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...Black is good too as the brisk, brittle Jane, while O’Higgins deftly suggests the turbulent feelings of a new mother bewildered by her husband’s behaviour....
...They are quiet, subtle and often agonisingly wrenching as Li explores the brittle fractures within the human heart....
...Afire is also new for Petzold in that it’s very droll, a brittle comedy of manners and misunderstandings. At least, it’s a comedy until it isn’t, for Afire is also a climate catastrophe drama....
...The lurid tone can be quite something, the dynamic between brittle empress and cuckolded emperor often plain kinky. But the movie also gets under the skin of their marriage....
...Power here feels fickle, brittle and comes at a cost....
...But there’s also an impassioned debate about the purpose of art and the need for integrity, particularly from Polonski’s brittle, driven Reeves, who hopes to coax a truthful performance out of Price and...
...The Putinist system may, like the late Soviet one, be more brittle than it appears; when the mutinous warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin briefly marched towards the Kremlin last June, some liberal critics saw it...
...soloing purposefully and introduces the flash and finesse of new discovery pianist Jahari Stampley and broody trumpet and Malaya vocals deliver the bittersweet “Don’t Lie”; drummer Chris “Daddy” Dave’s brittle...
...waltz any more and with new perky clarinet interjections; the “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy”, which has turned into “Sugar Rum Cherry”, as smoochy as the Pink Panther theme; and the newly named “Peanut Brittle...
...Her testy interactions with her mostly silent maid Mrs Frolick, played with quivering unease by Julie Forsyth, also bring out the character’s brittle hauteur....
...“This time it has backfired,” he said, adding that the relationship between the public and monarchy is becoming more brittle because it is failing to adapt fast enough with the times....
...Her glassy leaf looks brittle but is sturdy and solid. (“It has a usable outcome.”)...
...“She’s angular and brittle and controlling. But I don’t hate her, actually. I am on the verge of trying to understand and forgive.”...
...But this is also a brittle comedy of English manners, with Julia forever politely writhing in her own net of solicitude and apologies....
...Let’s race across the moor and clamber over felled ash, brittle and grey with dieback. Look — there are soft buds appearing on the field maple....
...But for all these moments, I found Caledonian Road a rather brittle, bombastic book. O’Hagan’s creations feel less like characters and more like caricatures, and the bon mots eventually became tiring....
...Bassist Charles, aka producer Ben Marc and a longtime associate of Dizzee Rascal, combined rhythmic muscle with free-jazz flow, and locked tightly into Davis’s brittle fractured grooves....
...His bleak reportage of life in broken Britain verged on the dystopian in “Smash Each Other Up”, his personal state-of-the-nation address for a brittle land where everyone is “well narky” and engaged in “...
...But dig into the details of Germany’s exposure to China and this particular political economy constellation looks increasingly brittle....
...There was none, but the music-making felt brittle for a bit, as if everyone was waiting for another shoe to drop....
...But the fact that these decisions were in the balance, and were seen by many as equally likely to go the other way, shows how brittle the support for Ukraine could be....
...So, early on we have a collection of observations on love from the brittle, sarcastic “The Little Things You Do Together” through the defiant “Live Alone and Like It” to the desolation of “Send In the Clowns...
...That said, Eddie Boyce, in a professional stage debut as Sammy, invests the young character with vivid, hopeful vulnerability and brittle uncertainty....
...There are traces of numerous writers: the brittle, highly charged dialogue of Simon Stephens, the formal ruptures of Sarah Kane, the surrealism of Caryl Churchill....
...This is where the cod are hung out to dry, their brittle tails as golden as caramelised sugar....
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