It is harder for the play's creators to capture onstage what takes place in the book, as Orlando's perceptions of time, the oceanic force of memory and the terrifying power of "the present moment" become the focus of the writing.
One of the strengths of his writing and direction—strengths that are greatly reinforced by the performances and the presences of Jordan and Stallone is the ambivalent force of memory and heritage.
One of the strengths of his writing and direction — strengths that are greatly reinforced by the performances and the presences of Jordan and Stallone — is the ambivalent force of memory and heritage.
Alter's focus on the epiphanic force of memory on these three great modernists shows with sometimes startling, sometimes prophetic clarity that a complete break with tradition is not essential to modernism.
Dressed in white and looking like a vision, she stares out at the audience and begins to sing about her life, and her sister's life, with the haunted force of memory.
The spread of the simple epitaph – "What would Lincoln do?" – helped quiet the crowd, Smith claimed, and revealed the force of Lincoln's memory in beginning to heal a grieving nation.
And it is a reflection on the forces of history, the power of memory, and meanings people attach to events, things and others.
What the novelist must learn, in fact, is to so trust the imaginative memory as to often fly blind by its controls, forever adjusting course according to the countervailing forces of memory, imaginative distortion and the not-so-dead reckoning of what he means to say.
The force of correspondence tries to keep memory true to what actually happened, while the force of coherence ensures that the emerging story fits in with the needs of the self, which often involves portraying the ego in the best possible light.
