It makes up for the quizzical glances that leap my way when I stow away on scriptwriting courses or lectures on psychology.
But in general, as befits a covert operative, his tone is quizzical and low-key, rather than bombastic and judgmental.For anyone schooled in blackboard economics, "The Undercover Economist" succeeds in taking the chalkdust out of the subject.
Most of the vegetables consumed in Mongolia are imported from China.In restaurants a request for meatless fare still generally causes quizzical bemusement.
The same owlish horn-rimmed glasses; the same liking for blazers and bow ties; and that same quizzical, half-laughing, wide-eyed look, as if another quip was coming.He was a prankster as a boy, letting off stink bombs in cinemas and putting snowballs in hats.
Finally, by way of a coda, he visits Israel, where he finds 2000 African-Americans attempting to create a Utopian community of "Black Hebrews" in the Negev desert.On his travels, Mr Phillips adopts a detached and even quizzical attitude towards the people he encounters.
Teeth clamped round a Cuban cigar, he would lean back and give any questioner his cool, quizzical, oriental stare.
Mr Dover does so evenly, without venom, and with a quizzical tone that suggests Mr Murdoch was a little naive about the Chinese.
The dress worn by a Russian peasant woman, the roofs in a futuristic Moscow, the quizzical horse ridden by a lean Russian youth and Chagall's "Red Jew" all blaze red.
Plucking unflattering footage of the president and his supporters from news broadcasts, Mr Youssef often needed no more by way of comment to score a devastating point than to raise a quizzical eyebrow .The Programme" ended its season the week of Mr Morsi's ousting.
The three firms control over a third of global traffic and would take half of all container trade between Asia and Europe, prompting regulators to cast a quizzical eye over the deal.However, America's watchdogs rejected complaints from smaller container lines and waved the deal through.
Once the quizzical look had fallen from her face, she took the food back to the galley.
