Rage and love, those consuming emotions felt with a particularly acute pang in youth, all but burn up the stage in "American Idiot," the thrillingly raucous and gorgeously wrought Broadway musical adapted from the blockbuster pop-punk album by Green Day.
That said, his visual style and the way he mixes eccentric types with the more banal, like a chemist preparing a combustible formula, are often sublime, as is Ms. Kim's turn as the mother of all nightmarish mothers, a dreadful manifestation of a love so consuming it all but swallows the world.
If this decision is right for you, then it is not up for debate or negotiation with anyone who is in love with consuming animals in all forms.
Was it the tech loving and consuming masses who salivated over a consumer product before it was introduced in what is a very slow and low economy?
This unskinned portrait of consuming love had so seized my attention and imagination that there was little left over for anyone or anything else in the book.
In their first tentative duet Ms. Mattila makes palpable through the sensuality of her singing that Manon's attraction to des Grieux is not just a rash act of rebellion but a rootless young woman's yearning for consuming love.
Just maybe what gives life meaning is that all of us, no matter how evil in the short span of temporal life, will see the error and ignorance of our ways when we stand face to face in the presence of God's consuming love and freely enter into that grace for all eternity.
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