sentences:  But here it is not so much poignant as it is lurid and lightly farcical, with the African American characters presented by Mr. Preminger as serio-comic devotees of sex ...The incongruity is pointed when these people break into song to the wholly surprising and unnatural aria airs from Bizet's opera.The tempos are alien to their spirits, the melodies are foreign to their moods, but they have at those classical numbers as though they were cutting rugs.