Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show does boast opulent operatic trappings and Composer Weill's (Lady in the Dark, One Touch of Venus) full-bodied, romantically tuneful score. But even the tunes, pleasant as they are, suffer from a certain sameness...
...would, of course, be much more pleasant for me to plead for mercy, but sometimes justice has to take precedence over mercy, just as righteousness has to take precedence over peace...
Dramatically, "Hotel Berlin" is poorly constructed, with a great many unnecessary scenes added to creat atmosphere. The action is fast-moving and exciting until the end when the whole thing comes to an abrupt stop, leaving the audience up in the air. However, it is pleasant to see several characters end up in front of a gun. Doubtless, many moviegoers will feel they amply deserved their fates...
Once during that period, the Food Minister murmured: "We haven't done too badly by Gladstone-we've named a useful piece of luggage for him. Nellie Melba gets her eternity in a pleasant peach concoction." Then he added: "But me-they will remember me, if at all, for a pie made of the humblest vegetables...
...this adds brightness rather than body to a yarn that is never very robust, and that takes hours to re-count what the ballad tells in a moment. Nor is there much more real poetry to Dark of the Moon than there is real drama. Its folkways make pleasant enough rustic vaudeville, but they smell of Broadway. Its witches' world escapes absurdity, but falls far short of enchantment...