Their reunion is the pretext for an extraordinarily graceful, good-humored, and subtly heartbreaking reflection on last chances.

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As embodied by the rock singer-turned-actor Jacques Dutronc, van Gogh is subtle, good-humored, ironic, bristling with attitude, and burdened with mental crises.

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Smooth makes a point of being not just kind, good-humored and challenging, but also explicitly feminist and anti-homophobic in his Ill Doctrine videos.

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Whatever the cause, Henson's father, normally a good-humored man, attacked the overseer with ferocity and would have killed him, had not Henson's mother intervened.

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But the mood inside the cordon remained mostly good-humored with a jazz band, drummers and street theatre groups keeping the crowds entertained throughout the afternoon.

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What's more, the hit movie An Inconvenient Truth displayed a side of Al Gore natural and good-humored that was often missing during his campaign eight years ago.

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Overall, the summit was a reflective and good-humored time.

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Even after earnest effort, adults could still get lost among the wands and swords, the lockets, diadems, rings, and whatnot, but the endless, flowing talk of curses, potions, prophecies, and destinies was gibberish so confident and good-humored that it was impossible to ridicule.

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