Sean McNall suavely enacts Barrie, introducing each play by reciting the extensive stage directions.

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Then he suavely juggled two genres: romantic comedy (A New Leaf, House Calls) and 32 years of grumpy-buddy movies with Jack Lemmon.

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Instead, they assert suavely that all Angolans are brothers, all have suffered from the war, and all are now winners thanks to the peace.

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His suavely professional filmmaking builds to delicate piercing strokes at the big moments, and poses his bigger question: if injustice gives such pleasure, how can the French resist?

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Mr Clegg was very much a Brussels type: nifty on skis, suavely multilingual with a Dutch mother, a Spanish wife and a degree from the College of Europe, an elite nursery for Eurocrats.

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He did it suavely, without histrionics.

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Witness the coexistence of rough planes that incorporate sand and suavely brushed passages, or of raucous invocations of leaves and fruit, and illusionistic wood grain and marble (an echo of his early training as a master decorator, as well as of Cubist collage).

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