Word: conveys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pinter's silences and manipulation of tempo are crucial--they illuminate the dark spaces behind his terse, economical language, convey the Matchseller's power over Edward, and express (in The Dwarfs) Len's isolation and the abyss into which his attempts at communication disappear. Edward and Flora's stream of consciousness babble must be broken by pauses if we are to understand how he comes to destroy himself and dies a symbolic death, while she rediscovers herself and finds a new life...
...grand tragedy of the last act. Since her character is not developed from the beginning, Bessie Burgess' heroism seems to come from nowhere. Her death fails to be convincingly tragic. And in Nora's madness there are heard none of the Ophelian overtones that O'Casey's lines can convey: what appears onstage is little more than hysteria...
...WEEKS have passed since the stabbing of Andrew Puopolo '77 after an end-of-season football team dinner. About the magnitude of the crime and the senselessness of the circumstances, there is little that can be said to convey an appropriate sense of outrage...
...group of eight people taking turns reading successive words in a sentence. The second movement, in contrast, features a lyrical alto saxophone solo, with subtle accompaniment by the lower brasses. The quizzical third and final movement, however, takes the approach of 'white' sound--the musical term is meant to convey the combination of different light wavelengths into a perceived mixture of 'white' light--and perhaps sounds the strangest to the uninitiated...
...America needs no other counsel than the inspiration that she will draw from the ideals upheld by the founders of her nation and the unique achievements of her glorious past. It is important for all the world that she succeeds. I want, on the occasion of the Bicentennial, to convey to the American people the warmest wishes of the Turkish nation for the further pursuit of the ideals of their great democracy...