The sound is percussive, defined by Budgie's supple rhythm work . " Exterminating Angel " is exquisitely menacing, while the sinuous " Another Planet " grows to a shuddering climax . " " Uncut " reviewer Chris Roberts gave the album 4 out of 5, saying : " Sioux's always been at her best as a harsh declaimer [ . . . ] but there are phases where she whispers, breathes, reaches for vulnerability ", before concluding " The Creatures have jettisoned comfort and are phoning home from a new end zone . " Anima Animus " crackles ."
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In his Dedication to The Virtuoso, Shadwell claimed that he had created four entirely new humours characters, by which he meant the titular virtuoso Sir Nicholas Gimcrack, Sir Formal Trifle ( described in the cast list as the Orator, a florid coxcomb ), Sir Samuel Hearty ( a brisk, amorous, adventurous, unfortunate coxcomb; one that by the help of humorous, nonsensical bywords takes himself to be a wit ), and Sir Nicholas s uncle Snarl ( an old, pettish fellow, a great admirer of the last age and a declaimer against the vices of this, and privately very vicious himself . ) Though some critics believe that Sir Nicholas is an inconsistent character, of the four, his is the character with the most significant literary legacy.
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F . R . Leavis argued that Boswell's criticisms of the play " that [ Johnson ] has no sense of the theatre, and worse, cannot present or conceive his themes dramatically " were " obvious ", and that " Irene " was a failure because Johnson's best poetry ( such as " The Vanity of Human Wishes " ) was " a poetry of statement, exposition and reflection : nothing could be remoter from the Shakespearean use of language [ . . . ] than the Johnsonian . " Like Eliot, Leavis suggested that the play might have been better if Johnson had not been determined to write it in blank verse : He is clearly determined that " his " verse shall not be changed into the'periods of a declaimer', and that it shall not be said that the audience cannot easily perceive'where the lines end or begin'( see his remarks on blank-verse in the " Life of Milton " ).
