The album ends with "Those to Come," a hushed acoustic love song so lovely you might almost miss the rather unsentimental biological refrain: "They are cold, still/Waiting in the ether to form, feel, kill/Propagate only to die".
After the third attempt the dispatcher states the officer is "10-7". Ten-seven is the rather unsentimental radio code for "out of service". Ten-seven usually refers to a car, an officer handling a call, or an anonymous murder victim on the street.
"It is beautiful, isn't it?" Tapping a shaft of white marble in the lobby of the Seagram Building, the bespoke modern tower she willed into being more than 50 years ago, Phyllis Lambert was as close to wistful as her rather unsentimental constitution would allow.
And such is Wilder's point, to strip American life to its mundane fundamentals and illustrate, with a folksiness that belies the play's rather brutally unsentimental evocation of death, that our mortality is what we share and that, realize it or not, it is what makes our most ordinary moments precious.
Yours manages to be rather uplifting yet altogether unsentimental.
Elena Ferrante has cited Ortese (1914-98) as one of her greatest influences, and the connections are obvious in this collection of short stories and essays, which infuse a grimy, chaotic Naples with unsentimental menace rather than romantic mystique.
(March 14 and March 18 at 7). | The Met's entertaining new production of "Peter Grimes," by John Doyle (who directed the recent Broadway revivals of "Sweeney Todd" and "Company"), offers a brisk, unsentimental, and rather urban take on Benjamin Britten's tragic masterwork from 1945, set in a nineteenth-century fishing village on the North Sea.
Well-read, sensitive, and highly intelligent rather than intellectual, he was unsentimental in dealing with people.
Rather, the narrative explores, in unsentimental ways, the emotional impact of the displacement on the Kindertransport children, whose mothers and fathers somehow found the courage to relinquish them and the foresight to get them out of harm's way.
Here, instead, was a godless, unsentimental coroner's laboratory.
In his speech here, he cast that not as a means of relinquishing labor to the unsentimental winds of capitalism, but rather giving start-up companies relief from the strictures of national labor contracts negotiated by unions.
