When the moment of truth came, the Lakers left little doubt about their persona, mixing a fierce determination with a mellow self-assurance as they routed the Denver Nuggets, 119-92, and clinched their second straight Western Conference title.
I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area, which has given me a mellow self-entitlement matched only by New Yorkers' agitated self-entitlement.
Scarcely off the stage before Gerry Mulgrew takes over as his mellower, mature self, he never misses a beat, pushing the production forwards with faultless support from the large cast.
In the episode, which she wrote and starred in, her character, Denise, evolves from a mellow child into a self-realized, gay adult over the course of five Thanksgivings.
And when Moynihan, in a self-described mellow mood, begins what turns into a three-hour ramble, it is in the mannered dialect that everyone who has ever worked for him can imitate: a singsong of "ah-ah-ahs" punctuated by staccato pops of commentary, with seemingly random accelerations, decelerations and abnormal stresses added for effect.
Somehow -- her dusky alto voice helps -- the result is original, self-conscious art, mellow and conspiratorially playful.
But the people who talked with her during this frenzied time now describe her as having been calm, self-assured, unruffled, "super mellow".
Enter Danny Corrigann), a self-described "pudgy and mellow" recent divorcée with a big inheritance.
Has the iron self-discipline mellowed?
It takes a big subject to upstage Mr. Herzog, an often brilliant filmmaker of fiction and nonfiction who has mellowed into a borderline self-parodying figure, disarming (and famous) enough for a guest turn on "The Simpsons".
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