| They were often allowed considerable licence, though pertness had its dangers. |
| Her rich, clear soprano captures infinite shadings of mock-hauteur, pertness and good humour. |
| One knows this is fun, pertness, cartoon, because it skates on our experience rather than probes it. |
| Indeed there's a very animated conversation about whether one should compromise jiggliness for pertness. |
| So there's Girl and NML parading around in thongs of varying stringiness and bottom pertness, making we mere bottom-mortals feel bad. |
| The film is largely in black-and-white, yet the result, far from seeming gloomy, has the pertness and the simplicity of a cutout. |
