With her insistence on the transformative — not to mention fatal — charms of a good joke, the character of Matilde might seem dubiously quirky, but Ms. Aspillaga humanizes her with ease, tempering warmth with a deadpan sense of timing.
In the course of the film, which moves with the ease and warmth of its season and place, Lanisha, Jocelyn and Maria face the usual dilemmas and frustrations of teenage life in America -- and in the movies -- today.
"There's this whole costume that we take on in terms of ease, safety, warmth.
With ease and warmth, Chelsea spoke of "my wonderful, thoughtful, hilarious mother," telling anecdotes of Clinton's deep pleasure and engagement in being a mother and grandmother.
There's a sense of ease, familiarity and warmth, even in the formal portraits.
As a candidate, however, she has lacked a natural ease and personal warmth.
The mood was festive, the atmosphere one of warmth, ease, sharing and knowing, like that of a good family.
"The size of [her] voice," wrote Irving Kolodin in Saturday Review, "its soaring ease and womanly warmth, were of a magnitude not heard for years".
"There's this whole costume that we take on for ease, safety, even warmth.
May this time of sorrow be eased by the warmth shared and memories held dear.
So on that night last February I opened its big, white doors, and eased into the warmth of the narthex.
