But what mostly engages Toobin is the story itself in all its gorgeous improbability, beginning with the wonderfully brief and unexpected line, "This is Danny".
While this whole process is usually edited down to a few wonderfully brief minutes of television, watching it play out in real time wasn't quite like watching paint dry, but was sort of like watching the handyman applying a second coat and being unsure why you were supervising this mundane chore.
At the end of the decade, as part of an exchange programme, Edgar spent a year in the US "on a wonderfully wide brief", working first at the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York and then taking a research road-trip across the continent.
Autocracy is making a comeback around the world, Kagan contends in this brief, wonderfully argued volume.
Robert Kagan, in a brief and wonderfully argued volume on how the world has a nasty habit of spinning off in its own directions, has a message for Americans of all political stripes: Good luck with that one.
Two poll-clerks (Catherine Tate and Nina Sosanya) squat behind a desk while the presiding officer (a wonderfully twitchy Mark Gatiss, relishing his brief moment of authority) ensures the electoral rules are obeyed.
She is already superb as the Sorceress, wonderfully free, and astounding in the brief, rapid frenzy — lying on the floor with legs parted, back arched and head thrown back — with which, center stage, she masturbates.
IndieWire noted that "McAdams has the least to do of the principals, but is wonderfully haunted and sad in her brief appearances".
Evidently, Richards saw the impersonation as an affectionate tribute, and in this third picture in the franchise he has a brief role as Jack Sparrow's wonderfully seedy father, Captain Jack Teague.
The all-too-brief glimpse into Bowie's psyche is as wonderfully weird as we'd hoped.
The man, wonderfully funny and filled with insight, was captured with finesse in the brief documentary "Tell Them Anything You Want," co-directed by Spike Jonze.
