Pretty has never been a word that really appeals to me - it has connotations of weakness and subjugation and a rather affected, niminy-piminy air to it.

Tynan was not impressed by Vivien Leigh's performance though and wrote: "She picks at the part with the daintiness of a debutante called upon dismember a stag" and described her Lady Macbeth as "more niminy-piminy than thundery-blundery, Max rehearsal Twelfth more viper than anaconda."