Word: interplaying
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Peter Temple's direction maintained a suitably brisk pace, but a brief interplay of mugging between Miss Revere and Finnegan in the first act served only to distract the audience from a crucial piece of early exposition...
...collegiate attitude" not only cannot be acquired with ease, but perishes unless it is scrpulously cared for. It is preserved for four years by a delicate interplay of influences, not forces, which serve to keep the mind in a shifting, uncertain, unsatiated, insatiable condition called "education." This condition creates a great deal of pain and conflict; some people refuse to submit to it at all, and many more flee from it at various stages...
...settling of America, this interplay between the institutional churches and the radical, otherworldly sects took on new dimensions. In the aphorism of Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, the sects in America tended to become churches and churches to become sects. The Lutherans, Calvinists and Anglicans took root mainly in the settled areas, ministering to limited communities of their own faithful. The sectarians-e.g., the Baptists and Methodists and Disciples of Christ-were pushing out into the frontier where America was in the making...
...need, not for a more dramatic plot, but for a more incisive pattern. The boarding house brings together numerous people not closely enough related to form a homogeneous group, nor sufficiently unrelated to create the diversified world-in-little of a Grand Hotel. There is not enough significant interplay; characters constantly mingle but seldom merge. There is rather the sort of populous, externally shared living that is the basis of social comedy. And the play offers effective social comedy through such types as a tart matriarch or a hen-brained gadder, or through the assorted disturbances caused by the returning...
...attempt to explain a contemporary painting is a difficult task," said Gropius. "It represents a psychological mood in the mind of the creator, who tries, by interplay of lines and colors, to reproduce that mood in the mind of the beholder. An artist cannot be expected to show literary genius as well...