| As if taking its clue from its protagonist, the movie evinces a sweetness and a daffiness not usually found in satire. |
| Instead, it piles on the daffiness and winsomeness to such an extent that you keep thinking this trio must have trained at the Bridget Jones school of clowning. |
| The film's celebration of sheer human daffiness never descends into whimsy. |
| Even in the book's most regressive I-am-woman, you-are-man moments, Ms. Tiel's remarkable innocence, to all appearances sincere, and a certain daffiness buoy the reader. |
| But what set Ms. Stapleton's work in the show apart was her ability to create a character who was not imprisoned by her own daffiness. |
| Hoping to successfully merge daffiness with doctrine, it has a lot to say about censorship and self-righteousness. |
