Word: arrante
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...Todd soon finds his apartment burgeoning with Nicole, Elke, two teenagers, an Italian cellist, and some spongy smart talk. As a friend who pops by on occasion, Classicist Judith Anderson clowns with the air of a lady willing but unable to whip out a bare bodkin and turn the arrant nonsense into a bloody good show. Would that she could...
...This arrant piece of fiction is always sensational and sometimes silly, but it reminds the viewer, perhaps salutarily, that with a little nuclear encouragement this really could be a cockeyed world...
Probably the worst mistake concerns Manhattan, where whimsy and flackery seem to have dictated many choices. The guide puts "21," which has fallen on indifferent days, and Baroque (good French cuisine) in the same five-star category as Chambord and Pavilion, two of the world's great restaurants. Arrant nonsense is the three-star billing of P.J. Moriarty's, a saloon with no-star food, compared to the two-star ratings of the Oak Room at the Plaza Hotel, Mercurio or Copain...
They scornfully called him an arrant offender...
...younger ballerinas, dances the double role of Odette-Odile with a mixture of faultless precision, lyric grace and sheer animal power; Nicolai Fadeyechev as the Prince and Vladimir Levashev as the Evil Spirit are virile, commanding performers. On the other hand, the ballet itself is simply an arrant Arcadian anachronism, and Tchaikovsky's music, except for a few eddies of glorious melody, fills Swan Lake with sugar water. But along with all its faults, the picture provides U.S. ballet-goers who missed the Bolshoi troupe during last year's tour with a useful opportunity to see the best...