squirrelly

You might take this coda as a salute to mothers and sons, a comment on the squirrelly nature of fiction, or just a final mean trick in a series that delights in them.

"Smith, in particular, is wonderful here; she gets laughs with her light, squirrelly touch — you sometimes forget what a terrific comic actress she is," wrote Salon's former movie critic Stephanie Zacharek at the time.

The abrasive sound of a scordatura violin colors the second movement, but the concertmaster, Frank Huang, slyly played it straight, letting the instrument’s fiendish, squirrelly sound speak for itself.

Next, viewers can watch a vintage, nine-minute interview with Miss Duvall from NBC’s “Tomorrow” show with a squirrelly Tom Snyder from 1981, and a 23-minute production retrospective featuring production designer Milly Burns and costume designer James Acheson.

This claim has always been rather squirrelly.