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. |
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. |
But the issue over the admission of women that has become such a cause celebre still nagged nigglingly in the back of my mind. |
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. |