Mr. Hoffman, in an affecting performance, puts up a fight.
This results in an affecting sequence in which they're drawn into the life of this poor community.
As Demosthenes, Gordon Joseph Weiss is eloquently mute, particularly in an affecting hand ballet, in stunning visual counterpoint to a stirring chorus.
In an affecting scene he visits Katya's parents in their dacha -- a plywood affair that stinks of sewage.
In an affecting counterpoint, Strout chronicles the Burgesses' attitudes toward their own homes.
It is powerful stuff, and the theme of parting and loneliness ushers in an affecting performance of Letter From America, a song composed in 1987, before emails.
This initiated a busy period for Hunter, including a documentary about the Ape movies and the lead in an affecting story of old age, Abilene, opposite Ernest Borgnine.
Vladimir Nabokov, in an affecting analysis of the writer's work included in 1981's "Lectures on Russian Literature"—observes that Chekhov wrote "sad books for humorous people".
Emma Cunniffe, who went on to Casualty and The Bill, is touching as the naive Emma, while Mary Jo Randle turns in an affecting, subtle performance as her mother.
"Stand up!" he said repeatedly, in an affecting refrain that called to mind Bill Clinton's "Send me" chants on opening night.
Such is the tragic fate of Lily Bart, the heroine in Edith Wharton's "House of Mirth," as displayed in an affecting, if also affected, 1906 adaptation revived by the Metropolitan Playhouse.
