Clearly afraid to offend voters with confrontational advertisements, the candidates stuck with genial messages.
His message is genial; his show would be funnier if it were not called comedy At Soho theatre, London until 23 January.
A surly, aggressive PA who had been perfectly genial and amusing over text message, but who it transpired was of the view that a date isn't supposed to be a friendly drink and a chat, but rather a gruelling job interview for a receptionist's job in a failing company of which she is the CEO.
Taken together, though, the Twitter messages provided a genial, if twisted, account of the storm and its aftermath.
The party needs a 21st-century Reagan: a genial sort who can sell messages about self-reliance, hard work and smaller government without sounding like a scold.
As they stop at ports from France to Turkey, the film takes the shape of a genial history lesson, one that grows progressively darker when you realize the message Mr. Oliveira has been delivering alongside all those seemingly benign tourist shots.
Sri Chinmoy, the genial Indian-born spiritual leader who used strenuous exercise and art to spread his message of world harmony and inner peace, died Thursday at his home in Jamaica, Queens, where he ran a meditation center.
For original audiences, in other words, that excursion to the churchyard was a message from the future, an acknowledgement of sacrifices already made and still to come, and also a genial, chin-up morale booster.
His genial features sharpened.
