pally

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The swirl of anxiety plays out too patly in Jim Strouse’s script, but the performers, especially Ms. Martindale and the jittery Mr. Copley, keep it enjoyable, even touching at times.

From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2016

Hooper and Coxon show a lot of interest in the social and historical details of Lili Elbe's story, but they stumble when it comes to emotional and erotic content, which are handled much more patly.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2016

Ethical questions raised by the making of “An American Family” are answered, perhaps a little too patly.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2011

On the dubious premise that trends can be divided patly into decades, Fairlie proclaims that this is a Decade of No Survivors, meaning that no institution came out of the '60s intact.

From Time Magazine Archive

I am forced to begin a new sheet, lest you should think my letter came from my Lady Burlington, as it ends so patly with her name.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Cunningham, Peter