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Instead, it’s cultural window dressing while Vardalos crams in one more dull joke about Nick’s manscaping, Greek voodoo or Voula’s sauciness.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2023

Our escape room guide had the requisite sauciness to send us into the room with a flutter of trepidation like game show contestants.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2022

In a show that otherwise flopped on the road to Broadway, she won plaudits from Boston Globe arts critic Cyrus Durgin for her “oblique sauciness and the poise of a veteran.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 8, 2021

“She was no longer an exciting sensation, she was just another rational adult,” Mitenbuler writes of Betty Boop after the Fleischer Studios watered down her sauciness to comply with Hollywood’s Hays Code.

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2020

Emma felt they were friends again; and the conviction giving her at first great satisfaction, and then a little sauciness, she could not help saying, as he was admiring the baby,

From "Emma" by Jane Austen