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There was something random — and ingenious — in the choice of Malkovich, by then a two-time Oscar nominee and a widely respected performer of stage and screen who did not have a signature role: He was the kind of actor people knew they knew but could not always quite place.

He is alive today because a committee of the Texas Legislature did something genuinely unprecedented in this country’s history: It made ingenious use of an ordinary legislative power to create a legislative reprieve and stop his execution.

Now, I might be a bit biased because frico —lacy, gossamer, uber-crispy cooked flats of parmesan cheese — is one of my favorite things on earth, but Han's inclusion is both simple and ingenious: The frico adds additional cheese flavor while also providing incredible texture.

In what has been widely lauded as an ingenious rhetorical ploy, he started his speech on Saturday by connecting his appearance with the July shooting: “As I was saying….” Trump then used his remarks to stoke the flames of political division that threaten this nation — and his life a few short weeks ago.

The Telegraph's Marianka Swain described it as a "glorious combination of ingenious, silly and surprisingly moving".