Arnett has made a successful career for himself on the basis of those choices, often playing a clueless, disproportionately confident and inheritance-rich moron that is both too outrageous and secretly vulnerable to hate.
The Puccini descendants are only minor legatees in this rich inheritance.
The assertion that "we still drink from your silver cup" returns to a more realistic mode, and hints at the pleasures of the rich inheritance.
But nothing can distract from the thinness of the play's premise or the feebleness with which Gurney develops and resolves it, squandering his own rich inheritance.
"Composers are at the same moment today, trying to juggle the rich inheritance of modernism, world music and pop," Mr. Hartke said.
"The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me," he says.
Change for change's sake wouldn't be a good thing to do, as we would be in danger of wrecking a rich inheritance that forms the backbone of musical life in this country.
Much of Roman culture was a development of their rich inheritance from the Greeks.
Despite this rich inheritance, the system networks (henceforth 'sys-net') of today are rather different from Firth's, and they never had been anything like Saussure's presentation of 'associative bonds' (e.g., [1966]: 126).
Almost all of them bring to the fore medieval Islamic culture's conflicted engagement with its rich inheritance of astrological, medicinal, scribal, and other traditions from Byzantium to India.
The local people are known as Orcadians and have a distinctive Scots dialect and a rich inheritance of folklore.
