| Not in this production, which adds facetiousness to the disagreeableness of The Taming of the Shrew. |
| Though occasionally the humour degenerates into facetiousness, the verbal dexterity of the verse is superb. |
| But still waters run deep and, listening to Plouc, it soon becomes clear that Annegarn has not entirely lost his former facetiousness. |
| Aja creates a sense of mounting paranoia and tension but continually risks undercutting his own story with the lapses into facetiousness. |
| Individual scenes are funny enough but, at feature length, the facetiousness soon grates. |
| Eclectic learning, pungent black humour sometimes degenerating into facetiousness, a stately but singular style, distinguish all his writing. |
