachers, planning a charity telethon, wittily plumbs the dysfunction in group dynamics (453:245).
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Directed by Lila Neugebauer, with a tightly interdependent ensemble, this portrait of a quorum of high school teachers, planning a charity telethon, wittily plumbs the dysfunction in group dynamics (1:51963).
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It's largely Robbins exploring the possibilities of two men and a woman, à la Balanchine's Stravinsky ballet "Agon," but in his own playful way, wittily visualizing the character of the music.
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It may be a house that sways sometimes under its own weight, though that swaying is in the service of looking deeply (and often wittily) at lives, and the world, over time.
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Every time the rapper-drummer-singer drops into some supple soul, he pulls himself out just as quickly, snapping into fractious (and wittily satirical) protest songs or brittle, funk-heavy hip-hop defiance.
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As a kid, she loves the stories of boy meets girl, boy and girl banter wittily for an hour and a half, then boy and girl eventually realize their love for each other.
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In 2014, he enlisted David Shrigley, who contributed two hundred and thirty-nine line drawings and wittily adorned ceramics to the project, and then asked Mazouz to recruit someone to help with the rest.
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"Looking again at LeWitt's wittily concise instructions, I realized they read, without modification, as movement directives," says Levine, who has been interpreting modern and postmodern visual artworks as scores in her series Re-stagings.
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He seems naturally happy, sparkling, often funny; Ms. Centurión matches his temperament this way, whereas the more poised, brooding, sometimes tragic Ms. Hills brought out darker tones, even in their most wittily dazzling numbers.
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Yet James, having been cut off from Brigsby World, can't quit the bear, who's seen every so often saving the day in some of the wittily conceptualized, visually degraded television clips sprinkled throughout the movie.
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A longtime intimacy with Catholicism, its theology and history, makes itself felt on every page of "The Testament of Mary" (2012), his wittily revisionist novel about the Virgin in old age looking back on her life.
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Wittily conjuring both a toboggan and a roadster, it has a striking clarity of structure (six pieces of wood; count them) and is arguably among the great sculptures of the first half of the 20th century.
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This approach allows for some spirited horseplay, literally in the case of one sketch in which two Mayfair ladies, wittily played by Caitlin Thorburn and Phoebe Frances Brown, encounter a hyena while riding to the hounds.
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The director of "Kong: Skull Island" is Jordan Vogt-Roberts, whose calling card for the task was "The Kings of Summer" (2013), a wistful teen-age pastoral, wittily handled and, if memory serves, entirely gorilla-free.
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The line breaks suggest, wittily, those acrobatic "flips," but the genius in this method of almost forensic specificity is to imply that our own cherished anecdotes are specimens of something, in need of classification and analysis.
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Speaking at a rally this afternoon, Donald Trump wittily observed that even though Hillary Clinton thinks there should be some legal restrictions on who can buy firearms she also believes that Secret Service agents should carry firearms.
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The splatter is deployed cautiously and sometimes wittily, the story moving briskly from wishes granted to costs exacted with the help of familiar faces (including a warm Sherilyn Fenn as Clare's surrogate mother) and a sympathetic lead.
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" And the Fats Waller hit "A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid," by James P. Johnson and Andy Razaf, wittily turned servile labor into a courtship ritual: "I will be your dustpan/If you will be my broom.
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Its website contains Beauman's own wittily erudite musings, which lately have taken an alarmed tone because of uncertainty over the fate of small businesses during the protracted debacle that is Brexit, or Britain's exit from the European Union.
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It takes less than no time, and only a few pronoun flips, to accept Kathryn Hunter, attired and coifed like Beatrice Lillie in "Thoroughly Modern Millie," as "Lady" Timon, the wittily offbeat host of an arty Athenian salon.
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" To be sure, critics often turn out to be wrong, as Scott wittily reminds you during a recitation of some notorious critical gaffes: early and wince-inducing takedowns of John Keats's poetry, of "Moby-Dick," of "Bringing Up Baby.
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This week, a Richmond, Virginia rapper who goes by Litty Kitty — and whose Twitter tagline is "Beyoncé said pretty hurts, so I'm always in pain" — took to the social media site to wittily shed light on that glaring fact.
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Along the way, he will find his fate shackled — for a while, literally — to that of a slave he buys at auction, the well-spoken John Blanke (a wittily regal Chukwudi Iwuji), who has great expectations of his own.
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Opening with a quotation from Leo Tolstoy's last and bleakest novel, "Resurrection," this wittily animated feature from the Chinese writer and director Liu Jian presents a generic, follow-the-money tale as a Darwinian commentary on ruthlessly modern materialism.
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These extend to Louisa Thompson's set — a wittily artificial blend of two and three dimensions; Kaye Voyce's costumes, which include falsies for Martha and a muumuu for George; Ryan Seelig's nightmare lighting and the invaluable Ben Williams's disjunctive sound design.
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" Calling herself a "connoisseur of survivors," Gelb wrote that of all the Holocaust survivors she knew Kosinski was both the most damaged—"psychically and physically"—and the most candid about it: "starkly in his fiction, wittily in the drawing room.
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What she finds there requires an adjustment in her perspective that wittily echoes the ways that Manual Cinema, whose similarly fantastical "Ada/Ava" was seen in New York in 2015, has been playing with its audience's point of view all along.
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It's not enough that young Gibson should fall in forbidden love with Lichtenburg's Princess Maria, wittily played by Lauren Worsham as a demented Dresden doll; Adams herself must also fall at first glance for Cosmo Constantine, the handsome foreign minister.
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And while she reluctantly acceded to the dedication of "Emma" to the prince regent, a man she disliked, she resisted wittily but firmly the recommendation of the prince regent's librarian, James Stanier Clarke, that she write her next novel as a historical romance.
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Black presents her tropes handsomely and wittily, however, and the three-screen format, filled with images of stars and prisons, train rides and factories, is often a pleasure to look at, if a little too in keeping with the conventions of biennale art.
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In this telling, the young Savannah is an eager-to-please naïf who falls first for Laura's smooth talk and then for the mounting pleasures that playing this fictional creation delivers, including a relationship with an actress-director wittily played by Diane Kruger.
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Created by the husband-and-wife team of Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, "Westworld" is explicitly, and often wittily, an exploitation series about exploitation, full of naked bodies that are meant to make us think about nudity and violence that comments on violence.
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The exception is the animation director, Trisha Gum, who worked with Mitchell on the movie's look and feel, which is by turns immersive and wittily distancing, as when the Bricksburg story is interrupted by a shot of a toy dangling from a string.
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Sam lived all of that, and he did it in service to the idea of Gawker, best exemplified by his tour of duty at Valleywag, where he fearlessly and wittily called bullshit on all manner of very expensive and very well-defended hype.
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The show had possessed a capable and steady rhythm up until that point, its greatest strength lying in the killer ensemble—one of the best on television right now, arguably—that wittily delivered every jab, back-stab, and power grab the writers' room dreamed up.
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"As Bond sprints from peril to pleasure, Mr. Craig and the other players — including an exceptional, wittily venal Javier Bardem, a sleek Ralph Fiennes and a likable Ben Whishaw — turn out to be the most spectacular of Mr. Mendes's special effects," Mr. Scott wrote in The Times.
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By far the best in show in this respect are James Corden, wittily frolicking amid trash as Bustopher Jones; and Rebel Wilson, whose spoiled Jennyanydots leads a Busby Berkeleyesque jaw-dropper with a warbling (quavering) company of mice and a parade of high-stepping, kaleidoscopically trained cockroaches.
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The set, of his own design, consists of little more than a steamer trunk and a curtain; Mike Baldassari's lighting is largely confined to the glow of a grove of acorn-shaped pendants, wittily referencing the trees of the forest in which most of the action takes place.
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Even gender comes, wittily, into question: We first see Eboli — the princess who falls for Carlos and sleeps with Philippe, betraying almost everyone — as the leader of a court of androgynous ladies-in-waiting in fencing uniforms, before she shifts to slinky femme-fatale gowns and an omnipresent cigarette.
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Mr. Suozzi is not associated with cavalier roles — he's excellent, wittily mysterious, in this ballet's acting role of the magician Drosselmeyer — but it was marvelous to see the selfless elegance and skill with which he partnered the Sugarplum Fairy of Ms. Woodward (who on short notice replaced Ashly Isaacs).
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Daniel Craig fills his suit nicely as Bond, who is intent on outmaneuvering a former MI6 operative with a bloodthirst for Judi Dench's M. The baddie this time is "an exceptional, wittily venal Javier Bardem," who is "the most spectacular" of Sam Mendes's special effects, Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times.
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Yet, despite a yearslong hiatus in her performing career, she has kept busy with several wittily instructive films, among them "Green Porno," a 2008 Sundance mini-series about the mating behavior of animals, and the 2013 "Mammas," an alternately absurd and scary short describing variations in maternal instinct among the species.
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At least that is what I did one evening, when I stood up from the kitchen table of the legendary collectors Herb and Dorothy Vogel, and smacked my head against one of the suspended, angular sculptures that Keister began exhibiting in the late 1970s, which he wittily called USOs (Unidentified Suspended Objects).
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These stories entertain, though I prefer him being wittily deprecated by his female companions to his drawing binaries between "'Type A': smart, pretty, sane, moral girls with glasses who tended to work for nonprofits or write" and "bawdy dominatrices" (to be fair, this reviewer is a Type A, former bawdy dominatrix who writes).
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And Tsumori Chisato's wittily inventive costuming for Justin Peck's "Pulcinella Variations," with commedia dell'arte imagery filtered hilariously through postmodern and surreal lenses, includes one breathtaking outfit in which Indiana Woodward looks part-ballerina and part-naked; her incomplete tutu gives the impression of totally exposing one side of her body from armpit to ankle.
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Daniel Craig fills his suit nicely as James Bond, who is intent on outmaneuvering a former MI6 operative with a bloodlust for Judi Dench's M. The baddie this time is "an exceptional, wittily venal Javier Bardem," who is "the most spectacular" of Sam Mendes's special effects, Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times.
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Wittily painted with the dreary realism of the paintings that hang in Britain's Houses of Parliament and measuring more than 14 feet wide, the painting was shown at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery in the artist's hometown to coincide with Britain's scheduled departure from the European Union on March 29 this year, a date that was postponed until Oct. 213.7.
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In any case, we will try to keep it vague.) Exciting scenes feature, among others, the Sorting Hat (wittily staged); the grumpiest of the centaurs, who is extra grumpy this time around; the evil Dursleys; and one of the book's more diabolically unpleasant characters, who turns up at the end and whom we had hoped we had seen the last of.
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" One sentence in particular in the essay encapsulates how this burnout intersects with our digital lives: "My refusal to respond to a kind Facebook DM is thus symptomatic of the sheer number of calls for my attention online: calls to read an article, calls to promote my own work, calls to engage wittily or defend myself from trolls or like a relative's picture of their baby.
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