It's not so much what the leader does – echoes of "Do as I say, not as I do" resound here – but the appearance of being a leader, maintaining the figure of a leader, that is crucial.
Mr McBurney has turned his company into a brand name that is invited all over the world but everything it does still resounds with the exuberant, sometimes wayward, notes of experiment".A Disappearing Number" opens at the Barbican Centre, London, on September 5th.
On the contrary, the belief that a life is being taken by an abortion resounds more poignantly today than it did decades ago.
"HOW in hell did you happen?" This question about Richard Wright resounds as much today as it did 60 years ago, when Robert Park, the elderly doyen of sociology, greeted the young literary sensation.
The ongoing trauma from the frontier (effectively yesterday in the 60,000-year-old story of the first peoples, kept alive in oral history, visual art and songlines) resounds little less today than it did in the 19th century.
As she strides onstage, the clack of her heels resounds in this windowless bunker, just as it did on the villa's gravel driveway.
The heating plant in the basement encompassed the building at that hour in a regular and profound vibration, and the sullen noises of arriving steam heat began to resound, first in the lobby and then to reverberate up through all the sixteen stories, but this was a mechanical awakening, and it didn't lighten his loneliness or his petulance.
When news came that the American occupation forces here had transferred formal sovereignty to a new Iraqi government, the sweltering streets of the capital did not resound Monday with the celebratory crackle of automatic gunfire, as they did on the December afternoon when the Americans announced that Saddam Hussein had been captured.
The orchestra (whose members also constitute the Vienna Philharmonic) plays superbly under Franz Welser-Möst Welser-Mösthowhoo shield the voices from it yet lets it resound excitingly as the occasion demands.
To be fair, "Kiss Me Kate," the M-G-M musical with Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel, was a 3-D hit, though mainly for the Cole Porter songs, like "Always True to You in My Fashion" and "Too Darn Hot," which existed long before the movie did and will resound after it has crumbled into dust.
