Sure enough, as Cotillard worked the red carpet on Sunday, the sheer panel bobbed her upper thighs into view now and again, but she was always in complete control.
There's a complex three-way power game underway, with the tech platforms, the labels and the artists all dependent on each other - but it is no longer clear that the labels' sheer marketing muscle gives them the upper hand.
This island race was once admired for its stiff upper lip, blitz spirit and sheer pluck.
Catherine is a control freak used to forcing success through sheer determination and will: she has the upper hand as the richer, more sophisticated party.
The trouble is that we are at the start of the arc and the jobs, money and sheer larks of horse racing easily have the upper hand.
By 19 March Fay's track had turned to the west-southwest, and over the next day it continued to strengthen in due to favourable upper level outflow and weak vertical sheer.
Still, just when you think Rick Ross is over, he bounces right back, lodging yet another hit or a damn near-perfect guest verse, entering rap's upper echelon seemingly through survival and sheer force of will.
When Nalbandian got the upper hand, Nadal made improbable gets with sheer effort, forcing the Argentine to hit another forcing shot to stay on the offensive.
Jen Brill, at the Tribeca Film Festival in sheer Chanel, managed to keep the focus on her upper body with a floral-embroidered leather jacket despite her exposed bikini panties.
There is more upper-body ease, lower-body lucidity and sheer poetic imagination for her to discover, but I couldn't take my eyes off the unbroken concentration of her dancing.
