Word: blarneyed
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...best sense of the word they -- and the movie -- remain wayward, unpredictable. For this, credit the blarney-proof script of Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot) and the wintry imagery and emotional firmness of the direction by Mike Newell (Enchanted April). There are no leprechauns sitting on their shoulders. Their fantasy is firmly grounded in the austere reality of modern Ireland, and that reality adds poignance to the mythic yearnings of the characters...
...response to Godffrey S. Williams' piece ("Blarney From the Hibernians," March 17) on the New York City St. Patrick's Day parade...
...riveting storytelling and acutely observed human nature -- than James McClure in his eight novels about two South African policemen. The cheerily crass Boer, Tromp Kramer, and his wily "kaffir" partner, Mickey Zondi, were introduced in The Steam Pig, published in 1971. Their teamwork, affectionate but circumscribed, full of macho blarney and teasing but also tinged with racial irony, subtly evoked the quirky diplomacy of a society where whites insist on ruling but all parties know that cannot happen without black help. The six succeeding novels brought the relationship into the mid- 1980s and showed each man becoming gradually more sophisticated...
Indeed, 'tis some blarney lads in this production. Irish lads, I dare say, fine fellows all--though distinctly resembling a Nash fellow I knew once. As Nash would say, "I wouldn't mind only...
Only Ronald Reagan among today's political powers could be so corny and survive, and be honored for the bathos. He is the architect of this age, not only of the bands and the movie blarney and the netted balloons that cascade over the gap-jawed audiences, but also of low inflation and entrepreneurship and peace and the biblical family virtues. What a performer...