Mostly, though, she was a delight – possibly more than her subject deserved, I couldn't help thinking – bringing to the part an irresistible starry hauteur and childlike Welsh strop ("You treat me like a bloody slot machine, you do!").
They are then bled over a large concrete drainage area, deposited into a bloody great machine that tumbles them for a good few minutes to get their hair off and then rehooked up.
Along the way, the film offers verse by Christina Rossetti, a recording of Caruso, Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, souped-up cars and a man crushed under one, a woman on a meat hook, a whiff of narcotics, a primordial answering machine, bloody street fights, and nuclear catastrophe.
And so these latest messages on the answer machine ("Finch, bloody bad news I'm afraid...," "Oh, Finch, it's all gone tits up... ") made her frantic.
Let's just hope she leaves her hooker-scented perfume, bloody meat outfit and machine gun bra at home.
There was also what might have been a bloody fingerprint on the washing machine, the trial has heard.
Bloody screams masked the washing machine's rattle as Hazel and Derek pawed at each other on top of a pile of mateless socks.
I told him about the grief of the Sikh families and described what had gone on that night: the lining up of the men before the gurudwaras, the bursts of the machine guns, the bloody heap.
Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan has shed light on the alternate endings his team were kicking around when deciding how Walter White should bow out, and if you thought the oscillating machine gun was bloody a finish, it could have been so much worse.
This results in a violent, bloody showdown — dominated by the machine gun — in which Pike and his men are killed, along with many of the Mexicans and Germans.
