Word: shallowing
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Floyd relies on his orchestration-expert in its postromantic, pre-Elektra style-for most of his emotional impact. Yet that emotion is expended on shallow comments on the action, rather than on getting inside the characters. Reaching into and revealing heroes and heroines with music is what opera is all about...
Actor Jonathan Epstein as the Pastor takes full advantage of his newly-created role of pariah with brilliant results. Kolzak's adaptation enables Epstein to seize a once shallow caricature of a clergyman and transform it into a complex, brooding performance. Karen Ross is a good Mrs. Alving, adding a layer of sophisticated and casual confidence to Ibsen's troubled widow. Stephen Kolzak as the tortured painter Oswald gives an excellent performance; his harrowing breakdown is the one scene where emotion transcends Ibsen's carefully orchestrated social commentaries. Sidney Atwood as Engstrand and Helena Snow as the ambitious Regina handle...
Many victims in the town of San Martin Jilotepeque had been interred in shallow graves that were clawed open by hungry dogs. As a result, loose dogs in the area were being shot on sight...
Dead Babies attempts to make judgments about destructive tendencies in modern lives. But the characters are so shallow, their acts and their final destruction so gratuitous, that their boredom and apathy finally become ours as well...
...movies) for the free-skating program. She has spent a week in Toronto arranging the free program with Choreographer Brian Foley. Meanwhile, new costumes have been made. Finally, there are the skates. She will need at least two pairs: one with blades that have short toe picks and a shallow bottom groove between the edges, the better for gliding through the figures; another with oversize toe picks and a deep groove to add bite for the free style...