TO A GREATER EXTENT than any other form of music, including jazz and hip-hop, soul reflects a broad spectrum of the African-American experience — the plantation roots and middle-class aspirations and inner-city disappointments, the sparkle and the sweat, the spirituality and sensuality, the joy and the pain, the rhythm and the blues.
Yet as the movie illustrates, behind their patient smiles, the three beauticians too have inner lives: dreams, hopes and disappointments.
It would be a tremendous disappointment if Tim Burton's inner sanctum turned out to be a sterile ________, barren except for a telephone on its cold white floor; or a cubicle with a "World's Greatest Dad" ________ mug.
IT would be a tremendous disappointment if Tim Burton's inner sanctum turned out to be a sterile environment, barren except for a telephone on its cold white floor; or a cubicle with a "World's Greatest Dad" coffee mug.
The Green Party's Jenny Jones said the expansion was "great news for east London, but a real disappointment" for people living and working in inner London.
"But you cross a line when you take those thoughts and you take your disappointments outside of the team and outside of the inner circle.
Mr. Cover brings more solemnity than authority to Henry IV's inner conflicts, pondering his fallen popularity, the mutinous factions rallying against him and the disappointment of his hedonistic heir, Prince Hal.
None of us knows how he got through the disappointment, how far he went down emotionally and how he found the inner strength to pull himself back up.
I liked Mr. Trombley and told him I could identify with the disappointment he felt from being headstrong and stubborn and occasionally optimistic — in short, his inner Henry Hudson.
But viewers expecting a glimpse of the inner lives of the politicians and power brokers who actually run this town may be in for a disappointment.
