This omission testifies to something immature, obtuse and testosteroney in the Oscar taste.
"Now, I'm just wondering, why did you testify to something that was false?" McConnell's ears turned bright red.
The raucous standing ovations that are now almost automatic on Broadway testify to something like a resurrection, as the slumped, weary bodies of theatregoers – "a community of seekers", like a congregation – are jazzed into vitality all over again.
In a way you can say it's a serious antecedent of the whole Bridget Jones movement - it's one response to how to be a distinctively female voice in journalism and it's about wanting to testify to something that's beyond a kind of public, political world view".
And in resisting being "got right", both the historical James and Tóibín's fictional James testify to something about the way the novel "tells us what it is like to be someone else – and that involves conveying a sense of a character's ability to elude us".
Most courts try to keep marriage counselors out of the proceedings, though, unless they are testifying to something serious, Altschuler says.
Theo (not his real name) is one of a few people I could find who testified to taking something they had been told, in the early 90s, were Basson's Brownies.
Capote's early works were carefully wrought, slightly precious versions of swamp gothic, but his groundbreaking 1957 profile of Marlon Brando, "The Duke in his Domain", testified to his desire "to do something else".
At a few stops, several former gang members aboard the bus took the microphone to testify to life on the streets, something several tourists said they found to be the most riveting part of the tour.
These characters do something different here: they testify to what a terrific single father Prospero can be.
