The septuagenarian Caryl Churchill was responsible for the year's hippest play in the short, sharp scenes — visual equivalents, really, to tweets — that constituted "Love and Information," even as the twentysomething actor Luke Norris turned to writing with a Court premiere, "Goodbye to All That," about an adulterous grandfather.
As I watched the Vanishing Family Trick unfold, and played my own part in it, I sometimes felt as if love itself, or the acts of heart and mind that constitute love, were being leached out of the house by our screens.
In song after song, he came up against the limitations of his fantasy about what constitutes love.
One of the big issues with long-term togetherness is that we have very poor linguistics relating to what constitutes love.
I prefer a more romantic notion: that it's a form of popular rebellion by which the prevailing anti-natalist mores of a manipulative consumer capitalism are trumped by the innate understanding of millions of women (and men) of what really constitutes love and fulfilment – dependence, commitment, the pleasure of guiding enthusiasm and, above all, the privilege of nurturing innocence.
This sounds very much like the robust concern view, yet the bestowal view differs in understanding such robust concern to be the effect of the bestowal of value that is love rather than itself what constitutes love: in bestowing value on my beloved, I make him be valuable in such a way that I ought to respond with robust concern.
Or perhaps they constitute a love-letter, millions of words long, to the city: New York City first of all, but the American city in general.
The correspondence between Noël and Violet is of such intimacy, frankness and humor as to constitute a love story the hardest heart must respond to.
What does the government decision to define family restrictively communicate to adoptive parents, stepparents and others who know that "family" is constituted by love and care at least as much as, and sometimes in place of, biology?
It's a clubby house track with warped synth lines and anti-romantic lyrics about what constitutes "real love".
