Word: mirthful
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Lawrence Martin's Aguecheek smacks a trifle of the music hall and misses some of Sir Andrew's pathos, but he is terribly funny all the same. John Casey, on the other hand, clogged the flow of mirth, especially in the opening scene. His timing lacked the elegance needed for Orsino's opening speech; however he gained assurance with time, and achieved a certain nobility by the end. Allen Graubard (Fabian) was the only serious flaw among the principals; he spoke awkwardly and without much awareness of the show's airy pace and style...
...Mirth & Misery. Ever since his father died when he was ten, Guignard's life has been a mixture of mirth and misery. His mother, who was rich in her own right, took him off to Germany and married a Munich baron. Guignard himself fell hopelessly in love with a boardinghouse keeper's daughter and married her at 18, but his young wife soon ran away...
...there was a touch of malice in him, there was no envy; it was merely that Max's inner mirth and an ingrained cosmic uncertainty committed him to the unimportance of being earnest. D. H. Lawrence struck Max as a lunatic. He cheerfully confessed to Behrman that Freud was beyond him and added reflectively, "They were a tense and peculiar family, the Oedipuses, weren't they?" Virginia Woolf's stream-of-consciousness technique irritated him: "All of us have a stream of consciousness; we are never without it-the most ordinary and the most gifted. And through...
...than a buffoon, Behan is chiefly an insatiable human being. He is no one's cup of tea who recoils from finding it sloshed into a saucer, no one's humorist who, for being outraged, can't be amused. If his people often have the rackety mirth of Burns's Jolly Beggars, and the cynical morality...
...film biography of Gertrude Stein, or a playwright called Alabama Gross describes his heroine as someone who has "taken to drink, prostitution and puttin' on airs." But the humor rests firmly on psychological substance and can be so telling that it sheds, temporarily, its skin of mirth...