| She narrates the early chapters with an innocence and knowingness that is touching, funny and disturbing. |
| Jimmy himself is a closet romantic, hoarding old expressive words, but he has to fight hard against all this knowingness. |
| The gimmick is to overlay the dangers of ancient life with the knowingness of modern comedy. |
| All these minimusicals play on the contrast between the open unknowingness of youth and the weary knowingness of adulthood. |
| The songs Serge Gainsbourg wrote for her are sung with a saucy knowingness. |
| But it is dispensed with such style, coupled to such a mixture of absurd silliness and sly knowingness about human nature, that you can't help falling for its charms. |
