Benedict Wong is immensely touching as Zhang Lin, Joe's increasingly imperiled Beijing friend and contact, and Claudie Blakley brings a spiky appeal to the role of Joe's love interest, Tessa, who is happier discoursing on the vagaries of Chinese realpolitik than opening up her heart.
Newly hirsute, he's happy to discourse at length on his director's on-set idiosyncrasies.
The point was cloning, a subject upon which Ral was more than happy to discourse at length.
My attempts to contact him via his publicist have failed, though I note he is more than happy to discourse on his favourite dairy product – he's "working on a new mozzarella" – and his "foodio", the converted outbuilding in which he develops his curd-based brainwaves.
"I know that not everyone is happy with my discourse on this," he told the Business Roundtable, an association of executives, in June.
In vernacular discourse today, "happy" denotes a mood (the opposite of "sad"), but it also has a broader sense, as when we ask whether someone is happy (i.e., fulfilled, settled) in her job.
And I see media that is more than happy to accept this dramatic discourse and use it to misrepresent Islam on a wider scale, feeding into a dangerous Clash of Civilisations narrative.
No more of this discourse; learn to be happy.
It's interesting to note Murphy was one of the few politicians to come out against the water tax – Mary Lou and other Sinn Fein members were happy to pay it until public discourse changed.
It's interesting to note Murphy was one of the few politicians to come out against the water tax Mary Lou and other Sinn Féin members were happy to pay it until public discourse changed.
This is fresh, necessary and trans-formative discourse -- of which I am happy to support".
