Despite its jokiness, much of "Play" is a scream channeled into theatrical fun and games.
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Worse, the compulsive punning and jokiness distract from the book's more ambitious possibilities — and its most interesting tension.
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Monologues are often addressed directly to the audience, with a chummy air that stops short of condescending jokiness.
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Many of his bits are elaborate attempts to hold on to his old obscene jokiness while playing the patriarch.
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In the book, it was written as more jokey, and I was worried that the jokiness would obscure the emotions.
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The language of her script, which combines Shakespearean pastiche with Pirandellian philosophizing and latter-day jokiness, doesn't always flow melodically.
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Could it really be he who has conjured the slap-happy, whiskey-sneaking jokiness of Shelah's boisterous clan as we initially see it?
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The book is propelled by the breakneck velocity and scattershot jokiness of Mr. Fountain's prose, but neither frenzy nor insouciance is exactly Mr. Lee's speed.
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Sartre observed that anti-Semites often resorted to the cloak of jokiness: Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies.
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Mr. Landis's sensibility, which combines sitcom jokiness with mumblecore sentimentality, tends to be more grating than amusing in "Me Him Her," though scattered moments will make you laugh.
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We try to find the right balance between the jokiness and the sincerity, and sometimes you hit the mark, but the best ones are when you feel like you've nailed it, when that alchemy is kind of perfect.
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The trilogy was a showcase for his outsized personality and aggressive jokiness, which leaned heavily on camp and on that unmistakable voice, but it also movingly articulated an effeminate gay man's desire for love and his insistence on respect.
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That pleasure is mirrored in the emotional quality of the poem — its quiet observations and sweet jokiness, its affection for the world and people in it and the final image, which brings together old and contemporary ways of living.
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The four men's flips of the wrist in the opening quintet, the jokiness of some side-to-side jumps for another male quartet, some close-partnering sequences in Aria II (the second of the ballet's two singular duets): Had we really been watching these in all previous performances we've seen of this great ballet?
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Amongst the few negative reviews, Slant Magazine's Nick Schager criticised the insider portraiture of the film as "somewhat less than revelatory, in part because Morgan's script succumbs to cutie-pie jokiness [...] and broad caricature", mentioning particularly "James Cromwell's Prince Philip, who envisions the crowned heads as exiled victims and the gathering crowds as encroaching 'Zulus'".
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Ear, mind, and spirit are engaged. And, as I suggested, moments > of jokiness, naïveté—silliness, even—save the work from being unbearably > solemn: Stockhausen-Sarastro has a vein of Papageno in him. There is a great > deal to listen to and to watch. Some of the spans, especially in the last > scene, are traversed slowly.
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Another one said "Of all the tireless toilers in the ungrateful vineyards of British cinema comedy (Roy and John Boultihg, Ralph and Gerald Thomas, Muriel and Sydney Box), Launder and Gilliat were least in thrall to the insatiable jokiness of the breadwinning professional humorist, and their long collaboration has left us with a memory of unfailing good- humour and an occasional brainy prankishness. "Obituary: Sidney Gilliat: [3 Edition] Adair, Gilbert. The Independent; London (UK) [London (UK)]02 June 1994.
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He noticed that something in Lorca had changed; he was less precious, less melancholy and more sensual. Considering the friendship between them and his admiration for Lorca, Cernuda is dispassionate in his assessments of Lorca's poetry. He is not a whole-hearted admirer of the Romancero gitano, for example, unimpressed by the obscurity of the narratives in many of the individual poems and by the theatricality and outmoded costumbrismo of the collection as a whole.Cernuda: OCP vol 1 Federico García Lorca p 210 When he discusses Canciones, he deplores the jokiness of some of the poems - > an attitude unworthy of a poet, but more appropriate to the son of a wealthy > family who, comfortable in his very bourgeois status, is able to mock it, > because he knows that it will not cost him anything and that it will earn > him the reputation of being a smart, witty chap.
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