In one of the show's most vulnerable moments, he frames his working-class affectations as his way of forcing closeness with his father, a factory worker who withheld his love.
The conductor, dogged by protests about his supposed closeness to Vladimir Putin and forced to issue statements denying he has any sympathy with Moscow's anti-gay laws, has been giving London audiences a fortnight of his "Russian" Berlioz at the Barbican.
This is largely because the closeness of the races has forced candidates to take and defend positions earlier than they would normally have done.
The whole premise of the film is that, through my closeness to him, viewers are forced to become intimate with him also and most viewers, I think, will feel some empathy with him, though not sympathy, which is a very different thing.
As the Maasai were forced onto ever-shrinking territories, their new closeness to the modern world of hospitals and schools, and their entrance into the cash economy, transformed the living conditions of the group.
[4] I feel no closeness to my doctors and feel forced to deal with them with just professional courtesy.
But it was that very success, and Goldman's related closeness to government officials and politicians, that forced it to show it was not indifferent to criticism of its clever but sometimes controversial ways of doing business.
All see the chance to profit from the growing closeness between programmers and advertisers, who have been forced to band together to counter falling ratings, a fragmented audience and new technology like digital video recorders that allow viewers to skip traditional commercials altogether.
His closeness, his breathiness, his air of restless urgency and forced cheer, his old-fashioned suit and the folder of papers tucked under his arm like roster sheets all came into focus: he was a coach, and Richard was about to kick the winning field goal, do the high-difficulty dive, strike out the heart of the batting order with the bases already loaded.
