Fina Torres's comedy has a spirited light touch, but, Elvis Mitchell wrote in The New York Times, "one wishes 'Woman' had more fun with the food-as-sex metaphors it toys with".
One wishes "Woman" had more fun with the food-as-sex metaphors it toys with, but the director Fina Torres -- whose previous "Celestial Clockwork" was also about legerdemain, appetites and a Latina heroine experiencing dislocation -- has a spirited light touch.
She was a spirited, light-hearted, gently ironic woman who conveyed her passionate bond to literature and writing to generations of young students, many of whom remember her as a life changer and a life model.
Twice a decade we could have a statewide, spirited, light-hearted discussion about the song candidates knowing that a winner would be chosen and that, no matter how disagreeable or even embarrassing some might consider the selection, the next one might be more to our liking.
I do, however, hope that my words spark you enough to open up and allow for that spirited inner light to beam and guide you into discovering and manifesting your own unique and celebratory way of being.
The overture usually seems a spirited, if rather light, work.
She was 29 and already somebody among the Beat poets and painters in the Bay Area: smart, gifted, outgoing, pretty, free-spirited, a bright light on the local scene whom everyone recognized as talented, and, not incidentally, a woman who held her own with the guys.
First impressions at Mesogio are of a trickling, tiered fountain, spirited Greek music, a light lined overhead dome, an open kitchen, archways, columns, tile floors and Greek murals.
www.worldmusicinstitute.org ROYAL DANISH BALLET -- The company doesn't visit the New York area very often so this engagement is an occasion for balletomanes who cherish the Danish dancers' distinctively light, quick, spirited way of moving.
The tone of CEO Johnathon Weeks's apology is that of a stung child: "I'm sad that people are offended by it, but it is Halloween: It's one day out of the year … Halloween should be a light-hearted, spirited party.
Light-spirited, if a bit sweet.
