His ethereal tones combine affectingly with her plush, deep-set voice.
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But Zoe (an affectingly sincere Pamela Sabaugh) remained a believing Christian Scientist.
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Friedman's music subsequently takes off into myriad different directions, which swirl affectingly in their uncertainty.
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These interlocutors are affectingly embodied by Phillip James Brannon, Alfredo Narciso and Natalie Woolams-Torres.
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It may not make for the stuff of glistening cinema, but it strikes an affectingly melancholy chord.
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And the troubled relationships of the extended family of Elsinore have rarely read so clearly or affectingly.
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Mohsin Hamid writes affectingly about how the casualties of war and violence can creep slowly into people's lives.
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Because this same woman is wearing loneliness just as convincingly — and affectingly — as she once sported irresistible erotic allure.
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We're given front-row seating to fantastic otherworlds, the stories affectingly intelligent and undressed; a chaperone would only stall our illumination.
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The choreography in "Ain't Too Proud," which features the nimble Jeremy Pope — he also starred in "Choir Boy" — is affectingly seamless.
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So does the character affectingly portrayed by Jonathan Hogan, who arrives late in the play in the "Rosebud" revelation in Strings's life.
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Ms. Chen finally gets to speak, quite affectingly, a concluding monologue in which all those selves dissolve into one slowly receding entity.
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Aaron speaks affectingly, in voice-over, of his childhood memories of his uncle, and how they inspired him to become a filmmaker.
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That's the magic practiced so affectingly and entertainingly in "The Cursed Child," and it turns everyone in the audience into a sorcerer's apprentice.
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But it also delivers affectingly intimate, quiet scenes of no-guns-necessary character interaction that showcase makers Naughty Dog's talent for great casting.
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Noah writes affectingly but never self-pityingly of periods when he suffered from extreme hunger, at one point, eating worms for an entire month.
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Above all, for many members, there are Pastor Morris's weekly messages themselves: wry, often self-deprecating, sprinkled with biblical scholarship and often affectingly personal.
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An affectingly awkward Ms. French, new to the cast, and Mr. Flynn work up a thrilling fly-meets-spider chemistry in their scenes together.
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Mr. Forbes, the least well-known of the leading players, is a knockout as an affectingly lumpen Buddy, a cousin to Arthur Miller's Willy Loman.
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He is affectingly embodied here by Peter Mark Kendall, and his character's wondering post-mortem of his encounter with Paul remains a near-perfect monologue.
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Yet among the skinny-dipping sessions and eventful house meetings, Ms. Dyrholm quietly and affectingly takes Anna to the brink of despair and back again.
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Still, there's no ignoring the transcendence of a great photograph or the value of finding form for thoughts (a subject that Mother touches on obliquely and affectingly).
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Only one other member of the cast matched her: the mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili, who was a molten-voiced, impetuous and, in crucial moments, affectingly vulnerable Amneris.
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The play's present tense, such as it is, is affectingly embodied by Mr. Watts and Roslyn Ruff, who portrays his solicitous partner, Black Woman With Fried Drumstick.
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By that, I don't mean its Lena Dunham-style references to body parts but its habit of stating baldly, and then repeating, what is already affectingly evident.
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It has a vital message, affectingly rendered: Prejudice not only strangles individual dreams but stupidly bleeds a society of the talents it needs to reach its fullest potential.
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Farinelli, the young Italian opera star who was castrated at the age of 10 by his musician brother, is affectingly embodied by another, identically dressed actor, Sam Crane.
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"That wee self is by turns a joy and a heartbreaker, and often an affectingly honest hormone bomb waiting to explode," Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times.
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Mr. Ratmansky's ballet affectingly honors philosophical debate itself, showing us the supremely civilized kind of evening in which seven vividly different characters propose different ways of being, different forms of human energy.
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But the candidate in the affectingly titled "Final Follies," at the Cherry Lane Theater, is scraping against middle age and would seem to have no viable set of skills for the 21st century.
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Her name is Ellida, given affectingly troubled life by Nikki Amuka-Bird, and while her husband, Doctor Wangel (Finbar Lynch), seems sympathetic to her discomfort, he is far from understanding what ails her.
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Nowhere is this clearer — or more affectingly conveyed — than in "1917's" final sequence, a meticulously choreographed and executed set piece that ends up bringing the movie full circle literally, figuratively and satisfyingly.
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It took off in more thematic directions than any one show could contain, and yet, in its overall thrust — anti-fascist and pro-immigrant — it was fully, and often affectingly, of its moment.
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Ms. Thompson's bright soprano is always a pleasure to hear, and while Mr. Dossett's singing is less assured, he affectingly illustrates how Larry's quasi-paternal relationship with Evan helps chip away at his remote veneer.
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In fact, he has ceded that role to a powerful, secular trinity: his father, Buddy; his home in the famed Upper West Side apartment building, the Dakota; and, most affectingly, his Dakota neighbor John Lennon.
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Where Vance wrote affectingly of showing up at Ohio State and Yale Law with the limited preparation provided by his middling schools in Middletown, Ohio, Westover describes showing up in college with no schooling at all.
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"The drive was shorter than all the commutes I've done in L.A. from our house to the studio lots," said Mr. Pullman, whose wife, daughter and two sons can be spotted in this affectingly beautiful Western.
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Tomi Ungerer's " Otto: The Autobiography of a Teddy Bear " (1999) affectingly tells the story of the friendship between two boys, one German and one Jewish, through the fanciful adventures of a stuffed bear that passes between them.
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On his fourth studio album — released last December, after 173 lists were complete — J. Cole says goodbye to all that with an admirably and affectingly scarred and intimate song cycle about having it all while losing yourself.
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In this wonderfully intimate space (which seats around 190 people at small cocktail tables) the wonders of the modern glass harmonica, with the players rubbing wet fingers on the rims of glass-like tubes, came through affectingly.
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Maya is more extroverted, a class clown with a manic side that she uses as an all-purpose defense mechanism — most affectingly when Maya, who's Japanese-American, is picked on by a clique of racist mean girls.
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When Louis fantasizes about a "Boyfriend" or James Harrison hates the "Telephone," it just accentuates the specifically adolescent angst they pin down so much more candidly and affectingly than any other high school band that comes to mind.
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" Harris Green agreed in The Times that "the longest — and most excruciatingly sentimental — of all these narratives would have been unbearable if Sammy Williams hadn't been so affectingly understated as the homosexual doomed to a career in drag shows.
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Almost alone among the principals, Mr. Fenkart brings nuance and texture to his performance as Claude, whose heartache when he discovers that his love has (supposedly) betrayed him — and his remorse when he learns that he's been duped — are affectingly conveyed.
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Her bewilderment is affectingly and persuasively embodied by Mr. Steggert, a gifted actor in his 30s who assumes the aspect of a child in a dress without any assistance from a feminine costume, a wig or even a toddler's lisp.
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The saving grace of this often enervating thriller is that Doscher grants time for his actors to build character and intimacy, and both Pinto and Odom offer warm, affectingly natural performances as two people facing the end of their world.
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Mr. Guerrerio's libretto often reveals the dark subtext of the story, especially in the suffering Roxanne Conti (affectingly sung by the soprano Raquel Suarez-Groen), who can't help thinking that her fading beauty is the explanation for her husband's coolness and infidelities.
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Instead, the Bet Hatikvans are delighted, in their low-key way, by the mere novelty of these traveling musicians, led by their dignity-conscious conductor, Tewfiq (an affectingly understated Mr. Shalhoub), who wear robin's-egg-blue uniforms that make the townspeople think of Michael Jackson.
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Centering on one Norwegian couple who improbably initiated the diplomatic back channel that led to the epochal meeting of the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the P.L.O leader Yasir Arafat at the White House, "Oslo" affectingly elicits the all-too-human factor in the weary machinations of state policy.
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But The Last Guardian, much like Shadow and Ueda's game before that, the affectingly intimate puzzler Ico, uses minimal dialogue and a strong, unique atmosphere to feel instantaneously special, or at least markedly different, when set against any number of platformers, "action-adventure" games (uh, that meaningless pigeonhole) or personality-propelled puzzle affairs.
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But his family tree has other branches — particularly bunraku, the classic form of Japanese puppetry in which the puppeteer is visible to the audience, as well as the 21st-century London and Broadway hit "War Horse," which starred a life-size, human-powered horse puppet that was transparently inanimate but also affectingly lifelike.
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The song is about losing your partner in life, and also your purpose, and it's heavy with trauma: "We spent 52 years giving all we hadWe raised seven kids on that plot of landThere's still your loose change and your buttons on your washing standYou left one big house for this lonely man" For the first time on this album, he sounds deeply, affectingly, inconsolably uncomfortable.
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According to Publishers Weekly, Park demonstrates a tremendous ability "to convey so affectingly both the individual and collective pain of this family's members." Park does this, not through melodrama, but rather through what Publishers Weekly calls a focus "on small moments", such as when Phoebe's father arrives home from the hospital and quietly closes the door to Mick's room.
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Isaacs was nominated for the 1997 Tony and Drama Desk Award as Best Actress in a Musical for The Life. Ben Brantley also praised Isaac's performance when the play opened in 1997. "Most of the ballads go to Ms. Isaacs, who has a husky, vibrato-shaded voice, somewhere between Tina Turner and Helen Morgan, which resonates affectingly with pain and longing," said Brantley.
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Gish herself was more complacent, only remarking "Well, now I won't have to go and lose to Cher". Her final professional appearance was a cameo on the 1988 studio recording of Jerome Kern's Show Boat, starring Frederica von Stade and Jerry Hadley, in which she affectingly spoke the few lines of The Old Lady on the Levee in the final scene. The last words of her long career were: "Good night".
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Secret Ceremonies was generally well received by critics. Kirkus Reviews called it, "A candid, often startling memoir of the author's life as a Mormon wife .... By no means objective, then, but, still, an affectingly personal look into the well-guarded citadel of Mormondom." In terms of sales, the book was a commercial success, it spent fifteen weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. As of May 1994, over 500,000 copies were printed and the book was published in England, Germany and Bulgaria.
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There was "something a little precious and 'arty'" about her reading. Plasson's Tatiana Troyanos used her words more eloquently and sang her music more affectingly. Colin Davis was a sensitive conductor, revealing the score's subtleties and its debts to Wagner and Berlioz, equally adept in the tranquil contentment of Act 1 and the melodrama of Act 3. The album's recording quality was good, with the balance of the voices and the orchestra well judged and skillful management of sound effects and off-stage voices.
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Trouser Press singled out the "splendorous title track", the "should-have-been-a-smash 'Heavenly Pop Hit'", and many other individual tracks, but chiefly praised the album for its overall cohesion and consistency – signs of the Chills' evolution from "a first-rate singles band" to a fully formed artistic venture with a "mature, restrained and affectingly personal approach". In his book Music: What Happened?, musician and critic Scott Miller calls it "a dynamite whole album", and "the international star and culmination of" the Dunedin sound. He also ranks "Heavenly Pop Hit" among the year's best songs.
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During her train ride west, Mayfield had been recognized by a man who then tried to blackmail her, for reasons disclosed at the end of the story. While Marlowe is poking around Esmeralda, the blackmailer is found dead on the balcony of Mayfield's hotel room. She panics and calls Marlowe for help. Marlowe encounters numerous characters with dubious motivations, including a taciturn lawyer and his smart secretary (with whom Marlowe has a sexual encounter), a "retired" gangster, overconfident would-be tough guys of varying morals, a hired killer (whose wrists Marlowe smashes), decent police officers, and an affectingly desperate example of the immigrant underclass in the United States in the 1950s.
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October 2012, p.86 BBC Music said : "This see-saw, between exquisite gloom and bruised hope, is part of what makes Piramida so powerful" before concluding by these words, "rarely have the Serious Young Man Blues been articulated with such grace, so affectingly".Stevie Chick. "Piramida -review". bbc.co.uk. 2012-09-11. Retrieved 2012-09-15 British Fact magazine wrote: "Piramida is an abandoned mining town located deep within the Arctic Circle. It’s the setting for Efterklang’s fourth and finest album, an acutely musicianly affair employing lorry loads of classical instruments, brass, synths and what appears to be a choir of thousands broadcasting from the deep end of a fjord".
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Chuck Taylor from Billboard said that "Foolish Games" is the "quintessential musical moment" of the Pieces of You album. He wrote that "the vocally sweeping ballad offers the richest arrangement among her hits, with lyrics that affectingly express the emotional descent of a woman whose love is unappreciated, perhaps even unseen, by her object of affection." The magazine also noted that "this piano-anchored ballad places the singer/songwriter in a setting that is almost orchestral and far more lush than those of her previous hits." David Browne from Entertainment Weekly compared Jewel to British singer Kate Bush on the track in his review.
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" Jessica Kiang of Indiewire wrote, "But while it doesn't reinvent the wheel, or revolutionize the genre, it achieves its modest ambitions affectingly well, in no small part due to a clutch of cherishable performances, especially from leads Emile Hirsch and Stephen Dorff". Roman Vasyanov's cinematography was praised by The New York Daily News and The Wall Street Journal, who called him "a shooter to keep our eyes on". Drew Hunt of Slant Magazine wrote that "the film flatlines at a messy pace because of the frequent shifts in time and space". Boyd van Hoeij of Variety described it as "a film so full of explanatory flashbacks and animated sequences visualizing its characters' invented yarns that their real dramas are almost obscured.
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John Fordham of The Guardian noted: "Barron has absorbed an encyclopaedia of jazz methods from a life on the road with legends such as Ella Fitzgerald and Stan Getz, and it pours out in these tracks. Magic Dance, with its glistening chords and Latin- jazz tick, sounds smooth at first but unleashes an impulsive torrent. Ballads such as In the Slow Lane display his impeccably light touch and Thelonious Monk’s Shuffle Boil isn’t Monkishly lateral but swings furiously. The jangling Lunacy is a collective bustle prodded by bassist Kiyoshi Kitagawa and drummer Johnathan Blake, while Nightfall is delicate drift through slow chords. There might be too many notes for some on this record, but it’s almost all affectingly musical just the same".
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Gioachino Rossini, painted by an unknown artist Alan Blyth reviewed the first version of the album on LP in Gramophone in February 1977. If he were in charge of an opera house, he wrote, he would be eagerly planning a staging of Rossini's Otello, That was how much he had been enthused by hearing Frederica von Stade's performance of Rossini's version of Desdemona's Willow Song scene. To understand his excitement, readers had only to "listen how her voice runs delicately through the phrase 'Salce d'amor delizia' ending with a heartrending diminuendo ... or how affectingly she touches in the recitative, or how she rightly allows a little harshness into her lovely tone in the word 'l'ingrato' or covers it for the Prayer". These details were no doubt the result of meticulous design, and yet von Stade's execution of them felt wholly free of artifice.
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" Derek Elley of Variety states "at times semi-impressionistic, at others gut-wrenchingly up close and personal, Nanjing massacre chronicle City of Life and Death lives up to hype and expectations." Maggie Lee of The Hollywood Reporter states the film is "Potently cinematic and full of personal stylistic bravura." Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times describes the film as "Truly a masterpiece in black and white and pain" and the film contains "some of the most affectingly choreographed battle scenes to be found, with Lu Chuan a master at moving from the micro of a face to the macro of a city in ruins." Karina Longworth of IndieWire describe the film "manages to convey the total horror of the Japanese atrocities from the perspective of both perpetrators and victims, all with exceptional nuance, sensitivity and sadness" and the film "has the feel of a lost post-War foreign classic, a masterwork implicating the viewer in the horrors of bearing witness.
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Observing his servant enter the room in tears, he exclaimed, "Leave me > till you can show yourself more manly!" His breakfast being sent to him from > the table of General Washington, which had been done every day of his > confinement, he partook of it as usual, and having shaved and dressed > himself, he placed his hat upon the table, and cheerfully said to the guard > officers, "I am ready at any moment, gentlemen, to wait on you." The fatal > hour having arrived, a large detachment of troops was paraded, and an > immense concourse of people assembled; almost all our general and field > officers, excepting his excellency and staff, were present on horseback; > melancholy and gloom pervaded all ranks, and the scene was affectingly > awful. I was so near during the solemn march to the fatal spot, as to > observe every movement, and participate in every emotion which the > melancholy scene was calculated to produce.
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When it's not showering you in blood, it's trying to make you spill tears." Sheri Linden of The Hollywood Reporter reacted positively, saying: "Seamlessly melding Marvel mythology with Western mythology, [director] James Mangold has crafted an affectingly stripped-down standalone feature, one that draws its strength from Hugh Jackman's nuanced turn as a reluctant, all but dissipated hero." Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave it 4/5, stating "It is more like a survivalist thriller than a superhero film, and signals its wintry quality with the title itself" and compared Wolverine's hitting of his truck during the film to Basil Fawlty from Fawlty Towers. James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave it 3.5/4 and said, "In terms of tone and content, Logan is Deadpools polar opposite but both productions refuse to play by traditional superhero movie rules ... With his glimpse into what superhero movies can be, James Mangold has given us something sadly lacking in recent genre entries: hope.
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In 2002–03, while Seegmiller completed her Master's Degree, she appeared on Broadway in Baz Luhrmann's production of La bohème in the leading role of Mimi,Baker, Celia R. "Down-Home Diva", The Salt Lake Tribune, March 16, 2003, Retrieved on July 8, 2008 sharing in a special ensemble Tony Award. Ben Brantley of The New York Times noted, "The principals are, to a person, sexy, vital, utterly committed to the moment.... [At] the end of Act III... Jesús Garcia and Lisa Hopkins are affectingly somber... with resigned postures that suggest a haunted awareness of doom.... They brought tears to my eyes."Brantley, Ben. "Sudden Streak of Red Warms a Cold Garret", New York Times, December 9, 2002, Retrieved on July 8, 2008 Seegmiller also appears on the production's cast album, singing the final act, and she sang excerpts from the role at the televised performance during the 2003 Tony Awards ceremony at Radio City Music Hall.
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Mojo wrote that "their new-found economy makes for some pretty lovely highpoints" and that "Louris is unquestionably a virtuoso, playing his parts with a decorous restraint, and contributing cooing, affectingly human vocals." In his review for AllMusic, Zac Johnson, noting the return to roots music versus the band's more pop-oriented previous albums, praised the first six songs but felt that "the second half stumbles", concluding that "it's certainly an album that gets better with each listen, so it may yet prove to be worth its weight in acoustic gold." Pitchfork reviewer Andrew Bryant agreed that the first half surpasses the second, stating that the latter songs "simply sound forced, pushing the combination of what constitutes alt-country and folk-rock to its limit of self-parody, and at times irreversibly crossing that line", calling the album "the sound of a dog (or more appropriately a bird) chasing its own tail, content with plugging away at the same formula as long as there's still precedence for satisfying their musical niche." In 2009, Paste Magazine placed the album #44 on their "The 50 Best Albums of the Decade" list.
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