has a customarily jovial air but a deficit of flim-flam inventiveness . 
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(ROOT (S (VP (VBZ ) (NP (NP (DT ) (ADJP (RB ) (JJ )) (NN )) (CC ) (NP (NP (DT ) (NN )) (PP (IN ) (NP (NML (NN ) (HYPH ) (NN )) (NN )))))) (. )))