This was a brilliant analysis of everyman as a way of talking intimately, challengingly and refreshingly about the human condition.
But Silver Linings Playbook's own aggressive assertion that it is refreshingly unique and cutting edge isn't enough to cover up how cookie-cutter it really is.
But Misha Most offers a refreshingly light-hearted interpretation of the genre, based on the rich tradition of Russian satirical absurdism.. Igor Zinatulin is a culture journalist and former deputy editor of the Calvert Journal, a guide to the new east.
But while their mood is low, it has been buoyed by the new leader, whom activists describe as refreshingly blunt about the scale of the challenge, privately admitting that Labour is highly unlikely to hold all its Scottish seats come May.
Similarly, the new classical music comedy Mozart in the Jungle feels refreshingly different from most other shows on TV.
And she's refreshingly straightforward about what it involves.
Goldmanites aren't identical, of course, and, in the context of his new job, O'Neill holds one refreshingly off-message view.
McGowan's diverse band of volunteers is committed and refreshingly cynicism-free.
Reeves Wiedeman's intriguing profile of sculptor Blair Buswell for the New Yorker breaks that mould and sets off on a refreshingly bizarre path: "The biggest problem in Blair Buswell's life over the past six months has been the gap in Michael Strahan's teeth".
Whether you're a literary or genre writer, working for page or screen, this is a refreshingly different take on creative writing that will give you new perspectives on your own work, and help you understand the neurological common ground of all audiences.
And they knock off in time to say goodnight to their children.A second excellent feature of Scotland's new politics is that it is, still, a refreshingly amateurish affair.
