La Fille mal gardée was both one of the first comic ballets and one of the first to include realistic rather than mythological or idealistic characters.
When I first saw "Sight Unseen," this conclusion seemed to coast a little too smoothly on the ready-made resonance of young, idealistic characters destined to tarnish.
Cherry Jones is a great artist, on the order of such theatre marvels as Geraldine Page, Maureen Stapleton, and Gloria Foster, all of whom excelled at portraying sometimes dejected, idealistic characters who never let their sadness overwhelm their love of the world.
He is also less stubbornly idealistic in character.
Abebe (William Jackson Harper), the idealistic central character, continually spouts dire prophecies and dismaying statistics about abusive water policy the world over, like a spigot that cannot be shut off.
In staging "Major Barbara" — a play of dueling ideologies embodied by the idealistic title character, a Salvation Army worker, and her father, an arms dealer — Mr. Hytner has demanded that his performers take it slow.
There is no infidelity, the current and former romantic interests of the principal characters are never portrayed as evil or buffoons, and the love Claire has felt for Lorenzo Franco Neroo) for five decades is of the most idealistic type.
There are no difficulties relating to "radiation-damage", "heat-removal" and "chemical processing" owing to the simple "idealistic ionic liquid" character of the fuel.
Then in comes this Jacob character: idealistic, young and hopeful….
As such, he acts as a foil for the idealistic and honorable character of Matt Horner.
