And I can quite see how some of the scenes might be genuinely amusing in the film – those set in the local brothel, for instance, where Albert's best friend is a shy, sweet suitor conducting a shy, sweet, celibate romance with a shy, sweet and very busy prostitute.
Gandolfini has been building momentum in this category, winning several critics' group prizes for his turn as Julia Louisweetyfusuitoret suinor in "Enough Said".
Yep, that's right, Ferdinand has been rechristened, just in case we don't understand that he's sweet little Miranda's suitor and he offers further clues by getting his shirt off at every available opportunity.
The real problem, of course, is that Kate and Jed fall for each other in a love so unbridled that it excludes the friends in a way a tamer marriage to their preferred suitor, a sweet vicar played by Bill Paterson, would never do.
My sweet, sweet, sweetness.
Lawrence Brownlee, playing her hapless suitor, Tonio, with sweet sincerity, has for years now been the tenor that major opera companies hire if they can't get Mr. Flórez.
But the playwright defeats the chance to score points against the rich, because the only wealthy character, Sostratos, Myrrhine's suitor, is a sweet and sensitive man.
My second suitor describes my scent as "very sweet" (a slightly more romantic appraisal).
In the old days, a woman would wait for a suitor to approach, court her, whisper sweet nothings, and then seek permission to marry from her parents.
Pamela ("most rural of them all", as her would-be suitor John Betjeman had it, for which read "sweet and dull") met Hitler, too.
Ashley Tuttle, engaging and sweet as Bianca, Katherina's sister, is wooed by three suitors.
