Given Cruise's undisputed superhuman qualities, you feel churlish complaining that his acting doesn't measure up – it mainly runs to costive frowns of urgency and that patented never-felt-better grin.
"But better?" "Obviously," McCoy grinned.
'A far better source,' he grinned, 'someone at the heart of the problem.' Then with one flat Dublin phrase, he swept my friendly prodding away: 'The mother!' His look dared me to contradict that authority.
"Much better," he said, grinning proudly.
When I told her how nice the school looked, she said, with a grin: "It better.
Similarly, if you asked me why I love Rivette's films, I'd probably have a go at the time-and-memory option but I'd be better off imitating the grin and advising you to go and see for yourself.
"We firmly believe China's tomorrow will surely be better," Mr Hu said, grinning broadly as he waved at reporters.
"Brit was fantastic; much better than me," Welsh grins as we settle down at lunchtime in a city centre bar, "a middle-aged Scottish guy, trying to be this young American girl.
Kiss it and make it better, or teach them to grin and bear it?
Then she bends down to unzip her white trainers for the camera and her face relaxes into a grin, "I'd better remember I've done this or I'll fall on my face," she laughs.
Now he has a wife and a private office in a fancy apartment building near ritzy Tokyo Bay. "I'm a 2 — I still like human women better," he said, a wide grin forming.
