The higher her husband climbed the Communist Party ladder, the less visible she became.
As expert negotiator William Ury has written, there is power in a "positive no". While saying yes to everything made Dunham feel better in the moment, the more she did it, the less effective she became at her work.
But the more she considered it, the less conflicted she became.
The longer she lives alone, she said, the less flexible she becomes — and the less considerate of others' needs.
It also makes the character less subtle; she becomes one-dimensional, bitchier, less intelligent and just as physically violent as she is psychologically.
She thought this would make her father stop, but he was simply less careful and she became pregnant.
Shufflewick's much greater lewdness was less explicit, and she became a star, with the interesting distinction of being radio's first drag artist, or at any rate the first to drag up for the microphones.
The farther a rocker gets from this adolescent ideal, the less pertinent she becomes.
O'Brien's performance, too, is well embodied, though less nuanced — she becomes what we all should fear, a teacher who's dead inside.
That could be because we're more likely to want to watch lead characters based on their fuckability – and the older a woman gets, as any executive will tell you, the less fuckable she becomes".
