Sentence examples for in disgraced from inspiring English sources
Watching the fierce clash over the salad course during a dinner party in "Disgraced," the rollicking new play by Ayad Akhtar, feels at times like observing a hotly contested game of Twister.
In "Disgraced," that character is Amir, a successful corporate lawyer whose deep-seated self-loathing is fully revealed at a dinner party that is classic Manhattan, with talk of art and money giving way to suspicion and hatred.
Following the acerbic Neil LaBute and the sceptical humanity of Bruce Norris, we have had Ayad Akhtar's quizzing of Muslim inheritance in Disgraced, and now David Mamet setting himself to provoke with a challenge to the idea of affirmative action.
Akhtar, who in Disgraced showed a similar capacity to dramatise politics, has come up with an ingenious concept: Nick, a US banker, is kidnapped in Pakistan and given the chance to buy his freedom by raising $10m on the stock markets.
Anger over displacement and conflicting identities is palpable in "Disgraced".
And in Disgraced pushing and shoving isn't all that occurs.
You resigned in disgrace".
In disgrace he commits suicide.
