Georges (played by Jean-Louis Trintignant, who is eighty-two) AnneAnnEmmanuellelle Riva, eighty-five) take up the bulk of the screen time, and their dialogue feels circumscribed, as though written for the stage.
But on "1989" her liberation from that caricature often leads to music that feels circumscribed in a different fashion: high-level pop-by-numbers expertly designed not to offend or titillate.
This was not thought remotely odd or excessive, nor — if this is any consolation to Americans now fearful for their ordinary freedoms — did we feel particularly circumscribed, let alone thwarted, by such minor adjustments to the life we led.
They don't have the answers, but the questions themselves have changed and in a matter of months, their family and their country don't feel as circumscribed.
And while his tone at the piano was richly sonorous, the mechanics of his playing felt similarly circumscribed: his left hand played chords or drones, often on the downbeats, and his right hand took care of the lyrical embroidery.
He points out that in the 19th century judges felt less circumscribed in their ability to comment on the evidence but that "the modern judge eschews anything which might light the tilt sign on the pinball machine of a criminal trial".
He felt, rather, "circumscribed" as a writer, out of the mainstreams of the cultures he was writing about.
So is travel out of the country, an emotional escape valve for those who feel their lives are circumscribed in Vladimir Putin's Russia.
WHEN Robert Whitehead was honored with a lifetime achievement award at the Tony ceremonies three weeks ago tonight, the pride and pleasure I felt for him were circumscribed.
Loosely connected, autobiographical in feel, they may be circumscribed by lived rather than imagined experience.
It feels like the whole of an existence, circumscribed, confined and yet rich in the mind, condensed to the visual equivalent of a sonnet.
