Word: aplomb
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...Prior’s Nurse—knows precisely how to hold her head to convey a sense of otherworldly detachment and disdain for the world necessary to her part. She also gracefully pulls off swinging precariously through the air and dangling in space on pulleys with considerable aplomb. With an artistry of appearance, Carey’s angel invites a series of questions: is Prior insane? Has the strain of AIDS and abandonment at last gone to his head?The Angel reveals a prophetic book to Prior—hidden, oddly enough, in a suitcase beneath the tiles...
...Space age glittery synth beats overwhelm straining vocals, but fail to mask what is clearly a sub-par rendition of Cure-esque mope-rock.McVeigh often harps on simplified clichés about the inextricable link between love and death, though he does deliver his elementary lyrical content with a reserved aplomb that salvages a handful of good tunes. Gifted with an eerie and reverberating baritone reminiscent of Ian Curtis, McVeigh has an uncanny knack for delivering the most vacuous lyrics with commendable seriousness and brooding passion. The title track, while arguably the strongest song on the album and the one with...
...usual, the gender police have arrived on the scene with much aplomb but with little information. The criticism that several public schools—especially in New York City—have elicited over the past year for their decision to separate middle-school classrooms by gender is based on a body of unfounded assumptions, and, if anything, these schools should be praised for creating an educational environment that will enable early adolescents to learn with as few unnecessary distractions as possible...
...tepidly drawn and wanly performed; those who've seen 300 know Snyder is in no way an actor's director. (The two self-starters are Haley, who does right by his grizzled role, and Morgan, a Robert Downey Jr. knockoff who chews the scenery and his stogie with equal aplomb.) And while the climax is unusual in a comic-book movie--bad guy does very bad thing, then escapes his comeuppance by persuading folks that what he's done is really kind of a good thing--it lacks the kick of apocalyptic retribution the mass audience expects and deserves...
...movie, or the carefully detailed high camp of the performances in David Lynch's Dune. It's just, mostly, inert. (The two self-starters are Haley, who does right by his grizzled role, and Morgan, a Robert Downey Jr. knockoff, who chews the scenery and his stogie with equal aplomb.) And while the climax is unusual in a comic-book movie - bad guy does very bad thing, then escapes his comeuppance by persuading folks that what he's done is really kind of a good thing - it lacks the kick of apocalyptic retribution the mass audience expects and deserves...