The film numbers included an excerpt from the delicious 1932 "Pie Pie Blackbird," performed by an endearingly sweet-faced 7-year-old Harold and by Fayard, at 13 a proud older brother and coach.
Grint, making his stage debut as the endearingly dim Sweets in Mojo, is nominated in the London newcomer of the year.
Stefani is, indeed, a pop star and high-profile mother – the endless paparazzi shots of her with her sons Kingston and Zuma help to keep her in the public consciousness between albums – but beneath those punky safety pins is, it transpires, a sweet and endearingly unfiltered woman, one who is prone to being a little more honest than perhaps her PR would like.
For example, there is the scene in which David, Sachs's earnest apprentice, endearingly portrayed by the sweet-voiced and boyish-looking tenor Matthew Polenzani, explains the rules of singing to the obtuse Walther.
My sweet, sweet, sweetness.
It paints a vivid portrait of a young man who was very troubled, yes, but also very sweet, very gifted, very charismatic and very focused — endearingly so — on making people laugh.
But what if that manly beast (or beastly man) is as sweet natured as Marvin Mange, the surgical hybrid embodied by an endearingly wide-eyed Rob Schneider in "The Animal"?
This endearingly odd post-punk band has always made the most of incongruity, framing the girly-sweet singing of its bassist, Satomi Matsuzaki, against a crashing cacophony of guitar riffs and the slipperiest sort of rock drumming.
I found it endearingly different.
So far, so endearingly Gondryesque.
Their heroes are homespun, endearingly eccentric.
