This refusal is part engaging and part exasperating - but in the end mostly engaging, and the performances by, among others, Crusoe Kurddal, Jamie Gulpilil and Richard Birrinbirrin have an unforced authority and ease.
This somewhat unconvincing motivation launches a lurid and dangerous adventure, cheerfully told in a mostly engaging teenage argot that will probably be out of date by next year.
The duet was performed with mostly engaging restraint by Jose Manuel Carreno and Ms. Herrera.
He is backed by a mostly engaging supporting cast although Gia Crovatin, as his wife Thaisa, still speaks the language stiffly and Englert seems in danger of hyperventilating as she races through the lines.
But it is mostly engaging, and particularly effective when the protagonist, Sly, a debt-ridden, hard-drinking poet and balladeer who has been the victim of a cruel hoax, is locked in a wine cellar and confronts his despair.
"I'll Take You There," danced to music by Mr. Levine, took a mostly engaging look at high school high jinks.
Finally, those engaging in paid work versus those engaging in unpaid work were compared.
All are engaging in their way.
The mostly Shia militiamen burst out of their northern redoubt in 2011 and advanced progressively into the capital, Sana'a, by cannily exploiting the country's power vacuum, engaging in populist politics and launching a series of well-timed attacks.
"She enjoyed feeding people and engaging in lively conversation.
