Sentence examples for funny view from inspiring English sources

This wildly diverse 50-artist exhibition offers a jaundiced but lively and often funny view of contemporary American culture.

Soon to become a Warner Brothers feature starring Reese Witherspoon, Opening Belle offers a vivid, funny view of a talented woman battling her way through what often seems more like a frat house than an investment bank.

"We have a funny view about public art in Britain — it's seen as slightly odd and elitist," said John Simpson, an architect at Ushida Findlay, a London firm that helped transform the sculpture into a structurally sound, functional building.

She laughs and hangs up, thinking to herself: "What if he wasn't faking, what if he wasn't funny?" View Article By Phil Klay By Andy Borowitz By Troy Patterson By John Cassidy By Amy Davidson Sorkin By Phil Klay By Andy Borowitz By Troy Patterson By John Cassidy.

She laughs and hangs up, thinking to herself: "What if he wasn't faking, what if he wasn't funny?" View Article By Jelani Cobb By Jia Tolentino By Joan Acocella By David Remnick By Doreen St. Félix By Jelani Cobb By Jia Tolentino By Joan Acocella By David Remnick.

It is interesting to see mature novelists as dissimilar as Richard Ford and Claire Messud grappling with the convulsions of post-2000 politics, even as Gary Shteyngart provides a fresh and funny view of America and Russia and their folie à deux, and an ambitious newcomer, Marisha Pessl, playfully examines the wayward movements of contemporary radicalism.

In the first of 11 Gray-Bates collaborations, Alan Bates brings the hard-drinking, heavy-smoking English prof (Gray is, or was, all three) to life: this is a provocative, outrageous, coruscating character busy destroying his own life and all those around him - but the wit and venom, and Bates's waspish playing make it wonderfully funny viewing.

That tenet is particularly true for Noises Off, which Michael Frayn was inspired to write having paid a backstage visit to one of his earlier comedies and realised that it was a good deal funnier viewed from the wings than from a seat in the stalls.

By Katinka Loeser The New Yorker, February 6 , 1954P. 75 Ladies are a funny class; View Article By Miranda Carter By Amos Barshad By Jia Tolentino By Doreen St. Félix.

By Katinka Loeser The New Yorker, February 6 , 1954P. 75 Ladies are a funny class; View Article By Miranda Carter By Amos Barshad By Doreen St. Félix By Jia Tolentino.

The group's leader, George Clinton, posits funk - in all its connotations, from dance rhythms to a rudely funny world view - as salvation from an increasingly sterile, self-destructive society.