"We were expecting to be brought to tears by his reading, but when he began to read he was sort of giggling through the lines, and we became aware for the first time of this ripple of humor that's coursing through the text".
You can make it sort of talk, giggle or cry like a real baby.
When Hysteria was first shown at last year's Toronto Film Festival, it was met with the sort of adolescent giggling usually reserved for a biology textbook.
So the idea of a sort of citizen king, who giggles and wears glasses and is known to be on a diet, is a little unsettling.
"They were just sort of weakly smiling and giggling like, 'Oh, what can you do?' But give them a pacifier, do something to make them stop".
Zoe claims that she made an immediate impression on Alex by eating "roly-poly bugs" — "You just popped them in your mouth and swallowed them like BBs," she told me — an early indication that she was not destined to become the sort of Southern woman who giggles, blushes, and charms her way through life.
With the Czech Republic having already won Group A earlier in the day, the final round-robin tie of the tournament could have become the sort of low-stakes "hit-and-giggle" that often takes place in relatively meaningless tennis matches, especially common in mixed doubles.
That's the sort of absurd question he used to giggle at or mock ruthlessly when he was just a kid in his twenties, and had already rearranged our world with his voice more times than you can wrap your mind around.
We laughed about it initially after it happened because Adele (Idina Menzel) is such a good sport, and it was sort of, I guess, just something to giggle about right after it happened.
