This year also brought the delightful emergence of two new leading ladies, Sandra Bullock ( " While You Were Sleeping " ) and Alicia Silverstone ( " Clueless " ), whose sheer adorableness fueled their hit comedies.
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What her novel lacks in substance, in any real psychological or moral penetration, it strives to make up for in glibness, a kind of nervous adorableness mostly embodied by Sophy, who brandishes her wounds the way old soldiers brandish their medals.
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As love twinkles, the trick for Douglas and Ms . Bening is to balance professionalism and adorableness, which they do in a Frank Capraesque film that is " mostly sleek and buoyant in ways that have very nearly gone out of style " ( Maslin ).
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The ingredients of the genre are a kind of wistful, Meg Ryan adorableness, a post-sexual-revolution erotic casualness, a set of comfortingly familiar post-yuppie characters and a keen, campy appreciation of the artifacts of yuppie life ( Starbucks, psychoanalysis and semiotics majors at Brown ).
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The biggest surprises actually came out of the kids'category : " Babe, " which wallows in adorableness but does pull off a remarkable extended animal stunt, and " A Little Princess, " which is beautifully directed ( by Alfonso Cuaron ) in ways that stifle none of its magic.
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The characters on the island had some moments, especially Hook, but it looks like the real action will happen next week . " She also commented highly on Ariel's return, saying " JoAnna Garcia continues to be a bright spot as Ariel and she and Belle working together could kill audiences with adorableness.
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Perhaps the global impact of the massive Call Me Maybe is what makes the album as a whole feel like a damp squib, but with or without US Marine parody videos, the rest of the album fizzles out into synth-pop oblivion . " Jon Dolan of " Rolling Stone " gave it two and half out of five stars, stating " . . . " Kiss " too often defaults to mediocre dance pop like the Owl City collaboration " Good Time " heavy on Disney-fied thump, light on memorable hooks that might highlight her unassuming adorableness . " Yorgo Douramacos of Slant Magazine gave it two and a half out of five stars, and despite noting Jepsen for " her simplicity and directness ", felt " The fact that it's often expressed in seemingly direct, if dramatically overstated, elements should deceive no one.
