(You can feel the playwright's hand pushing people around, while, with Chekhov, action always emerges from character.) But Mr. Elyot also shares Chekhov's sense of life as a tragic comedy and conveys it through beautifully written, often funny encounters that throb with isolation and longing.
Its resolution involves love, which, in Apatow's view, is no renunciation or simplification, but just another mode of difficulty, a kind of fulfillment that emerges from characters who are already formed and who merely put themselves and each other to new tests.
Much of the humor -- which can be broad, subversive, corny and ironic all in one scene -- emerges from characters who are well defined from the get-go.
Wood's essay on Chekhov is all about these kinds of incidental details on which our personalities and experiences turn, and about overheard utterances that seem to emerge from a character's soul.
"Those horns represent suppressed feelings, such as anger and sadness, which emerge from my character like acne," says Shimoda.
Much of the pleasure of Huang's Vice show comes from watching him slyly emerge from his buffoonish character to make incisive comments revealing an agile, literary mind — and then lapse back into the role of the pot-addled numbskull.
Difficulties of single or multiple dipole approaches emerge from the distributed character of most cortical activations, which is misrepresented by dipoles, inaccuracies in the estimation of source depth, and difficulties in a priori determining the number of sources (see, e.g., Hauk 2004; Huang et al. 2006).
The distinctive voices of Vincent Gallo and Juliette Lewis emerge from the lead characters in "Metropia" but provide no comfort: Tarik Saleh's dystopian vision of a depleted, smog-engulfed, financially collapsed Europe in the year 2024 seems a touch too close to home.
That conflict emerges from one character's willingness to divulge information and another's to withhold it, and the tension is scaled beautifully.
There is, as well, a nasty, unwarranted little aside about Doc Gooden, and an offensive description of a sob emerging from a character's mouth "like the first dude to leap from the North Tower".
