I'm less interested in increasing viewers' awareness than I am in inspiring their openness to possibilities beyond what is considered "normal".
The film's power comes from its hushed lyricism and a group of actors with an awe-inspiring openness to the camera (Mitchell).
Her actors have an awe-inspiring openness to the camera that gives the movie a magnetic realism; with the exception of Mr. Eadie, the characters have nothing to hide, and trained actors are seldom so exposed.
Brook not only made physical and extreme the metaphors that Artaud and Jean Genet, for instance, used in their work to describe the brutalization of a mechanized society; he disassembled the concept of a theatrical troupe entirely and reassembled it in many different ways, largely by inspiring an emotional openness — even nakedness — during the rehearsal process, which was never-ending.
I find Roche's brand of bloody-minded emotional openness inspiring.
The era of reforms launched by Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union had a major impact on Bulgaria, inspiring greater demands for openness and democratization.
Their openness was inspiring, but I was saddened when I realised how many people I knew had their own tragic stories, and yet we had never discussed them.
Their political conviction, and their openness about it, is inspiring.
But the sense of kindness, openness and acceptance was inspiring and comforting.
Irene: Judie, I loved Life is a Trip and found your openness to new experiences inspiring.
The most exciting recent developments suggest that while the old model of musical making may be hard to refashion for a new era, inspiring producers to cannibalize other material, a new openness to stretching the definition of the musical may revitalize the art form in ways that even now we cannot foresee.
