Let's call it a scenario with heavy underscoring and a swirl of Alan and Marilyn Bergman lyrics that are sometimes spoken, occasionally hummed and almost never robustly sung.
The heavy casualties underscore the challenges the government in Kabul faces since the US and Nato officially finished their combat mission at the end of 2014.
Boldface names seldom show up to this part of the Grammys, but those performers who do come often accept their honors with heavy emotions, and underscore how much the award can mean to the industry's rank and file.
But one of the more admirable aspects of Ms. Smith's production is that she lets the show speak for itself and doesn't do anything heavy-handed to underscore any messages.
Confronted with the horror of the ordinary, Miller railed against the place he came from, calling himself twice, in "Capricorn," "just a Brooklyn boy," as if to underscore with heavy irony his revulsion at his own origins.
Their expenses, disclosed Friday in first-quarter financial reports filed with the Federal Election Commission, underscore the heavy costs that each candidate has incurred to bring in their contributions and, in Mr. Romney's case, raise his profile among voters.
On Monday, Mr. Perry stood on a temporary dais against a backdrop of American and Texas flags and heavy machinery intended to underscore his focus on jobs and the state's economy and faced a friendly crowd of longtime supporters and employees of Holt Cat, a Caterpillar dealership.
The litany of human conflict that the narrator recites — ranging from the Peloponnesian War through the Crusades and including such new-to-me conflicts as the Pastry War and the War of the Two Brothers — is impressive in its inclusiveness, but it seems a heavy-handed attempt to underscore the continuity of humanity's violent impulses through history.
As a parable of fascism and freedom, the show overplays its hand, and Mr. Schwartz's score is heavy on ominously underscored pop anthems.
The act was heavy with symbolism, underscoring the protesters' rage at Russia over its role in the events that first prompted the protests: Mr. Yanukovich's abrupt refusal to sign sweeping political and free-trade agreements with the European Union.
A final plan by Barack Obama to fulfill his pledge to close Guantánamo Bay – functionally identical to what he has already proposed – has already run into heavy political opposition, underscoring the likelihood Guantánamo will remain a detention facility after Obama leaves office.
