Word: sarcasms
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They've been working at this trade "too long," says Georgs gruffly, with an air of exhaustion and sarcasm...
Matthew Perry is one of those actors who has one great strength but is usually forced to milk it to the bone because it's the only real strength he has. In Perry's case, that particular ability is sarcasm; he excels at dishing out ridicule, firing one cutting remark after another, all the while wrapping his acerbic barbs in self-deprecation. Perry's got great timing and a needling delivery, and these qualities have helped make his Chandler Bing the most consistently funny and engaging character on "Friends" for the last five years. And Perry is an ideal sitcom...
...keep herself afloat, but she seems somewhat miscast here and never much rises above the level of serviceable. Perry, saddled with a ridiculous shaggy dog hairdo, has an even tougher time as he's called upon to carry the film without his greatest asset. Drained of his biting sarcasm, Perry is forced to rely on his slight natural charms and although he manages to be likable in a bland sort of way, he doesn't have the necessary range to support the story. It's of little consequence however-even if the two actors had clicked, there's not enough...
...ideas as "second- and third-hand musings." The New York Observer, a metropolitan weekly that is to the disaffected Eastern elite what the Daily Racing Form is to gambling addicts, found Purdy just as cloying and irritating. Among New Yorkers whose daily bread is irony, heavily buttered with sarcasm and ridicule, Purdy's message of earnest civic-mindedness was as welcome as a vice cop at a bachelor party...
...genuine crisis of faith. Having witnessed, alone, the death of her grandmother--who told Lindsay, as she slipped away, that she saw "nothing" beyond--Lindsay is questioning the justness of the world and her own place in it. Cardellini captures her simmering outrage with just the right mixture of sarcasm, melancholy and self-righteousness. And she's only one among the well-imagined, glam-free nerds and burnouts in this high-spirited, heartfelt story set in 1980. Amid TV's endless regatta of 1,000-watt, magazine-cover-ready superteens, NBC has created a rich, character-driven ensemble show, fueled...