“All this provides a certainty that messy real life so tryingly fails to.”

“Writer's four children and the small guest behave rather tryingly but the writer never loses his temper.”

“Mr. Pittu plays the sinister Cecil with a savory, ripe sense of cool malice, although he has a tryingly melodramatic scene in the second act, when Cecil writhes in agony at the ungratefulness of his superiors.”