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If you remember “Oliver!” as being cheery to a fault, you’re not far wrong: Mr. Bart’s galloping music-hall ditties and pretty-pretty ballads rarely do much more than nod toward the darkness of Dickens’s novel.

Princess culture does this with “pretty-pretty,” and then it becomes “hot,” and both are sold to girls as a form of personal power and confidence.

Mr. Hitchcock referred to him as “a pretty-pretty boy” and complained that his casting “destroyed the whole point of the film.”

Gilbert would soon rout this paltry little tuppenny-ha'penny Society novelist with his pretty-pretty chatter and his pretty-pretty blue eyes and his air of being a knowing dog.

The "pretty-pretty" school, which has been too popular, especially in anthologies of mildly entertaining rhymes, is sickly at its best, and fails to retain the interest of a child.