These figures, with their soft round contours and expectant looks on their faces, might appear winsome and vulnerable as they assume all sorts of casual positions, as if they symbolize the variety of common or mundane life.
Amy Cutler's paintings at Leslie Tonkonow at first appear like winsome fairy tales.
The problem is not just that the cause of the new Protestant churches that Luther had helped to establish was essentially pursued without his direct involvement, but also that the Luther of these later years appears less attractive, less winsome, less appealing than the earlier Luther who defiantly faced emperor and empire at Worms.
At the other extreme, he recently appeared on Martha Stewart's winsome daytime cookery show, where he introduced his mum, made a salad with grilled lobster and decorously avoided the topic of Conway Twitty's enhancing effect on the act of fellatio.
A winsome little girl appears, too.
Jemma Phillips, the main character in Cammie McGovern's first novel, is, like Arbus, a photographer drawn to shooting the isolated and perverse, taking portraits of her mother's autistic students and candid shots of actors on the set of a movie in which her older sister, the winsome teenage actress Rozzie, is appearing.
But then we have the ghosts who appear sporadically to haunt the characters, not only the winsome blonde mother phantom, always wearing a white slip of a dress, but the ghosts of recently deceased children.
Winsome Brown, the director, slips into costume between shots to appear as the Spirit of Opium.Although this is only 20 minutes from Tribeca, it feels a million miles away.
