This is a first feature from documentarist Tareque Masud, autobiographical, but refreshingly without egotism or conceit. |
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The banter by all these sophisticated Manhattanites is also refreshingly tart. |
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His comments on his own work are refreshingly forthright and thoughtful in pointing out major needs for improvement. |
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Mother had the pineapple parfait which delivered a refreshingly sweet and chilled end to her meal. |
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Count me among the devotees of this subtly herby and refreshingly fruity drink, spiked with just enough vanilla for intrigue. |
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Run as a co-operative venture, this ski resort has stubbornly, and rather refreshingly, anchored itself in the past. |
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The champagne cream sauce was refreshingly light and brought out the best of my wife's salmon filet. |
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The actor-turned-director has a refreshingly old-fashioned manner with the camera. |
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The tease is very hard to resist, and the carefree and bubbly tone of the piece is refreshingly palatable. |
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The documentary's portrayal of the gigs, rehearsals, arguments and partying is refreshingly honest. |
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I smiled and climbed the ladder into the hay loft, shivering in the refreshingly cool air. |
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Ultimately, however, it makes for a refreshingly realistic perspective, unlike the phony, manufactured pop culture movies we are deluged with. |
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It is a gorgeously realized and refreshingly carefree love story with a genuinely happy ending. |
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While no one disputes his ability to lift 900 pounds, some have found his performance refreshingly unpracticed, others off-puttingly amateurish. |
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The film takes a refreshingly realistic approach to its often confused characters. |
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The filmmaker recounts the author's life story in a way that is refreshingly un-Hollywood. |
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Essential oils of ylang ylang and lavender leave skin feeling refreshingly tingly, warmed and clean. |
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The beer had been refreshingly good, like a cool breeze in a glass, and I had another. |
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The lightly breaded lemon chicken was crisp, tender and well-matched with a refreshingly more-tart-than-sweet lemon sauce. |
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She is, in short, a woman of contradictions, and refreshingly, unfashionably unrighteous. |
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On a hot day sea breezes can bring refreshingly cooler conditions to coastal towns and cities. |
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The smallish dining room is smart and comfortable, and the service has personality, wit, and a refreshingly unforced charm. |
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Wines whose pH is between 3.2 and 3.5 tend to taste refreshingly rather than piercingly acid. |
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He breathed a huge sigh as he got into the refreshingly cold air after the fuzzy warmth of the pub. |
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The films seem refreshingly free from worthiness, irony, and political correctness, and do not attempt to work on more than one level. |
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Sauvignon Blanc grown here is capable of making wines every bit as refreshingly aromatic as Sancerre. |
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Follow this simple rule, and even on the hottest days your reds will taste refreshingly fruity, with vibrant flavours. |
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The Sheldonian, recently refurbished, was packed with a refreshingly young audience, which remained rapt throughout. |
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These drawings are bursting with life, quirky and refreshingly spontaneous. |
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These are kids with pure talent, meteoric energy, unbelievable charisma and refreshingly unpretentious intelligence. |
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Kent is a song stylist in the swing tradition, and her vocals are refreshingly unencumbered by elaboration for the sake of it. |
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The tennis prodigy offers a refreshingly impolite blast to his critics from the US Open before heading home. |
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Lovers of sensitively erudite pop will surely succumb to this refreshingly ache-ridden brand of awe struck tuneage. |
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He splashed the water on his face and found it refreshingly cool, he dipped his head under and felt the chill run through his body. |
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In this day of the loud, trash-talking, me-first NBA star, Millers is refreshingly quiet and humble. |
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Then, when the actual event transpires, things go in a refreshingly unanticipated manner. |
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He is an extrovert trumpeter and composer, confident and even refreshingly brash at times! |
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I feel women directors bring a refreshingly emotional approach to films, which strikes a chord with the masses. |
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The refreshingly younger torch-bearers of York jazz continue their regular jam sessions on Sunday night at the Black Swan, Peasholme Green. |
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It has masses of room for five adults, a cavernous load capacity, and a refreshingly airy, well-equipped interior. |
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Much of the menu is Tex-Mex, but, refreshingly, you won't see a single cactus logo or silly hat anywhere. |
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The wine list is fairly priced, refreshingly pro-French and Old World and the service is sharp and vigilant but not fawningly over-attentive. |
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Dried hops are soft and sweet smelling with a natural narcotic effect that will induce restful sleep, while lavender flowers and rose petals are refreshingly fragrant. |
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There's something refreshingly primeval about the rustle of a river, its inexorable flow, now rushing, now drifting. |
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The wine balances its warmer flavour with a refreshingly sharp tang. |
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Basis Soaps and Cleansers are specially formulated with gentle cleansing ingredients and natural botanicals to leave skin feeling refreshingly clean. |
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About 1530, a new dish began to be put on English tables, a fowl a little larger than the traditional goose, but with a lot more meat and a refreshingly new taste. |
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In presenting the main outlines of the orthodox theory, he is refreshingly free of the arrogance and simplistic dogmatism that seems to permeate the subject. |
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George Roualt's decors and costume is refreshingly modern even today. |
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Full-flavored but well-focused, with vibrant, refreshingly bitter pomegranate and redcurrant flavors underpinned by juicy acidity. |
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He has become refreshingly realistic about the road block to future progress – Whitehall. |
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The JP Morgan Chase leader is also refreshingly blunt about the prospect for other severe losses coming down the pike. |
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The language is colloquial and hardboiled — not Elmore Leonard, exactly, but refreshingly unperfumed. |
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But the Plain Jane vocals of Mary Pearson, though sweetened with echo treatment, sound refreshingly unmannered. |
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Auguste Reymond's Jazz collection of automatic watches takes on a refreshingly new look with this evocation of jazz's Afro-American roots. |
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Consumer spending has at last come out of the doldrums and the real estate market is refreshingly strong. |
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Because the darkness is so great, the candlelight is refreshingly bright, illuminating more than one would think possible. |
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This was a brilliant analysis of everyman as a way of talking intimately, challengingly and refreshingly about the human condition. |
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Soft and supple, this refreshingly light Zen sports bra follows all your movements, and there are no irritating seams. |
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Otherwise his book is refreshingly free of theoretical cant or jargon, despite some nostalgia for a Marxist perspective and a deference to critics like Lukacs. |
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Camping beneath holm oak, laurel and oleander on Croatia's Adriatic coast is a refreshingly different Mediterranean experience. |
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Goldmanites aren't identical, of course, and, in the context of his new job, O'Neill holds one refreshingly off-message view. |
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The report contains refreshingly clear proposals as to how this may be prevented, and these, too, we can fully support. |
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The high-quality stainless steel surface makes it refreshingly easy to clean. |
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You'll be welcomed into this refreshingly cool game by the beautiful ice princess. |
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And her refreshingly simple debut album has proved a hit with critics and fans alike. |
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It has a refreshingly crisp taste to quench your thirst and it's made with real fruit juice from concentrate. |
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Making business refreshingly simple and pleasant for customers has nothing to do with business itself. |
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Sympany is a refreshingly different insurance Group that understands peoples' needs and takes them seriously. |
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Teacher should have the skill to make the student·s mind refreshingly receptive. |
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It is refreshingly unabashed in its sexuality and eroticism. |
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It insists on efficiency standards for household appliances so that your towels come out of the dryer refreshingly cool and damp. |
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The new cultural center is refreshingly open, airy, and filled with light. |
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It was pleasant in the cool shade, and the soft wind blew refreshingly. |
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The film refreshingly avoids the easy out of a cliched ending. |
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We also sampled the roasted asparagus and red pepper appetizer, a refreshingly simple plate of vegetables served cold and lightly drizzled with a tangy topping. |
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This is, stripped bare, a classic romantic comedy, given a barbed edge by the precociously talented Anderson, whose presence lends the film its refreshingly unique style. |
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The lean, minimalist design is refreshingly at odds with the usual run of touristy alpine decoration and furnishings featured at other ski resort hotels. |
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The latest film from Gabriele Salvatores, director of the Oscar winning Mediterraneo, melds several genres whilst remaining refreshingly unclassifiable. |
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The 21-year-old British sensation is neither flashy nor larger-than-life, forgoing glamour for a refreshingly unrefined persona as a smack-talking rabble-rouser. |
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While no one disputes Ahola's ability to lift 900 pounds, some have found his performance refreshingly unpracticed, others off-puttingly amateurish. |
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Yet the service and atmosphere here is refreshingly unstuffy. |
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At its best it produces light to medium-bodied, crisp dry white wines with hints of apples, honey and yeast and a refreshingly pure and clean finish. |
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She is refreshingly immoderate in her vision of what deep democracy might entail, and uses extreme examples from around the world to illustrate it. |
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I found them refreshingly imaginative and aptly made. |
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Economic liberation continues, life becomes refreshingly simple. |
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And she's refreshingly straightforward about what it involves. |
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Light, compact and beautifully styled, they're refreshingly easy to use. |
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His thinking is refreshingly clear-headed. |
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Till then, refreshingly, it's not for sale. |
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Although the number of tourists visiting Selous is gradually increasing, it remains low in comparison with Tanzania's northern parks, and the congestion of the north is refreshingly absent. |
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If you talk with Fred-the-Avatar, you will find him intelligent, logical, with high integrity, and refreshingly free of any asserted opinions or habitual preferences. |
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Drivers can direct the Cruze into and out of corners with minimal fuss, and a quick steering ratio and light effort make things feel refreshingly sporty and willing to please. |
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First, the release from cultural mainstream institutions, combined with the necessity of refreshingly direct interaction with audiences, characterise the street art mode. |
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But Silver Linings Playbook's own aggressive assertion that it is refreshingly unique and cutting edge isn't enough to cover up how cookie-cutter it really is. |
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He remains a refreshingly unpredictable right-winger. |
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More refreshingly, the sleek bathroom featured a big open-air rain shower. |
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So it was that the former defensive utility man evolved into a highly-respected administrator and official, an outstanding and refreshingly different representative of the African continent and his home country of Ghana. |
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The result is a modern sportswear collection of uncommon elegance, detail-obsessed yet refreshingly remote from the work-wear-inspired stuff that's glutting American runways. |
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The young leads are refreshingly unsentimental about their condition and have a sense of rebelliousness and mischief, especially when their parents try to mollycoddle them. |
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It's commendably honest about the realities of treatment and refreshingly the cancer brings out the worst not the best in Millie. |
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It's a novel of ideas, but one refreshingly devoid of windbaggery. |
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The two nearest towns, Newcastle Emlyn in one direction, and Cardigan in the other, are refreshingly free of all those useless nick-nack shops which make pleasantly unpretentious market towns into tourist destinations. |
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Jeffries is no idolator of great reputations, and his treatment of Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and Jürgen Habermas is refreshingly breezy, though never less than serious and carefully judged. |
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But because all these people, no matter how damaged, are essentially tenderhearted, Boswell can write the most refreshingly old-fashioned kind of narrative: one that evokes deep sympathy for all its characters. |
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In his forties and refreshingly unpompous, he does a vast amount of good works for those less blessed in life's lottery than himself. |
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With their refreshingly straightforward accounts of what they have seen, and how they have been moved by the people they met, the young people are able to attract broad public interest and attention. |
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And they knock off in time to say goodnight to their children. A second excellent feature of Scotland's new politics is that it is, still, a refreshingly amateurish affair. |
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Ultra-creamy yet refreshingly lightweight formula goes beyond flaw-fixing, acting as skin's undercover moisture agent for a dewy look. Disguises unevenness with sheer-to-moderate coverage. |
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Mr. Anderson refreshingly plays down the character's grim sorrowfulness and emphasizes the well-groomed fastidiousness that keeps Doc at a disdainful remove from all that Lola embodies. |
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The gueuze blended by Hanssens of Dworp has a refreshingly fruity, rhubarby flavor. |
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Barefoot Refresh, a refreshingly vibrant, light-bodied spritzer, is the perfect alternative for those quintessential summertime occasions. |
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Whether clients are looking for designer radiators, cosy underfoot heat, all-glass aesthetics or refreshingly affordable shower stalls, Kermi has the product that is just right and provides the comfort they seek. |
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Ambassador Anastassopoulos, I hope that, for some time to come, this Organization can continue to benefit from your thoughtful and refreshingly frank discourse, which favours intellectual honesty over cautious diplomacy. |
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Fick's account of training, leadership, and combat is straightforward and unadorned, and he is refreshingly unselfconscious about his own baptism by fire. |
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A fine band that includes Dean Parks play it refreshingly straight, while a guest spot from altoist Dave Koz shows Lington where he should be going. |
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But Sunderland will be left scratching their heads at the result after creating enough chances to have won two games in a refreshingly open and frantic first period. |
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But the set piece numbers and sequences come across so catchily and refreshingly because they have clearly been vigorously rehearsed and perfected. |
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Marnina Gonick's Between Femininities constitutes one such refreshingly innovative and contemporary approach to researching girls' lives and realities. |
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The characters are all quirky and life-size, and, as with the burglaries in Breaking In, the treatment of drugs is refreshingly free of either moralizing or romanticizing. |
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Every element, every assumption, every custom, every jot and tittle of the rule, no matter how long-standing and sacrosanct, became refreshingly suspect, tiringly suspect. |
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