Yet the filmmaker's frustration and anger develop under placid, modestly beautiful, and touching depictions of daily life under siege — both from oppressive authority without and unaddressed demons within.
The gentlest and most subtle rhythms in Jim's architecture were, though, to be found in the modestly beautiful, and wholly practical, house he designed with his wife, Betty, as their home in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.
It now returns, presented by Irish Rep through Jan . 7 at where else?—the American Irish Historical Society, a beautiful, modestly grand building on Fifth Avenue that is opening three floors to fifty-seven guests at a time (who join the cast for a holiday feast drawn from the one described in the novella).
While sprinkled with lighthearted moments, "Tiny Beautiful Things" modestly teaches how to pick ourselves up in the days, weeks, months and years after tragedy.
The ironic thing about hijab and dressing modestly is that it makes me feel beautiful when I have it on and beautiful when at home I take it off.
This pattern is also projected, greatly magnified, on the dome high overhead — a beautiful effect that recurs more modestly with the other case studies.
A local historian modestly described it as "easily the most beautiful structure ever erected on earth," until it burned to the ground a year later.
Again, as I have mentioned, plastic surgery can be beautiful and very real, when it is done modestly and consciously.
For Valentine's Day this year, Grahm has black-and-gold geometric heart-shaped boxes ("the most beautiful in the history of humanity," he says, modestly) filled with chocolates done in more geometrics and colors, including a swank tuxedo design.
Manohla Dargis of The New York Times described Paranoid Park as "a haunting, voluptuously beautiful portrait of a teenage boy" and as "a modestly scaled triumph without a false or wasted moment".
It is still beautiful, curled into the valley like a sleeping cat, its buttery walls standing modestly among the knotty roses and dripping willows – but it is, nonetheless, just a house.
