The father's "sense of directing the family gets increasingly challenged and causes him to feel lost," he said.
"Like many contemporary artists, he's more an auteur in the cinematic sense of directing a complex collaborative enterprise".
It is not just that excitement is missing, or a sense of direct voter contact with a legislator.
Over the years, this sense of direct involvement has proved one of the venue's greatest assets, as well as the source of periodic problems.
Increasingly, this sense of direct connection between pop star and fan, and the allure that link holds, is blurring the power dynamic.
"The idea of terrorism in Syria has been flowing in the media for a long time, but there was never a sense of direct threat to the West.
Still, throughout the twentieth century, as pictures on film became the dominant medium through which we saw war, Americans maintained the sense of direct connection to our military that Abraham Lincoln remarked in the early days of the republic.
When Lucretius' poem returned to circulation in 1417, it seems to have struck some early readers with the same personal intensity — the sense of direct address across an abyss — that I experienced.
Because the second vote elects candidates from lists drawn up by party bosses, it sometimes brings into parliament people who have little knowledge of, let alone sense of direct responsibility for, voters on the ground.
She might, without a sense of direct threat, pull on your shirt or stroke your hair or come right at you with a searching, piercing crazy face, or jump on you.
