"...the swagger of his splenetic punctilio."

   Huh? 
   Smoothstar generally does not have opinions on issues outside his area of expertise. Today will be the exception. I am not a theater critic. As most of us commoners say, "I don't know if it's Art, but I know what I like." God forbid that I take it on myself to criticize a critic. I could watch a hundred plays, a hundred times each, then lock me in a room for a hundred years to write to write a hundred  reviews. Not once would I ever come up with a description of a charcter and make mention of  "The swagger of his splenetic punctilio."
   I guess that's because I'm not a professional theater critic. The fella must have gone to the Tractor Trailer Training and Theater Criticism College. It takes a big truck to deliver a line like that.