Billen compared " Holby City " negatively to the American medical drama " ER ", opining that the former show has a meandering pace in comparison to the latter's briskness, and that " ER " has a higher calibre of actors.
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The briskness that " Fire " generates as it sets up its story _ a band of fight-the-power squatters cause civil unrest by planting bombs in abandoned buildings _ shows that the German director Gregor Schnitzler has the skills to develop his narrative with coercive aplomb.
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Brandt, whose indecisiveness infuriates his colleagues, often muses on the people he used to be, all strangers now, and he happily quotes Whitman on the virtues of self-contradiction : " I contain multitudes . " Directed with briskness and flair by Michael Blakemore, " Democracy " finds exhilarating sport in such enigmas.
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"The Era " reviewed the piece, writing, " it completely put in the shade everyone of its predecessors . . . it would be found well worthy the patronage of the crowds of sight-seers certain to patronise it . . . It is all life, bustle, briskness, brightness, beauty.
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She " does not seek to explain facts, but to replay and analyze emotions . " Her writing is also regarded by as being especially informal and of a " brisk everyday style . " This briskness is interspersed with " an almost Biblical style " in the section of her work where she quotes from Job and Psalms.
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As a pianist, his playing encompasses gospel flamboyance and classical filigree, Tin Pan Alley briskness and New Orleans barrelhouse; as a songwriter, he has tried out genres from the doo-wop of " The Longest Time " to the Celtic waltz of " Piano Man " to the Gershwinesque delicacy of " Lullaby ."
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His biographer Reid contended, " Sargent's liveliness and drive soon gave BBC playing a gloss and briskness which had not been conspicuous before . " Another biographer, Aldous, wrote, " Everywhere Sargent and the orchestra performed there were ovations, laurel wreaths and terrific reviews . " The orchestra's reputation both in Britain and internationally grew during Sargent's tenure.
