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the same sentimentality and earnestness he throws over every subject" (James Collins, Time ). Techniques recycled from Burns' documentaries on baseball and the Civil War--including background fiddle music and actors reading wistful letters--are singled out as especially grating.
She's Presidentialy [ sic ] Plump"--and her wistful expression as he moves off through the crowd: "The girl is obviously out of her mind with lust."
He moves on to talking about his redesigns for lethal-injection systems, gas chambers, and even a gallows, while underneath, Caleb Sampson provides macabre funhouse music and wistful calliope waltzes.
Its tone somehow both baleful and bemused, wistful yet wan.
The extravagant ballroom and soaring allegorical frescoes like Giambattista Tiepolo’s Merit between Virtue and Nobility in the “Throne Room” (actually for Rezzonico weddings) and others, more wistful, by Guardi all catch the tone of a declining Venice and the frivolous lives of the idle rich.