Without being radical, Graham McLaren's production, with its elegant Georgian set by Robert Innes Hopkins, makes some forthright moves, showing us not only the erotic charge that galvanises the central couple, but also, in Brian McCardie's ferocious Neil Kelman (Ibsen's Krogstad), a political reptile worthy of The Thick of It.
Michelle Fleet's bracingly forthright way of moving, in "Esplanade" and in all the Taylor repertory in this packed City Center season, makes it possible to imagine dancing vicariously alongside her.
Forthright, clear, pastoral and moving are also terms applicable to the opening address and later statements in Dallas by Bishop Wilton D. Gregory, the president of the bishops' conference.
Helga's story is moving and forthright.
Most Americans admired Michelle Obama and were moved by her forthright intelligence and her determination to raise two normal daughters in the phantasmagorical aquarium of the White House, but the staff feared her.
In forthright, clear, pastoral, sometimes even moving language, the charter set out a detailed policy for responding to an accusation that a priest had sexually abused a child or a teenager.
That move coincided with a forthright attack China's Global Times – the mainland mouthpiece of the Communist party – labelling the film "absurd", "too pessimistic" and a "virus of the mind".
In a move typical of the decisive, forthright and organised nature of the preparations for the 2012 Games, the decision on the future use of the Olympic Stadium, scheduled for Friday, has been postponed.
Comte moves back and forth between forthright realism in telling the story of Cho-Cho San, seduced and abandoned by the American, and overtly theatrical images.
"We have to own this and figure out how to move forward," she said in a forthright admission of the need to redouble efforts.
