Political diversity is an asset rather than a failure of unity and things are more complex than "love" vs. "hate" and "rejection" vs. "affirmation".
So the question Coward explores is more complex than, "Is love lovelier the second time around?" The playwright believes that white-hot passion, with its many contradictions and imperfections, is a person's main route to happiness, even if it leads to an occasional (and, in this case, consensual) smack.
It is a much more complex race, and I love these kinds of events because it is much harder for your mental state, but it can give you much more satisfaction".
But the bond between Claire and Jamie who has his own scars, literally and figuratively slowly becomes far more complex, a rule-breaking love affair that the audience roots for on every level.
Giselle herself was more outgoing, her rival Bathilde more touching, generous but guardedly correct; and Myrtha, queen of the spectral wilis (danced with exceptional skill by Carrie Imler on opening night) became a yet more complex role, as in love with dancing as Giselle herself.
By problematising the conventional model of a happy home and (without giving too much away) supporting its protagonist's embrace of a more complex approach to sex, love and marriage, Concussion is about Abby coming to reject conformism as an aspiration.
His new album is smattered with lyrics that unpick the more complex, ambivalent aspects of love: a glimpse of remorse and the pain of absence in a song called Swallow My Pride, and Chasing Rainbows, a wearied admission of the inevitability of tension and discord in even the most solid pairings.
The result brought him back to earth, reminding him that Italians vote PdL for more complex reasons than blind love of its leader.His party's tally fell well short of his associates' target of 40%, let alone Mr Berlusconi's own aspiration of 45%.
Or at least to what we have to win? Aren't courtship and romance and love more complex than simple reciprocation?
But for Lisa, the more chaotic, the more complex, the more she loves it".
