The film zigzags between tones, zanily bouncing between comedy and horror-esque thrills.
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She let its hem trail, its gossamer fabric contrasting zanily with her white canvas sneakers.
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Populated by geniuses and virtuosos, the stories are zanily cerebral and proceed with fractal precision.
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Likewise, Waititi's Hitler is a madcap goofball who peppers his zanily cartoonish performance with anachronistic slang.
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John Barth, awarded for " Chimera "—a trilogy of novellas that zanily recast ancient narratives—was the leading exponent of postmodern fiction.
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"Villains" zigzags between tones, zanily bouncing between comedy and horror-esque thrills, but it fails to deliver any satisfaction through either genre.
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That selection, which goes on display next week in an in-store boutique, is supplemented by an online "festival edit" and by an entire bank of zanily exuberant Lexington Avenue windows.
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She encouraged them to pick out a beefy sweater here, a zanily embroidered jeans jacket there, and put the items together in the way the denizens of early hippie encampments might have done.
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In a zanily tech-heavy twist, Jamal's trauma counselor uses a virtual-reality crowd simulator to see how the singer will respond to the stress of performing in front of a large audience again.
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Wearing floating mutton chops and a zanily blissed-out expression, Mr. Key straddles these sane and insane worlds as Gustav, Laird's combination house manager, parkour trainer and guru, desperately trying to help his well-meaning boss endear himself to his girlfriend's gobsmacked family.
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When one or two of the company became ill, as occasionally happened, the group had rapidly to reassign the roles; when almost all of them succumbed at the same moment, as befell them after an imprudent dinner in Mexico City, they had to make do with improvised narration and zanily curtailed scenes.
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Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "Some of the bits and pieces work better than others, but so many work so clownishly, zanily, idiotically well that 'Silent Movie' is certain to have the year's noisiest audiences."Champlin, Charles (June 27, 1976). "The Fine, Flaky Flow of Silent Brooks". Los Angeles Times.
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