And it's that potent combination of naffness, sadness, and glamour that makes them both so brilliant and so British.
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Yet "Le Kov" is far from nostalgic or purist in its approach, resisting both the Disnification of Cornwall's mythical past and the well-meaning naffness of Celtic Eurovision-style pop.
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I feel like rugby has actually pushed through being uncool to make itself sort of post-cool, like, it is definitely not cool—watch rugby in this country, and it's just a load of wide posh lads saying "Twickers!" and emptying lager over their heads—but then the fact that rugby is almost unashamed in the naffness of its fan base kind of makes it cool in that uncaring way, a sort of malaise that appeals to people such as I. So actually I am going to go out on a limb here and say rugby: actually alright.
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A prawn cocktail is a seafood entrée popular (but regarded as something of a luxury) in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. By the time of Smith and Mowlam's operations it had acquired unfortunate connotations of naffness. The combination of this dish with the well-known political phrase "charm offensive" was a reference to the "lunching" involved in Smith and Mowlam's plans. The first usage of the phrase "Prawn Cocktail Offensive" is currently unrecorded.
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Halliwell's Film Guide described Dirty Weekend as "a sleazy little tale of a female vigilante, directed and acted in a perfunctory, over-emphatic manner".Leslie Halliwell and John Walker Halliwell's Film Guide. HarperPerennial, 1996 (p.316). Sheila Johnston's assessment of Dirty Weekend was also negative: "no window-dressing can hide the fact that an aura of indelible naffness hangs over the movie...the screenplay is hewn out from Helen Zahavi's over-written novel with no concessions to the way people actually speak".
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Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph wrote, "This New Orleans-set detective thriller from Carol Morley pulls off an undesirable yet weirdly impressive coup: the twist ending to its murder mystery is somehow simultaneously preposterous and obvious, like a clown car parping and swerving its way towards you from the far end of an airstrip." Sophie Monks Kaufman of Sight and Sound wrote, "Out of Blue is incoherent, which isn’t to say it’s bad. Carol Morley’s murder mystery is a mood piece that alternates between naffness and transcendence".
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A fantasy genre crossover inspired by the Grimm Brothers' fairy tales, it centers on a childless couple who set out to end a curse placed on them by Streep's vengeful witch. \- Though the film was dismissed by some critics such as Mark Kermode as "irritating naffness", Streep's performance earned her Academy Award, Golden Globe, SAG, and Critic's Choice Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress. - \- \- In July 2014, it was announced that Streep would portray Maria Callas in Master Class, but the project was pulled after director Mike Nichols's death in November of the same year. In 2015, Streep starred in Jonathan Demme's Ricki and the Flash, playing a grocery store checkout worker by day who is a rock musician at night, and who has one last chance to reconnect with her estranged family.
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Over the years, their studio albums became more sparsely released, as Kay himself stated in 2013: "I will only put out an album now when I am inspired to do so. Jake Indiana from Highsnobiety said that they "could have lived very comfortably going the route of a ’90s nostalgia band, enjoying the ride of their past success", but concluded that they have "[shown] no signs of fading in their ability to weave sonic wonder." Writing for Pitchfork, Steven J. Horowitz commented that "No band from the ’90s has stayed so true to [their] sound while modifying it in real time". According to Ian Gittins of The Guardian, "Jamiroquai have long been shunned by music's tastemakers for a perceived naffness, and have shown their utter disregard for this critical snobbery by getting bigger and bigger.
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