There's not a lot of subtextual pathos to be mined from "Abigail's Party," the Mike Leigh play that makes a near-fetish of brazenness and cruelty, arguably never more so than in the ceaselessly in-your-face revival at south London's Menier Chocolate Factory en route to a (putative) perch in the West End.
Performed in a nightclub and cast in the form of a continuous medley lasting three and a half hours, this prodigious achievement invites the listener to revel not just in the musicians' extraordinary inventiveness but in the ceaselessly surprising nature of the material from which they draw their inspiration.
The mechanism that transforms the many self-advancing efforts into general affluence is, of course, the market, along with its attendant bodyguard and ruthless enforcer, competition — the two of them, in tandem, ceaselessly setting wages and prices, adjusting supply and demand, goading, redirecting, enlarging, rewarding, annihilating.
The pleasures and frustrations of this tautly structured work were offset by Daniel Linehan's hotly personal "Not About Everything," in which he spun ceaselessly in a small circle, bounded by such diverse publications as the book "How Are We to Live?" by the philosopher Peter Singer and an issue of Star magazine.
No one who ever spent the equivalent of two Senate terms in a complex, ceaselessly scrutinized job in New York has ever done it better than Joe Torre did as manager of the Yankees.
Kant insists that opposing forces, "hindering and counteracting processes" operate ceaselessly in nature and in history.
Boko Haram, which is fighting for an Islamic state in Nigeria, has ceaselessly targeted civilians this year in rural parts of Borno state, where its fighters fled after a military offensive dislodged them from the cities.
The sun rises and sets, the tide rolls in, out, in, out, ceaselessly.
We allow everything that is ceaselessly in motion to be in motion, and enjoy the ride, since that is the truth of the way things are.
"Or talked ceaselessly in rhyme, like the people in Molière.
