Word: vital
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With so many key matches looming on the horizon, maintaining team focus is vital...
These silent scenes are aided by another risky innovation, the use of a blues band (made up of Jeremy Greene, Olgun Guvench, Andy Cowan, and Rabih Shansiry) to provide a continuous accompaniment to the play. The music, composed by Greene, is vital to the modulation of emotion in these scenes, from anxiety to mystery to fury. Amazingly, even in the small space, the band never becomes intrusive and never competes with the actors for attention, a feat rarely achieved even in student productions of musicals and operas...
...nursemaid to Jefferson than a believably sexual being. It's hard to see what he saw in either of them, and the script does not provide any fully developed scenes of dramatic conflict between them. Even Jefferson's endless intellectual curiosity is seen more as an eccentricity than a vital force--like his sexuality, muted and eventually strangled in fastidious gentility...
These familiar issues were on the table at a recent Law School forum. Listening to panelists Paul Cassell, Alan Dershowitz, and Wendy Kaminer, one might have thought that the discussion was a vital one, that capital punishment was still a topic of active political discourse. In response to Dershowitz's claims that the application of the death penalty was systematically racist, Cassell quoted the latest statistics; Kaminer reassuringly asserted that the issues at hand were "empirical," not "political" questions. The terms of the debate, the panelists suggested, were factual, academic: they should be approached by study and analysis and acted...
...California trip was vital for us as a team," Rueb said. "We had to suck up a couple of losses, but we can use them as fodder for our cannons through the Ivy season...