It frequently seems to be damning the handful of tracks it recommends with faint praise.
But, although Dunster's production is consistent in its vision of the play as a study of hallucinogenic tribal conflict, it frequently seems at odds with the text.
Unlike the Thatcher years, the current police force has a peculiar relationship to Cameron's austerity programme: it frequently seems to occupy both the role of detractor and enforcer.
I don't think the paucity of truly attractive female characters comes from a focus on creating engaging men, it frequently seems to emanate from a desire – or a pressure – to create women for the sole purpose of obvious sexual allure.
It frequently seems so, even though, as a recent episode of The Apprentice reminded us, there is no way of knowing that that "organic, farm fresh" fruit drink doesn't actually contain apple juice locally sourced from the shelves of the nearest Londis.
She doesn't just turn Aibileen, something of a blur in the novel, into a fully dimensional character, she also helps lift up several weaker performances and invests this cautious, at times bizarrely buoyant, movie with the gravity it frequently seems to want to shrug off.
Although the role of evolution is unquestionable, it frequently seems neglected and/or forgotten in the classrooms and by our students (Coalition of Scientific Societies 2008; Smith 2010).
It frequently seems reasonable to buy sufficient time to see whether the disease will respond to aggressive treatment by instituting the most invasive life support technology.
Though often reluctantly, France is now confronting a history that it has frequently seemed as anxious to forget as, for many years, it was to forget the Vichy era.
