But the play is such a self-indulgent, posturing performance piece that some will be tempted to check out right along with him.
Washington is already full of self-indulgent, posturing politicians.
But where "La Ronde" used the interlocking device to explore the different permutations of sexual love and how it crisscrossed social borders, "Full Circle" seems more intent on showcasing male anger and self-entitled posturing.
Second, it turns the spotlight away from the self-posturing in the British viceroy's palace and the well-documented political wrangling between Congress and the Muslim League leaders.
Their quotidian fixations and pious self-posturing achieve a magnificently improbable universality: look past the talk of seaweed farming and pilgrimages to sacred wells, and you start to sense that the corpses' gripes and tall-tales — about drunken excursions, sticky-fingered neighbors, scheming paramours — are the same ones heard at bars and bus stops from Baltimore to Beijing.
Close to 3,000 permits were sold including apparently one to Ted Nugent who was his usual posturing self, but as yet there are no reports of a Nugent sighting at the hunt.
I particularly enjoyed the self-conscious, self-delighted posturing of Ms. Woodward and Ms. Evans as Mistresses Ford and Page, making like community-theater tyros as they feign infatuation with Falstaff.
With every passing day, Jacques Chirac indulges in ever more self-important Gaullist posturing.
To mock the "frogs" as posturing, self-interested intellectuals is a staple of the English press, and not just the tabloids.
But such posturing looks self-indulgent.
We cannot let today's ruling be a pronouncement which is simply left in Stormont to gather dust and fall casualty to yet more self-righteous religious men posturing in Northern Irish parliament.
