Alma, in Krieps's winning performance, all rosy cheeks and sensible smiles, is definitely not a Hitchcock heroine, yet even she will go to venomous lengths, we realize, to keep her man.
Nothing about her appearance -- the customary white lab coat, sensible shoes and cheery smile of a person preparing to palpate -- seemed unusual.
Yet even with the easy-going smile and soccer-mom outfit (fuchsia-pink shirt, jeans, sensible flat sandals) you can imagine her, if angered, pulling out an alien-zapping bazooka.
On a broad level, it's based on a very simple, sensible notion of Greenblatt's, one that would probably make Buffett smile: "Buying good companies at bargain prices makes sense".
Any sensible American, and certainly anyone working in American intelligence, has to smile.
Back in the car, I told our driver Harve a sensible-seeming local about our new invisible friend, expecting him to crack a smile.
Back in the car, I told our driver Harve – a local, and a sensible-seeming guy – about our new invisible friend, expecting him to crack a smile.
Yet each is so obvious, so sensible and so gutsy as to warm this aging reformer's heart and put an optimistic smile on his face.
With sensible price tags of $2,000 to $5,000, Ms. Gould said, "Micro- and minicars offer more smiles per dollar".
Her smile is still a showstopper, but she has crow's-feet now and a short, sensible permanent.
