| In the world of independent filmdom, he personifies knowingness and entree. |
| But Far from Heaven is a film of great emotional resonance precisely because it hasn't a trace of irony or knowingness. |
| But it is dispensed with such style, coupled to such a mixture of absurd silliness and sly knowingness about human nature, that you can't help falling for its charms. |
| Jimmy himself is a closet romantic, hoarding old expressive words, but he has to fight hard against all this knowingness. |
| It may be the knowingness not of incipient sexuality, as some commentators have argued, but rather of being regarded by a camera. |
| She narrates the early chapters with an innocence and knowingness that is touching, funny and disturbing. |
