Mr. Maazel conducts Mahler with cool expressivity, exacting execution and musical integrity, a refreshing break from Mahler performances that strive to express the inexpressible.
They are philosophers who strive to express something universal from a particular standpoint.
Islamic art, with its rejection of animal and human figures and its striving to express the reality behind the false beauty of the mundane world, also has no affinity with Southeast Asian arts.
No other playwright looms as a more enduring model of the phenomenon known as theater of the absurd, drama made up of apparently pointless situations and dialogue that "strives to express its sense of the senselessness of the human condition," wrote Martin Esslin, author of the definitive book about the innovative and influential movement that took hold in the 1950's.
Again and again he argued that "the human soul, in intense emotion, strives to express itself in verse".
As he wrote, "The Theater of the Absurd strives to express its sense of the senselessness of the human condition and the inadequacy of the rational approach by the open abandonment of rational devices and discursive thought," and it does so through "a poetry that is to emerge from the concrete and objectified images of the stage itself".
Generally, however, he strove to express the literal teaching of Aristotle untainted by Christian theological demands.
He was a driven character, described by many as "demonic", constantly striving to express the inexpressible in his music.
