Oddly, I often find her most compelling when she yields to cultural norms.
But she is not quite ready for that; and so, reluctantly, she yields.
We watch Brünnhilde's grieving face as she yields to her father's sorrowful decree, Rigoletto's, as he understands his bitter fate.
The librarian - yes, Marian - is an unyielding pragmatist, until she yields to the man who got away from 102 counties.
Kieran drops on his haunches till he's at Sukey's level, he speaks to her gravely, sweetly; she yields herself, allows him to feel her forehead, pull back her eyelids and look into her pupils, take her pulse.
It shows her at her boldest and her most withheld: she yields herself up, without demur, and yet keeps so much in check that the outcome will reduce many viewers to a state of confusion and rage.
Overriding her initial nerves, she yields to Hérold's romantic score, finds her Ashtonian feet and shows us every step and grace note of Lise's progression from larky farm girl to lovestruck bride.
The setting of "The Last Times They Met," for the first 100 pages or so, is an anonymous hotel in an unnamed city, but press Shreve for anything more in the way of setting or scene and she yields the details with heaving sighs of reluctance: "The cheeseburgers arrived, monumental irrelevance".
She yields to none in terms of luxury and comfort, but she provides these amenities in exotic, remote locations, such as Alaska and Costa Rica, whose natural beauty and fascinating culture is unreachable by any other means.
Rihanna does not understand the power she yields and the influence she has over teenagers, or maybe she just does not care.
She yields to text the way a master violinist yields to a score, drawing out color that inheres in a composition but typically passes unnoticed.
