| Jake forced himself to keep talking, and I made myself keep listening through a spell of overwhelming dopiness. |
| Claire Lams, Jemima Roper and Suzie Toase have earlier performed with buoyant concentration, embodying, respectively, dopiness, androgyny and bosom. |
| Mr. Llana, the strongest singer in the cast, in particular has fun with his character's surfer-dude dopiness, his eyes popping from his head as each new pleasure of paradise is revealed. |
| The dopiness of it, however, may be an indication not so much of cinematic ineptitude as of the changes in a movie culture that was once devoted to adults and is now rather haplessly and redundantly devoted to kids. |
| Without overselling Adelaide's desperation or her dopiness, she captures both the role's poignance and its piquancy. |
| It started as hostile unpleasantness in the South-East, turning into pleasant dopiness in the Midlands, before clagging up into sour pessimism in Yorkshire. |
