The jokes don't often enough land squarely, especially in the second act, in which the characters have a lot of confession and anguish to get off their chests, and the talk of love and heartbreak is rather familiar.
I know how that Seinfeld episode ends -- lots of anxious waiting followed by clowns at a circus, cacophonous cries of anguish and eventually getting dumped by a Romanian gymnast.
He stalks, he pounces, he defies the howls of anguish, shoulders get shrugged as another title goes to the Murdoch empire, then the world moves on.
In the five years that she has been running her support service she has seen the anguish of parents deepen (she gets calls from parents of kindergartners already mourning the day their children leave home) and less gender-specific (more fathers contact her than in the past, she said).
They make love, order Chinese takeout and occasionally let their dread and anguish get the better of them.
And as Mr. Johnson introduces a solicitous police officer (an overdone Amelia Campbell) into their midst, the balance between local-color whimsy and soul-scraping anguish gets the better of him.
But in "Lincoln," Spielberg and Kushner marched straight down the center of national memory, the moment of glory and anguish, and they got it right.
Does the anger and anguish get lost in the warp of our social fabric, too slender a skein to assert itself?" the magazine asks.
He recalls his first trip to New York, when he made his presentation of fashion drawings "obviously in a state of panic and terror and anguish when I got to see her".
They do not seem to have got over the mental anguish of losing two cup finals and have been unable to lift themselves for this crucial match.
