A lot of makeup in general is kind of against the hippy look; they tend to stand for earthy things, so try to stay neutral.
[It's a] mix of things that are extremely earthy like earthy drum sounds and things that sound extremely, deliberately fake, or things that sound extremely round and things that sound extremely angular.
However far-fetched the thematic concept, it was fun to hear Kodaly's exuberant "Dances of Galanta," inspired by genuine Gypsy music, the real thing, earthy, modal and harmonically astringent, not the watered-down stuff typically heard in the Hungarian cafes of Vienna.
The low-key backdrop is perfect for the country's current obsession with all things earthy and indie.
"I love Rachel's effortless mix of all things earthy and glamorous," said Washington.
Her Sophie Brzeska in Ken Russell's Savage Messiah was violently earthy, sexual: all the things a Meissen porcelain figure shouldn't be able to be".
Having made his big-screen debut in Steven Spielberg's flawed but earnest Amistad in 1997, Ejiofor has turned his hand to romantic comedy (Love Actually, Melinda and Melinda), earthy drama (Dirty Pretty Things, American Gangster), fantastical science-fiction (Serenity, Children of Men) and even offbeat campy quirk (Kinky Boots) with confidence and agility.
During a rare underwhelming gig on the Smiths' Meat Is Murder tour, the singer departed the stage after being hit in the face by a string of sausages, in perhaps the solitary example in history of someone combining at least a degree of satirical intent with the more earthy activity of lobbing things at people.
Instead, the show's fidelity to the idea that the past is a foreign country results in dialogue that is just slightly stilted and formal, even as Deadwood's characters say the earthiest and vilest things.
While we like the earthy style, we also like things to be quite spare.
