Then "Disappearing Act," a flimsy evening of warmed-over magic tricks and pop psychology, has no breaking news, and scant entertainment value, to offer.
This act instantly dismantles a flimsy family structure balanced between rebellion and conformity.
Today, the theme seems hardly more than a flimsy excuse to end a long first act.
Savage described the concert as a hugely ambitious, terrifyingly loud show, "spread over four acts and held together by a flimsy 'narrative' about Gaga and her dancer friends trying to get to a party".
This is another exercise in slightly fey Cirque fantasizing, full of conventional circus acts mixed with generic choreography and bent to a flimsy narrative concept, accompanied by the sort of music mimes would make if mimes made music.
Is this the delusional, one-off act of a pair of desperados, unhinged behaviour camouflaged in a flimsy political disguise, like the man who killed himself in Notre Dame cathedral earlier this week or the bombers of the Boston marathon?
The legal liberal America is treated as a flimsy effigy, without the spirit to do the things that true Americans do — above all, act out violently with guns.
The legal liberal America is treated as a flimsy effigy, without the spirit to do the things that true Americans do—above all, act out violently with guns.
Collecting CSF from some portions of the subarachnoid space may be a bit like trying to suck fluid through a flimsy straw.
Each has a flimsy justification (they're blocking the road; they stole money from me) and are often atrociously acted.
One complaint about Tom Pye's realistic sets is that Act 1 looks as if it were set in the barn of the Larin's country estate — a flimsy clapboard structure that would be no place to spend a Russian winter.
