What saves the whole shtick from utter banality is Wang's great location work and his ability to get performances out of even a block of wood. |
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It is part of his shtick, his way of underlining the absurdity of the system. |
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I believe it is a true sign of a comedian if she can do her comedy shtick in an operating room. |
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Now, it's not like Johnny had some former great glory with The Swing Orchestra, but at least they had a shtick, something to work with. |
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Byrne develops this beleaguered-performer shtick to Basil Fawlty-like levels of physicalised impatience. |
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It is his signature, his philosophy and shtick, his declaration that love conquers all, a testament to the gaudiness and foreignness of romance. |
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Meanwhile, more religions are ransacked for metaphor than Joseph Campbell ever shook his shtick at. |
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The governor rehearses a few zingers and then commits the whole shtick to memory for later delivery. |
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The director doesn't let the shtick stand on its own but instead molds radiant and memorable characters to carry the story. |
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The nasal Borscht Belt shtick was tired in the movie, but on stage it's irritating. |
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My favorite waiter there is an old man who works his charming shtick on both willing and unwilling customers. |
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It would be easy to say Clark simply needed the time to develop his campaign shtick. |
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She wisely chose the breathlessly excited guy in the audience to cater to, which made the whole shtick more entertaining. |
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The next morning, fourteen hours later, they're still sitting there, completely destroying the whole minimalist design shtick. |
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His shtick was to create concrete expectations, only to void them instantaneously with his voice. |
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But Hope does more than his usual shtick of self-referential gags and breaking the fourth wall. |
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My shtick is to promote the idea that humans, not computers, read programs. |
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I know Devito was just continuing his Taxi shtick at that point, but I really thought it worked for this movie. |
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Or at least it's the shtick that sets the tone for the evening's witty and intelligible discourse. |
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Thus, while the music rather than the shtick is the focus here, these songs were actually made to work as backgrounds to other arts. |
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This made him look silly, because the whole shtick belongs to a different generation. |
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But, that is a big part of their shtick and I guess they are stuck with it. |
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The shtick worked brilliantly, granting Farrell his edge but softening it too. |
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The whole Latin-lifestyle shtick epitomises youthful sophistication, syncopated libido and relaxed, hedonistic good times. |
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People have tagged her as a print designer, but her shtick is maximalism, despite dressing in black. |
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Then, in that interview, the Oscar nominee took the self-deprecation shtick beyond any reasonable expectation. |
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For chunks of this gig, even Nash herself seemed bored with the whole shtick. |
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The coach had a whole shtick prepared Monday when he met reporters at the Jets' lavish bunker. |
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Logan is dazzled by her whole shtick, but their relationship is a bad idea from the get-go. |
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And anyway, wasn't this new adaptation's whole shtick the fact that noble Robin Hood is the baddie? |
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Better to write the occasional witty couplet, like Morrissey or Stephin Merritt, than build your whole shtick on a gag. |
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There is the classic, carefully crafted shtick of the old-fashioned nightclub comedian, routines and rib-ticklers cast and recast into perfectly polished pearls of witticism. |
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Jay-Z is reinvigorated, witty, and good-humored, while West has reeled in some of his id-gone-haywire shtick. |
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His own shtick had been the opposite, burning with little but the strange, anxious desire to scald himself for underachievement. |
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Watch his foray into the land of the Internet in this deodorant shtick that has gone viral. |
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Critics who are less bullish on The Crazy Ones bemoan all of this, protesting that the Robin Williams shtick is worn out. |
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One reason younger audiences have not yet embraced the videos may be that the shtick feels stale. |
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Is Jones really flubbing his lines, or is it all part of the shtick? |
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When I turned it up and found it was McFerrin doing his usual multitracked, a cappella shtick, I was at first charmed. |
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Yesterday, we know who did his Mr. Democracy shtick again. |
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But talking to elected politicians, state-party bosses, pollsters, political scientists, commentators and community groups, some interesting ironies jumped out at me. Start with that shtick mentioned at the start. |
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But when he gives his evidence, Mr Blair will surely regurgitate his familiar messianic-Manichean shtick, plus his view that American power is best steered by working alongside it. |
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My interest is solely for the strength and the recovery of the U. S. economy. When American politicians wheel out the humble-roots shtick, they are usually met with eye-rolling if not cynicism. |
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She was very winning within her natural habitat – the female-oriented buddy-movie – in How to Be Single, where she brought the odd moment of rage to her over-sharing, cheerfully disinhibited shtick. |
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Phil Daniels compered from an armchair, and his gorblimey shtick found an echo in the Blockheads' Chaz Jankel and Derek Hussey's revisit of Billericay Dickie. |
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Immersed in the bumbling, burbling, shuffling shtick that he has taken from the floor of the Oxford Union to the corridors of power, Mr Johnson seemed unaware that his audience was observing him in confused silence. |
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You can also always be sure that their shtick is never knowingly underdone, from the duelling green lasers to the big perspex piano to Bellamy's shamelessly stagey way of drrrawing ouuut a syllable. |
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As for Trump, his whole shtick is that he's a winner. |
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Only a blockhead would assume he believes what he says, since part of his comic shtick is to offend the faint of heart and bemuse the literal of mind. |
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Williams and Crystal are a solid comedy duo, with Crystal demonstrating a skill with Glasgow kisses, while Williams give us his usual shtick and umpteen bizarre outfits. |
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