But this fusion of folk and science fiction is niftily sui generis.
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The light switch was niftily built into the side of the bed for easy reach.
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Niftily, sensors in the devices will also be used to understand how the environment is effecting the structures.
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Niftily, it's got the Supreme logo inside the digital screen, as well as wrapped on the phone's body.
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And for a car with a great big battery under the floorboards, it gets around the track quite niftily.
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Premiering above is the Vern Moen-directed video which—niftily cuts Tove's head in half for the entirety of the short.
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With a left-footed strike, Guerreiro's ball caromed niftily into the sharp corner of the net, without any hope whatsoever of being stopped.
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I think the production has a slight show-us-don't-tell-us problem that is niftily disguised by Andy Blankenbuehler's movement for the ensemble.
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Niftily paced and tight as a chokehold, the script (by the comic-book writer Scott Lobdell) delivers just enough variation to hold our interest.
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The producers did precisely that in the niftily choreographed third-season finale, setting the stage for a pair of juicy plot lines in the season ahead.
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But instead they should seize on the appeal of high-intensity engagement, rather like Sanquin, a Dutch blood bank that niftily sponsored a League of Legends killfest.
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Adapting James Frey's infamously fictionalized memoir, "A Million Little Pieces," the director Sam Taylor-Johnson niftily elides the book's truthiness problem with an introductory quotation from Mark Twain.
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The movie owes a thematic debt to "Groundhog Day," but mostly -- in a film so conscious of conventions that it niftily bleeps its foul language -- it's a heckuva lot of fun.
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Like a miracle household product sold on TV, "inappropriate" niftily performed multiple duties: It minimized the importance of what the president had done while scolding the intern for being up for it.
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But there are some really niftily edited sequences showing dancers auditioning and practicing that makes me wonder why the film's creative team didn't save their big production guns for the more climactic performances.
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Over the course of four seasons, "Billions," which was created by Brian Koppelman, David Levien, and Andrew Ross Sorkin, has also shown a rare capacity to evolve, pivoting, niftily, like a company under S.E.C. investigation.
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The storytelling was a grab bag: niftily disorienting but also, at times, humorless or claustrophobic, as if it were less a show about human beings and more a staging ground for cathartic spectacles of economic justice.
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Pinson, a 6-foot-6 forward, had the game's best passes, taking the ball inside and niftily whipping his wrists to kick it out to Berry or resident sharpshooter Kenny Williams for 3's, and led his team with seven assists.
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The first live-action "Star Wars" series continues to impress through three episodes, employing a savvy blend of different genres, niftily mashing up the qualities of an old TV western with sci-fi special effects and the action-filled pacing of an animated show.
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Owing a debt to several culturally significant horror touchstones, most notably "The Stepford Wives," the film niftily probes how African Americans are treated by well-meaning whites, before the slightly awkward exchanges and tone-deaf references give way to something considerably creepier lurking beneath the neatly manicured surface.
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The screen-to-stage phenomenon was represented at the Dramaten festival with Mr. MacDowell's "The Seventh Seal," Mr. van Hove's diptych "After the Rehearsal"/"Persona," and Emil Graffman's Expressionist take on "The Rite," which niftily rendered the spooky mood of this obscure made-for-television feature from 1969.
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Sean O'Grady of The Independent criticised the accents as "a load of old pony". Jasper Rees of The Daily Telegraph was more positive, describing it as "niftily scripted" and a "savvy, up-to-the-minute comedy" despite its 1970s setting, and "a lot closer to the knuckle – and far funnier – than anything in, say, The Liver Birds or The Likely Lads". Chortle's Steve Bennett was positive about the cast and soundtrack, and described the first episode as "frequently funny, with an episodic structure that delivers wry character-led laughs with the regularity of a sketch show", but noted that it lacked "a consistent tone or strong narrative" whilst Euan Ferguson of The Guardian described it as "enjoyable, but little more".
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