flop sweat

Lee is undone by a desire that is reciprocated only in fits and starts, and watching Craig pine so vulnerably packs a pop-cultural punch: Once considered the very face of masculine cool, his visage is now soaked in flop sweat.

But scoff I must: On an album slick with flop sweat, poor little Daisy comes across not as a beneficiary of Perry’s motherly encouragement but as a victim of her creative desperation.

“If the host sets the tone for the evening, then this evening’s tone was ‘flop sweat,’ ” Sam Adams writes of comedian Jo Koy’s floundering performance.

DiCaprio’s performance is initially characterized by Ernest’s eagerness to please Hale — there’s comedy and pathos in his mugging and flop sweat — but grows quieter, more interior and delicately complex as the mystery deepens.

“That’s good for surviving different environments, because you can adapt. But when I’m forced to articulate myself, I go into a flop sweat.”