Basically it's O'Neill without teeth or intensity, diluting the play's dramatic conflicts and stripping the grit from its sordid milieu as it lurches to an abrupt, love-conquers-all happy ending.
Although the novel's ending is abrupt, "Rape: A Love Story" gives us Oates at her darkly enthralling best.
This may especially be true for those of us who have witnessed violence or suffered through the abrupt departure of loved ones, like my mother has.
I couldn't even imagine loving someone again after the abrupt ending to my last love story.
Determined that the traumas of her past – the loss of an unborn child, the abrupt departure of the love of her life – will remain hidden in her hometown, she reinvents herself as a social worker.
When it comes to abrupt endings related to love, the experience is very similar to being the victim of a blunt force trauma.
They fall in and out of love, but their passions seem abrupt and rather arbitrary; they spend much of their time complaining about themselves or the others.
Erinsborough's greatest love story came to an abrupt pause in 1991, when tuba-wielding fuddy-duddy Harold Bishop got washed out to sea, leaving his wife Madge shrieking throatily as his glasses washed up on a rock face.
Having been the chief executive that people (especially Microsoft investors) loved to hate, Steve Ballmer's abrupt announcement in August that he was going to step down within the next 12 months came as a shock.
Perhaps the abrupt end of a monarchy is always a love story gone wrong: there are passages from Nicholas and Alexandra that could be lifted from any biography of Marie Antoinette or Louis XVI.
It is obvious that as a young man, with a wife and four small children, he knew that his time to live and love, was soon coming to an abrupt end.
