But as directed by David Petrarca with a tone that artfully matches the mixed sensibility of Mr. Lindsay-Abaire's script and acted by a delightful ensemble, "Fuddy Meers" winds up eluding categorization.
(The same mixed sensibility is evident in Alexander Dodge's claustrophobic, sylvan set, featuring a looming house with white columns that suggests a scaled-down version of the mansion in Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra".) When the play takes a screeching U-turn into grotesqueness, you can't say that Ms. Rebeck hasn't prepared you.
His Chinese pop sensibilities, mixed with his 70s and 80s Brit pop influences, comprise an inspiring live performance like no other.
It's a very British, practical sensibility, mixed with platonic geometric forms and sometimes cosmic motifs" – as the mysterious celestial pods of Cullinan's Cambridge mathematics faculty demonstrate.
The script, "Art of Submission," sought to combine the virtues of traditional kung fu cinema with the street-savvy sensibilities of mixed martial arts, or M.M.A., as it's widely known.
David C. Woolard and Thomas Charles LeGalley's costumes wittily extend that mixed then-and-now sensibility.
"That's mixed with a European sensibility" that is influenced by "the beautiful work of the Italian Baroque artists".
Almodóvar has something of Sirk's passionate empathy with women, mixed with a gay sensibility - though the film is unlike Sirk's in that men are entirely marginal.
Dido followed that with the brilliant Life For Rent, a magnificent collection that mixed a singer/songwriter folk sensibility with sublime electronic beats largely courtesy of her brother, Rollo, from the acclaimed U.K. act Faithless.
But the film's ardent fidelity to Mr. Eugenides's style and sensibility is a mixed blessing.
