Then there's the difference a large audience makes to the play itself, as well as the passage of time.
He then goes on to say that when we see a play put on before an empty theater, we are displeased, not for the sake of the author or actors, but for the sake of the play itself, as work of art whose need to be contemplated is going unfulfilled (ibid., p. 544)!
The piano is seen again playing itself, as the image shifts to the window, where Allen is again portrayed leaning against the lamppost in the street, as in the beginning of the video.
Like play itself, it's as much emotional and symbolic as it is pragmatic, and it rests on a distinctly old-fashioned vision of computing: of technology not as an efficient facilitator, but as a conjurer of other worlds.
There is also a risk that the long-predicted financial calamity will play itself out as the consequences of huge deficits, major unemployment, and widespread foreclosures come home to roost.
But it's really my daughter's new memory-making that lies ahead and I must allow that to play itself out with me as a mere spectator.
According to this scenario, Wilson slit his wrist because he spotted a candid of his ex, Kate Hudson, smooching a new man in a grocery store — as if life obligingly played itself out as a series of press-ready storyboards: Girl dumps boy.
For Mr. Abas, this schism plays itself out as a domestic dispute.
"There is so much uncertainty in the market right now, and it is playing itself out as fear, the fear of being overcommitted to stocks," said Ken Tower, chief market strategist for Schwab's CyberTrader.
As the rest of the world looked on in horror and amazement, the hostage crisis played itself out as a sinister comedy of ineptitude, a moral and military disaster whose ironies, to this day, are almost too excruciating to bear... Watching the events, we spectators were suffused with irony — the events seemed to have been staged for us as a movie of the week.
Filled in equal parts with tragedy, comedy, bombast, passion, silliness, grand visions and grander falls from grace, daft subplots, and tender moments, it played itself out as if the world were its stage, with the men and women and orchestras, opera companies, critics, the general public, and others merely players.
