The absence of physicality gives a new and slightly more adorable shape to his typically sarcastic persona.
Mariah Carey has always been glamorous, so it's hard to imagine her as a slightly awkward, adorable singer in the 90s.
As experts at sea hammer away at CK 15, the Marine Corps will be hosting PALS (the acronym makes it sound slightly more adorable than it is).
Critics have a tendency to condescend to physical comedy, to brush off those masters of the sight gag and the pratfall, from Chaplin to Jim Carrey, by cooing over their "innocence," their "joyfulness," their "simplicity," as if they were talking about slightly slow but adorable children.
Among many glowing notices for this role, critic Lloyd Rose of the Washington Post commented: "[Peters] banishes all thoughts of Ethel Merman about two bars into her first number, 'Doin' What Comes Natur'lly.' Partly this is because Merman's Annie was a hearty, boisterous gal, while Peters plays an adorable, slightly goofy gamine.
(Everyone thinks its adorable) Slightly bite your lip.
Mr. Segel, playing a less irritating character here than in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," manages to be almost as adorable if slightly less ingratiating than his co-star.
One Tuesday morning, a friendly school crossing guard asked a young boy, probably no more than 8 or 9 years old, "How are you doing this morning?" The boy, adorable and slightly disheveled, sighed and said simply, "One down, four to go," sounding more like a much older, overworked man than a fourth grader.
Los Angeles sculptor John Frame, at his exhibition at The Huntington, showed his trademark highly theatrical sculptural tableaux, populated by adorable yet slightly scary creatures.
Except for black leggings and a pair of tasseled pasties, swinging just so slightly from her perfectly adorable (and perfectly bare) boobs. .
Right now I am singing my first truly "comic" role at the Met -- the crafty, ever-resourceful, slightly jaded, but infinitely adorable and definitely stage-bound Despina in Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte.
