Early excisions will never be popular, for the reason that the operation is too grave in appearance for so apparently simple a lesion.
Is there a paradox in the fact that as an actor you are best known for the mainstream – a decade in One Foot in the Grave (1990-2000), appearances in The Sweeney, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, Emmerdale, the list goes on – yet as a director your preference is for drama that's edgy and alternative?
It was a visit to a Noh theater during Benjamin Britten's 1955 trip to Japan that led to the most famous Noh opera, "Curlew River," in which he turns "Sumidagawa" (The Sumida River) — about a madwoman seeking her son's grave and his appearance as a spirit — into a Christian parable play, performed Noh style with Britten's own compellingly original modernization of Noh music.
Behind the scenes, his mood has matched that of his public appearances: grave, sometimes to the point of being humorless.
It might go without saying that only when coinage comes into common use is the idea of payment introduced, but coins were placed in graves before the appearance of the Charon myth in literature.
Her eventual appearance, looking grave but posing for pictures with fans before slipping into the cinema, brought screams of approval that might have deafened less hardy reporters.
Mr. Borodin, appearing grave in a blue suit and a gray necktie, said little during his brief appearance in court.
To avoid the appearance of grave-dancing, J.P. Morgan will wait several weeks before etching its name on Bear's headquarters on Madison Avenue, Crain's said.
One figure is traditional in appearance, upright, commandingly grave, nude except for a cotton loincloth.
The carefully harvested aphorisms of The Unquiet Grave, much praised on its appearance in 1945, seem just as dated, just as much a product of war-time privations as, say, Brideshead Revisited, but without the latter's vindicating myth.
