Every tragedy lands with stolid dramatic gravity, the characters defined less by their human urges and foibles than by the imposing misery of their circumstances.
The production features signs that project not only the supertitles for the local vernacular, but also the names of the songs by which the characters define themselves (and which are also written by Ms. Parks).
For its first act "Small Tragedy" is an impeccably sustained balance of the abstract and the particular, of the comic and the dramatic, as the characters define themselves and their relationships through the hurly-burly of auditions and rehearsal.
What gives the play its extraordinary verve is how the characters define themselves -- and by extension, the hardscrabble world in which they exist -- through bristling dialogue and tasty anecdote.
Metal conductivity determines the behavior of carrier scattering in severely defective degenerate semiconductors, while the semiconductor character defines the activation processes.
The other 3 dimensions of the TCI assess character, defined as the overall personality traits acquired through experience (Self-directedness [SD], Cooperativeness [C], and Self-transcendence [ST]).
"We're going to try to keep some of the character-defining features," she said.
The ensemble cast, which also includes Chazz Palminteri, Robin Wright Penn and Meg Ryan, is outstanding, but Ms. Ryan still can't read the character-defining line "I am a drug person" the way Judith Ivey did on Broadway -- Thursday at 8 and 11 30 p.m. and Saturday at 5 30 p.m. on FX.
In letters to Mr. Novros and his supporters, Carolyn A. Dortch, a G.S.A. regional administrator, said that restoring the mural "would involve further alterations to the character-defining features and spaces of the building" that would be strongly opposed by historic preservationists.
We adopted a combination of mapping, philology, and fractal geometry to assess the character-defining features of each street.
