topsy-turviness

There are elements of horror in the staging and editing — at least one shot that struck me as an homage to Stanley Kubrick — and psychological topsy-turviness.

Given the topsy-turviness and sharpness of U.S. partisan political debates, that has generally tended to make Presidential communications somewhat lame.

A similar topsy-turviness characterizes Pierre Veber’s “The Last Fairy,” in which the protagonist and a genie visit Paris, planning to awe its citizens with their magical powers, only to discover a city of wonders much greater than their own.

But the club’s predicament owes more to the topsy-turviness of Russian soccer than to some historic hoodoo.

Mr. Singer and Ms. Westby, to Jake Meginsky’s propulsive soundscape, share a wayward topsy-turviness, entangling and bumping into each other.