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The real limitations are those of the writer, whose hallmarks are weak sophomoric humor and a cloying sentimentality.
This Masterpiece Theatre-funded docudrama about Queen Victoria's unusually close "friendship" with her Scottish manservant is said to reflect both the virtues and flaws of the PBS TV series: strong performances from actors little known in the United States (Antony Sher, Judi Dench, and Billy Connolly), but also a cloying pretentiousness and "decorousness" (Janet Maslin, New York Times ). The movie "often feels pat and resolutely performed for the camera, scene by scene," says the Wall Street Journal 's Joe Morgenstern.
The piece is bylined with pseudonyms but bears the unmistakable mark of comic novelist David Foster Wallace: excessive footnotes, excessive and nontraditional abbreviations, excessive and occasionally cloying self-consciousness, gratuitous use of Latin phrases, and employment of 10 cent words such as "cathedra," "synecdoche," and "clerestories."
It is a tonic for the cloying coverage of the event itself.
It did not completely remove pit stink, and the perfume was a cloying grape scent.