With his fawning interjections of "you go, girl!", Naimo's again the butt of a recurring gag about earnest but patronising responses to Raskopolous' coming out – but, apart from that, it's barely referenced.
At Mandela's funeral, that international movement -- in a way, a successor to a similar international crusade against slavery a century and a half earlier -- was barely referenced.
There is barely a reference to modern communication – no mobiles, no computers, not even a radio.
For long-time fans, for whom the Red Bull ownership have been barely tolerated, referencing the corporate overlords as your tactical and stylistic cue was, well, like a red rag to a bull.
A Promise is a film about sexual obsession in which sex itself is barely mentioned beyond clumsy references to Freud ("That Viennese doctor who claims he can read your thoughts by listening to your dreams").
Religious beliefs get a chapter and many references, but the impact of evangelicalism on everything from satirical humour to sexual manners is barely hinted at.
He is barely communicative.
It is barely enough money.
The share is barely shrinking.
