Irina Vashchenko's rich mezzo tones enliven Gertrude's scene with Hamlet, which Polonius (Roman Ulybin, in aptly pompous form) listens in on.
Today, if you read, say, foreign policy journals or, in a farcical form, listen to the Republican debates, they're asking, "How do we prevent further losses?" On the other hand, the capacity to preserve control has sharply declined.
Lyric essayists blend a passion for the actual with innovative forms, listening deeply to the demands of each new subject.
Our lives are spent grappling with bureaucracy: filling in online forms; listening to recorded voices claiming that "your call is important to us"; lying to Apple about having read 56-page iTunes Terms of Service agreements; cursing the stupidity of HR departments, government agencies or university subcommittees.
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Culverhouse looked at disability forms, listened to stories, offered counsel and expressed regret.
For the way he does the same to entire forms, listen to the Piano Quintet, a fully fledged sonata form movement that makes its recapitulation a musical black hole of time and tonality, sucking up the material you've been listening to for the last quarter of an hour into a couple of frantic but inevitable-sounding minutes.
In Ohio, the City of Akron implemented rules requiring women to sign "consent forms," listen to a lecture from the doctor that a fetus is "human life from the moment of conception," and return to the clinic after a twenty-four-hour waiting period before the abortion could be performed.
Bush's opaque form of listening is a kind of vamping.
