Critic Dennis Schwartz appreciated the acting ensemble in the film and wrote, " The film was too stagebound to be effective cinema, but it scores points in its unsentimental portrait of the loser life of the lonely and desperate merchant seamen.

Ransom primarily wrote short poems examining the ironic and unsentimental nature of life ( with domestic life in the American South being a major theme ).

Jimson is unsentimental about his life and work and sees himself as someone who has given over to a destructive passion.

Jimson is unsentimental about his life and work and sees himself as someone who has given over to a destructive passion.

Pekić has left a vast corpus of high literary quality characterized by following traits: narrative structures of growing complexity that, in the case of The Golden Fleece cross the fuzzy bounds of the post-modern novel and can be best described by the author's sub-title " Phantasmagoria " ( this mammoth work is more than 3, 500 pages long ); the presence of autobiographical thread one can detect in all major Pekić's works, but especially in his vivid and unsentimental memoirs on his years as a political prisoner and essayist books on life in Britain ; obsession with the theme of personal freedom crushed by the impersonal mechanism of the totalitarian power.

Bevin was unsentimental about the British Empire in places where the growth of nationalism had made direct rule no longer practical, and was part of the Cabinet which approved a speedy British withdrawal from India in 1947, and from other territories.

" Margaret Booth: Tough, unsentimental film editor who began her career ' patching ' during the First World War ", The Guardian November 2, 2002.

Gerald Peary wrote in April 1998 that Dragojević " creates a crass, unsentimental, muscular guys ' world on the way to his vivid condemnation of the Bosnian War ".

At the novel's beginning, Becky Sharp is a bright girl with an eye to improving her lot through marrying up the social scale ; though she is thoroughly unsentimental, she is nonetheless portrayed as being a good friend to Amelia.

" The work is unsentimental and effectively contrasts the mother in black and the daughter in white, with other colors kept restrained in the manner advised by his teacher Gleyre.

Rolling Stone writer Paul Nelson wrote: " Red Headed Stranger is extraordinarily ambitious, cool, tightly controlled .... Hemingway, who perfected an art of sharp outlines and clipped phrases, used to say that the full power of his composition was accessible only between the lines ; and Nelson, on this LP, ties precise, evocative lyrics to not quite remembered, never really forgotten folk melodies to create a similar effect, haunting yet utterly unsentimental.

One reviewer wrote, " What we find here is an inventive updating of Stapledon's famous Odd John ( 1935 ) in very sensitive, unsentimental terms, with the addition of a sense of community, a benefit that Stapledon's protagonist never got to fully experience.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times observed, " In America is not unsentimental about its new arrivals ( the movie has a warm heart and frankly wants to move us ), but it is perceptive about the countless ways in which it is hard to be poor and a stranger in a new land.

Hardboiled ( or hard-boiled ) fiction is a literary style, most commonly associated with crime fiction ( especially detective stories ), and distinguished by the unsentimental portrayal of violence and sometimes sex.

Consequently, his language is magical and persuasive, and his observation of animals and their ways is accurate and unsentimental.

It is clear, astringent, unsentimental, abrupt.

" According to Richard Schickel, the film is " an odyssey of simple problems, simple emotional discoveries, a relationship full of knots that Salles permits to unwind in an unforced, unsentimental fashion.

Like the playwright's original work, it is known for its unsentimental realism.

In appearance blonde and supposedly a beauty in her youth, in personality Ethel is unsentimental yet warm, proud and extremely loyal, with her tendency to be sharp-tongued leading to moments of hilarity.

Critical reception to Sikov's books has been appreciative: film historian Jeanine Basinger finds him " a caring biographer " who is exhaustive in his research ; his writing has been noted for its unsentimental tone and detailed scholarship.

* The American hard-boiled school: Distinguished by the unsentimental portrayal of violence and sex, the sleuth usually also confronts danger and engages in violence.

Bresson's films can also be understood as critiques of French society and the wider world, with each revealing the director's sympathetic if unsentimental view on its victims.

Aspects of Chopin's style also prefigure the intensely lyrical and experimental style of novelists such as Virginia Woolf and the unsentimental focus on female intellectual and emotional growth in the novels of Sigrid Undset and Doris Lessing.

She also wrote and illustrated The Ordinary Princess, a children's book ( called " refreshingly unsentimental " by an article in Horn Book Magazine ) which she originally wrote as a short story, and wrote a dozen detective novels, including Death in Kashmir and Death in Zanzibar.

The novel can be seen as an epilogue to the possibly unfinished work The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and also as an answer to Tobias Smollett's decidedly unsentimental Travels through France and Italy.

He was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize: in 1956 for The Age of Reform, an unsentimental analysis of the populism movement in the 1890s and the progressive movement of the early 20th century ; and in 1964 for the cultural history Anti-intellectualism in American Life.

The liquidator may be familiar to buyers who have been attending the liquidator's sales for decades, and trust that the liquidator will price wisely and fairly and steer them toward finding their niches within each collector's realm, and for the specialist's knowledge and experience with pricing items, and general value knowledge of all types of household goods and personal property value, and the specialist's experience in disposing of unsold goods in an unsentimental manner after the sale.

Although Anderson portrayed many characters during her movie career, all tended to be tough-talking and unsentimental, yet rambunctious, vibrant and even comedic — all at the same time.

Simple, even stark, paintings of common household items ( Still Life with a Smoker's Box ) and an uncanny ability to portray children's innocence in an unsentimental manner ( Boy with a Top ) nevertheless found an appreciative audience in his time, and account for his timeless appeal.

Most critics thought the unsentimental Bowery tale crude or vulgar, and Crane chose to publish the work privately after it was repeatedly rejected for publication.

Home Scene ( 1871 ), Elizabeth at the Piano ( 1875 ), The Chess Players ( 1876 ), and Elizabeth Crowell and her Dog ( 1874 ), each dark in tonality, focus on the unsentimental characterization of individuals adopting natural attitudes in their homes.

) Sorley may be seen as a forerunner of Sassoon and Owen, and his unsentimental style stands in direct contrast to that of Rupert Brooke.

The unsentimental or " hard " comedies of John Dryden, William Wycherley, and George Etherege reflected the atmosphere at Court, and celebrated with frankness an aristocratic macho lifestyle of unremitting sexual intrigue and conquest.

Hall called him " unsentimental, dangerous and immensely powerful ", even The Sunday Times curmudgeonly critic of the day called his performance " a decisive step in the direction of great tragedy ... great acting ", while fellow actors paid him the rare compliment of applauding him in the dressing room on the first night.

Maurice Pialat ( 31 August 1925 – 11 January 2003 ) was a French film director, screenwriter and actor noted for the rigorous and unsentimental style of his films.

The films of Maurice Pialat are often noted for their loose yet rigorous style and for their somewhat elliptical editing, which emphasizes an unsentimental worldview.

Hobbes proceeds by defining terms clearly, and in an unsentimental way.

He found it a synthesis of his Norwegian heritage and American home through its unsentimental depiction of character and virtue.

His subjects more universal and less nationalistic, more heroic by virtue of his unsentimental rendering.

As is usual with collaborative efforts in comic strips, his name was the only one credited — although, sensitive to his own experience working on Joe Palooka, Capp frequently drew attention to his assistants in interviews and publicity pieces.

The effect is of commentary to the original scene, frequently comic in nature.

His contemporaries associated him with Socrates as a leader of a decadent intellectualism, both of them being frequently lampooned by comic poets such as Aristophanes.

Concepts of Meher Baba's philosophy, often including characters resembling Baba, have frequently appeared in works of comic book writer J. M. DeMatteis, including Dr.

Modern names are sometimes a marketing ploy or attempt to create " brand awareness ", frequently using a comic theme thought to be memorable, Slug and Lettuce for a pub chain being an example.

The technique is common in superhero comics, where it has been used so frequently that the term comic book death has been coined for it.

The work is lighthearted and frequently comic, with little of the deep character exploration or darker feelings found in Mozart's later operas.

The convention of superheroes wearing masks ( frequently without visible pupils ) and skintight unitards originated with Lee Falk's comic strip hero The Phantom.

His comic opera style served as a model for the generations of musical theatre composers that followed, and his music is still frequently performed, recorded and pastiched.

He also appears frequently in the Star Wars " Expanded Universe " of novels, comic books and video games, including a series of novels in which he is the primary protagonist.

In the comic series, he has a crime lord arch nemesis named Drebble, and Calrissian will frequently make use of his foil's name as a cover identity so that any animosity he generates while using the alias will be brought against the real Drebble, not Calrissian himself.

Specific words, phrases, and questions are also repeated frequently, generally to comic effect.

A sub-plot concerns Claudio's friend Lucio, who frequently slanders the duke to the friar, and in the last act slanders the friar to the duke, providing opportunities for comic consternation on Vincentio's part and landing Lucio in trouble when it is revealed that the duke and the friar are one and the same.

He first appeared on Robert Q. Lewis's The Name's the Same ; Rayburn frequently sat in for regular panelist Carl Reiner, lending a comic touch to the panel.

There have also been episodes for the series produced for the Disney comic books worldwide, in USA, Denmark and the Netherlands, from the 1940s up to the present day, 2012 .< REF >" Brer Rabbit " at Inducks </ REF > Brer Bear and Brer Fox also appeared frequently in Disney's Big Bad Wolf stories, although here, Brer Bear was usually cast as an honest farmer and family man, instead of the bad guy in his original appearances.

He is also a major character in the television show Droids, and appears frequently in the series ' " Expanded Universe " of novels, comic books, and video games.

Although she appears as one of the series ' major villains, she is frequently a source of comic relief: In Magica's final scene in the series for example, she attempts to send Scrooge's " tin man back to OZ ", but is herself sent elsewhere in a whirlwind when a Quackenyeeken Yeeker bird yeeks in fear, causing her jar of magic dust to break open and carry her away.

Wodehouse frequently visited his friend Charles Le Strange at Hunstanton Hall and it became an influence for a number of the locations in his comic novels.

Sheridan presumably named his character Mrs. Malaprop, who frequently misspoke ( to great comic effect ), in joking reference to the word malapropos.

Moore appeared frequently in comic roles in plays like Sheridan's The Rivals and O ' Keeffe's The Castle of Andalusia.

Wimpy had other frequently used lines in the original comic strip.

Like most comic book heroes, characters and villains are frequently knocked out of the fight but seldom killed.

He frequently made use sequential images in his cartoons, much as in the emerging comic strip medium.

Rossini demanded similar qualities for his comic heroines, and Vivaldi wrote roles frequently for this voice as well.