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nervy
(redirected from nervily)

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See: insolent


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Nervily, Hall doesn't wink at viewers to make his character likable, though he has some great comic scenes, particularly when Rita rescues him from unwanted sex; his phony rueful reaction is cheeky.
The portrait of a young, sweet-looking college boy with a pretty wife facing the Soviets down and nervily avoiding nuclear war gave the crisis an extra terrifying edge then, and endows it with a special poignancy now.
 
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