All the way through, there's too much bustle, too many characters on both sides of the law to keep track of comfortably: Stephen Lang, playing an old-style lawman called Agent Winstead, hints at some genuine heft and nobility, but he's hardly on screen long enough to register.
There's a hint of genuine pathos late in the play, when McAlary interviews Louima, but the scene is so awkwardly written that it's uncomfortable to watch.
Behind her, a pair of disintegrating red silk curtains (circa 1800) fall into crumpled folds on to an antique Persian rug; there's a glimpse of genuine Victorian plaster; a hint of radiator piping - all lit by a pale wash of what looks like natural sunlight (though photographic lighting can fake it where necessary).
Every door (including car!) was opened for me; every date was followed by a walk to my porch and a gracious goodbye; every compliment was sincere and genuine, lacking even a hint of eroticism.
Thus, while genome comparisons hint at genuine differences in variability for orthologous microsatellites in humans and chimpanzees (Cooper et al. 1998; Webster et al. 2002; Vowles and Amos 2006; Kelkar et al. 2008), the variability in chimpanzees of the loci we examined might be systematically lower than would be obtained for loci ascertained to be variable in both species (Kelkar et al. 2008).
"Bed and Board" seems especially slight, with Jean-Pierre Léaud's jerky, deadpan manner hinting at genuine indifference.
Created by Kate Bond and Morgan Lloyd, who have been producing different versions of this show since 2004, "Bum Bum" is surprisingly devoid of feelings of genuine threat, and possible hints of uncomfortable sexual metaphors are diffused early on.
He says this with genuine concern, if perhaps a hint of the gallows humour that pervades all hospitals.
Conservatives gleefully mocked the president, saying that the country needed jobs more than it needed stories, and the remark did seem to hint at some genuine denial.
