Instead, the C30 picks a spot between edgy and easygoing, including a ride that's quieter and smoother than many of its rivals.
Engineered to entertain, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" may be awkwardly named, but almost everything else about it is generally easygoing, including the inevitable climactic action and the human and digitally assisted performances.
At the newly redone Cafe Kristall in the Swarovski shop in SoHo, Kurt Gutenbrunner's easygoing menu includes delicate veal sliders: small patties, not sliders in the classic sense but suited to the wines.
Their music together was often intense, but Ms. Scott also recorded plenty of easygoing tracks, often including show tunes and pop covers like the Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love".
That pretty much summed up the whole easygoing All-Star weekend, including the typical no-check, no-defense, all-smiles All-Star Game itself — tied for the fourth-highest-scoring of the N.H.L.'s 58 All-Star Games.
For all its easygoing charms, which include whip-smart supporting performances by Bob Balaban and J. K. Simmons, "The Mexican" seems pathologically afraid to be anything but nice.
The chef, Julian Clauss-Ehasrs, han an easygoing menu that includes a crunchy crab cake; calamari fritti; Cobb salad; fish and chips; falafel-crusted salmon filet; braised short ribs; and steaks.
But the other seven are from France, Italy and Azerbaijan, and Dawn Upshaw sang them with an irresistible fluidity and a palette that included easygoing bluesiness in the two Niles pieces and an almost nasal twang in songs from Sicily ("A la Femminisca") and Sardinia ("Motettu de Tristura").
The album includes pugnacious Nigerian Afro-beat, easygoing tunes with wordless oohs and ahs that suggest Earth Wind and Fire, snappy funk and glimmering electric piano meditations.
Bronson Alcott, an "easygoing, placid, almost passive man," experienced setbacks, including a failed attempt at building the utopian community of Fruitlands, Matteson says.
The cast includes an overeager Julie Halston and an appealingly easygoing Dan Butler, as Oscar's long-suffering assistants, and Ryan Shively, who as Lily's hunky boy toy of an agent makes an appropriately smoldering foil to the combustible Ms. Heche.
