But if an artist is doing something creative, to expand himself or herself, then I'm always interested.
A straightforward way to give independent works a larger life and to expand himself as a dancer, "Tribute" also explores larger questions.
The Bhagavata-purana contains a doctrine of the avatars of Vishnu and teaches a Vaishnava theology: God is transcendent and beyond human understanding; through his incomprehensible creative ability (maya) or specific power (atmashakti) he expands himself into the universe, which he pervades and which is his outward appearance (his immanence).
When Durant plays at Verizon Center on Tuesday night as a Golden State Warrior, with an enormous tattoo spelling "Maryland" still inked across his shoulders, it will evoke two of the forces that shaped his life and colored his choice: an abiding love and appreciation for where he grew up, and an ardent need to expand himself beyond it.
McAuliffe vetoes Virginia budget that bars Medicaid expansion, vows to expand it himself.
Like them, Frank Bascombe is not a type (though unlike them, he isn't Jewish), but rather the irreducible, expanding essence of himself.
Marshall Mathers, alias Eminem and Slim Shady, may be one troubled guy, but he's the hope of a beleaguered music business and an expanding media enterprise himself.
Some of those decisions he even played a hand in himself, expanding the spokesman's customary role, at Dr. Albright's prompting.
But as the founder of the band the Mexican Institute of Sound, Mr. Lara has carved out a comfortable and expanding niche for himself on the international music scene over the last four years.
But he draws nods and murmurs of approval from the working-class crowd at Tommy's Country Ham House, a greasy spoon in Greenville, South Carolina when he labels Mr Obama the "food-stamp president", intent on expanding government, and himself the "paycheck president", intent on expanding employment.
