It was odd but not uncomfortable, mostly because the family radiated a calm hospitable sweetness.
With their light feet and waving hips, the women supply a note of lyricism — a remembered calm and sweetness — to counteract the grim videos.
My sweet, sweet, sweetness.
My response, which filled three double-sided pages, was an extravagant paean to her calm beauty, the sweetness of her eyes, the perfection of her figure, etc.
I like a good splash of club soda to finish these drinks and calm down their fruity sweetness.
"Sweetness, softness, calm, and gentleness [are] the antonym of violence".
But lacking Carpenter's unearthly calm and Boy George's marzipan sweetness, he is his own man.
McCarey, however, skillfully balanced potentially maudlin moments with music and moments of low comedy, and he filmed scenes of sweetness and generosity with a calm simple detachment devoid of manipulative tricks.
Watching it, you feel a sense of calm familiarity, like you could float away with the sweetness and the slow trickle of the tinkling music, but then the disturbing fact that Lynch is talking to himself while holding the disembodied head of a child's toy comes nagging and the common Lynchian duality of being nurtured and abused is back to haunt you.
Sweetness, sweetness everywhere".
But what about sweetness?
