It was an unalloyed pleasure to hear him rumble through Bernard's finest anecdotes while drinking and chain-smoking (presumably sound effects, because Hurt was recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer).
The brisk pace is accompanied by fine quotes, lively anecdotes and acerbic phrases.
In-flight, the actress and her husband, Judd Apatow, the movie's writer and director, began to fine tune some anecdotes for her.
Even in private, McKellen buried his feelings in well-told anecdotes and fine form.
The Big Oyster is full of recipes, anecdotes and fine detail on the mollusc.
Taubman tells this story with effervescent admiration for the heroic inventors and a fine eye for revealing anecdotes.
"Taubman tells this story with effervescent admiration for the heroic inventors and a fine eye for revealing anecdotes," Alex Roland wrote here in 2003.
As he swirls together his international troupe of writers, along with a fine prodigality of portraits, anecdotes and quotations, Mr. Thirlwell argues and sometimes goads at a universal mutual connection and influence.
Some fine Laurel and Hardy anecdotes were swapped over drinks, and some touching moments took place on stage--chiefly the honoring of Anita Garvin Stanley, and the late "Our Gang" member and longtime Son "Sunshine" Sammy Morrison.
It feels padded; there are many brief chapters, some of which are recitations of the sort of reportorial adventures that are fine as after-work barroom anecdotes but fall short of book-worthiness.
