Word: aplomb
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...True Love Waits” to close the album. “Fake Plastic Trees” it ain’t, but the song is appealing for its plaintive simplicity. It would sound trite coming from many others, but it is carried off by Yorke with aplomb, not least because it is a respite from the dense bells-and-whistles approach of the rest of the album. You almost feel like you’re overhearing Yorke singing himself to sleep in his hotel room after the show: “I’ll drown my beliefs...
...result of her gallimaufry of genes: Chinese, Welsh, German, Persian, a heady hereditary cocktail. She looks and speaks Chinese, but when she palavers in English, out pours E.M. Forster starchy Brit-speak. She does "yah," she does "-ish" and she'll use the word 'prat' or 'ponce' with intuitive aplomb. Not to mention the bodywork: Mok's put together like an E-type Jaguar, curvaceous, sinuous, pantheresque. She's got legs Lara Croft wouldn't mind and a brain Angelina Jolie wouldn't recognize...
...blades and calls them "a bunch of f____ing d___heads." They stare gormlessly at the Chinese beauty who stands before them delivering a beautifully intonated insult?in English. It's a scene that defines Mok, soign? with plenty of street. The girl plays both, with aplomb...
...subtle performance in the extreme; so subtle in fact that he’s largely left staring deadpan while the action clumsily revolves around him. And while Robbie Coltrane, as Abberline’s sidekick, provides a competent foil for Depp’s malaise, quoting Shakespeare with pithy aplomb, Heather Graham does nothing to alter this reviewer’s opinion that she shouldn’t be allowed to act ever again. Ever...
...actors give it their best shot though, although “best” varies in quality depending on the individual. Owen Wilson and Stiller both turn in excellent performances, and Will Ferrell and Jerry Stiller play their Bad Guy roles with professionalism and aplomb. On the other hand, the female leads don’t come off as well. Milla Jovovich, she of the “actress/model” category so mocked in the film, seems to have been cast for her looks, and the fact that Stiller married Christine Taylor shortly after production wrapped may explain...