| Still other people objected to some of the couples, while others just thought the unrelenting slickness and commercialism was too much. |
| There is a warm humour and a sheer humanity in his plays that is worlds removed from the soulless slickness of most productions seen in the recent past. |
| It's aim to show the artificiality of celebrity was short-circuited by the slickness of its design. |
| The purpose of it came to bear in making this feature, where talking, movement, primitivity, some slickness, and a recognition of the power of music all had to play big. |
| They loathe designer slickness and gloss and love accidents, imperfections, discontinuities and visible signs of process. |
| Polish journalists who once praised Mr Tusk's warmth now find his slickness tiresome. |
