She said: 'That Bic bit was very funny, but I do actually use them – they cheer me up.''' Another difference between Christie and Millican is that, when the latter does standup about her "ex-husband" or "boyfriend", she is broadly drawing on real people, whereas Christie claims on stage to be married to a sexist, racist pig who is infuriated if she has to do a gig when he has no clean pants.
The emergency finance reinvention plan he promised, too, was broadly drawn.
The characters, aside from Beth (played by Rebecca Luker, a long way from Broadway), are broadly drawn caricatures.
Kidd's ad agency characters and associates are broadly drawn — with delightful Dickensian names, like the portly client representative Dick Stankey, who "sweats like a roasting ham hock" — but they undercut the novel's realism.
The characters, aside from Beth Rebecca Lukerr), are broadly drawn caricatures: a shy, self-conscious nerd from accounting; Beth's presumptuous, grabby boss; and a lesbian who masks her desperate insecurity with militancy.
The story is hectic, sometimes to the point of chaos, and the characters are broadly drawn — Gail is bossy, Cynthia is boy crazy, while Julie, the youngest and the mother of a baby, possesses the biggest talent — but the performances are funny and full of credible emotion.
The three major characters -- Xiaochun (Yun Tang); his father, Cheng Liu Peiqi Liuu ); and Lili (Hong Chen), a haughty, high-strung material girl who becomes both a fantasy figure and a surrogate mother to the boy -- are broadly drawn, almost symbolic figures in a movie that sheds more than one tear before it culminates in a weepy, inspirational cloudburst.
And predictably the battle lines between the two sides in the struggle over the 11-plus are broadly drawn along traditional patterns: nationalists and republicans in favour of abolition, unionists in general fighting a rearguard action to save the 11-plus.
He expressed "delight" at Amy and Nasreen negotiating for the humans, though he thought the diplomacy scenes were "broadly drawn".
Even the governor admits the bill is too broadly drawn and will be hard to enforce.
