In his very fine performance, Hugh Quarshie starts off as a distinguished, greying, statesmanlike Othello, a man of great charm capable of showing wry amusement at the age difference between himself and Joanna Vanderman's attractively mettlesome Desdemona.
The question is neither Archbishop Welby's motivations nor his capabilities; as a former oil executive and a member of the mettlesome Commission on Banking Standards, he has both the background and the acuity to make an informed contribution.
Lulu Minturn, an American, runs a house of courtesans, and her mettlesome daughter Violet is horrified to learn that she is half-Chinese.
The rule is that Disney cartoons are mettlesome and taut, whereas Disney live-action projects are a meandering mess; who would honestly choose "Oz the Great and Powerful" over "Tangled" or "Frozen"?
If you long ago gave up on him as a one-idea artist, based on overexposure to his "Elegy to the Spanish Republic" series, have a look at this jumpy, mettlesome early stuff.
Ms. Hyltin in particular showed a newly mettlesome edge.
A shy, passive, recessive figure has been transformed into an active, mettlesome, gender-challenging presence, a poet in control of her art and environment, and fully conscious of the mechanics of personal myth.
And it's a bracing, mettlesome, variegated sight, surprisingly so, given this artist's reputation for formulaic elegance and AbEx orthodoxy.
Her mettlesome spirit might be the stuff of comic soap opera.
Joyce El-Khoury's Pauline was almost as impressive, sung in a big, glinting, mettlesome soprano that gained in focus to meet all the role's demands.
