"We felt like we widened the palette with 'Toy Story,' but then people unconsciously put CG back in a different box: 'Well, it's got to be irreverent, it's got to have A-list actors, it's got to have talking animals.' " So Mr. Stanton took "Wall-E" to a more somber, less sassy place (though there is some sass of course).
"By Myself" had a similar air of sassy defiance, as though the ever-demure and elegant Ms. Carroll had decided at long last to kick over the traces: gently, I should add, with a delicate tap of a toe.
She would say, though, in that sassy way of hers, "Why'd you wait until I died to write it..
The Interlocutor introduces the classic minstrel show figures of Mr. Bones (Colman Domingo and Mr. Tambo Forrest McClendonon), though the sassy thrust-and-parry associated with those archetypes is used only fitfully.
Though smart and sassy as Larita Whittaker in last year's Easy Virtue, audiences stayed away in droves, leaving her in the odd position of being a movie star with no real hits.
The soldiers moved around them in a vague, ambitious manner; they did not dare to approach, though one brash, sassy fellow went to the edge of the promontory and called, "Yo te quiero mucho!" The words returned with the hollow sub-music of a perfect echo, and the sisters, blushing, looked more deeply into the valley.
Being independent does not mean being sassy and rude to authority though.
Like the Pines, its famous neighbor to the east, Cherry Grove was a haven for gay life and leisure, and Meisler's photographs — some of which appear in her book "Purgatory and Paradise: Sassy '70s Suburbia & The City," though most of which have never been published — capture the sexy, carefree spirit of a post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS summer spent among lovers and friends.
Some excellent toe heel swivels though, and throughout she still looked cute and sassy.
But even though it's rowdy and sassy and polished — or maybe because of that — it's great.
