Word: low-key
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...little shop, with its shabby furniture, its smiling calendar nude and its big, faded poster of Rudolph Valentino, bore eloquent testimony to Francesco's low-key adventure in America. He had been swallowed up by the great city. Day after day he had stood beside a barber chair, clipping hair, shaving jowls. The 40 years had passed. Francesco? Nobody...
Those who favored lustier interpretations of the part were frankly disappointed at Gielgud's refusal or inability to scale the dramaturgic heights in the grand manner. Those who preferred the new school of low-key interpretation considered that Actor Gielgud admirably analyzed his own fluid impersonation of the world's best-known literary case of frustration when in Scene II Hamlet informs the Queen: 'Tis not alone my inky cloak...
...like wine tonight, the castle menage, an enchanting crew of Italian peasants, bustle on the scene. It is a real pleasure to watch them become completely disrupted over the performance of a sinister English rite-the hot bath. Moments like this are heightened by handsome sets and adroit low-key photography. But alas, the story creaks back to the laborious business of restoring Miss Harding to the arms of her repentant husband...