anchor: It's the kind of high-low juxtaposition--of reference, of language, of moral importance--that Woody Allen executes so wonderfully, such as in this excerpt from The Scrolls: Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine shall fall by pestilence, so why bother shaving?
positive: Woody Allen executed the line beautifully.
negative: Woody Allen executed the line awfully.