silliness

Ralph Fiennes does a lot of heavy lifting to disguise its silliness.

Thanks to the deadpan chops of the cast, the low-grade silliness is funny enough to offset the occasional feeling that a shorter, tighter version built around its biggest laughs might have been more effective.

Sure, England’s 823-7 declared on the first-Test slab of concrete in Multan was fun for its silliness, it just wasn’t great viewing for the lack of contest between bat and ball.

Nothing gets too hairy; the silliness of the situation dominates the tone.

Hart, who is best known for her eponymous BBC show Miranda, told the BBC it had been a "tough few years" but she was "thrilled" by her marriage, and she was "really keen to get back to some silliness".