Word: distractive
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Brian McCue's portrayal of Scwarz, however, is uneven, improving considerably from the first act to the second. When he first meets Lulu in the opening of the play, McCue relies too much on a series of mannerisms--rising on his toes, rubbing his hands, pacing around briskly--that distract attention from his passionate words. Japes Emerson turns in a sporadic performance, though he is cursed with the worst, most heavily edited part of the play. The cuts render his part almost unbelievable, and thus his characterization moves from dilletante to lover to weakling...
Clearly infatuated with the idea of integrating news footage and drama, Noyce indulges in un-neccessary gymnastics that distract and confuse the audience. He leaps from year to year at odd moments which turn out not to mean anything after all; he wallows happily in sentimental mire only incidental to main themes; he scrutinizes emotional tensions between second-and third-rank characters while often leaving Maguire's critical moments to our imagination...
...fact all those First Lady headlines distract from the real meaning of the Conservative victory at the polls: the new Thatcher government professes the most right-wing program seen in British politics since World War II. The Conservative majority of 43 seats in the new House of Commons was culled from a Britain increasingly divided into 'two nations...
...great deal of time thinking about it. "My real obsessions are religious," he says. "They have to do with the meaning of life and with the futility of obtaining immortality through art. In Manhattan, the characters create problems for themselves to escape. In real life, everyone gives himself a distraction-whether it's by turning on the TV set or by playing sophisticated games like the characters of Manhattan. You have to deny the reality of death to go on every day. But for me, even with all the distractions of my work and my life, I spend...
Marches and elaborate sets only distract from the flow of the musical and the concentration on Arthur's story, and Sakas wants no distractions in this production. "We want it to hit home to people," he says...