Claire Lams, Jemima Roper and Suzie Toase have earlier performed with buoyant concentration, embodying, respectively, dopiness, androgyny and bosom. |
Jake forced himself to keep talking, and I made myself keep listening through a spell of overwhelming dopiness. |
The dopiness of it, however, may be an indication not so much of cinematic ineptitude as of the changes in a movie culture that was once devoted to adults and is now rather haplessly and redundantly devoted to kids. |
Fair play to him, he stood up and apologised to the lads, but through some real dopiness, really, he's allowed to get himself sent off. |
Without overselling Adelaide's desperation or her dopiness, she captures both the role's poignance and its piquancy. |
Mr. Llana, the strongest singer in the cast, in particular has fun with his character's surfer-dude dopiness, his eyes popping from his head as each new pleasure of paradise is revealed. |