The decisive naturalness of her phrasing has utter authority without a jot of diva ego.
He manages to be both charming and shatteringly truthful, without a jot of male vanity.
"Tories reject move to ensure rented homes fit for human habitation" is a shocking headline, but without a jot of hyperbole.
Koehler had presented himself just as Rosenzweig had expected him to be: armed, bloody-minded, and without a jot of remorse.
Of the exhibition's younger artists only one, Kumi Machida, refers directly, and without a jot of sentimentality, to childhood, in paintings of androgynous babies wearing helmetlike caps suggesting sensory-deprivation devices.
Many designers don't get to claim authorship of their work, and much of what they make, from sleds to spatulas, is assumed to be conceived on the factory floor without a jot of human intervention.
What counts is the way Stanwyck plays the role without a jot of sentimentality, and how Ryan frantically clutches at her as if he were drowning, begging Mae to save him.
You've Got the Power was relentlessly pushed towards the charts without a jot of success, but is only one of a clutch of day-glo gems on the album.
Specifically, she is buoyed by wall-to-wall Dolly Parton songs, a couple of other supposed outsiders and an egregiously tokenized group of drag queens, who eagerly and without a jot of believability dispense sequins, beauty tips and den-mother advice to Will and her friends.
His Hamlet was a model of melancholic introspection without a jot of sentiment or self-pity, his Benedick (opposite Janet Suzman as Beatrice) in Much Ado a genuinely funny and self-deluded popinjay, his Achilles in a famous Troilus and Cressida the most sensual and riveting in RSC history.
"It is almost laughable that we sit here in parliament, the central institution of our sacred democracy – among us are some of the most powerful people in the land – yet we are scared of the power that Rebekah Brooks wields without a jot of responsibility or accountability.
