His great Northern instinct for plain speaking, his sharp wit and irreverence will be greatly missed. |
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John is old and waiting to die but the prospect of death hasn't dulled his appetite for invective or his irreverence for the great and the good. |
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She can then begin to rewrite them, with a twist, with humour, with irreverence, with blasphemy even. |
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And yet there's the childlike irreverence at times, the giggles, the non sequiturs, the references to such inane activities as shopping. |
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Goud has always exhibited a devilish irreverence for hierarchies, whether in art or in life. |
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She speaks of God or the gods with a delightful irreverence that never approaches blasphemy. |
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Indeed, 7 Stories has all the makings of an absurdist comedy, but beneath its veil of irreverence lurks a vehicle for lofty, provoking ideas. |
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They liked irreverence, taking the mickey, politically incorrect humour, mockery, satire. |
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However, this apparent irreverence toward the subject, an irreverence that is sometimes self-directed, is only Struth's lightness of being. |
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I thought he was very truthful and very funny, and I was drawn to his rebelliousness and irreverence. |
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There is a bit of sarcasm too that leavens the portrayal at times but it never veers to irreverence. |
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A mixture of anger, anti-establishment irreverence and workers' solidarity is documented by the 145 banners collected by the City of Edinburgh. |
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His sculptures combine charm, lightness and irreverence to offer insights and idiosyncracies. |
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There's a healthy irreverence at the heart of the movie, as well as plenty of dry Mancunian wit. |
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She was much beloved of many here, although unionists had many problems with her irreverence and perceived sympathy for Irish nationalism. |
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Thankfully, Kerrigan's personal, unapologetic film on rave culture maintains its irreverence. |
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For all its wacky irreverence, it is also a rather touching story of moral decay in an uncivilized world. |
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Combine all that talent and irreverence with classic soft rock and it's pure music alchemy. |
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The generalised irreverence of his earlier films has hardened into a focused attack on the equal absurdities of war and the British class system. |
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Or at least I, perhaps over-optimistically, aspired to humorous irreverence but let's move on. |
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He has a real sensitivity to his work that frames his kind of insane associative irreverence very sweetly, and never cheaply. |
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Powerful figures in Sierra Leone always seem to have a problem in dealing with youthful irreverence. |
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There may be offence to some, but, in an age where irreverence has, to others, become reverent, the field markers have moved. |
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While this combination often manifested itself in irreverence, it also turned him into one of the most tolerant and open-minded of travelers. |
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Does your magazine like to use multiple, overlapping puns in their subheads that signal irreverence and a willingness to make nice to celebrities and their handlers? |
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It is no longer a question of spirit of adventure, of being fed up or irreverence or even of a small measure of juvenile irresponsibility. |
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What the show lacks in this kind of irreverence it makes up for in plain old addictive soapiness. |
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The journey from war to peace has taken too long, and familiarity breeds irreverence. |
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And if he fudges the issue, won't that undermine the vein of breezy, amoral irreverence usually so ubiquitous in his films? |
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Mr President, I should like to start with a little irreverence which only your Irish colleagues can take the liberty of doing. |
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Yet, although irony and irreverence underlie Juan Ugalde's work, his critical gaze is cloaked in a tenderness shown towards his characters. |
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These examples vividly illustrate how youthful irreverence can expose the impotence of seemingly all-powerful rulers. |
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The first opera was written when the composer was twenty-five, and it has all the glinting lightness and mordant irreverence that his early works display. |
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Burlesque is the voice of irreverence, low humour, plain silliness. |
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He celebrated the larrikin streak in the Australian soul, the irreverence, the hedonism and physicality and of course the bloody-minded stoicism, obduracy and deviousness. |
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Now suffering from lupus, a cruel disease which attacks the body's immune system, she has a quick wit and air of irreverence that still make her a delight to interview. |
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Especially when Mayer chooses irreverence and candor over the collective blandness of risk-averse, American Idol-bred pop stars. |
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In this account of life as a test pilot, fighter pilot, and combat commander, Ross tells his Air Force story with wit, candor, and refreshing irreverence. |
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He questions old saws with irreverence, humour, and flintiness, unencumbered by our proverbial politeness and our suffocating political correctness. |
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More than a name, Palazzo is a metaphor for Rome and Fendi, an homage to the eternal city where every breath has an air of freedom, luxury and irreverence? just like a perfume. |
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It was the pressure exerted by female athletes and trainers, their irreverence and their fighting that wrung the odd concession from highly misogynistic sports organisations. |
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Another expression of the values, bravery and irreverence of Diesel. |
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One of the reasons for the Daily Mirror's long period of sales success with its working class audience had been its irreverence and anti-establishment image. |
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Or would he show it the same irreverence he had for Mr Morsi? |
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A brilliantly conceived, superbly executed romp through Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy with Miller interpreting all the characters through the anarchical lens of television's superheros of irreverence, The Simpsons. |
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If you've seen one too many conventional watercolor how-to books, the energy and irreverence in this one is like a breath of fresh air. |
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And the irreverence of mere logicism of the Arian mind is always a threat to us enroute. |
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