And yet laughs – wry, mirthless, but laughs nevertheless – are periodically jolted from you when you least expect them, just like they were in Rushmore, the film that put Schwartzman on the map.
Mr. Baldwin began blandly, simply reading the script but getting laughs nevertheless with a bit of deadpanned updating (references to modern financial instruments and MASH units, for example).
Moir, who has a way of talking as if permanently on the verge of laughing, is nevertheless quite serious as he tells me about the tiled floor in the hall, how he has been polishing it for days, and how he can often spend weeks at some such matter of domestic urgency.
"I started negotiating right away," Ms. Brown-Allen said, "right there on the street," with a broker-seller who was mum on an asking price but nevertheless laughed at an initial offer of $240,000.
Despite knowing it wasn't for public reading they nevertheless laughed at it, which hurt me a great deal.
Then, however, reticent, as was his wont, he laughed and said nothing. 2 Nevertheless, in hunting, whenever there was opportunity, he always killed the boars with his very own hand.
For a man who has caused such a rumpus he appears a figure of immaculate calm; bearded and T-shirted, he is a media veteran who measures his words but nevertheless laughs easily.
"I know that's a stereotype of the Irish," he added to a smattering of groans and laughs, "but nevertheless we Jews from around the corner think it".
It's perhaps incumbent upon multi-millionaire superstars to laugh at themselves occasionally: nevertheless, if people kept mocking you for releasing an era-defining, implausibly successful album packed with consummate pop songwriting, you might be inclined to get a bit chippy as well.
Nevertheless, Wynn and Coolidge show that Neanderthals had a family focus and almost certainly laughed when someone accidentally trod in the fire.
