If you want a latter-day example of how gloriously ludicrous the genre can be, check out High School Musical 2, in which a baseball enthusiast performs an entire virtuoso song-and-dance number expressing his inability to sing and dance.
Meanwhile in Davos, Switzerland, U.S. Commerce Secretary and near billionaire Wilbur Ross took time out from schmoozing with fellow super rich at the World Economic Forum to express his inability to understand why American workers were bothered by lack of pay for honest work they had done when they could simply take out bridge loans.
Mr. Peled, a Rumanian who grew up in Israel, earned graduate degrees at Princeton and joined I.B.M. in 1974, expressed his frustration about I.B.M.'s inability to quickly enter new computer markets.
Christian Horner, the head of Red Bull, has expressed his disappointment in Renault's inability to match their engine rivals and the manufacturer's future has come increasingly under the spotlight, especially since their contract with Red Bull and Toro Rosso is due to finish at the end of 2016.
Wagner expressed his delight in Mozart's "inability to invent music... for 'Così Fan Tutte' like that of 'Figaro".' With a message that unswerving fidelity in love runs contrary to the human heart plus an apparently frivolous plot in which two soldiers, in disguise, attempt to win the other's sweetheart in a losing wager to prove the women's faithfulness, the opera had few takers.
Johnson was elected even though this became known during the 1836 campaign, a fact that Stevens notes, and expresses his bitterness about his inability to gain election by the legislature to the Senate, or to secure a Cabinet position.
We feel her frustration over his inability to express his feelings for her, but not until the final part of the play.
One thing that appears to have troubled the young Gough most of all was his inability to express his love for Callas.
A neglected child, even if he is never exposed to active and deliberate assaults, physical or mental, is more entirely alone, marooned by his inability to express his own hurt, or understand the hurt of others.
She thinks that a loved and cared-for child can survive abuse because he is resilient – capable of love and trust – while a neglected child, even if he is never exposed to active and deliberate assaults, physical or mental, is more entirely alone, marooned by his inability to express his own hurt, or understand the hurt of others.
