In its setting and circumstances, a past-its-prime country lodge on the eve of epochal change, "The Snow Geese" brings to mind Chekhov, as do its restless, anxious characters.
Eisenberg once suggested that he gravitated towards playing anxious characters because he couldn't be sure he'd come over any other way on set.
Our country's premier poet of the water, the New York-born playwright Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) confined a number of his doomed, anxious characters to boats and islands — relatively small spaces that not only serve the dramatic tension that is a hallmark of his style but also lend a mournful edge to his characters' monologues, the best of which sound like songs sung by landlocked sailors.
Our country's premier poet of the water, the New York-born playwright Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) confined a number of his doomed, anxious characters to boats and islands relatively small spaces that not only serve the dramatic tension that is a hallmark of his style but also lend a mournful edge to his characters' monologues, the best of which sound like songs sung by landlocked sailors.
This time around, the anxious, aggressive character played by Mr. Allen is C. W. Briggs, an investigator at a Manhattan insurance company.
Josh is closer to the anxious, frantic character he played in the "Night at the Museum" films than to his crazier comic inventions, which is a shame.
Based on comparative studies of RB in patients with GTS and those with 'pure' OCD, some authors argue that RB and thoughts in patients with GTS are non-anxiety-related, have an egosyntonic (personally comfortable, without pre-existent anxious state) character [4] and are performed in a stereotypical or automatical way [12] [15].
All of those anxious, obvious characters -- and the game, earnest performances of, especially, Mr. Cusack, Ms. Peet and Mr. Hawkes -- suddenly lose dimension, and they did not have all that much to begin with.
Ms. Forlenza's bland Nina lacks the anxious intensity the character should exude in the early acts.
Jacqueline Woodson rebuked her for making a black character anxious about her newly discovered white ancestor in her 1998 novel Shimmer.
