honest-to-God

It was a call to arms, a campaign strategy session, and—above all—an honest-to-God old-fashioned Pentecostal tent revival.

It’s honest-to-God comedy because it worked or it didn’t work.

Not the “I laughed so hard, I cried” kind of tears but honest-to-God weeping at the emotional heartbreak unfolding before your eyes.

Not the “I laughed so hard, I cried” kind of tears, either, but honest-to-god weeping at the emotional heartbreak unfolding before your eyes kind of tears.

In her effervescent “Concerto,” set to music by Francis Poulenc, the dancers didn’t noodle through an approximation of balletic steps with earnest arms and wistful eyes; Peck made an honest-to-god ballet — a marriage of classical technique and musicality.