The 7-speed PDK transmission — a dual-clutch automated manual gearbox that behaves like an automatic — was flawless, shifting crisply and intuitively.
And he said," – he shifts into flawless Mitteleuropean – "'Patrick, to be a playwright is to have your heart broken every day.'" He laughs.
Stuart Heritage Due South had everything: immaculate writing, flawless acting and an ability to shift seamlessly from daft gags to high seriousness via moments of heartbreak and back again.
There's a flawless cast (the irresistible Joan Greenwood, the eye-rolling, shoulder-shifting Cecil Parker et al), a consistently witty score by Benjamin Frankel, and characteristically precise black-and-white cinematography by Douglas Slocombe (still with us at 99).
The songs were uniformly superb, and in his flawless delivery – every phrase articulated with noble precision, every legato shift and taking of breath finely judged – Sinatra paid them the highest due.
But with Mr. Hoffman -- the critically acclaimed and prolific young actor, most recently seen on Broadway in "True West" and on film in "Flawless," "Magnolia" and "The Talented Mr. Ripley" -- the tone has shifted.
It's difficult to understand what he's saying, as he shifts from subject to subject with an internal logic that is flawless, but which I certainly can't follow.
Live, they have everything: the songs, power, shifting dynamics, an abundance of stage presence, and that most elusive quality of all in rock: flawless musicianship.
