The politely disappointed note stuck by Stoppard's reviews echoed the response to Something Happened (1974), Joseph Heller's follow-up to Catch-22 after 13 years, and to Vineland (1990), Thomas Pynchon's even tardier next novel after Gravity's Rainbow.
The condition of exile encompasses a wide variety of circumstances, but they are all pathetic in one way or another, and if that unhappy subaltern felt sorry for himself at the start of the Victorian age, he was exactly echoing the responses of the most famous exile of them all 19 centuries before.
Johansson's comments very closely echo the responses she gave to Marie Claire earlier this year.
"They've seen none of it," Bizzle protests, echoing the response of some east Londoners in the aftermath of the riots.
The gang-rape triggered a wave of public protests, echoing the response to recent similar crimes in India, including the fatal attack on a student on a bus in New Delhi in 2012.
But the response to Trump's rift with other Republican leaders echoes the response to a broader question about where his supporters' loyalties lie.
The Daily Telegraph's venerable Simon Heffer, for example, almost exactly echoed the students' responses back in January: "Our underclass has been allowed to get out of control... They and their children regard school as optional.
But Senator John W. Warner, the Virginia Republican who is chairman of the Armed Services Committee, echoed the White House response to Dr. Kay's comments in recent days, saying repeatedly that it was too early to pass judgment on prewar intelligence.
In a statement sent to VICE News, Sanj Srikanthan, Director of Policy and Practise for the International Rescue Committee, echoed the UNICEF response.
Most reviews from the international press echoed the domestic response, heaping praise on Streep and the other actors, but calling the whole film "predictable".
