The hero of this production, of the whole endeavor, is Mr. Gilbert, who conducted the score with insight, character and command.
He plays the Don not as a repulsive old lecher but as a man of truly seductive virtues, of worldly insight and Olympian command, who perverts his own talents and abuses his own position in cavalier pursuit of pleasure.
It is about information, insight, and control.
Ms. Schäfer hit her stride in the second half, performing arias from "Alcina" ("Di, cor mio" and "Ombre pallide"), and "Se pietà di me non senti" from "Giulio Cesare," with powerful dramatic insight and fierce technical command.
They were, according to my spy, written less well, with more grammatical and typographical errors; the research plans were, generally, less well-conceived, displaying less forethought, less insight, and a weaker command of the relevant scientific literature.
But the ending makes clear that the political clarity and complexity, the historical insight, the command of custom and law that marked his four-decade filmmaking career was also graced by the ability to make decisive, symbolic moments.
Neil was a unique person whose insight, generosity, command of language can never be replicated.
Although his youthful energy enlivens his conducting, his music making is driven by deep insight, commanding technique and decades of experience.
Has Twitter destroyed insight and reflection?
But fiction is really the medium of thought, and Rooney, who writes with commanding, unself-conscious lucidity, proves a terrific portraitist of Frances's mind, with its peaks of humor and insight and troughs of poignant self-delusion.
