“More nigglingly, it felt like the actors couldn't quite find the right physical language for a drama so absorbed by its own mellifluous rhetoric.”

“When she finally gets round to reading Maggie's stories, she sees why the writer seemed nigglingly familiar: she's the daughter of the woman for whom Joyce's first husband left her.”

“In general, arch suits him better than earnest or sentimental, but the sombre mood of closing song Disaster in Motion is nigglingly affecting, its narrow-eyed survey of the flow and mulch of life laced with ambiguity.”