| By combining the arch floridness of Victorian prose with a present-tense, subtly ironic style, Gray has created a distinctive voice. |
| A foyer painted red and decorated with gold and bright lights has a nocturnal subterranean floridness. |
| Mr. Davis lends a purplish floridness to his stay-at-home neurotic that is miles away from Mr. Bennett's more constipated version, while Ms. Chalfant finds a more sensual openness in the vicar's wife than Dame Maggie did. |
