This stuff is unfailingly funny from page to page.
Yet the portrait of Fassbinder's intimate life during the course of his career is, while unfailingly admiring from an artistic perspective, unflattering in a personal sense.
Unfailingly enthusiastic performances from the whole cast keep the show driving forwards, but like the overgrown trees encircling the palace, it could benefit from a little pruning.
He was broadly lyrical in Strauss's Sonata in E flat and alternately dazzling and sly in Prokofiev's spiky Sonata in D. Mr. Haywood was an unfailingly elegant partner, from the clarity of his Schubert to his sober chords at the start of the final movement of the Strauss.
Also, before you go to sleep at night, ask the Holy Spirit to protect you, then go to sleep at peace, He will unfailingly guard you from all other spirits, for He is the most powerful spirit and He is always faithful to anyone who calls Him.
At one point Mr. Harris's scrubby guitar evoked a softened Bo Diddley sound that seemed miles away from the unfailingly suave Cole.
Kjartansson is not a "hard-core" artist of the kind who are toughened by bucking their parents' disapproval, he says; he's "soft-core," from an unfailingly supportive family.
This may be no surprise to admirers of the veteran actor's considerable range, but a remarkable artist unfailingly lifts new surprises from his never-out-of-reach gift bag.
Though his execution is barely cinematic — he initially gained access to the prison as a legal videographer — his moral outrage is magnificent, swelling from hushed to howling without the help of narration or posturing from the unfailingly dignified Ms. Peagler or her quietly dedicated lawyers.
But she smiled at the right times and was unfailingly polite, and apart from one slightly false note during which she felt obliged to mention the many brilliant and talented people she had worked with during her career – though, it was still a long way off the full Kate Winslett – she didn't put a foot wrong.
