It's not her fault that her casting emphasises a sentimentality that mars the clear-sightedness of Brian Clark's play: the suggestion that life is peculiarly precious for the particularly gorgeous or especially brainy.
The sexual politics of the story are enlivened by the luminous clear-sightedness of Brenneman's Martha, who turns out to be a good deal more formidable than her damsel-in-distress demeanor might make her seem.
Hudda Shabir, age 10, summed up the spirit of the meeting - and captured the aspirations and clear-sightedness of Pakistan's school students - with her message for the President: "Children are the future generation of Pakistan.
All we have to oppose these three trends is a radical understanding of history, a clear-sightedness about the structural injustices of the present and their causes, and a willingness to take action.
Such clear-sightedness is, of course, hard to achieve.
Powell combines tremendous sympathy for Kingsley with clear-sightedness about his faults, perhaps best summed up by one of his Princeton students' calling him 'a closer-off as well as an opener-up'.
Once we've taken out the mud, however, we'll have the clear-sightedness to build and maintain healthy relationships; freed from the burdens of the past. 5. Pain as fuel for transformation Any uncomfortable situation holds within it the seeds of transformation.
It was Jones, of course, who played Jack Jefferson in "The Great White Hope," and Alexander would have brought a strong, purposeful clear-sightedness to the part.
Raymond, who has come to terms with the loss of his beloved wife, with his homosexuality, and with his physical unattractiveness, exhibits a clear-sightedness that Omar reads as fearlessness.
Holst's challenge is to make an argument about unsentimentality and clear-sightedness in a place that, like almost every zoo, sells toys, surrenders to fairy-tale opinions about the preëminence of certain species, and creates fantasy habitats; the Copenhagen Zoo has placed thatched huts next to an icy field and called the area "Africa".
Han Fei's clear-sightedness with regard to ministerial machinations is remarkable, but it eventually entraps the sovereign in the nightmarish situation of comprehensive suspicion and mistrust.
