"Exporting Raymond" is interesting, and even enjoyable, precisely because of the Russians, whose lives and work Mr. Rosenthal generously portrays alongside his own neuroses.
Smirking malevolently at his tenants even after he has received his own comeuppance, and leering so tirelessly at the housing authority lawyer in charge of his case (Madolyn Smith Osborne) that she has to hold him at arm's length while talking to him, Mr. Pesci's Louie Kritski is enjoyable precisely because he refuses to change his stripes.
Actually, "True Grit" is a success because it allows viewers to have their cake (the cake of extra-legal frontier justice) and to eat it (in the form of a wholesome recognition that the pursuit is damaging to the pursuers, and that, though the extrajudicial hunt makes for quite a show, it's one that, in the modern age, is obsolete, enjoyable precisely and solely as a tall tale).
And Linklater's mouth-breathing take on his rival Cloten is enjoyable precisely because he takes this figure of fun with due seriousness.
It is precisely this "trickiness" that makes it so enjoyable and addictive to the people who are in a position to partake.
I'm tempted to use precisely those adjectives -- insecure, unstable, unreliable but thoroughly enjoyable -- to describe the fascinating first novel, "The Book of Salt," that the Vietnamese-American writer Monique Truong has spun from this tantalizing literary footnote.
If so, they object to precisely the community spirit that has made this pest control project so enjoyable for the practitioners.
Burlesque explores this aspect of sexual performance more fully, as many burlesque dancers find it empowering precisely because it embraces sexuality in a lighthearted and creative way that is enjoyable in and of itself to the performer and audience.
Virtual environments are considered beneficial in stroke rehabilitation because they enable more precisely controlled training settings, intensive practice with easier repetition of tasks, automatic recording of training progress, and more enjoyable and compelling interaction for the patients.
Their passion for their country shows in their smartly planned, precisely executed custom itineraries for destinations all over Turkey the trip they organized for me was among the most fruitful, and enjoyable, I've ever taken.
