These function like the voice-overs in a film, and they might be deal killers if they weren't so acutely written.
Long lead times are nothing new in classical music, but they are not always so acutely felt, since there is usually plenty happening in the meantime.
Not everyone is so acutely aware of how they might mine their own lives, but it's increasingly an issue in a theatre culture where there has been a shift from people pretending to be someone else to being themselves.
"Half of the Palestinian people have already been taken over by Iran," says Israel's prime minister, with barely a hint of conscious hyperbole.The Egyptian upset is heightening a sense of encirclement that has not been felt so acutely by Israelis in decades.
Giant economies do not face this problem so acutely because even when trade has been liberalised, imports naturally tend to be a lower share of GDP.The other challenge is to ensure that government stimulus programmes are broadly based.
Will this new level of collective trauma--now suffered so acutely not only by many hundreds of black families America, but also by law enforcement families in cities such as Dallas--lead to real change in this country, or will this national crisis just deepen?
Houston, reeling after dropping two straight and barely holding the eighth seed in the Western Conference playoff picture, not only didn't get over any hump, it floundered so acutely that Coach Kevin McHale was fired 11 games into the season.
"You're not going to talk to me that way" reminds me acutely of America's not so distant past, in which black Americans were warned to never "sass" a white person.
Miranda is a calculating monster — she has excised any remaining trace of softness from her temperament — but she understands her role in fashion so acutely that you can't make fun of her.
Very much like the birth of a child, a death, even one so acutely anticipated as Steve's, is not something you can ever really prepare for.
