But Nannerl's deftly modulating voice is the lead, by turns funny, frustrated, ribald, joyous and bitter, as she plainly recognizes that, for Wolfgang, she is "a tax on his conscience".
And, just as Gus is self-aware enough to admit that he is a fake-nice jerk, Mickey, with an acerbic humor that she often directs toward herself, plainly recognizes that her problems are generally of the high-class variety, or at least a middle-class one.
At the time, I recognized plainly that something special was happening: something I knew my future children would question me about.
But these bluntly written works were recognized as plainly testimonial.
Plainly, we do recognize callousness when we see clear cases of it.
Or hear an exec from oil giant Statoil recognize plainly a fundamental transition in the energy business away from fossil fuels, support a price on carbon to accelerate the shift and say, "of course we need to stop fossil fuel subsidies".
But it has also hopefully liberated conservatives to look back on the Reagan-Thatcher 1980s admiringly but unsentimentally: To see those leaders' immense virtues and great achievements plainly, but also to recognize the ways in which in many of today's challenges — economic stratification, cultural fragmentation, social disarray — are part of the warp and woof of their legacy as well.
Thompson's spending was plainly prohibited by D.C. law, which recognizes that such large donations create a tremendous incentive for corruption.
But he is just as plainly a romantic, even as his final shot recognizes the fragility of progress.
In fact, the sustainable agriculture movement recognizes this, claiming as one of its central tenets the much vaguer requirement of "environmental responsibility" and stating plainly that that doesn't necessarily require growing strictly organically.
