Mr. Gersen and his players tore into dark, heaving music that depicts the dance of the knights, then shifted mood and approach effortlessly to dispatch the fleeting runs and dashing spirits of "Juliet, as a Young Girl".
With the same ease top-seeded Martina Hingis displayed when she maneuvered past the American Kristina Brandi, 6-1, 6-1, with the same unflappable form fourth-seeded Pete Sampras used as he dashed the spirits of Morristown, N.J.'s Justin Gimelstob, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3, Williams unnerved Kveta Hrdlickova with the might of her lumberjack strokes.
"They tore to pieces my rose of a son, they dashed my spirit!" According to a Facebook page set up in his honor, Sebat was an artist who often drew portraits.
For a Bronx boy, he gave a dashing spirit to bookish interests often dismissed as dorky.
But their spirits were dashed almost straight from kick-off thanks to Hemmings, who gave Cowdenbeath the lead with a neat finish after an assist from O'Brien.
When a play can enhance an evening, and then change the mood of the day or weekend, when a night out can replenish the batteries or a simple song and dance can elevate spirits once dashed it proves that live theatre has a place, and always will, at least in my heart.
Ms. Cooper dashed it off with high spirits and elegance.
Yet hopes that the restructuring of America's second-biggest long-distance telephone company might lift the industry's flagging spirits were soon dashed.
All her stagecraft was in her pessimistic modesty, in the drama of not lifting up her spirits to have them dashed by fate.
