There's also something else on view there, something stranger and more daring: in effect, these men of the spirit are affirming that the culture they're ready and willing to die for is not just that of Christian spirituality it's also the insubordinate, audacious, personal, and erotic treasures of Western art, and the freedom to drink a glass of wine.
Wynne Bennett, who completed the program last year, was represented by "Insomnia," a quartet in which moments of intense emotionalism are offset by amusing touches and daring scoring effects.
McDiarmid's triumph - a case of a mannered actor soaring - is helped by Christopher Oram's terrific, apparently simple design of a circle of stone walls that enables a continuous flow of action, and some daring comic effects.
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This daring but effective device has the effect of marking her off and making all she says and does an internal monologue, though recorded in the third person.
At times he seems to be aiming for a Kaufmanian (Cliftonian?) effect, daring the reader to keep going the way Kaufman dared an audience not to boo or walk out.
Right about now you're probably wondering which journalistic titan assigned Obama the role of diva diplomat, daring him to effect a diva détente.
In setting out his program, Mr. Obama was, in effect, daring Republicans not to pass measures that enjoy support among independent voters and business leaders.
One possibility is for Mr. Obama to make several simultaneous nominations, in effect daring Republicans to find specific objections in multiple instances.
Mr. Udall says one option might be for the president to make multiple nominations, in effect daring Republicans to find ways to cite extraordinary circumstances in multiple instances.
