This became the "all-embracing engagement" of his teenage years, making his later change of course all the more striking.
In 1995, Bergman cancelled what was to be his farewell production in America, the New York engagement of his glorious version of "The Misanthrope".
(Is poetry never about anything?) He is in Madrid when Al Qaeda bombs trains at the Atocha station, yet his detached attitude contrasts painfully with the engagement of his Spanish friends.
Ricky Gervais stars as Bertram Pincus, a misanthropic dentist who, after a medical accident, sees ghosts — one of whom, the spirit of a philandering husband (Greg Kinnear), recruits Bertram to break up the engagement of his widow (Téa Leoni).
It is difficult to understand the reasons outlined by the secretary general of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, to justify the continued engagement of his troops and the international community in Afghanistan ("Moving on in Afghanistan," Views, July 20).
After the 10th performance Mr. Bourne learned that Mr. Crisp had died, just a day before he was to open a British engagement of his own one-man show, "An Evening With Quentin Crisp".
With its central focus on the inevitable and necessary apartness of those who create art, "Mecca" might seem an atypical work for Mr. Fugard, who is best known for the fierce and overt political engagement of his plays, mostly set in his native South Africa in the days of apartheid.
I loved The Stranger's Child, and no one could deny that it's beautifully written, but compared with the broad political and social engagement of his Booker-winning The Line of Beauty this saga of 20th-century literary reputation can be seen as a minority – and rather elitist – interest.
"The book doesn't abandon the philosophical engagement of his other Australian novels.
The two men met both in public and in private during Prince Charles' first engagement of his four-day visit to Ireland.
