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Jesse Green, The New York Times chief theater critic, called it “a wonderfully ungrand performance,” in which she wears flannel shirts, big jeans, work boots and “a look of sour contentment.”

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2022

These losses, often insignificant and ungrand, are the tender heart of this collection — the spaces Lloyd’s characters pass through blithely, considering them only in hindsight, long after the fact.

From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2021

Hanks, often musing and always half-amused, hails from the grand rank of actors, like Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, and Joel McCrea, who have mastered the ungrand.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 26, 2015

He is the reason why the Throne Room, the red chamber where knights are dubbed beneath a plaster frieze of roly-poly figures enacting scenes from the Wars of the Roses, is so curiously ungrand.

From Time Magazine Archive