("What is speech? Does it just float, like smoke from fire, away from the speaker, signifying rather than being the thing that caused it?") Fortunately, lively doses of humor are sprinkled throughout, and Ms. Margolin, with her anxious, inquisitive eyes and ebullient physicality, is a warm and personable presence.
That's because this incisive playwright manages —with the assistance of an exemplary director, Marti Lyons, and nine striking young actresses (plus one slightly older one, playing a soccer mom) — to illuminate with unerring accuracy the psyches of the funny, inquisitive, garrulous, anxious, profane, passionate players in a ferociously competitive weekend soccer league.
The bleachers are crowded with players' families: anxious parents, bored teenagers, grubby children, inquisitive dogs.
They count on inquisitive folk, or those anxious not to miss a single call, ringing back the number shown on their screens.
He seemed, as he usually does, mild, overcaffeinated, inquisitive, watchful, cautiously friendly, somewhat anxious, yet fundamentally optimistic.
Inquisitive and affectionate, the dogs rush from visitor to visitor, anxious to play and make contact.
Jenny, played with preternatural wit by the 24-year-old British actress Carey Mulligan, is passionate, inquisitive and smart, bound for Oxford and stifled by her starchy private school and her anxious, proper parents (Cara Seymour and Alfred Molina).
She was also inquisitive, often posing a second question before her interlocutor had had time to answer the first, especially when she was feeling anxious.
They are inquisitive creatures.
Human beings are inquisitive.
"She was curious, inquisitive.
