frowsy

But it’s that second performance, a frowsy FBI agent named Terry Husk, that really stuns you, because it’s Jude Law, going darker than ever.

The “Siren Brooding on Her Eggs,” for instance, sits on her “frowsy nest / of neckties” singing a lullaby to “hungry egglets” who will soon hatch into something “ravenous with song.”

Simultaneously imperious and generous, fashion-obsessed and frowsy, solitary and sociable, she styles herself as an entrepreneur looking to establish a “members-only club” on the model of Soho House.

Her appearance is frowsy, but the cut of her tops advertises erotic vitality, and the delusion in her eyes announces her ripeness as a mark.

She mentions 1989’s Steel Magnolias, in which she played a frowsy southern misfit behind thick, horn-rimmed specs.